23 March - 26 March
Clarion Hotel Helsinki, Finland
The inaugural Nordic-Baltic Maritime Forum in Helsinki will be a landmark gathering of maritime leaders, innovators, and policymakers from across the Nordic-Baltic Eight: Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, and Sweden.
This is a highly focused day of events which will explore shipping and ports’ energy, technology and regulatory landscape and the pathways to sustainability and decarbonisation.
The events are delivered by NBMF Innovation Partners across a range of formats, including roundtable discussions and working groups, specialised seminars and discussion panels – all of which are intended to encourage delegate interaction and foster cross-disciplinary conversations.
Please note that these sessions form part of the Nordic-Baltic Maritime Forum. Registration provides access to the site visits, Innovation Day, headline Conference, and all associated networking events and receptions.
NBMF Delegate Price: £1,095
Managing Director
ship.energy
Lesley Bankes-Hughes is a highly experienced editor, news journalist and features writer. After a number of years as business editor of Jane’s Defence Weekly, she worked for the International Stock Exchange and Euromoney Publications. She also established a specialist newsletter covering European corporate mergers and acquisitions, and later spent several years at Christ Church, University of Oxford, with responsibility for developing educational outreach projects.
Presented by agriportance
Market Analyst and Product Manager
agriportance GmbH
Based in Münster, Germany, agriportance supports the biomethane market with services spanning GHG calculation, certification, gas shipping, and biomethane brokering.
Ole helps drive the company’s EU-wide expansion, combining market insight with a strong focus on regulation and policy developments.
Ammonia is emerging as a frontrunner in the race to decarbonise shipping – but its success depends on more than engine technology. The fuel gas system (FGSS) is the critical link between concept and operation and getting it right will determine whether ammonia scales or stalls.
During this session, TGE Marine will be exploring the importance of cooperation and collaboration within the industry to ensure a sustainable future and safe and reliable fleets. This session will be split into two parts, one will be company presentations from TGE Marine, as well as one of their strategic long-term partners, Deltamarin. These organisations have cooperated for many years to ensure a safe, reliable and sustainable fleet. Customers and Partners span the globe from various segments.
This presentation will deliver a strategic and practical perspective on ammonia FGSS integration, highlighting what the industry must address to move from early-stage designs to reliable, safe, and cost-effective solutions.
The second part of the session will focus on some of the most frequently asked questions and discuss the way that organisations can work together without competing. Additionally, audience members are more than welcome to ask questions during this conversation.
Ahti Climate explores how international and regional regulations (e.g., FuelEU Maritime, IMO GHG strategy, EU ETS, national initiatives) are driving investment, innovation, and adoption of low-carbon fuels in the Nordic-Baltic maritime region. The discussion will connect regulatory frameworks with real-world decision-making by shipowners, fuel suppliers, ports, and technology providers.
Which regulatory developments are most impactful right now?
FuelEU Maritime, IMO GHG targets, EU ETS, national incentives.
How are these rules shifting investment toward low-carbon fuels?
Biofuels, e-fuels, methanol, ammonia, hydrogen, LNG transition pathways.
What commercial and operational barriers remain?
Fuel availability, infrastructure, price signals, verification systems.
How do regulations help or hinder collaboration across the value chain?
Between shipowners, fuel producers, ports, financiers, and policy makers.
What role can the Nordic-Baltic region play as a leader?
Early market adoption, pilot projects, regional regulatory alignment.
Chief Executive Officer
Ahti Climate Ab
Ahti Climate provides FuelEU Maritime compliance solutions for vessel operators and fleet managers. We specialise in FuelEU pooling services that enable cost-efficient, transparent, and verifiable compliance with the European Union’s greenhouse gas intensity requirements. Our services combine regulatory expertise, maritime operational insight, and robust reporting workflows built around the FuelEU Maritime database and verification framework.
Fürstenberg Maritime Advisory (FMA) is a micro consultancy from south Sweden driven by a purpose to lead the maritime industry towards future-focused and planet-empathic strategies. Small but with an impressive maritime pedigree, FMA offers bold perspectives and unique insights. Teaming up with the Helsinki-based futures lab Futures Platform for the Innovation Day Session at the inaugural Nordic-Baltic Maritime Forum, FMA will deliver a workshop like no other.
