Christopher (Chris) Pålsson is managing director and partner of maritime-insight. Chris has a wide experience ranging from practicing business development to transport and logistics studies for manufacturing industries, governmental agencies, ship owners and business organizations. Chris has in different functions worked with shipping and industrial market analysis since the end of the 1980’s. Chris has spoken at numerous high-level meetings and conferences through the years.Chris has together with Niklas built the maritime-insight approach and the following Fleet of the World model. In the 1990’s, Chris was Managing Director of Equilibrium, a shipping consultancy firm. Chris was the Administrative Official at the Swedish Transport and Communications Research Board handling funding of research projects. He was appointed national expert of Sweden in the EU PACT program (Pilot Actions Combined Transportation). Prior to start up the Lloyd’s Register-Fairplay research unit (later IHS Fairplay), Chris was Manager for Strategic Analysis at the Institute of Shipping Analysis (SAI).Large studies that have been led by Chris falls under headings like transport policy, port strategic planning and maritime trade and traffic. In 2008, Chris headed the “OPTIMAR” study providing strategic goals and recommendations for the EU’s maritime transport policy until 2018 now being implemented. The study was updated in 2010. In 2007, Chris led the consortium of companies producing the report “North Sea Baltic Container Transhipment Hub”. Chris managed studies of trends in vessel dimensions in a 2030 scenario perspective for the Ports of Rotterdam and Gothenburg.