Lloyd's List: The Shipping Podcast

Lloyd's List Sponsored content in association with Argus Media Biofuels do not get the media coverage enjoyed by ammonia or hydrogen, but expertise is growing. Bunker suppliers and shipowners are working with fuels specialists to assess the potential as the shipping industry moves towards its 2030 targets. The term biofuels is broad. It covers a range of energy sources such as bioethanol and biodi...

Our Victorian shipping forebears designated twelve noon on 20 February each year as the notional time and date at which Baltic ports became ice free, and that has given birth to one of the great traditions of marine insurance. Two centuries later, midday on 20 February still marks the hard cut-off point by which the vast majority of shipowners must have in place cover for liability in everything f...

Lloyd's List Sponsored content in association with Orbit MI WEATHER has always mattered for shipping; it will matter even more as the climate changes. The 2021 report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change stated that it is “unequivocal” that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean, and land. Disruptive weather events impact all sectors of the supply chain. For...

The public debate in the west about whether sanctions levelled against Russia are working is inevitably complex, but ultimately is immaterial to most companies struggling to comply with them. The point is that sanctions are growing in volume and complexity and, given their political popularity, they are not going to be disappearing any time soon. This week’s edition of the Lloyd’s List Podcast tak...

The ships of the future will be more efficient. But the global fleet currently carrying the 11bn tonnes of seaborne trade annually will be operational into the 2030s and so keeping the existing ships running longer more efficiently is part of the overall balance required to green shipping’s energy transition. There is an entire industry out there with proven technology that can make existing ships...

xxx Before you listen to this week’s edition of the podcast, register for the Lloyd’s List webinar on February 15 at 2pm UK time: Digitalisation - a game changer for decarbonisation? Join our webinar to explore the world of Digitalisation as a Service (DaaS). Our panel of experts will review its potential as a game-changer for decarbonisation and improved operational efficiency. Register now: http...

Sponsored content: Bureau Veritas Marine & Offshore group president Matthieu de Tugny talks to Lloyd’s List editor Richard Meade about why class societies have a critical role to play in ensuring shipping remain safe and reliable as we look to rapidly adopt new technologies, new fuels and new cargoes.

Shipping’s persistent piracy problem has all but disappeared off the radar of late. Attacks are still happening of course, but according to the International Maritime Bureau’s latest annual report maritime piracy and armed robbery attacks have reached their lowest recorded levels in 30 years. Last year there were five attempted hijacks of ships recorded, only two of them were successful and only o...

THE deal to allow the safe transport of grain out of Ukraine by sea was an extraordinary and unprecedented agreement between enemy combatants. And the fact that it has seen 17 m tonnes exported to dates has, quite literally been a matter of life and death as well as a minor diplomatic miracle. But the initiative is deeply flawed and survives despite its status as a political bargaining chip and ro...

A sponsored podcast in association with Rightship Maritime is in transition in many ways – from analogue to digital, from fossil fuels to alternative energy sources, and from a focus on the skills available within the industry to the skills we need to bring in from outside shipping. However, industries do not transform themselves. They are transformed by leaders who understand the critical need to...

It's a tough gig making predictions, especially about the future – but it’s that time of year where bold editorials types like to breathe deep the festive spirits, polish their crystal balls, embrace their inner Pythian oracle to offer their predictions for the year ahead. As is now traditional, the Lloyd’s List editorial team have gathered around the microphone this week for their annual forecast...

WHEN Soren Skou outlined his vision for the future of Maersk in 2016, he said he thought it would take about six years to achieve. Well, almost six years to the day from when he detailed those plans at Maersk’s Capital Markets Day he announced that he was stepping down having transformed Maersk from a shipping and energy conglomerate to a global logistics group. So as he prepares to hand over to V...

The annual Lloyd’s List Outlook Forum offered the last word on the forces shaping shipping right now, but the common theme among discussions ranging from decarbonisation to safety and regulatory risk was that the industry is just mot moving ahead with enough pace. This week’s edition of the podcast offers a few edited highlights from this year’s event, but you can listen to the full Forum on deman...