Addressing – and also going beyond – decarbonisation, FMA Partners, Sofia & Conor, are coming to Helsinki with a workshop experience designed to encourage senior level delegates to “think again”. What are the flags, commercial or material, signalling that planetary health has a long-term impact on business? How must enterprise risk be rethought in a world where boundary conditions include ocean biodiversity? What are the opportunities for market differentiation through planetary and human care in a world that is confused as to whether sustainability has any corporate weight?
This workshop will be framed in the Nordic-Baltic context, and the contours of the region’s maritime industry. The blending of holistic sustainability and futures in one event has likely not been seen before in the maritime industry.
Joining FMA for this session is Futures Platform, the Helsinki-based industry standard for strategic foresight. Its team of world-leading futurists maintains a continuous ‘360-degree’ scan of the global landscape, tracking over 1,500 future trends and AI-curated signals.
By integrating their proprietary Trend Radar technology into our workshop, they provide the roadmap and the data-driven framework that allows leadership to identify ‘weak signals’ today before they become the industry shocks of tomorrow.
We invite delegates to join for this thought-provoking session, whether you are involved with Boards, Leadership- and Strategy Development or simply curious about sustainability.
Partner
Fürstenberg Maritime Advisory
Sofia is a Partner at FMA, and with over 20 years in the industry, is recognised for her ability to drive innovation and inclusive sustainability across the maritime value chain.
With an M.Sc. in environmental chemistry, Top Tech Graduate from UC Berkeley, an MBA in Shipping & Logistics from Copenhagen Business School and a passion for the “Blue Economy,” she untangles the complexities of global regulation and environmental ethics.
Her recent work includes serving as Lead Author for the Sustainable Shipping Initiative (SSI) “Best Practice Guidebook for Marine Biodiversity & Ocean Health”, leading techno-economic feasibility studies for ammonia transitions (Port of Houston) and developing holistic sustainability roadmaps for major P&I Clubs such as NorthStandard.
Whether she is moderating C-suite roundtables for Maritime SheEO in India or advising from her seat at the IBIA European Board, Sofia is a catalyst for change, ensuring the sustainable maritime energy transition is both ambitious and just.
Partner
Fürstenberg Maritime Advisory (FMA)
Conor brings decades of experience in high-risk maritime and offshore management. As a Master Mariner with an MBA from Henley Business School, he bridges the gap between technical operations and the strategic “boardroom” requirements of the energy transition
Recently he has fulfilled a 3rd party assignment for a strategic partner at the Maersk McKinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping. There he has been immersed in IMO policy development for energy efficiency and certification of alternative fuels. His project history with FMA includes developing high-level port sustainability training for CREMPOL in West Africa, developing holistic sustainability roadmaps for major P&I Clubs such as NorthStandard and advising the ammonia industry on maritime pathways.
Bringing his operational knowledge along, Conor is passionate about searching for narratives that join the business as usual context of today’s maritime leadership with a transformed and responsible industry of the future.
Delivered by AIVP
Technical Manager
Integr8 Fuels
Chris Turner, Technical Manager at Integr8 Fuels, joined the bunker trading firm in 2017 and is based in Dubai, UAE.
During his career spanning over 30 years in Oil & Shipping Industries, Chris has vast experience in Laboratory Management, Physical Supply, Bunker Broking, Trading and, more recently, providing technical supervision of the exclusive buying for Owners, Charterers and Operators including the development and design of online bunker resources.
Chris also sits on the International Bunker Industry Association’s (IBIA) technical working group.
Closed working group – by invitation only (morning session, 2 hours)
The session will explore how green corridors move from policy ambition to FID-ready investment architecture, using ammonia and methanol trade flows between Europe and another geography as a structuring case study
The emphasis will be on:
Roundtable discussion (afternoon session, 2 hours)
This discussion will focus on the legal challenges and considerations in entering into cross-border regional and international commercial partnerships, consortia and joint ventures related to maritime’s energy transition.
Following Innovation Day, all delegates and speakers are invited to a networking drinks reception. Hosted by the Innovation Partners, this event takes place at the Skyroom Bar at the Clarion Hotel which offers an amazing 360o view of the Helsinki skyline.
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