Ben Collins

Global Project Cargo Manager

MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company

Ben Collins leads a dedicated global team, which provides breakbulk and out-of-gauge services and first-class project cargo management, with the benefit of MSC’s fleet of 560 vessels.

Building on five decades of MSC’s experience of shipping oversized freight, Ben injects his own personal passion into planning and successful execution in this specialised sector and has helped MSC in recent years cement its position as a trusted provider of project cargo services.

Following two decades at MSC UK, where Ben held management positions in Operational & Commercial departments, he is now based at MSC’s headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, and proudly leads a team of specialised project cargo managers located in MSC agencies around the world.

MSC is present in 155 countries and offers 200 ocean services, calling at 500 ports, as well as intermodal and logistics solutions.

Beata Bac

Global Category Manager International and Project Logistics

Shell

Beata Bac joined Shell in 2009. In her current role, she is responsible for sourcing and contracting strategy and SRM to address business needs across Royal Dutch Shell. Over her 24-year career she has held various supply chain and contracting & procurement roles at Shell Downstream and Upstream and at AP Moller-Maersk which span from operations to strategy at the local, regional and global level. Bac has a Master’s degree in transportation and logistics and a Bachelor’s degree in freight forwarding from Gdansk University. She holds diplomas as European senior logistician at the senior management level from the European Logistics Association & European Certification Board for Logistics as well as a professional diploma in logistics and transport from the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport UK.

Thomas Sender Mehl

Director, Global Sales & Operations Planning and Supply Chain Excellence

KK Wind Solutions

Thomas Sender Mehl has held several leading positions within logistics, transport and development for more than 20 years. He does occasional lectures in LEAN and reducing cost and complexity in the full supply chain.

Simon Brett

Commercial Director

Port of Tyne

Simon Brett, Commercial Director, Port Services, joined Port of Tyne in 2019, responsible for bulks and offshore.

Bringing 30 years of experience within the maritime sector, his career began with the Crown Estates and later Westminster Dredging, before joining Associated British Ports (ABP).

As ABP Head of Projects, Simon led the Siemens Gamesa, Green Port Hull project; totalling a combined investment of £310m.

Since joining Port of Tyne, Simon has led the Port to the next phase in developing a major hub for offshore energy, working to optimise on-site facilities, ensuring they are ready for development. He is also dedicated to the development of the Port for attracting and retaining leading bulk companies dealing with various commodities such as grain and wood pellet and specialist project cargo.

 

Oskar Orstadius

Chief Sales Officer

Höegh Autoliners

Oskar Orstadius takes the position as Chief Sales Officer in September 2020. Oskar joined Höegh Autoliners in 2012 as Head of Global Port and Cargo Operation. In 2014, he transferred to the commercial department as Head of Breakbulk and expanded our breakbulk portfolio. In 2018 he moved to Tokyo, Japan as Head of Asia to lead the teams in the South-east and East Asia region. Oskar is educated as a Master Mariner at the Merchant Marine Academy in Kalmar, Sweden. Earlier in his career he served as an officer on board PCTC and Deepsea RoRo vessels. After his active career at sea, Oskar continued working within the PCTC industry in various operational roles including five years in Germany.

Sarah Schlüter

Senior Director, Niche Products

Hapag-Lloyd

Looking back at 20 years of experience within the shipping industry. Besides having worked for container carriers Sarah has also spent some years with a major global forwarder as well as a software company specialized with its application on logistics and shipping. All this has given her a divers in-depth knowledge about different angles of our business.
Besides her vast working experience she has also graduated from IE Business School with an Executive MBA.
 

Wei Zhuang

Regional Manager Asia

BIMCO

Wei Zhuang is the Regional Manager of Asia, BIMCO. Wei started his BIMCO career with the legal & contractual affairs department in 2011 at BIMCO headquarter in Denmark where he joined a wide range of BIMCO’s standard contracts and clauses projects, including project development, revision and promotion. He was further promoted as China Liaison Officer as well as the General Manager of BIMCO Shanghai Centre. In 2016 he was nominated as the Regional Manager of Asia where he is committed to keeping a constructive relationship with regional regulators and industry stakeholders and, most importantly, to provide portfolio services to BIMCO members and potential members in Asia. 

