SPEAKERS

Day 1:

Chairman of the day (Session I):

Mr Juhani Tervala

Mr Juhani Tervala was appointed Director-General of the Finnish Transport Agency on 1 January 2010, when the new Finnish Transport Agency started operating.

Mr Juhani Tervala was born in 1951 and graduated in Transportation Engineering in 1977 as he got his Master of Science in Technology degree from the Helsinki University of Technology (now the Aalto University School of Science and Technology). Mr Tervala has been conferred  the Finnish honorary title Rakennusneuvos, i.e. Honorary Counsellor of Construction Engineering.

In 1977-1992 Mr Tervala has worked at the Finnish Road Administration as a Coordinator and Deputy Director of the Department of Planning and Design.

In 1992-2009 he has worked at the Ministry of Transport and Communications as a Director-General of the Administration Department, as a Manager of the Unit for Corporate and Ownership Policy, the Transport Services Unit, and the Infrastructure Unit and lately as Director-General of the Transport Policy Department.

Mr Juhani Tervala has represented Finland in many working groups and committees of the EU, of which a few are listed here: the high level working group modifying the TEN Guidelines, the Infrastructure Committee and as Chairman of the Development Committee for the Helsinki-St. Petersburg-Moscow transport corridor. He is also a member of the construction working group of the Finnish-Russian Intergovernmental Commission for Economic Development.

Chairman of the day (Session II):

Professor Esko Antola

Professor, Jean Monnet Chair ad personam, University of Turku, Finland
Director, Centrum Balticum, Turku, Finland

Dr Esko Antola (b. 1947) has occupied various teaching positions at the University of Turku as well as at other universities in Finland in the field of international relations. He was the director and co-founder of the Institute for European Studies in Turku. He is the holder of Jean Monnet Chairs ad personam on European Institutions at the University of Turku. Dr Antola served as the director of Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, University of Turku, 2000-2007. He served also as an advisor to the European Commission, 2008-2009.
Dr Antola was a Visiting Fellow at Oxford University (1983) and Yale University (1985-1986).
Currently Dr Antola is the Director of Centrum Balticum, a think tank specialised in Baltic Sea Region issues.

Captain Yury Orlov

Captain Orlov (b. 1958) is Deputy of Head St. Petersburg Maritime Port Administration.

Previously he has worked in Murmansk Shipping Company, and in "JUMBO" Company in the Netherlands. Since 2005 he has been worked at the St. Petersburg Maritime Port Administration. He has graduated from the Admiral Makarov State Maritime Academy.

Dr Tapani Stipa

Dr Tapani Stipa is head of marine hydrodynamics research at Finnish Meteorological Institute. He has been leading the international effort under the ShipNODeff programme to reach a better understanding of maritime emissions in the Baltic since 2006, implemented under the ShipNOEm, ShipNODeff and SNOOP projects. He is a member of BOOS and Baltex steering groups and the Finnish focal point in Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission and many of its subsidiary bodies.

Professor Ulla Tapaninen

Mrs. Ulla Tapaninen, PhD, is a Professor of Maritime Logistics at the Centre for Maritime Studies (CMS), University of Turku. After finalising her doctorate in logistics at the Helsinki University of Technology in 1997, she worked for ten years as a Development Manager and Environmental Manager in a large Finnish shipping company. Since 2006 she has been in charge of Maritime logistics research in the CMS. Since 1992, she has worked as researcher, project director and board member in the areas of maritime and cross-border transportation, logistics information handling and maritime safety.

Vice Admiral Juha Rannikko

The Deputy Chief of Staff, Logistics and Armaments, Rear Admiral Juha
Sakari Rannikko (born 1955), was designated to Commander of the
Finnish Navy from 1 July 2009 and to an admiral office from 1 August 2009.

Vice Admiral Rannikko served as Deputy Chief of Staff, Logistics and Armaments from 2007 until 30 June 2009. Before reaching this position Rannikko has also served as Chief of Logistics, and Deputy Chief of Logistics at the Defence Command Finland, Chief of the Materiel Division, Chief of the Missile Office at the Navy Command Finland,
Senior General Staff Officer at the Ministry of Defence, and as Executive Officer in Missile Squadron at the Archipelago Sea Fleet and the Coastal Fleet. In 1987 he completed his General Staff Officer's
degree. He has also studied in the United States and in France. Adm Rannikko was promoted to Rear Admiral in 2006 and to Vice Admiral in 2009.