This week’s edition of the podcast features a very special guest - Soren Toft - the CEO of world’s largest liner operator, MSC. He talks to Lloyd’s List editor Richard Meade about of the challenges facing shipping and where he sees the industry heading. Before you listen to this week’s episode though, please register for this year’s Outlook Webinar on December 8 at 9am UK time. You can go to Lloyd...

COP27 failed to deliver much in the way of progress but for shipping the next steps in the IMO is where we will determine the trajectory of what happens next. Fail to agree the detail and a complex, costly future awaits. There are positive signs that shipping is at least now having the right conversations, but is this too little too late? This week’s edition of the Lloyd’s List Podcast explores th...

The annual Lloyd’s List Outlook Forum returns on December 8 bringing together the expertise of Lloyd’s List and Lloyd’s List Intelligence with the industry’s key decision makers to directly answer the most critical questions shaping maritime markets in 2023 and beyond Register for free here: https://bit.ly/3tufIYf This week's edition of the podcast features Christopher Rex, head of innovation and...

Head to Lloydslist.com and register for this year’s Outlook Webinar on December 8th at 9am UK time. This is the big one – it’s our annual look at the forces shaping shipping and I’ll be joined by Karrie Trauth, the head of shipping for Shell, Michael Parker president of transportation at Citi and chair of the Poseidon Principles, and Rasmus Back Nielsen, global head of Fuel Decarbonisation at Traf...

Recent litigation in vessel pollution cases resurfaces the dillemas faced by companies and the seafarers they employ. Under US law, crewmembers who bring forward information that leads to a successful prosecution in a vessel pollution case are entitled to up to half of the fine levied on the guilty parties. The US has awarded tens of millions of dollars to whistleblowers throughout the years, whil...

The podcast this week features highlights from our live innovation webinar hosted by Lloyd’s List Editor Richard Meade on Thursday 27 October. The full recording of the webinar is available on demand, just register here: https://bit.ly/3zkdtue The webinar features: - Leslie Dang, Managing Director, Singapore at Nautilus Labs - Osku Kälkäjä, Head of Digital Business at ABB Marine & Ports - Gary Noo...

UNSAFE shipping is not the clarion call of the environmental pirate, gleefully operating leaky ships with impunity risking the lives of crew for the hell of it. Safety is the problem that happens when nobody is paying attention. Which is why is perhaps concerning that safety has until relatively recently not figured as a particularly high profile part of the decarbonisation discussions. It’s menti...

Shipping is too small. The inefficiency of shipping’s fragmented approach to ownership and operations has been holding back innovation and operational efficiency. That much is obvious, but for all the promise of inevitable consolidation, it hasn’t happened. Not in a meaningful way. But Maersk Tankers wants to change that. Having completed a pretty radical series of asset sales and spin offs, the s...

THIS week’s edition of the podcast is delivered from Cyprus, from where our markets editor Michelle Wiese Bockmann attended the Cyprus Maritime 2022 conference. More than 900 delegates from 35 countries gathered at one of Europe’s most important maritime clusters to discuss the three Cs – crises, challenges and competitiveness. Cyprus shipping deputy minister Vassilios Demetriades is our guest thi...

SHIPPING is not decarbonising in isolation. Perhaps that’s an obvious point to be making in 2022, but it’s a point that needs to be talked about more inside the shipping industry. The process by which we eliminate fossil fuels from seaborne trade is no longer a shipping problem. It never has been. The industry needs to start realising that it cannot achieve progress in silos. There are important c...

The annual marine insurance confab, IUMI, was held in Chicago this year. So Lloyd’s List selflessly hopped on a flight with microphones in hand to gather insights from the sector’s most influential figures for this week’s edition of the podcast. Featuring: • Rama Chandan of QBE Singapore, outgoing chair of IUMI’s ocean hull committee. • P&I, and International Group chief executive Nick Shaw • Rich...

THE great and the good of the shipping industry steamed towards US shores this week, lured in by a pretty pivotal series of energy transition events. New York played host to UN Climate Week, the UN General Assembly and the Global Maritime Forum while the Clean Energy Forum in Pittsburgh ensured that diplomats and delegates clocked up a few extra airmiles in the race to cut emissions. These meeting...