Wei’s previous positions include eight years as a maritime lawyer and senior fellow at maritime university. He has a master’s degree in maritime law and a PhD in international law.
 

Claudia Ohlmeier

Head of Section Class Systematics, Data and Operation Centre, DNV; President, WISTA Germany

Since March 2021, Claudia has been heading up the section Class Systematics, Data and Operation Centre within DNV. The section deals with DATE cases, remote surveys, follow-up of PSC detentions, fleet monitoring and issuance of certificates related to ships in service that are certificated by DNV. In addition to her role at DNV, Claudia is also the current President of WISTA Germany.  

Jan Kristian Schønheyder

Head of Global Projects and Industry Solutions Norway

DB Schenker

Schønheyder is a 25-year industry veteran, and joined DB Schenker in 2016, overseeing project solutions in Denmark, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, after serving as a senior consultant. He started his career as a Liner Manager at Seaway Shipping, and served in previous roles include Manager, Global Logistics with Aker Solutions, National Oil & Gas Manager for Kuehne + Nagel AS (Norway), Director of Business Development Scandinavia for Hellman Worldwide Logistics in Hong Kong, and Managing Director of Mediterranean Shipping Co.

Nekkhil Mishra

Director Europe, Middle East, Africa & Russia

Independent Project Analysis

Nekkhil Mishra currently serves as IPA’s Director of Europe, Middle East, Africa and Russia (EMEAR). In this role, he oversees IPA’s operations and is responsible for strengthening IPA’s relationships with local and global clients, with a focus on enabling them to enhance the effectiveness of their capital project systems.
Prior to his promotion to Director, EMEAR, Nekkhil served as Deputy Director of E&P, overseeing the development of IPA’s upstream work in EMEAR.

During his career as an analyst, he looked at over 60 large-scale projects worldwide for major international and nation oil and gas companies, evaluating the competitiveness of these projects and highlighting key areas of risk. During this time, he was also the main focal point for one of IPA’s core clients (BP Exploration & Production Co Ltd) working hand in hand with their projects performance group, helping them achieve a competitive edge in their offshore O&G developments. He has led the industry performance breakout at IPA’s Upstream Benchmarking Consortium (UIBC), identifying current industry trends and diagnosing systemic issues for 22 of IPA’s core clients. Nekkhil is considered an expert in the functioning and effectiveness of assurance processes in the oil and gas industry. Nekkhil is an instructor with IPA Institute and has taught courses on Megaprojects, Gatekeeping and Governance and Best Practices in Exploration and Production. Nekkhil has also been a speaker at various conferences.

Michael Skiba

Head of Marketing

bremenports GmbH & Co. KG

Andrew Gardner

President of Kiewit Supply Network

Kiewit 

Andrew Gardner is president of Kiewit Supply Network (KSN), overseeing procurement and supply chain activities across all Kiewit Corporation markets. Prior to stepping into his current role, Andrew managed KSN support for all of Kiewit’s power and energy projects. 

Andrew joined the company in 1998 as an engineer before serving in multiple leadership roles across North America as a senior engineer, design engineering director, and estimator. Before joining KSN, Andrew was project manager overseeing engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning of the Lackawanna Energy Center in Jessup, Pennsylvania. He’s been project sponsor on several high profile engineering, procurement and construction projects including the Napanee Generating Station in Ontario, Canada, the Scattergood Unit 3 Repowering job in Los Angeles, and the natural gas-fired Marsh Landing Generation Station project in Antioch, California.  

Andrew holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Missouri-Columbia. 

Kiewit is one of North America’s largest and most respected construction and engineering organizations. The company had revenues of $12.5 billion in 2020.

Ingrid Vanstreels

Business Development Advisor, Customer Relations - Shippers & Forwarders; Board Member

Antwerp Port Authority; WISTA Belgium

Ingrid has built up operational and commercial experience within the logistic sector for 15 years. She started working as a forwarder on import and export operations, dealing with complex files handling goods movements to and from all regions in the world. 

As business changed rapidly the last decennia and customer needs where increasing due to high competition and growing transparency within the supply chain, there was a need to set up new tools and services. Ingrid assisted to create a business implementation and customer service team into the current forwarding organization. With a strong focus on developing new procedures and tools together with customers and stakeholders. 