Mr Simon Bonnell

Simon Bonnell is Nord Stream’s survey manager responsible for engineering surveys, pipeline routing and munitions issues. In addition Simon is Nord Stream’s Task Force Manager for Finland responsible for the environmental impacts and permitting procedure.

Simon Bonell is a chartered engineer with a degree in engineering geology and geo-techniques. His specialist field is the assessment of submarine geo-hazards and their impact on the routing of marine pipelines.

He has extensive experience in the survey for and routing of offshore infrastructure, principally long distance pipelines. Key projects include major gas trunk lines within Europe: Blue Stream (Russia to Turkey) and trans-Mediterranean pipelines from Tunisia to Italy, Algeria to Italy, Morocco to Spain, and projects worldwide: America (Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic seaboard), Southeast Asia (Philippines and Malaysia) the Middle East (Gulf States and Egypt).

Mr Alpo Juntunen

Mr Alpo Juntunen is Doctor of Philosophy from University of Turku (1983) and his speciality as researcher is Russian History and Geopolitics.He is senior  researcher  at the National Defence University since 1998.

He is Docent in Russian History at the University and Docent in Political History at the University of Helsinki.

He was visiting Scholar at the Leningrad State University in the years 1970-1971, and at the Diplomatic Academi of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation in the years 2003, 2005.

He published many books and articles concerning the Russian transport and geopolitics.

Ms Sanna Sonninen

Ms. Sanna Sonninen is a master mariner and after working onboard Finnish merchant ships for nine years she has since 2001 worked ashore. First as a VTS operator and for six years as a research scientist at the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. During this time she was involved and lead several research projects related to maritime safety. In autumn 2007 she joined the Finnish Maritime Administration where she worked as the Development Manager of the Traffic Division. Since December 2009 she has been the Director of the Maritime Safety Department in Finnish Transport Safety Agency. She has been the member of IALA VTS Committee since 2007.

Day 2

Chairman of the Day:

Professor Ulla Tapaninen
Research Director
Centre for Maritime Studies

Mr Diego Teurelincx

Diego Teurelincx is Commercial Engineer and holds a Master of Transport and Port Sciences. His curriculum path is dedicated to the maritime port sector, starting at national level with transport consultancy and research firms (working in several research projects covering inland navigation, short sea shipping and cargo handling), and later on with the Antwerp Port Authority (performing development projects). At European level, he worked as Port Expert with the European Commission (DG TREN). Currently, he is Secretary-General of FEPORT, the European representation of Terminal Operators, including both national sector associations and private companies, where he acts as interlocutor to the EU institutions and other regional, national or international organisations, authorities & institutions.

Mr Björn Ahlnäs

M.Sc.,Chemical Engineering, Swedish University of Turku, Faculty of Chem. Mr. Björn Ahlnäs is currently working as a Vice Chairman of the Board of Gasum Oy.

Mr Hendré W. Sijbring

Business Unit Director for Port Technology at Groningen Seaports Netherlands.

After studying Civil Engineering and Construction at Higher Technical College Groningen, Mr Sijbring worked for several engineering offices, and did a lot of work on civil and industrial constructions. For a number of years Mr Sijbring was Technical Director at the internationally well known Emmen Zoo. Since 2001 Mr Sijbring has worked for Groningen Seaports, the Port Authority in the north of the Netherlands, which develops two ports with an area of 2600 hectares of port related industrial business.

Mr Sijbring’s interest is the human side of inspiring technology, based on the principle of co-operation and facilitating projects together in a win-win situation.

Mr Reijo Viitala

Mr Reijo Viitala (57) has been the Port Director of the Port of Kemi, Finland since 1999. He started as Harbour Engineer in the Port of Kemi in 1978. He is a Member of the Finnish Port Association.

During 2010 he leads the Ports of the Bay of Bothnia (PERSA) as the Chairman of the Advisory Board. He has also been the Chairman of Transport Committee of the Lapland Chamber of Commerce since the beginning of 2010.

