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Course Director: Dr. Jasper Boessenkool

Dr. Jasper Boessenkool
Portchain – Maritime Technology, Innovation

Jasper has 20+ years of hands on experience on innovation and digitisation for both shipping and the port sectors.

  • Led Maersk Maritime Technology’s Innovation & Future Technology projects on Big Data Analytics, Predictive Maintenance, Fuel efficiency and fleet optimisation. Identified USD 100-150 million annual cost saving and strategic implementation roadmap.
  • Drove Maersk’s participation to establish joint industry collaboration of USD 7.5 million, 15 innovation projects and 40 strategic suppliers and universities
  • Valuated around 50 potential (technology) acquisition targets, resulting in 9 concrete acquisition proposals with typical acquisition price between USD 2 – 15 million.
  • Involved in various start-ups in digitisation and process optimisation across maritime technology sectors
  • Set up and drove strategic engagement at Executive level for technology roadmap and future terminal and shipping technology
  • Redesigned and implemented LEAN innovation process to focus and align innovation activities
  • Developed expansion strategy of the Port of Busan (South Korea), based on a benchmark of value-added logistics activities of the ports of Rotterdam, Singapore and Shanghai.
  • Initiated a series of ‘Innovation Action Labs’ to workout innovative business ideas in 2 days, leading to concrete, new ideas that were implemented within the existing organisation.

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