Luca Bussani has been employed by Zurich Insurance since 2008 as Risk Engineer managing marine and goods in transit risks. His involvement includes hazard analysis, risk assessments and post-loss investigations.  More

Steve Cameron trained as a deck officer in reefer vessels, transferring ashore to the cargo division of Cunard Steam Ship. He was then part of a founding management team that over 20 years developed a specialist operator into one of the leading players in West Africa.  More

Ulises J. Carrillo is the Vice President, Global Logistics for Dole Food Company, headquartered in Westlake Village, California. He is responsible for defining, establishing, and articulating the corporate vision to maximize Dole’s logistics services and assets around the world. Additionally, Mr. Carillo manages the procurement of logistics-related capital assets and capital approvals.  More

Alfred has extensive experience in container transportation, port developments, logistics planning, IT applications, human resources and cold-chain management throughout his affiliation with the shipping industry for the past 3 decades. Currently, he is a council member serving both The Japan Society of Hong Kong and The Japan Hong Kong Society in Tokyo.  More

Dermott Crombie was appointed Vice President, Global Marine Solutions in 2004 and is responsible for overseeing Thermo King’s activities and long-term growth in both the container and the genset business globally. Dr. Crombie joined Thermo King in 1987, and has more than 20 years’ experience in the transport temperature control industry.  More

Malcom Dodd is Programme Manager of the Post Harvest Innovation Programme, a public/private partnership in South Africa which has the vision: 'To develop an innovative and globally competitive fresh fruit industry which grows the economy, jobs, skills and support services'.  More

Eric Eng was recently appointed Vice President, Global Reefer Trade, APL Co and is responsible for overseeing the company’s global reefer activities and long-term growth. Mr Eng is based at their Head Office in Singapore, heading a team of reefer specialists offering advanced CA & CT technologies to their global customers for their shipment of fresh fruits.  More

Claus Ellemann-Jensen joined CMA CGM in March 2007 and has held his current position as Vice President Reefer Trades since January 2009.  More

After a career at sea, Harm de Haan started working as marine/cargo surveyor in 1974 and became partner of    P. de Beer & Co b.v. (in 1980) and later director of BMT de Beer b.v., Rotterdam (2002). His specialisation is the transport of perishable cargo. Over more than 25 years, he has been investigating claims and was consultant on the subject to a number of major container operators and carriers of conventional reefer cargo.  More

As Regional Director of HPL for Europe & Africa at Hellmann Worldwide Logistics since October 2008, Ralf Heske is in charge of two of the most competitive markets in the reefer/ perishable logistics world.  More

Palle Jørgensen is director and general manager of the Johnson Controls Global Container Efficiency organization, and is responsible for overseeing the company’s global activities in reefer container temperature control, tracking and condition monitoring.  More

Deon Joubert was born and educated in South Africa. He studied at the University of Stellenbosch and graduated with a BSc Agric, then a Post Graduate MSc in Applied Economics.

He worked as an Economist for the Dept Agriculture for 8 years and played rugby for the Bellville Rugby Club First team. He is member of both the SA Agricultural Economic Society and the SA Society for Agricultural Extension.   More

Ken Kinscher is Manager in the Corporate Finance / Merger & Acquisitions Department of M.M.Warburg & CO, and is responsible for the logistic sector as well as maritime equity.

M.M.Warburg & CO is the largest private owned bank in Germany. The focus of the Corporate Finance Department is on mid sized deals especially of family owned companies. Beside services regarding Mergers & Acquisition, M.M.Warburg Corporate Finance provides all services regarding Equity Capital Markets as well as Debt Advisory.   More

Sean Maguire is the founder and CEO of Port Solutions Inc., a provider of advanced wireless telemetry services to the asset management, container ports, and shipping industry. Sean is a seasoned technology professional with over 15 years of experience in hardware design, business development, IT application and product development in both established and start-up companies.  More

Sjaak Melissant, Managing Director of Coolboxx, specializing in intermodal transport solutions. With his knowledge of road transportation he is responsible for expanding their intermodal network by combining the strength of the Coolboxx shareholders: Samskip, Visbeen, Post-Kogeko with reliable partners, offering an alternative to road transport for temperature controlled transport across most of Europe.     More

Paul joined the Thomas Miller Group in 1981 after 5 years in shipping with Mitsui OSK Lines in London. He was seconded to the TT Club where he worked in a variety of claims management and underwriting roles before becoming the Club's first Chief Executive in 1999, a position he held for 10 years.  More

Mr Andrew Ngan has been recently appointed Assistant Vice President, Global Reefer Management in MOL Liner Ltd and is responsible for overseeing the company’s activities and long-term growth of reefer trade globally.  More

Ole Schack Petersen has been with Damco since 6 April 2009. Based in Copenhagen, he is Director and Head of the global reefer logistics activities of Damco.  More

Alan Robertson is the Director and Owner of Webster Robertson Ltd, based in Kent, UK. He specialises in providing consultancy and special services for the container sector of the maritime industry.  More

Mrs. Claudia Roller was appointed as Chairwoman of Port of Hamburg Marketing in 2008 and is responsible for representing the interests of the Port of Hamburg and the companies that are the members of the Port of Hamburg Marketing registered association.  More

Mr. Sawai studied Mechanical Design & Heat-transfer Engineering at Osaka University. In 1981, he joined Daikin as designer for container refrigeration machinery. He was part of the design team that developed the best selling Scroll Compressor Reefer Unit, the LXE reefer series.  More

Andy Smith, vice president of products for Purfresh, joined the company in 2007. Under his direction, the company successfully introduced Intellipur®, the produce industry’s next generation informatics software. Mr. Smith is currently working with the USDA, University of California, Davis, and University of Florida on multiple projects, and recently served on the board of directors for the Center for Food Safety, University of Georgia.  More

Phillip graduated from St Andrews in 1997 having previously spent two years with Hertie AG in Germany. Hooked on retail Phillip then joined Marks and Spencer and has spent the last 13 years in a variety of commercial and project management roles.  More

James Taeckens is a senior product manager for Carrier Transicold Container Products Group, the global leader in container refrigeration systems and generator sets. Carrier Transicold is a division of Carrier Corp., a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE:UTX).   More

Derk van Mackelenbergh was appointed as Managing Director of Eurofrigo, in October 2001, where his job entails the operation of two public refrigerated warehouses that contain 67’000 pallet places, being responsible for overseeing the company’s activities as well as its long term growth and future projects.  More