The Full Ahead Podcast at the Ferry Shipping Summit 2025 Episode 5

At this year’s Ferry Shipping Summit in Malmo the theme was ‘Cutting-Edge Ferries Future Ready Ports' and in this final, bumper episode recorded in Sweden we look to the future.

One of the recurring themes was ‘digital’ while Artificial Intelligence (AI) and how it can be adopted to smooth the journey for freight and passengers was another common discussion point.

In this episode we hear from Henrik Lindqvist of Orbyt Global AB, Kadri Haufe of Nortal and Maddy Bosch of Brock Solutions who explain how tech is making transport smoother.

Anders Orgard of OSK Design talks about the future of ferry design and construction.

With next year's summit to be held in Greece we also hear the views of the CEO's of Patras and Kavala ports, Panagiotis Anastasopoulos and Dr Angelos Vlachos.

And how an interest in Irish Sea ferry operations led Gary Andrews to a career in shipping.

Our thanks to the organisers of the Ferry Shipping Summit for enabling us to attend.

We hope you enjoy the podcast and if you would like to hear more stories of ships and shipping and would be interested in sponsoring an episode or short series in 2026, get in touch.Show notes:

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Podcast contents:

1-4 minutes setting the scene

4-10 minutes Henriq Blomquist of Orbyt Global who specialise in maritime connectivity and navigation talks about developments aboard ships now and the future.

10-15 minutes Canadian based Brock Consulting are already working in Europe as Maddy Bosch told us:

15-20 minutes In Tallin the port there has already adopted new ways of working as Kadri Haufe of Nortal explains.

23 - 34 minutes ship designers like Anders Ogard of OSK Design are keeping a close eye on developments onshore to make sure the ferries of the future offer exactly what passengers and crew need.

34-43 minutes Gary Andrews of DFDS has been a lifelong ferry supporter. How does he view the future?

44-50 minutes the CEO's of Kavala and Patras ports Dr Angelos Vlachos and Panagiotis Anastasopoulos share their views on collaborations with ferry operators and hopes for the future.