Speakers at TOC Europe

Peter Sand joined Xeneta in 2021, as the Chief Analyst. Heading a team that delivers expert insights on container shipping and air cargo industries - from a logistics perspective. Focus on the essential drivers, demand and supply - an obviously the freight rates that impacts us all.

Sand joined Xeneta after over a decade at BIMCO, where he was responsible for analysing commercial markets based on the global economic situation and its influence on trade. Prior to Sand’s Chief Shipping Analyst role at BIMCO, he worked with D/S NORDEN, a Danish shipping company operating in the dry cargo and tanker segments worldwide, as a Senior Analyst.

Throughout his career, Sand has been regarded for his widely read articles and industry insights, as well as his regular appearances on global news networks such as CNN, BBC, CNBC and Bloomberg. He holds a Master’s in Economics from the University of Copenhagen.

Eleanor Hadland heads up Drewry’s ports and terminals research arm, including responsibility for the company’s Annual Review of Global Container Operators and quarterly Ports & Terminals Insight reports.

She has over 25-years’ experience in the port sector, having worked initially for the UK’s largest port operator Associated British Ports.

She has subsequently held senior level consultancy roles with Drewry, Moffatt & Nichol, BMT and AECOM, where she has supported a wide range of clients in respect of port development and expansion and M&A transactions.

Lars Jensen is CEO of Vespucci Maritime, and is an analyst and thought leader providing expert assistance in strategic decision making and analysis in the wider container shipping industry.

Lars has 22 years of experience from inside the container shipping industry, whereof the last 12 years has been as an independent analyst and consultant for carriers, shippers, ports. maritime technology firms and financial institutions.

Lars was the author of the book “Liner Shipping 2025” which to a significant degree predicted many of the changes currently gathering pace in the industry and how carriers, terminals, ports, shippers and forwards should navigate these changes to emerge successfully.

Lars Jensen is co-founder of LinerGame providing innovative training and teambuilding in the liner shipping industry with more than 100 sessions held in the past seven years across 20 countries on 3 continents.

Since 1992, Hercules is Professor of Maritime Economics and Logistics (MEL), having taught at 9 universities (and in 7 different countries), most prominent of which being Erasmus University Rotterdam, National University of Singapore, and Singapore Management University.

Currently, he is “Distinguished Chair Professor” at Dalian Maritime University (China), Visiting Professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam, and affiliated researcher with the Sorbonne Center for Economics – Sorbonne University. He is the founder of the Erasmus Center for Maritime Economics and Logistics (MEL) (www.maritimeeconomics.com) and also the founding (and current) Editor-in-Chief of the quarterly journal Maritime Economics & Logistics (MEL), published by Palgrave-Macmillan (www.palgrave.com/41278) for the last 25 years.

He has written and published over 300 scientific papers, books, reports and articles in the wider area of ports, maritime transport and logistics and has consulted governments, international organizations and private companies all over the world including, for a number of years, the European Commission.

In the period 2011-2015 Professor Haralambides was President of the Italian port of Brindisi and at the end of that period (2015) he established “Haralambides & Associates”: a global maritime think-tank engaged in executive education and strategic policy analysis.

In 2008, Professor Haralambides was decorated with the Golden Cross of the Order of the Phoenix, by the President of the Hellenic Republic.

Isabelle Ryckbost is Secretary General of the European Sea Ports Organisation (ESPO) since 1 August 2013.

Before taking up this function, Isabelle has been working as Director of the European Federation of Inland Ports (EFIP) and Senior Advisor of ESPO for four years.

Isabelle Ryckbost studied Law (University of Namur and KULeuven) and European Law (UCL Louvain). Before joining EFIP, she has been working in EU Public Affairs for almost 20 years.

After having worked for a short period in the European Commission (DG Agriculture), she worked in an EU Public Affairs consultancy. In 1994 she started working in the European Parliament, where she worked as a political assistant.

Between 1999 and 2009 she was working in the European Parliament as the political assistant of Dirk Sterckx, where she was mainly active in transport and port-related fields. She is co-author of the handbook “Zo Werkt Europa” (1st edition 2007, 2nd edition 2010).

James Hookham is Secretary General and Director of the Global Shippers Forum (GSF), the voice of cargo owners in international supply chains. He is a graduate in Environmental Science from the University of Bradford and completed a Master’s degree in the safe transport of dangerous goods at the University of Manchester.

GSF campaigns for safe, competitively efficient and sustainable movement of goods in international supply chains and works with over 25 national shippers associations in supporting and promoting the work of importers and exporters around the world.

James early career was spent with Exis Technologies (now part of National Cargo Bureau) developing the world’s first remotely accessible computerised dangerous goods database and he later served as deputy editor of Hazardous Cargo Bulletin.

Until 2020 James was Deputy Chief Executive of the Freight Transport Association (now Logistics UK) where he held numerous positions on UK, EU and global transport and logistics advisory bodies, as well as senior executive responsibilities in one of the UK’s largest business groups.

Elisabeth Munck af Rosenschöld is a passionate change agent to make sustainability a true enabler for a successful business.

Since 2016 she leads sustainability in Supply Chain Operations, based in Switzerland, with a strong focus on reaching ambitious climate targets for global transportation and logistics.