Mr Viitala has been in charge of various development projects executed in the Port of Kemi. One of the recent ones was the investment to expand the Ajos deep-water harbour in 2003–2006 (17,6 M€). The next large investment currently in planning is the construction of the harbour for iron ore concentrate, the cost estimate of which is about 40 M€. It will be implemented in 2010–2013. The export of Lapland’s new extractive mining industry is appr. 5 – 7 million tons yearly and this will be handled through the Port of Kemi.

Mr Pekka Ala-Tuuhonen

Bachelor of Science, Civil Engineering, Turku Institute of Technology. Mr Ala-Tuuhonen  works at the moment as Head of Unit at Ramboll Finland Oy, Turku. His key qualifications are harbour, road, traffic, municipal and structural engineering, logistics, tender documents and construction management.

Mr Peter W. Cardebring

Peter W. Cardebring is Senior Project Manager at HPC Hamburg Port Consulting in Hamburg. Peter has 25 years professional experience in economic- and intermodal transport analysis with a special focus on transport related matters in the maritime business. Presently he is leading and involved in strategic port development projects in Kuwait, Qatar, Abu Dhabi, Turkey, Latvia and Russia.

Day 3

Chairman of the day:

Professor Pentti Häkkinen

Pentti Häkkinen obtained M.Sc. (Eng.) degree 1972 at Helsinki University of Technology focusing on internal combustion engines and strength of materials.

1989 he was invited to Helsinki University of Technology (TKK) as professor in ship machinery systems. In 1991 he obtained Licentiate of Technology degree.

At TKK he conducted research projects on ship automation, machinery reliability, engine room fires and exhaust gas boiler fouling. Participation in EU-projects has been mainly channelled in NoE projects by WEGEMT organization (CAREMAR, focusing on industry-university cooperation) and IP-projects focusing on engine room design and modularization.

International cooperation has also included membership at ICMES (International Cooperation on Marine Engineering Systems) executive board, president position 2001-2003 and running the 9^th ICMES Conference in Helsinki, 2003.

In 2009 he was nominated as Principal lecturer at Turku University of Applied Sciences (TUAS) and head of Ship laboratory. He continues teaching marine engineering courses at TKK.

Mr Tuukka Laakso

Tuukka Laakso graduated from Turku Polytechnic in 2002 in automotive engineering. He currently holds the position of Technical Manager R&D, electric systems in the Cargotec Marine's Dry Cargo division. His main duties are in research and development of electric operation systems and their components. As technical manager his work is also related to technical guidance and support for new development and problem solving. Tuukka Laakso is married and has two children.

Mr Janne Kosomaa

Janne Kosomaa, born 1972, graduated with M.Sc. Mechanical Engineering at Helsinki University of Technology in 1999.

He started his professional career already a few years earlier at Wärtsilä Corporation in Scotland as Project Engineer working with North Sea offshore oil and gas power plant service contracts. In 2000 he joined Wärtsilä Corporation in Turku as Project Manager for marine application development. In this position he focused in marine applications of gas engines. A major milestone of his work was a breakthrough in implementing new dual-fuel-electric propulsion system for LNG-carriers.

At end of  2003 he took a new course to his career joining Almaco Group Ltd in USA, where he was leading the contract management department carrying out ship repair projects in Europe, USA and far east.

On summer 2008 he joined Uudenkaupungin Työvene Oy (Uki Workboat Ltd.) as Production Manager and partner. He is responsible of newbuilding production of the shipyard, consisting of boats and ships for official and governmental use up to 100m length.

Mr Antti Lehtelä

Antti Lehtelä works for ABB Marine as Marketing Manager in the Center of Excellence Propulsion Products in Finland. He has M.Sc. (El Eng) and eMBA degrees from the Helsinki University of Technology (HUT), Espoo, Finland. He has worked in several sales and marketing management positions in ABB since 1982 and in ABB Marine since 1988.

Mr Mikko Niini

Naval Architect, born 1946, graduated from Helsinki Technical University in 1970. In 2004 he was appointed a Managing Director of Aker Arctic Technology Inc of Helsinki, Finland.

While completing the studies Mikko Niini joined Wärtsilä Helsinki Shipyard in 1970 for the “Manhattan” project to work on the very first ice model tests in Finland. Since then Mr Niini has held different positions at Valmet Shipbuilding Group within design, marketing, publicity and sales.

