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Lamia Kerdjoudj, the Secretary General of FEPORT, the Federation of European Private Port Companies and Terminals will join the ESG Dinner as a Key Note speaker together with Petteri Nurmi, the CO of DB Schenker Cluster Nordics

This is how it all starts ....

It is October 5th morning 2023. Finnlines newbuilding M/S Finnsirius is waiting us to embark at the Port of Naantali. Joyful atmosphere can be sensed, and you see smiling and curious faces wherever you watch. Excitement is in the air. 

A group of high-level guest speakers, their team members, participating delegations and what is most fascinating, a group of extremely talented students or recently graduated are entering the vessel and experiencing something spectacular together.

Can we have a conference or hardly even a discussion around shipping and maritime or logistics, where we would not mention windpower or windenergy at least once?
We welcome Anders Wiklund and Ian Bergström from OX2 and Annette Höglund-Dönnes from Dassault Systémes to our SeaFocus Summit Cruise, to explain us all what is going on in Långnäs, where we will arrive with brand new M/S Finnsirius on the 5th October, in conjunction with the first ever SeaFocus Summit in Naantali, Finland.

Henrik Otto Jensen Managing Director of Scandinavian Auto Logistics is one of the panellist at the ESG & SCM Summit. He will share his experience on the topic "Changing Trade Patterns" on October 4th.
As the Managing Director of Scandinavian Auto Logistics AS, Henrik has established the company as a key player in the logistics and shipping sector. Since its formation in 1999 as a partner with Grimaldi Group, Italy, Scandinavian Auto Logistics has been at the forefront of providing efficient and reliable automotive logistics solutions.
Under Henrik's leadership, Scandinavian Auto Logistics has built strong partnerships and gained a reputation for excellence in the industry. 

We are so proud of the speaker lineup of the upcoming ESG & SCM Summit. 6 Panel discussion with more than 20 international experts. 

At the Summit we will discuss the strategic importance of environmental, social and governance key factors for all companies, regardless of the industry. The expectations placed on companies to act responsibly in society and taking climate change into account are high, so it is important for the company management to understand the complex environment of ESG and know how to business wise act correctly.

SeaFocus proudly presents the Key Note of the whole ESG and SCM Summit 2023 Tom Pippingköld, President and CEO of Finnlines. 

Mr Pippingsköld will give a presentation during the ESG & SCM Summit Conference October 4th. 

Shrishti Choudhary has been appointed as a SeaFocus Junior Consultant. She has been working for three Intelligence Hunt projects so far. She is studying at the University of Europe for Applied Science, Germany. She is currently writing her thesis under Dr Talha Khan on Particle Swarm Optimisation which works with improvising on older developed algorithms to bring higher optimisation in models. She is extremely passionate about maths and statistics & hence projects based on analytics is always deeply satisfying.

ESG Summit Cruise on board a brand new Finnlines vessel M/S Finnsirius from Naantali to Långnäs! 

During the cruise the international Talent Teams, Mentors and Case Company representatives will present the results of their cooperation. The following companies will be introduced Inmarsat, Euromar, Finnpilot Pilotage Ltd, Fintraffic´s Vessel Traffic Services, Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency and Finnish Transport and Communication Agency, Traficom, Gasum and Hillebrand Gori. 

During the history of the UNESCO Convention, only 15 non-governmental organizations have been accredited for the implementation of UNESCO's underwater cultural heritage protection goals. The accreditation of the Finnish Maritime Archaeological Society was a surprise in the sense that Finland as a country has still not ratified the UN Convention on the Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage, which was already generally accepted in 2001.

The Finnish Maritime Archaeological Society is a SeaFocus Associate Partner.

Ocean Exchange calls for solutions. They invite everyone to join as a voting delegate October 22-24 in Fort Lauderdale. Along with the Board of Governors and invited guests representing a cross-section of professions from industry, government, conservation, research, and academia by joining you could help select the winners of the $100,000 WW Orcelle® Award, the $100,000 Neptune Award, the $100,000 Innovation Award for Transportation and Logistics Hubs and our two Collegiate Awards for $10,000. 

