Interview of the week – Khimji Ramdas Shipping – Oman

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With an engineering background, Sanjna began her journey at Procam as a trainee and has grown over 15 years to head its Global Project Forwarding division, leading breakthrough projects across diverse industries. She brings a practical, operations-focused perspective to complex project cargo movements, with expertise in coordinating operations, managing stakeholder responsibilities, and navigating contractual obligations. As moderator of this panel, she will explore the challenges that arise when project plans meet operational realities, highlighting the importance of clear communication, defined responsibilities, and collaboration in mitigating risks, resolving disputes, and aligning contractual commitments with on-ground execution.

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Jayme Bailey is Senior Project Manager at NMT Projects, with 18 years in logistics, including 15.5 years at NMT. After studying science at university, he moved into freight forwarding before joining NMT as a junior, progressing through project coordination, project management and operations management. Jayme has managed diverse projects across Australia and Southeast Asia, specialising in biosecurity compliance and projects with stringent biosecurity controls, including Non-First Point of Entry operations. He thrives on the "impossible" jobs, as finding a solution where it was deemed futile is the greatest achievement in this industry.

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Lars Husmand has headed Wind Energy Services at Ultrabulk since 2024, bringing extensive experience in shipping, project cargo and the transportation of wind energy components. Throughout his career, Lars has played a key role in developing innovative shipping solutions for the wind industry. At Clipper Projects, he helped establish and drive global wind turbine shipping initiatives, working closely with leading OEMs. During his subsequent tenure at NORDEN, Lars further developed the concept of transporting wind turbine components on dry bulk vessels, demonstrating how conventional shipping capacity can be adapted to meet the evolving demands of the renewable energy sector. Prior to joining Ultrabulk, Lars served as Senior Chartering Manager – Projects & Parceling at Norvic Shipping Europe.

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Mikael Grönroos is Managing Director of Hacklin Group, a Finnish family-owned company established in 1908. He represents the fourth generation of the family in the business. Mikael studied Industrial Engineering and Management, majoring in Logistics, at Tampere University of Technology. He spent ten years in international project logistics at Outotec Oyj (now part of Metso), managing large-scale projects in the global metals and mining industry.
Since joining Hacklin Group in 2013, Mikael has combined his experience with the long-term development of the family business. He is also Chairman of the Board of Hacklin Logistics and Hacklin Shanghai, supports the Group’s subsidiaries in project logistics and oversees its financial management.

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Laurance Langdon is a logistics and supply chain leader with more than 35 years of international experience across five continents. Having started his career with Schenker in London, he has built extensive expertise in shipping, project cargo, oil and gas logistics, business development and supply chain management.
Throughout his career, Laurance has led business start-ups, operational expansions and complex logistics projects worldwide. As a conference moderator, he brings practical industry insight and a global perspective on the challenges and opportunities shaping international logistics and trade.

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Ilaria Giacomazzi is Unit Director of Aon’s Logistics Operators Team, where she leads a specialist practice focused on liability insurance solutions for leading logistics operators, freight forwarders, carriers and terminal operators. A qualified lawyer since 2014, she began her career in maritime, transport and insurance law with specialised law firms in Genoa.
Before joining Aon, she worked as an insurance broker supporting major international clients in the transport and logistics sector.
Ilaria holds a Master’s Degree in Law from the University of Genoa and advises clients on risk analysis, contract management and claims handling across complex logistics chains.

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Fabrizio Ottone is a licensed Tourist Guide and historian of the city of Livorno. He has worked as a scriptwriter and historical consultant for television programs, video projects, and place-marketing initiatives focusing on Livorno and its surrounding area. He teaches professional training courses for cultural sector professionals and tourist guides.
He is President and co-founder of the Guide Labroniche Association (Livorno Tour), an association
of professional tourist guides that has been promoting Livorno’s cultural heritage and contributing to the city’s tourism development since 2013.
He has created a number of original guided-tour itineraries that have become established features of Livorno’s local tourism and cultural offer, including dramatized tours in historical costume and the “Mysterious Livorno” tours, exploring the city’s unsolved mysteries, legends, and secrets.
For the past ten years, he has also devised and performed living-history productions in theatrical venues and historical reenactment settings.

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Simone Pieruccini is a Mechanical Engineer with more than 25 years of experience in the paper and tissue industry.
A graduate of the University of Pisa, Italy, Simone gained early industry experience through several paper and tissue projects during his university studies. After graduating, he began his professional career as a technical consultant with a private engineering company before joining Toscotec in 1999.
At Toscotec, Simone initially worked as Safety Manager before moving into the Technical Department, where he became Product Manager for Pressure Vessels. During this time, he led the design and patenting of the TT SYD (Steel Yankee Dryer) and TT SDC (Steel Dryer Cans), playing a key role in the development of their core manufacturing processes.
Today, Simone coordinates Toscotec’s Pressure Vessel Technical Department, overseeing projects throughout their full lifecycle, from design and engineering through to final delivery to the customer.

