Lloyd's List: The Shipping Podcast

We are talking sanctions busting, transparency and data integrity on this week’s podcast. In the wake of the latest tanker being caught carrying sanctioned cargo, we examine how deceptive patterns of behaviour are being tracked, why shipping’s grey areas are increasingly under scrutiny and what questions we should all be asking when it comes to data transparency and trustworthiness.

Michael Webber, Wells Fargo’s superstar shipping and LNG research analyst, makes a welcome return to the podcast this week to offer his outlook on the second half of the year and talk LNG, industry leadership and why he’s not overly concerned about the recent exodus of equity analysts from Wall St banks.

LNG was burning bright long before the US-China trade war re-shuffled the opportunity-risk balance for several stakeholders, but there are now supply concerns to contend with as well. Incremental LNG demand during the next five years will have been met by new capacities already under construction but there’s much more in the pipeline waiting for more a favourable political climate. So, is supply d...

Shipping’s major bank lenders have launched a unique collective climate programme called the Poseidon Principles, promising to transparently measure the climate impact of their portfolios and integrate climate considerations into lending decisions. Joining Lloyd’s List Editor Richard Meade to discuss the implication of this major new initiative is one of the founding architects of the principles,...

The Iranian threat is real and we are about as close to armed conflict as we can get, explains Bimco’s head of security Jakob Larsen on this week’s podcast. Regardless of who carried out the latest attacks in the Middle East, tanker owners now face a serious threat to the safety of crew operating in the region and further disruption could yet scupper markets and ultimately spark a full blown confl...

After a week of being bombarded with disruption, decarbonisation, digitalisation and the occasional drinks reception, what have our team of editorial explorers taken away from Oslo this year as their highlights? Richard Clayton, Linton Nightingale and Anastassios Adamopoulos digest the week’s events on the side-lines of Nor-Shipping 2019

The Nor-Shipping conference has inevitably been dominated by discussion of decarbonisation, but amid the tech-led innovation proposals and puff a growing consensus of industry leaders are finally talking about cross-sectorial collaboration being the key to clean shipping. Joining Lloyd’s List Editor this week to discuss what it will take to create a tipping point in shipping is Katherine Palmer, t...

“WE’RE looking for solutions,” explains Baroness Bryony Worthington, executive director of the Environmental Defense Fund in this week’s podcast. “We’re not here to beat the industry up or point fingers, we’re looking for what’s possible”. The EDF believes that International shipping can meet its target of at least halving its emissions by 2050, and can unleash trillions of dollars of investment o...

The Lloyd’s List team are back in London this week reflecting on another busy week of market-shaping stories. Expect insights into why Robert Yildirim was so angry about losing his bid to buy Long Beach Container Terminal, what’s keeping the container industry power brokers awake at night and why the IMO is struggling to keep up with the regulatory agenda. xx Janet Porter, our former chief corresp...

THIS week’s Lloyd’s List Podcast from the Global Liner Shipping Conference in Hamburg, Germany, with our resident container shipping specialist Linton Nightingale chewing the fat with industry guru’s Lars Jensen and Allan Murphy from SeaIntelligence Consulting. The trio talk on the main points of discussions stemming from the annual conference, where, naturally, the impending sulphur cap and its r...

On the Lloyd’s List Podcast this week, Editor Richard Meade has gathered of crack squadron of our finest editorial troops to bring you the inside track on the stories shaping shipping. Starting with a quick view of next week’s International Maritime Organization Marine Environmental Protection Committee, the team take a quick tour of scrubber economics and the Clean Shipping Alliance agenda, throu...

GOVERNMENTS and lobbyists alike are gearing up for another fortnight of decarbonisation negotiations at the IMO starting next week. But with industry eyes still set squarely on the looming 2020 sulphur reduction targets there is a growing feeling that the ambition to at least halve carbon emissions from shipping by 2050 may be stuck somewhere at the bottom of the industry’s to do list. For this we...