Without much interest from the Finnish public, a new law on due diligence in supply chains came into effect in Germany on January 1st 2023. This new German legislation though has a greater significance for Finnish companies than it might seem at the first glance.

The German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act[1] (“Act”) is groundbreaking especially as it foretells to a large extent the upcoming European legislation as contained in the proposal for a directive on due diligence in the area of sustainability.

Read the article by our Associate Partner, Nora Haapala, Attorney at Law, Associate Partner, Rödl & Partner Attorneys Finland

Prepare to be amazed by the latest vessel gracing the seas, the M/S Finnsirius. This state-of-the-art ship is a testament to innovation and technology. From its advanced navigation systems to its sustainable energy solutions, the M/S Finnsirius exemplifies excellence in maritime engineering. 

The Intelligence Hunt Program presents five captivating case assignments, each providing different companies with the opportunity to tap into innovative solutions. These case assignments serve as the catalyst for creative thinking, collaborative problem-solving, and the exploration of new business possibilities.

SeaFocus and Escola Europea have a pleasure of inviting the University Professors and Students to the Introduction to MOST and PVL Training, which takes place October 4 in Naantali Finland at the Hotel Naantali Spa in conjunction with the SeaFocus ESG Summit. This is an introductory interactive session to share thoughts and ideas of possible further collaboration in the area of improving the skills in sustainable maritime transport and logistics. 

Only university staff, professors and students are eligible for participation. This session is free of charge for the participants, but requires registration.

Every company and business segment has a reason to be concerned about environmental, social and governance related matters. Compliance and continuity play a critical role in building a change-resistant strategy and profitable business.

SeaFocus is a maritime and supply chain focused entity nourishing leadership and innovation, resilience and business continuation, with a strong sustainability edge. 

“Introduction to the Motorways of the Sea / Port Virtual Lab”. This workshop is organized by Escola Europea in co-operation with SeaFocus and in conjunction with the SeaFocus ESG Summit 2023 October 4th in Naantali, Finland. 

This part of the conference is exclusively targeted for the University professors, lecturers and students and it is free of charge. 

This is a great opportunity to get introduced to the programme presenting the technical concepts of the logistics and port sectors to the participants using a methodology that facilitates communication and relations among the participants.

Consortium of four entities Finnpilot Pilotage Ltd, Fintraffic´s Vessel Traffic Services, Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency and Finnish Transport and Communication Agency, Traficom joined the Intelligence Hunt with a case assignment. We are proud to nominate the Talent Team EUREKA with Faranak Ahmadi, Fresenius Hochschule of Berlin, Germany, Eslam Gad, World Maritime University, Sweden, Jonatan Mendoza, World Maritime University, Sweden, Minh Thu Nguyen Ngoc, Aalto University, Mikkeli Campus, Finland, Bao Nguyen, Aalto University, School of Business, Finland, Nseobong Umoh, Cranfield University, United Kingdom

Healthy and well sea nature is also one of the key goals of the Port of Turku’s environmental programme that extends to 2025, and it is targeted at decreasing the burden of port operations on the waterways. 

The environmental programme aims at climate change mitigation as part of the carbon-neutral Turku city area.

The Port of Turku is a SeaFocus Partner.

SeaFocus Summit 2023 on ESG and Sustainable Supply Chain speaker lineup was published today. The list and the programme for the October 4-5th will be updated little by little.

Registration has also been opened! 

We will be attending the Messe München Transport Logistic 2023 in May.  This will be our first time and we are pretty excited. This trade fair is a huge event.

We have a stand in Hall B, stand number 429 - if coming to the fair, please do come to say hi to us.  

Also Wasaline and Fintraffic will be joining the exhibition with us. 

We are building up something great for this Autumn. October 4-5th, 2023 we will organise a SeaFocus Summit on ESG and Sustainable Supply Chain. This event takes place in Naantali and also we get to visit Finnlines´s new vessel M/S Finnsirius. 

We are really excited! Hope to see you joining the Summit.

Another great opportunity for students to challenge themselves, their knowledge and skills as Hillebrand Gori joins the Intelligence Hunt project.  

