After having completed his military service Sven graduated as a ship broker in the liner trade in 1986. He worked for several years in England as a logistics manager for a cocoa trading company arranging shipments, dealing with transport claims, taking out insurance policies for shipments etc. Back in Germany he gathered valuable experience working for transport underwriters, importing companies and traders. In 1988 he began his career as a cargo surveyor working for a local transport and marine surveying company in Hamburg and was appointed as managing director in 1996. He opened his own company in 2010 and worked successfully handling major transport claims abroad and locally involving general average, warehouse fires, CMR claims, theft and commodity claims. Sven joined Sedgwick Germany in 2019 and was appointed as head of marine aviation transport. He works from our Hamburg office and coordinates all transport related claims both for local and international accounts.