She joined Port of Antwerp 2 years ago and works as Business development advisor at Customer Relations department, within the team shippers and forwarders .Her strong expertise  helps her to understand the needs of the customers. Her mission is to promote the port of Antwerp and to provide and to develop new business opportunities. She’s responsible for the segments cold chain, containerized transport, retail and logistics.        
Ingrid joined WISTA Belgium as a board member in 2020. She’s a strong believer and supporter  of diversity in the maritime sector. She likes to connect with other members around the world.  
 

Christel Pullens

President, WISTA the Netherlands; Managing Director, Sea Ranger Service

Pure coincidence led to the start of my career on a Belgian shipyard 24 years ago. I’ve loved the international maritime industry ever since. By closing contracts and executing projects for almost any type of inland and oceangoing vessel in over 60 countries, I’ve built up my technical and commercial project knowledge over the years. I am currently working as Managing Director for the Sea Ranger Service, a social enterprise offering zero-emission solutions to deliver offshore services. Working with purpose-built offshore sailing work vessels and offering young adults a learning/working experience via a unique method, the Sea Ranger Service aims to be at the forefront of pioneering clean solutions to build a sustainable blue economy. I strongly believe in diversity and am proud to have been appointed as President of WISTA The Netherlands. This role enables me to positively contribute to the careers of women in our industry. 

Edward James

Director of Content & Analysis

MEED Projects

Edward James has been with MEED for more than 17 years, working as a journalist, consultant and research director. Until September 2008 he was MEED’s Gulf Bureau Chief, after which he moved over to head up the consulting arm of the business. For the last six years he has been responsible for content and research at MEED Projects, the region’s leading projects tracking service. His specific areas of expertise are construction, hydrocarbons, power and water, and the petrochemical market, and is considered one of the foremost experts on the MENA projects market. He is a regular guest commentator on Middle East issues for news channels such as the BBC, CNN and ABC News and is a regular speaker at events in the region. He has an honours degree in Arabic and Middle East Politics.

Alex Azparrent

Director of Logistics, Supply Chain & Commercial Strategies

Fluor

Alex Azparrent is an experienced and proven leader with over 20 years of logistics and supply chain experience, at Fluor since 2007. He relocated to Santiago, Chile in January 2018, to work on Anglo American’s Quellaveco project. Before being named Global Director of Logistics Operations at Fluor, Azparrent was Director of Logistics Americas, and prior to that Logistics Manager for Fluor Chile for the mining division. Azparrent has been involved in projects executed in the United States, Middle East, Mexico, Egypt, Algeria, West Africa, and South America. He has spent a good part of his career in the field, where he was able to get a full perspective of the importance of logistics in the successful execution of projects. He brings a wealth of experience in the project sector, having worked in various project business lines including mining and metals, power, oil and gas, pipelines, and LNG plants. He holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration, from Iowa State University. He is also a Global Executive MBA graduate from TRIUM (2015) a three university program – NYU Stern, London School of Economics, and HEC Paris.

Danny Levenswaard

Director Breakbulk

Port of Rotterdam

Danny Levenswaard assumed the role of management for the Port of Rotterdam’s breakbulk department in April 2016. Employed at the port since 1992, he is able to draw on a great deal of relevant experience. After several roles in Human Resources he worked for nine years as Senior Business Manager Shipping (Bulk & Shipping) and prior to that served as Business Development Manager Industry & Bulk at the port’s commercial department. Levenswaard’s ambitions match the efforts of the Port Authority to develop the port of Rotterdam into the leading breakbulk port of Northwest Europe.
 
The Breakbulk department of the Port of Rotterdam Authority focuses on the commercial development of several segments: project cargo and heavy lift, forest products, steel and non-ferrous metals, cars, agrofood and warehousing. The port has specialized terminals for every kind of breakbulk cargo, the largest fleet of floating cranes in Europe and excellent hinterland connections. The dedicated service providers, who are on standby 24/7, and the modern facilities ensure that breakbulk can be efficiently processed any time of day.
 

