Type: Keynote
Duration: 20 min
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In this session, you will hear Hapag-Lloyd’s view on world trade and the future of container shipping.
Rolf Habben Jansen was born on 27 August 1966 in Spijkenisse near Rotterdam. He graduated in Economics from the Erasmus University in Rotterdam in 1991. In the same year, he embarked on his career as a trainee at the former Dutch shipping company Royal Nedlloyd. He held a number of different positions both there and at the Swiss logistics firm Danzas, before the latter merged with DHL, the subsidiary of Deutsche Post AG. From 2001, he was responsible at DHL for contract logistics for large parts of Europe, and from 2006 he was in charge of the services group’s 100 most important customers as Head of Global Customer Solutions. As Chief Executive Officer from 2009, he spent five years heading up the global logistics company Damco. Rolf Habben Jansen was appointed member of Hapag-Lloyd AG Executive Board in April 2014. He has been Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Hapag-Lloyd AG since July 2014. Rolf Habben Jansen has two daughters. Alongside his native language, he speaks German and English fluently.
Thomas Sørbø is the CBDO and Co-Founder of Oslo-based Xeneta, the leading market intelligence and rate benchmark platform for containerized freight. Sørbø has a unique and strong interest to bring visibility into business processes related to logistics procurement and supply chain management. He has in-depth logistics and transportation experience from several years at Kuehne + Nagel in various roles and also as Co-Founder of Nordialog, a logistics consultancy firm. Sørbø holds a B.Sc. from the Norwegian Business School BI.
