1. What aspects of the maritime sector appeal to you?

Shipping and its development always reflect the current world affairs and, in most cases, shipping is at the forefront of them. When there is not enough water in the Panama Canal for the locks to work, when politically motivated attacks blockade the maritime traffic in the Red Sea, when a master and a pilot miscommunicate and this leads to a ship blocking the Canal or when the whole world watches as a ship filled with grain leaves a Ukrainian port to allay hunger somewhere else, then it becomes obvious how exciting and also how important shipping is for all of our lives. Shipping itself always requires looking beyond one's own nose, it is in its nature a globally linked industry branch and that is what keeps fascinating me.

And let's not forget: shipping never stands still, somewhere on this planet, in the ports and on the ocean something is going on and that is also part of the appeal of shipping.