She holds a Master of Law from Lund University and a Master of Science in Environmental Management and Policy from the International Institute of Industrial Environmental Economics, Lund University.

Throughout her professional life, she has worked in the area of sustainability within different business sectors and management consultancies. 

Speaker biography coming soon.

Guillermo Massot is a ports and shipping specialist with 20 years of M&A, operations and product management experience.  He has held senior advisory and management positions at DP World (Business Planning and Development Manager for Europe & Russia), Terminal Investment Limited (Terminal Efficiency Manager), Maersk (Global Head of Supply Chain Management Partnerships and Acquisitions), Arup (Transaction Associate Director) and the European Commission (Independent advisor).

At present he runs his own management consultancy business, -Althium-, operating across the Infrastructure and Supply Chain Management spaces, with most recent credentials including several strategy, operations and M&A projects covering ports and logistics businesses globally. Further to his consulting activities, he is a Senior Lecturer in Supply Chain Management and Operations at Rotterdam Business School.

Specifically in the field of ESG, Guillermo has recently provided advice in acquisitions in the autonomous navigation and battery-operated shipping segments, plus has conducted research on the economics and operational impacts of the Fit-for-55 and IMO 2023 regulatory packages.

Prof. Lynn Loo is the chief executive officer of the Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation (GCMD), a not-for-profit organization based in Singapore.

Established by six founding partners from the maritime industry and supported by the Maritime & Port Authority of Singapore, GCMD’s mission is to help the sector accelerate its decarbonisation efforts through shaping standards, deploying solutions, financing projects, and fostering collaboration across sectors.

Lynn is also the Theodora D. ’78 and William H. Walton III ’74 Professor in Engineering, and Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, currently on leave from Princeton University.

Before GCMD, she was Director of the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, where she commissioned the Rapid Switch Initiative and the Net-Zero America Study that has provided unprecedented temporal and geographic granularity on transition pathways.

She also founded Princeton E-ffiliates Partnership, a flagship corporate partner program to engage industry and she launched Princeton’s first executive program in partnership with the World Economic Forum to contextualize the complexities of the energy transition for business leaders.

Mette has worked at Kalmar for six years, focusing on a broad scope of development initiatives for counterbalanced container handlers, including digitalization, electrification and automation.

She has 25 years of experience in product and business development and is now responsible for facilitating Kalmar’s reduction of its value chain emissions by 50% before 2030.

This will be accomplished by decarbonizing the supply chain, reducing use phase emissions from cargo handling equipment in the field and ensuring long equipment lifetime through service, maintenance and refurbishment.

Laura is the Digital Portfolio Owner - Data Products at APM Terminals, a company that operates of one of the world’s most comprehensive port networks - helping both shipping lines and landside customers grow their business and achieve better supply chain efficiency, flexibility, and dependability.

Laura leads the creation and modernization of value-adding data products and services for customers of APM Terminals across the world. In this position, Laura also focuses on enhancement and creation of new API solutions, driving APM Terminals’ digital transformation via www.apmterminals.com

Prior to joining APM Terminals in 2021, Laura held Product and Business Intelligence leadership positions within world’s leading software & services companies, rolling out AI-powered products for demand forecasting and Predictive Analytics. Laura is a strong believer in the power of data and Machine Learning to improve life for all, making customers' businesses and users' lives thrive.

Originally from Romania, Laura holds a BS in Cybernetics and a master’s degree in Business Management from Bucharest University of Economic Studies. Laura is also a PMI and Microsoft certified professional. Outside of work, Laura spends time playing board games, watching movies, and travelling to snorkelling destinations.

Speaker biography coming soon.

Mees van der Wiel is business consultant strategy & innovation at Portbase, the Netherlands, General Manager of the PROTECT secretariat at IPCSA, member of the executive committee of IPCSA and UN/CEFACT expert.

Born and raised in the middle of the Port of Rotterdam, he always had a huge interest in maritime transport and port operations.

He has been working in the domain of information exchange in transport & logistics since 2005 in several companies and in different positions, but always focused on improving information flows in supply chains.

His main focus at Portbase is on policy, legislative and standardization changes on EU and national level, such as the European Maritime Single Window Environment (EMSWe), ICS2, BREXIT and several digitalisation projects with the Port of Rotterdam and the Dutch government. 

Next to this, Mees manages the PROTECT Secretariat.
PROTECT supports the electronic reporting required by authorities for vessels entering or leaving a port or port area.

The PROTECT Group has established a harmonised worldwide recognised EDI standard.  

Pascal Ollivier is President of Maritime Street, a digital trade logistics strategic advisory firm dedicated to port authorities, governments, and international financial institutions to shape the future of Trade.  

Pascal is a world-renowned PCS expert, having been the founding Chairman of IPCSA and now Chairing the IAPH Data Collaboration Committee. Pascal has engaged in work for IAPH together with member ports and the World Bank, IMO and WCO on accelerating digitalization on a wide variety of initiatives, including cybersecurity, port call, automation, innovation.

Pascal graduated from the French Institute for Higher National Defense Studies in Maritime issues and strategies, holds a MSc in Economics from Paris Dauphine University and a MBA in International Business from the European University of America, San Francisco.