Calling all supply chain and logistics students! Apply now for the Intelligence Hunt project with Hillebrand Gori - deadline 24.4.2023 CET 4 pm

We are looking for students interested in to work on a business project with Hillebrand Gori, a company of DHL – specializing in the logistics of wine, beer and spirits, in any quantity, along any route, across all modalities.

All student teams working on the Intelligence Hunt case assignments at the moment have proceeded well with their works. They are having weekly meetings among the team and every now and then with their Mentors and also case company representatives. So many great ideas!!! 

Teams: SAFETY FIRST, MARÈ and EUREKA

Student ! Apply now for the Intelligence Hunt project for GASUM  - deadline 15.4.2023 CET 4 pm

We are looking for students interested in 

• maritime industry
• energy and environmental technology 
• engineering
• data analytics
• legal and commercial compliance

this might be your chance to explore your skills and knowhow in a real business case. 

We are happy to introduce the Talent Team for the Euromar case. They act as a Junior Consultant Trainee for SeaFocus during the project: Catarina Aires, ISCTE-IUL, University Institute of Lisbon (Portuguese in Portugal), Diana D´anello, Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, (Colombian in Finland), Mariia Mykhailenko, Odessa National Maritime University (Ukrainian in Ukraine), Maria Marich, Admiral Makarov State University of Maritime and Inland Shipping (Maritime academy) (Slovakian - Russian, in Russia) and Eric Nnanna, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow (Nigerian in United Kingdom)

We are proud to present you our talent teams working on the Intelligence Hunt case assignments at the moment.

These young talents are giving their outmost for the case companies and project team. 

The Maritime Networks will for the fifth time gather representatives of the maritime industry. 

The event seminar and networking event takes place on Thursday, March 30, 2023, from 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Naantali Spa. 

In addition to an inspiring seminar program, Meriverkostot offers participants the opportunity to meet new partners who can offer their know-how, production capacity or completely new solutions to the future challenges of the industry.

Baltic Insights is a three part mini series of the Aronnax Podcast where I (Craig Eason) travelled on three Finnlines vessels to talk to the crew about their futures and to take a look at the changing Baltic Sea.

Many thanks to the crew of the Finnlines vessels Europalink, Finnlady and Finnswan for offering their time and thoughts and to the company for letting me travel around the Baltic Sea.

You can read more about the company and the new vessels that Finnlines will soon be deploying on its routes by going to www.finnlines.com

I also want to thank SeaFocus for the idea of this tremendous voyage and the support in realisation of it. 

We are happy to announce that the Nordic energy company Gasum joins the Intelligence Hunt project.

Gasum is a leading LNG and bio-LNG bunkering company in the Baltic Sea and North Sea area. Bio-LNG or LBG means liquefied biogas. Biogas is made from organic material, and it has the potential to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 90% compared to fossil gas. 

The core question in the project is to better understand the bunkering market and how the regulatory and other changes will impact the market and bunkering customer decision making, including from the shippers’ and ship owners’ perspective.

We are happy to announce that the Finnish Maritime Archaeological Society (MAS) and SeaFocus have agreed on Partnership and MAS will join the co-operation as a Developing Partner. 

The society promotes maritime archaeological research, education, and citizen science in Finland. As a Federation of Finnish Learned Societies member, the organization collaborates closely with universities and the Finnish Heritage Agency to identify and study new and old wrecks.

SeaFocus was invited to participate annual held LetExpo in Verona Italy by A.L.I.S. the Logistic Association of Sustainable Intermodality. 

The exhibition took place 8-11.3. 

Ulla Keino, the CEO of SeaFocus took part in panel discussion on ”NEXT GENERATION EU: transport & logistics sustainability”.

Silvia Serafini, SeaFocus Junior Consultant,  will be participating the LetExpo 2023 with Ulla Keino, CEO of SeaFocus, who also will be a speaker there. This is a great way to put Silvia's professionalism and passion in sustainability in use as she is interested in promoting sustainability across different industries.

Silvia's exclusive task is to promote SeaFocus' “Intelligence Hunt” in Italy, both to students and to the exhibitors and guests of LetExpo, and beyond. In the future Silvia will be working as a Junior Consultant in the projects related to Southern European markets.