Kevin Driscoll

Americas Region Logistics Leader

GE Gas Power

Bradley Smeeton

Event Director

Breakbulk Europe

Carly Fields

News Editor

Breakbulk Magazine

Carly Fields is a specialist shipping journalist and editor with 20 years’ experience of reporting on a variety of different maritime and trade topics. She has received a number of accolades for her feature-writing and editing skills, including International Editor of the Year and Environmental Journalist of the Year in industry-specific awards. Fields is also a long-standing Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers, where she delivers training to young professionals on shipping business and is part of the examination team for students looking to develop a career in the industry.
 

Bradley Smeeton

Event Director

Breakbulk Europe

Heiko Felderhoff

Managing Director

SAL Renewables

Captain Heiko Felderhoff has been with Harren & Partner since 1995. He has been responsible for the diversification of the company from a ship owner to a full-fledged service provider in heavy lift, projects, logistics, engineering and offshore solutions. 

Today, Heiko Felderhoff is Managing Director and Shareholder of the Harren & Partner Group. He has not only profound experience in the fields of renewables, oil and gas, logistics and engineering but has also expertise as a Master on heavy lift vessels.  

Wei Zhuang

Regional Manager Asia

BIMCO

Wei Zhuang is the Regional Manager of Asia, BIMCO. Wei started his BIMCO career with the legal & contractual affairs department in 2011 at BIMCO headquarter in Denmark where he joined a wide range of BIMCO’s standard contracts and clauses projects, including project development, revision and promotion. He was further promoted as China Liaison Officer as well as the General Manager of BIMCO Shanghai Centre. In 2016 he was nominated as the Regional Manager of Asia where he is committed to keeping a constructive relationship with regional regulators and industry stakeholders and, most importantly, to provide portfolio services to BIMCO members and potential members in Asia. 

Wei’s previous positions include eight years as a maritime lawyer and senior fellow at maritime university. He has a master’s degree in maritime law and a PhD in international law.
 

Danny Levenswaard

Director Breakbulk

Port of Rotterdam

Danny Levenswaard assumed the role of management for the Port of Rotterdam’s breakbulk department in April 2016. Employed at the port since 1992, he is able to draw on a great deal of relevant experience. After several roles in Human Resources he worked for nine years as Senior Business Manager Shipping (Bulk & Shipping) and prior to that served as Business Development Manager Industry & Bulk at the port’s commercial department. Levenswaard’s ambitions match the efforts of the Port Authority to develop the port of Rotterdam into the leading breakbulk port of Northwest Europe.
 
The Breakbulk department of the Port of Rotterdam Authority focuses on the commercial development of several segments: project cargo and heavy lift, forest products, steel and non-ferrous metals, cars, agrofood and warehousing. The port has specialized terminals for every kind of breakbulk cargo, the largest fleet of floating cranes in Europe and excellent hinterland connections. The dedicated service providers, who are on standby 24/7, and the modern facilities ensure that breakbulk can be efficiently processed any time of day.
 

Edward James

Director of Content & Analysis

MEED Projects

Edward James has been with MEED for more than 17 years, working as a journalist, consultant and research director. Until September 2008 he was MEED’s Gulf Bureau Chief, after which he moved over to head up the consulting arm of the business. For the last six years he has been responsible for content and research at MEED Projects, the region’s leading projects tracking service. His specific areas of expertise are construction, hydrocarbons, power and water, and the petrochemical market, and is considered one of the foremost experts on the MENA projects market. He is a regular guest commentator on Middle East issues for news channels such as the BBC, CNN and ABC News and is a regular speaker at events in the region. He has an honours degree in Arabic and Middle East Politics.

Oskar Orstadius

Chief Sales Officer

Höegh Autoliners

Oskar Orstadius takes the position as Chief Sales Officer in September 2020. Oskar joined Höegh Autoliners in 2012 as Head of Global Port and Cargo Operation. In 2014, he transferred to the commercial department as Head of Breakbulk and expanded our breakbulk portfolio. In 2018 he moved to Tokyo, Japan as Head of Asia to lead the teams in the South-east and East Asia region. Oskar is educated as a Master Mariner at the Merchant Marine Academy in Kalmar, Sweden. Earlier in his career he served as an officer on board PCTC and Deepsea RoRo vessels. After his active career at sea, Oskar continued working within the PCTC industry in various operational roles including five years in Germany.