The shipping industry has been a set a generational challenge – cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least 50% by 2050. But how? Joining Lloyd’s List Editor Richard Meade on this week’s podcast is the esteemed maritime economist Martin Stopford who has a few ideas on how to decarbonise seaborne trade in under 30 years. Spoiler alert – it’s not going to be easy.

Lloyd's List discusses some of the more long-term trends and uncertainties facing the industry. The US is standing firm on its sanctions against Venezuela, but is there a clear process for penalising businesses? Governments are under the microscope again for their casualty investigation reports, or lack thereof, just as companies may be finding it harder to retain younger talent with potential.

In the final edition of our daily podcast from the Lion City, Editor Richard Meade catches up with our Singapore based Senior Reporter, Hwee Hwee Tan to reflect on the week’s events and talk about why there is a clear digital divide starting to show across the industry. Singapore may have put on s stellar showcase of future facing ambition, but the reality of maritime operations is that not all pl...

In the second of our daily updates live from Singapore Maritime Week, our Asia team reflect on another busy day of digital deliberations, report back on the Lloyd’s List Smart Ports Forum and offer their thoughts on what needs to happen next. The technology discussion may finally be morphing into a pragmatic conversation about the realities of the industry as it is, rather than what the tech provi...

Join Lloyd’s List Editor Richard Meade and our China Editor Cichen Shen for the first in a special series of evening reflections from the sidelines of Singapore Maritime Week. Today our dynamic duo are discussing why digitalisation doesn’t seem to have moved on since last SMW and why scrubbers are still the hot topic. If you’re not already signed up to attend our Smart Ports Forum, you might just...

We’re talking Smart Ports on the podcast this week in advance of the Lloyd’s list Singapore Maritime Week Forum where we will be examining why ports are the critical interface in the overall digitalisation of shipping. Joining editor Richard Meade, Capt. Rajesh Unni, Founder & Group CEO of Synergy Marine Group and Lloyd’s List’s own king of containers James Baker explore why data alone will not ge...

We are now nine months away from the 2020 low sulphur fuel regulations coming into effect and there are still a few stakeholders feeling a little nervous. We’re not quite a Brexit levels of last-minute panic just yet but it’s fair to say that there are still some pretty significant questions being raised about availability, quality and of course pricing. The fuel suppliers have smelled the fear an...

The shipping industry needs to take a more holistic view when looking to improve safety, environmental performance and operational efficiency, says DNVGL’s maritime chief executive Knut Orbeck-Nilssen, because right now the environmental agenda has overtaken safety concerns and that is worrying. Joining Lloyd’s List this week, Mr Orbeck-Nilssen and DNVGL’s environment director, Eirik Nyhus, discus...

Brian Johnson, the UK’s Maritime & Coastguard Agency’s new chief executive has taken over one of the toughest regulatory jobs in shipping just as the UK is teetering on the edge of Brexit, the UK flag is wilting under the political pressure and the fearsome pace of regulatory and technological change is disrupting established norms. Speaking to Lloyd’s List Editor Richard Meade on his inaugural po...

This week Lloyd’s List editor Richard Meade is joined by the other Richard, Lloyd’s List’s Chief Correspondent, Richard Clayton to discuss the stories they think are shaping the shipping markets this week. On the table for discussion: container consolidation, fuel costs, yet more digitalisation and the urgent need to focus on the human element.

This podcast is part of a special mini-series gathering the collected views of the international Lloyd’s List editorial team on what stories are going to be shaping the shipping markets in the coming months. Today’s edition features the US team talking about US LNG opportunities and the problem of port congestion. In this edition it was the turn of our US team to lead the agenda. Mark Fuechec, our...

This podcast is part of a special mini-series gathering the collected views of the international Lloyd’s List editorial team on what stories are going to be shaping the shipping markets in the coming months. Today’s edition features the Asia team talking about bunkering, LNG, trade tariffs and digitalisation. In this edition it was the turn of our Asia team to lead the agenda. Hwee Hwee Tan, our s...

This week’s podcast is part of a special mini-series gathering the collected views of the international Lloyd’s List editorial team on what stories are going to be shaping the shipping markets in the coming months. Today’s edition features the European editorial team. Look out next week for the US and Asia editions.