Léon Gommans was not a maritime man at the start of his career, but living in Europe’s largest port city, Rotterdam, this tech specialist saw an opening, a chance to contribute.

In 2015, he co-founded Teqplay, a company focused on reducing emissions in the maritime industry through data collection and digitisation.

“If you think about cargo movement, there is a lot of collaboration going on, involving data in the maritime industry, and I found the industry lagging in the adoption of tec...