Call for Students in Maritime Safety and Technology, Marketing and Data Analyze by March 10th

For this Intelligence Hunt project, we are looking for students interested in maritime industry and safety. If you are studying maritime safety, technology, commercial business, marketing, or data analytics, this might be your chance to explore your skills and knowhow in a real business case. 

This case assignment was given by a consortium of four Finnish public transport organisations: Finnpilot Pilotage Ltd, Fintraffic´s Vessel Traffic Services, Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency and Finnish Transport and Communication Agency, Traficom.

Nikolai Andriakov has Passion for Data Analytics 

Nikolai Andriakov is a final year International Business student at Aalto University, Finland. Prior to the Bachelor’s degree, he graduated from the Baltic State Technical University with a degree in Power Mechanical Engineering and completed two internships at Nissan as an Interior Design Engineer.  

The ultimate target of SeaFocus is to use its immense expertise and network to benefit its partners and stakeholders, and to promote the maritime and supply chain industry to the future talents as an interesting career path.

Finnpilot Pilotage Ltd, Fintraffic´s Vessel Traffic Services, Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency and Finnish Transport and Communication Agency, Traficom join the Intelligence Hunt project. 

The Case assignment “Improving the Usage of Fairway Data for Different Users” focuses in commercial and recreational fairways as well as in new technologies.

This case assignment is to investigate possibilities to improve the utilization of digital information from the fairways; static and changing information by different user groups and stakeholders, to identify additional services possible to create from the collected / available data and to identify new users and user groups. 

You can apply for Intelligence Hunt project anytime now. 

We will contact you when we have a project where your skills and knowledge would be beneficial for the project. 

Please note, when specific cases we always have more instructions published in our News & Blogs. So if and when interested, please check the instructions, and you of course, you can always contact us.  

  EUROMAR joins Intelligence Hunt project with a scope of establishing a new service crew maritime safety training centre in Madeira for cruise and Ropax vessels.

EUROMAR and SeaFocus are calling for students interested in the maritime industry and maritime safety to join this exciting Intelligence Hunt project.  

We are looking for students studying marketing, maritime safety and rescue, economics and hospitality and business management. If you are interested in our project but you study something else, you can still apply, so don’t hesitate.

EUROMAR joins Intelligence Hunt project with a scope of establishing a new service crew maritime safety training centre in Madeira for cruise and Ropax vessels.

Maritime training is regulated by the international STCW convention (Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers, later STCW). The STCW Convention was amended in 1995 (STCW-95), when for example training on board began to be defined more precisely. In addition, there is a need for refreshment trainings on regular intervals for all crew members.

We are happy to announce that our co-operation with the Port of Turku continues. 

The Port of Turku is a pioneer in its field that works in close co-operation with its partners. The Port is  involved in a number of projects and develop new solutions in order to enhance the vessel traffic and consequently improve the profitability of passenger traffic and cargo transports. 

We are happy to welcome Valentina Platzgummer to the Intelligence Hunt Junior Consultant Pool 

She is glad therefore to join the SeaFocus Junior Consultant Pool and to contribute to improve the impact of maritime and shipping industries on the environment. 

Valentina recently specialized in Marine Environmental Resources with an International MSc at the University of the Basque Country in Spain, with the objective of working on research and innovation projects for the sustainable use of the oceans. Her academic background is in Economics, as she received her BS in Foreign Trade from the University of Ca’ Foscari, in Venice. 

Record year for our Partners Wasaline, who carried 267 757 passengers (107 659 in 2021) between Vaasa and Umeå in 2022. Passenger volume increased by 149 percent despite Covid-19 travel restrictions being in place until March. After the restrictions were lifted Wasaline has broken passenger records every month. 

The departures of Aurora Botnia increased by 14 percent from 990 to 1 133 departures. The amount of passenger vehicles transported increased by 126 percent. 

Happy to announce that our collaboration continues with C & C Port Agency Finland Oy Ltd.. The Company is an independent Finnish company solely dedicated to port agency representation and ship clearance. 

C & C Port Agency Finland has earned its place as one of the leading and most esteemed port agency firms in the Finnish market. C & C acts as a single point contact for you to all Finnish commercial ports.