{"id":12043,"date":"2021-06-17T16:50:49","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T20:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/?p=12043"},"modified":"2024-12-16T14:37:33","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T19:37:33","slug":"trond-klaveness-shipping-in-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/2021\/06\/17\/trond-klaveness-shipping-in-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Trond Klaveness (CAS&#8217;90) reflects on a changing world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/alumni\/files\/2021\/06\/Trond-Klaveness-150x150.png\" alt=\"Trond Klaveness\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-12052\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/files\/2021\/06\/Trond-Klaveness-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/files\/2021\/06\/Trond-Klaveness-550x550.png 550w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/files\/2021\/06\/Trond-Klaveness-710x710.png 710w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/files\/2021\/06\/Trond-Klaveness-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/files\/2021\/06\/Trond-Klaveness-600x600.png 600w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/files\/2021\/06\/Trond-Klaveness-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Trond Klaveness (CAS&#8217;90) says the COVID-19 pandemic had two significant impacts on Torvald Klaveness, the family shipping business where he serves as chairman. It created &#8220;a huge volatility in prices,&#8221; but more important was the effect on the company&#8217;s people. &#8220;Everything everywhere shut down, and seafarers need to go back to their families,&#8221; he says. Still, he sees some reason for hope. &#8220;The virus has destroyed a lot, but it has also created a foundation for the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trond Klaveness (CAS&#8217;90) discusses the pandemic&#8217;s impact on his shipping business\u2014and its people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14533,"featured_media":12052,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,390],"tags":[177,106,392,408],"featured_img":"\/alumni\/files\/2021\/06\/Trond-Klaveness-716x600.png","agg_excerpt":"Trond Klaveness (CAS'90) discusses the pandemic's impact on his shipping business\u2014and its people.","agg_title":"Finding a foundation for the post-pandemic future","media_icon":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12043"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14533"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12043"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12086,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12043\/revisions\/12086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}