After the merger of Wärtsilä and Valmet shipbuilding activities in 1986 he continued as Vice President, Marketing and Sales of Kvaerner Masa-Yards Inc. In this position he has also  been responsible for all the shipyard activities in Russia and is still in charge e.g. of the STX Europe Representative Office in Moscow.

In recent years Mikko Niini has been involved in oil and gas developments in North of Russia, Sakhalin and the Caspian Sea along with the first icebreaker IBSSV newbuilding for the Exxon Neftegaz operated Sakhalin 1 project and for the world’s first Arctic container vessel for OJSC Norilsk Nickel. Aker Arctic already works on two important design contracts, one for two 70.000 tdw Arctic shuttle tankers for Sovcomflot being built in St. Petersburg and another for three for ZAO Naryanmarneftegaz/JSC Sovcomflot having been built by Samsung in Korea as well as several new multipurpose offshore  icebreaker projects for the Arctic operations, including the Canadian AOPS.

Mr Reinhard D. Lüken

Mr. Lüken, born in Germany in 1968, is Secretary General of CESA since 2001. Before joining CESA, he was responsible for politics and strategy at the Meyer Shipyard in Papenburg, Germany, from 1998 to 2000, and prior to that worked four years in the executive office of the Treuhandanstalt in Berlin. Mr. Lüken holds a PhD in political science, economics and sociology

Professor Kai Levander

Kai Levander has been in charge of Naval Architecture at Aker Yards, now STX Europe. He was responsible for R&D, concept development, feasibility studies and new building projects in the Cruise and Ferries Business Area.

Kai Levander graduated in 1967 as a Naval Architect from the Helsinki University of Technology. He has been with Aker Yards, Kvaerner Masa-Yards and Wärtsila Marine since 1969, mostly working with research and development tasks. He has been the innovator in many ship projects such as the Finnjet Gas Turbine ferry, the cruise ferry Silja Serenade, with the indoor atrium street and the Color Fantasy, a “Cruise Ship with Car Deck”. Among his cruise ship projects the All-Outside-Cabin concept of MS Royal Princess, the Windstar sailing cruise ship, the Diamond SWATH-Cruiser and Carnival and Costa Panamax vessels can be mentioned. Through his career Kai Levander been involved in the development of new cruise vessels for Royal Caribbean Cruises, including the 220 000 GT Oasis of the Seas, which was delivered in October 2009 from STX Finland.

Between 1995 and 2008 Kai Levander was Associated Professor in Ship Design at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. In 2008 he receives an honorary doctorate from the Helsinki University of Technology.

After nearly 40 years in the shipbuilding business Kai Levander retired in September 2008 and is now an independent consultant.

Mr Johan Snellman

Johan Snellman, born 1954 is a graduate in Naval Architecture from the Technical University in Helsinki.. In 1981 he started as a project engineer at the Rauma-Repola shipyard in Rauma, which over the years also has worked under the names Rauma Yards, Finnyards, Aker Finnyards and Aker Yards.  In the years 1988-91 he worked as R&D manager at the yard and since 1992 in the sales department, presently as Vice President, STX Europe Cruise & Ferries. During the years he has also worked as project manager for several vessels, including M/S ULYSSES, one of the largest ferries in the world.

Mr Henrik Bachér

Henrik Bachér, born 26.11.1954 in Helsinki, Finland graduated in 1983 from the Helsinki University of Technology with a Master of Science degree in Naval Architecture.

His professional career originates in the Finnish shipbuilding industry which he served for a decade and from which he moved on to serve the shipping industry for more than two decades. His experience covers a vast range of competences from technical development and project management to marine management of the most advanced passenger vessel fleet in the Baltic. The operational experience covers in addition to technical management both safety and environmental competence. Henrik has been a pioneer in developing environmental management for the maritime industry and in adopting environmental impact reducing technology on a number of ships. These measures have rendered him personal awards ao. the Baltic Sea foundation environmental award in 2002. Through his international employment period he is well acquainted with the international shipping community and especially the cruise industry. He has during his career participated in a number of ship concept designs as well as newbuilding projects for various ship types.

Henrik joined Elomatic in late 2008 as Vice President, Consulting & Engineering, heading and developing the company’s Helsinki office. His responsibilities are competence and product development, regional marketing and sales activities comprising all Elomatic business units as well as developing environmental related business services within Elomatic.