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Emanuele Bianchi is a Business Development professional specializing in High Integrity Pressure Protection System (HIPPS).
With more than a decade of experience across sales management, project management and project engineering, he has led strategic initiatives for major operators including ENI, ADNOC and Shell.
He holds a Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering, with a qualification in Functional Safety focused on Safety Instrumented Systems. He is also enrolled in the Italian Register of Engineers in Livorno.

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Antonella Turci is a Partner at Turcilex, a globally recognised law firm specialising in maritime and international trade law. She has decades of experience advising major players in the shipping industry on both judicial and extrajudicial matters, with particular expertise in maritime, civil, commercial, transport and logistics law.
Antonella graduated from the University of Genoa and has been admitted to practise before the Italian Supreme Court (Corte di Cassazione) since 2008. She is a member of the Italian Association of Maritime Law (AIDIM) and the Women’s International Shipping and Trading Association (WISTA).

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Alessandro Personi is a Partner at Vaudo Paggini & C., specialising in maritime and yachting law, international transportation, logistics, international trade and customs. He is admitted to practise before the Italian Supreme Court.
He advises shipowners, shipping companies, freight forwarders, logistics operators, oil and gas businesses and financial institutions on maritime and commercial contracts, charterparties, multimodal transportation, EPC projects and complex international transactions.
His practice also encompasses marine casualties, cargo claims, contractual liability, marine insurance, shipbuilding, yacht construction and financing, as well as cross-border litigation and arbitration, including proceedings under ICC and UNCITRAL rules.
Alessandro has spoken at conferences on shipping, international trade and commercial contracts and serves as Representative of the Italian Chamber of Commerce in the UAE.
He is a member of the Italian Maritime Law Association (AIDIM), the International Propeller Club, Yacht Club Livorno and Rotary Club Livorno Mascagni.

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Damiano Vaudo is a Senior Partner and founding member of Vaudo Paggini & C., a maritime and international trade law firm based in Livorno, Italy. He is admitted to practise before the Italian Supreme Court.
Having started his legal career in 1987, he has extensive experience in maritime and international transport law, marine casualties, general average, insurance, shipbuilding, and the financing, sale and purchase of commercial vessels and yachts.
A former officer of the Italian Navy, he combines legal expertise with practical knowledge of shipping operations, particularly in handling major marine casualties.
He advises shipowning groups, freight forwarding businesses, oil and gas companies, financial institutions and publicly controlled entities on maritime contracts, transport disputes and shipping-related matters.
Damiano has spoken at conferences on maritime law, carrier liability and marine pollution prevention and has taught Maritime and Navigation Law at the University of Pisa. He is a member of the Italian Maritime Law Association (AIDIM) and the International Propeller Club.

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Marco Campodonico currently holds the position of Manager, Chartering & Projects at KestrelMare SRL. Having graduated in Foreign Languages from the University of Genoa in 1984, Marco began his career with Intermare Genoa, a specialist brokerage and port agency company focused primarily on heavy-lift and project cargo transportation. The company acts as brokers and port agents at ports throughout Italy.
In the 1990s, Marco became a partner of Intermare and went on to serve as the company’s exclusive Italian agent for a number of leading heavy-lift carriers, including Dockwise and SAL. Over the years, he was involved in numerous international projects across the oil and gas and wider energy sectors, developing extensive expertise in project cargo transportation and the negotiation of complex transport contracts.
Alongside his professional activities, he has for many years lectured on heavy-lift transportation as part of the shipbroker and ship agent training course in Genoa, sharing his specialist knowledge of this highly complex and distinctive sector with the next generation of maritime professionals.
Marco serves as a member of the KestrelMare Board of Directors, bringing more than four decades of experience in heavy-lift and project cargo transportation, brokerage, agency and international project work.

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Carly Fields is Associate Editor for Breakbulk and Project Cargo at the Journal of Commerce and JOC.com, covering breakbulk, project and heavy-lift transport and logistics. Based in the UK, she is a specialist maritime editor, overseeing publications including The Sea and Marine Professional in addition to her responsibilities at the Journal of Commerce. She was previously an editor at Breakbulk magazine and has been reporting on the breakbulk sector since 2015. She started her maritime journalism career at daily maritime newspaper Lloyd’s List in 2000.
Fields holds a first class Maritime Studies degree and is an assistant examiner for professional shipping exams through the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers, of which she is a Fellow. Through the Seahorse Freight Association, she is also a judge for excellence in journalism in the transport industry.

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Clinton Eckersall is an Australian logistics executive with more than 27 years of experience in international freight forwarding, project logistics, and commercial leadership across four continents. His career spans both multinational corporations and privately owned businesses, giving him a broad perspective on how organizations of different scales approach complex logistics challenges. As Director at AAW Group, a privately owned Australian Logistics Group with operations across Australia and New Zealand, Clinton is based in Brisbane and leads the company's commercial strategy and international agent and network strategy. His nine years with AAW have seen him build the business's national sales capability and oversee its growth across gateway ports and specialist project freight markets. Clinton values the connections and collaboration that come with being part of a group like The Heavy Lift Group, and understands firsthand the role that trusted networks play in enabling independent operators to take on complex, multi-disciplinary projects with confidence. He is looking forward to meeting the group in person once again.