Laurens Govers

Director Chartering & Projects

Jumbo-SAL-Alliance

Laurens started working for Jumbo Shipping in 1999 and has managed the global commercial department for the last 10 years. During the last 1.5 years Laurens has been in the driving seat with a team of 4 to establish the joint venture Jumbo-SAL-Alliance, which has been developed through a ‘bottom up’ philosophy. 

Jumbo-SAL-Alliance are experts in heavy lift transport solutions and stand for reliability, trust, innovation and partnerships with customers. Supported by a fleet of 30 specialised project cargo vessels Jumbo-SAL-Alliance provides engineering solutions for any logistical requirement, whether it is a one off shipment or fully fletched service package for multiple shipments. 

Currently Laurens holds the position of Director Chartering and Projects specialising in oil and gas and key projects.  
 

Sarah Schlüter

Senior Director, Niche Products

Hapag-Lloyd

Looking back at 20 years of experience within the shipping industry. Besides having worked for container carriers Sarah has also spent some years with a major global forwarder as well as a software company specialized with its application on logistics and shipping. All this has given her a divers in-depth knowledge about different angles of our business.
Besides her vast working experience she has also graduated from IE Business School with an Executive MBA.
 

Leslie Meredith

Marketing & Media Director

Breakbulk Events & Media

Beata Bac

Global Category Manager International and Project Logistics

Shell

Beata Bac joined Shell in 2009. In her current role, she is responsible for sourcing and contracting strategy and SRM to address business needs across Royal Dutch Shell. Over her 24-year career she has held various supply chain and contracting & procurement roles at Shell Downstream and Upstream and at AP Moller-Maersk which span from operations to strategy at the local, regional and global level. Bac has a Master’s degree in transportation and logistics and a Bachelor’s degree in freight forwarding from Gdansk University. She holds diplomas as European senior logistician at the senior management level from the European Logistics Association & European Certification Board for Logistics as well as a professional diploma in logistics and transport from the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport UK.

Claudia Ohlmeier

Head of Section Class Systematics, Data and Operation Centre, DNV; President, WISTA Germany

Since March 2021, Claudia has been heading up the section Class Systematics, Data and Operation Centre within DNV. The section deals with DATE cases, remote surveys, follow-up of PSC detentions, fleet monitoring and issuance of certificates related to ships in service that are certificated by DNV. In addition to her role at DNV, Claudia is also the current President of WISTA Germany.  

Thomas Sender Mehl

Director, Global Sales & Operations Planning and Supply Chain Excellence

KK Wind Solutions

Thomas Sender Mehl has held several leading positions within logistics, transport and development for more than 20 years. He does occasional lectures in LEAN and reducing cost and complexity in the full supply chain.

Kevin Driscoll

Americas Region Logistics Leader

GE Gas Power

Andrew Gardner

President of Kiewit Supply Network

Kiewit 

Andrew Gardner is president of Kiewit Supply Network (KSN), overseeing procurement and supply chain activities across all Kiewit Corporation markets. Prior to stepping into his current role, Andrew managed KSN support for all of Kiewit’s power and energy projects. 

Andrew joined the company in 1998 as an engineer before serving in multiple leadership roles across North America as a senior engineer, design engineering director, and estimator. Before joining KSN, Andrew was project manager overseeing engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning of the Lackawanna Energy Center in Jessup, Pennsylvania. He’s been project sponsor on several high profile engineering, procurement and construction projects including the Napanee Generating Station in Ontario, Canada, the Scattergood Unit 3 Repowering job in Los Angeles, and the natural gas-fired Marsh Landing Generation Station project in Antioch, California.  

Andrew holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Missouri-Columbia. 

Kiewit is one of North America’s largest and most respected construction and engineering organizations. The company had revenues of $12.5 billion in 2020.

Carly Fields

News Editor

Breakbulk Magazine

Carly Fields is a specialist shipping journalist and editor with 20 years’ experience of reporting on a variety of different maritime and trade topics. She has received a number of accolades for her feature-writing and editing skills, including International Editor of the Year and Environmental Journalist of the Year in industry-specific awards. Fields is also a long-standing Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers, where she delivers training to young professionals on shipping business and is part of the examination team for students looking to develop a career in the industry.
 

