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Lasse Kristoffersen
Why globalisation is here to stay
Lasse Kristoffersen talked digital and life post-coronavirus in late April in a popular episode of the Maritime CEO Leader Series.
The CEO of Norwegian shipping bluechip brand Torvald Klaveness maintained in the interview that shipping will continue to adapt to both the changes brought about by the current pandemic as well as the more swift adoption of technology by society at large.
“When these things happen we tend to overestimate how fast change has come but underestimate the implications of the change itself. For this virus and the technology around it the long term effects are very deep,” Kristoffersen said.
“In life this will change how we think about pandemics and risk. It will change how each one of us looks after our personal health,” Kristoffersen said, going on to discuss how the issue of crew repatriation was something that needs
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“When these things happen we tend to overestimate how fast change has come but underestimate the implications of the change itself ” to be urgently ironed out or shipping Kristoffersen said he did not foresee will struggle to attract new generaany fundamental changes beyond tions to a career at sea. short-term demand changes. ●
The Klaveness boss, formerly with class society DNV GL, was adamant during the video chat that coronavirus would not put globalisation on the back-burner. Cultural lockdown
“I don’t think the world ever goes into reverse, it just finds Book: Factfulness by Hans Rosling different ways of going forward and TV: Fauda on Netflix globalisation is here for a reason and the reason is it is better for all,” Kristoffersen said from his home in Oslo.
On the physical trades,
