{"id":2212,"date":"2024-06-25T06:17:20","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T06:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/conferences.wmu.se\/wmumaritimeweek\/?p=2212"},"modified":"2024-07-11T11:52:27","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T11:52:27","slug":"lauri-ojala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conferences.wmu.se\/wmumaritimeweek\/lauri-ojala\/","title":{"rendered":"Lauri Ojala"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Professor of Logistics, Turku School of Economics, University of Turku<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mr. Lauri Ojala<\/strong>, Professor of Logistics at University of Turku, Finland, since 1997. His expertise includes international logistics and maritime economics also from a policy-making perspective, incl. security of supply issues. 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