Martyn Lawns

Regional VP European Operations Industrial Projects

DHL Global Forwarding

Martyn Lawns BEng, MCIPS is an Honours Degree Qualified Chemical Engineer, with over 20 years’ experience in procurement and supply chain.

Before joining DHL, Martyn led Regional procurement teams in the US, Canada, Europe and Africa, and was formally the Vice President & General Manager Procurement North America and Europe & West Africa for Mining Multi-national Rio Tinto with responsibility for managing over 20 operating sites in 13 countries with 300 logistics and supply chain staff.

Since joining DHL in July 2014 as the Global Head for Mining Sector, Martyn has held a number of roles within Industrial Projects such as Global Head of Business Development for DHL Industrial Projects, where he led the team of Global Sector Heads focusing on our industry vertical from Renewable Energy to International Oil Companies and indirectly led our Global Sales team with over 100 field sales reps across 45 countries.

Martyn has then been promoted to the position of Regional VP European Operations, overlooking business development and projects operations within European region. He is a part of the Senior Management team, and is also the Executive Sponsor for the Global Wind team, our Competence Centre for renewables projects.

Martyn is passionate about innovative solutions and accessing new technology for our customers as they execute their projects, he prides himself with a customer centric approach and solution-oriented, entrepreneurial mind-set.

Christel Pullens

President, WISTA the Netherlands; Managing Director, Sea Ranger Service

Pure coincidence led to the start of my career on a Belgian shipyard 24 years ago. I’ve loved the international maritime industry ever since. By closing contracts and executing projects for almost any type of inland and oceangoing vessel in over 60 countries, I’ve built up my technical and commercial project knowledge over the years. I am currently working as Managing Director for the Sea Ranger Service, a social enterprise offering zero-emission solutions to deliver offshore services. Working with purpose-built offshore sailing work vessels and offering young adults a learning/working experience via a unique method, the Sea Ranger Service aims to be at the forefront of pioneering clean solutions to build a sustainable blue economy. I strongly believe in diversity and am proud to have been appointed as President of WISTA The Netherlands. This role enables me to positively contribute to the careers of women in our industry. 

Michael Skiba

Head of Marketing

bremenports GmbH & Co. KG

Alex Azparrent

Director of Logistics, Supply Chain & Commercial Strategies

Fluor

Alex Azparrent is an experienced and proven leader with over 20 years of logistics and supply chain experience, at Fluor since 2007. He relocated to Santiago, Chile in January 2018, to work on Anglo American’s Quellaveco project. Before being named Global Director of Logistics Operations at Fluor, Azparrent was Director of Logistics Americas, and prior to that Logistics Manager for Fluor Chile for the mining division. Azparrent has been involved in projects executed in the United States, Middle East, Mexico, Egypt, Algeria, West Africa, and South America. He has spent a good part of his career in the field, where he was able to get a full perspective of the importance of logistics in the successful execution of projects. He brings a wealth of experience in the project sector, having worked in various project business lines including mining and metals, power, oil and gas, pipelines, and LNG plants. He holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration, from Iowa State University. He is also a Global Executive MBA graduate from TRIUM (2015) a three university program – NYU Stern, London School of Economics, and HEC Paris.

Ingrid Vanstreels

Business Development Advisor, Customer Relations - Shippers & Forwarders; Board Member

Antwerp Port Authority; WISTA Belgium

Ingrid has built up operational and commercial experience within the logistic sector for 15 years. She started working as a forwarder on import and export operations, dealing with complex files handling goods movements to and from all regions in the world. 

As business changed rapidly the last decennia and customer needs where increasing due to high competition and growing transparency within the supply chain, there was a need to set up new tools and services. Ingrid assisted to create a business implementation and customer service team into the current forwarding organization. With a strong focus on developing new procedures and tools together with customers and stakeholders. 

She joined Port of Antwerp 2 years ago and works as Business development advisor at Customer Relations department, within the team shippers and forwarders .Her strong expertise  helps her to understand the needs of the customers. Her mission is to promote the port of Antwerp and to provide and to develop new business opportunities. She’s responsible for the segments cold chain, containerized transport, retail and logistics.        
Ingrid joined WISTA Belgium as a board member in 2020. She’s a strong believer and supporter  of diversity in the maritime sector. She likes to connect with other members around the world.