Lloyd's List: The Shipping Podcast

THE hot topic of cargo related fires on board containerships refuses to be extinguished, despite a recent flurry of industry efforts to snuff out the problem. We’ve not seen a Yantian Express, Maersk Honam or an MSC Flaminia reach the headlines in recent months, but there has been a persistent series of smaller fires that have gone un-noticed. And the numbers are not going down. According to the P...

Listen to the third of three special edition podcasts produced in association with DNV GL examining the tectonic shift shaping shipping’s future: decarbonisation, alternative fuels and digitalisation. Stener Stenersen, DNV GL’s Head of Technical Support Norway, and Bjorn-Johan Vartdal, Digital Director for Maritime, join Lloyd’s List Chief Correspondent Richard Clayton to discuss the next steps in...

On our podcast this week, senior reporter and editor of the Lloyd's List magazine Linton Nightingale is joined by the chair of our editorial board Janet Porter and Container Trades Statistics chief executive Peter Webber. The trio chew the fat over the history of CTS and how it came to be, while analysing the latest container trade volume data which points to an unlikely peak season as the industr...

The Greek shipping community have always been wilfully contrary bunch in their attitude and outlook – it’s still the case that where the Greeks lead in countercyclical plays others follow and even in these capital constrained times it’s a brave analyst who bets against the Greek owner’s ability to turn a global crisis into an opportunity. That said, there are fault lines emerging in shipping right...

This special edition is brought to you by Hyde Marine. Christopher Todd, executive director of Hyde Marine and Calgon Carbon UV, joins Lloyd’s List news reporter Anastassios Adamopoulos to discuss the state of the ballast water treatment system market, the effects of the pandemic on manufacturers and shipowners and what is in store for the sector.

THE global health crisis has exposed known flaws within shipping. The fragmented response to the crewing crisis is only the latest fault line in an industry that has struggled to speak with unity on fundamental issues of safety, decarbonisation and digitalisation. One of the key voices to emerge from the current crisis is that of Synergy Group founder and chief executive Rajesh Unni, who joins Llo...

ABS chief Chris Wiernicki is our return guest on the podcast this week, covering decarbonisation pathways, shipbuilding decisions, the threat of regionalism in climate change policy and why a rapid mindset shift is required from the shipping industry to keep up with the pace and scope of changes afoot.

Christos Chryssakis, Business Development Manager at DNV GL, and Narve Mjøs, Director of DNV GL’s Green Shipping Programme, join Lloyd’s List Chief Correspondent Richard Clayton to discuss the next steps in the journey to carbon-neutral fuels in this special edition of the Lloyd's List Podcast

Commodities trader Trafigura is calling for "drastic" measures to speed up the decarbonisation of shipping through a bunker levy charge as well as pushing for measures including enforced slow steaming. Without urgent action the industry risks costly regional confusion, slow update of zero emissions fuels and the inevitably of having decisions forced upon them. A level plays playing field is essent...

THE International Union of Marine Insurance conference is the highlight of the marine insurance year. But, thanks to the pandemic, what was supposed to have been a four-day physical gathering in Stockholm has metamorphosed into a two-week virtual event. Nevertheless, attendance was substantially up and the standard of the online presentations has been as high as ever. So we’re delighted to have th...

The Global Maritime Forum, the organisation behind some of the leading sustainability initiatives in the industry, including the Poseidon Principles and the Getting to Zero Coalition, is founded on the idea that progress happens when people from all parts of a system – in this case the global maritime industry – come together to discuss challenges and work together on finding new solutions. So, th...

ON August 5, the tanker Maersk Etienne rescued 27 people, including a child and a pregnant woman, from a small boat at the behest of Maltese authorities. But since then the vessel, it’s crew and the rescued migrants on board have become something of a political football kicked from port to port as nation states argue the toss over whose responsibility it is to disembark those rescued at sea. The m...

This is the first of three special edition podcasts produced in association with DNVGL examining the tectonic shift shaping shipping's future: decarbonisation, alternative fuels and digitalization In this first edition Eirik Nyhus, DNVGL's director of environment and Tore Longva, principal consultant at DNV GL, join Lloyd’s List Chief Correspondent Richard Clayton to assess shipping’s position on...

The Panama Canal is arguably the most difficult engineering project humanity has ever undertaken, and it’s so large, you can see it from space. More than a million vessels have used it as a shortcut between the Atlantic and the Pacific since it was opened in 1914, and canal dues raise $2bn a year, making it the economic mainstay of an entire country. Ilya Marotta, was appointed as Deputy Administr...

James Marshall is the chief executive of Berge Bulk and he has a plan to get their 75 vessels to become a net zero fleet by 2025. In this week’s podcast he talks to Lloyd’s list Editor Richard Meade about how he plans to get there, why existing technology can get you nearer than you think and why nuclear reactors on board vessels should be back on the table as an industry option.

When we set up this podcast one of the stated aims was to tell the story of interesting and important people doing interesting and important things within the shipping industry, so this week I’m handing over the reigns to our insurance and law editor David Osler who has been out and about talking to just such a pair of people. Lindsay Malen-Habib is a senior sales director at Resolve Marine Group,...

In this week’s podcast we reveal the full story of the Moldovan-flag bulk carrier, The Rhosus, which in 2013 arrived in Lebanon carrying 2,750 ammonium nitrate. The story of a botched loading, crew abandonment that followed left a tomb bomb inside the heart of Beirut and the Rhosus rusting under the breakwater of the port. We explore what happened and ask whether the devastating explosion will be...

Nobu Su, the former billionaire shipowner jailed in London over a long-running dispute about money owed in failed freight futures deals, told Lloyd’s List he has filed for personal insolvency and wants to leave the UK. Three months after his early release from HM Prison Pentonville, where he was serving a 21-month civil sentence related to contempt of court, Mr Su explained he was still determined...

Beacon, the Jeff Bezos backed digital freight disrupter led by ex-Uber and Amazon execs has all the hallmarks of another AI-fueled flight of fancy, promising to revolutionise the analogue inefficiencies of our archaic maritime logistics sector. But as Beacon’s CEO Fraser Robinson reveals in this week’s podcast, he’s not here foretell the death of freight forwarding - far from it – he thinks the se...

Governments have this week pledged to speed up efforts to get hundreds of thousands of stranded merchant sailors home, but this comes after months of similar rhetoric and limited action. So can we expect things to change? International Maritime Organization secretary general Kitack lim – our guest on this week’s podcast – says yes. We are, he argues, in a wartime situation with the pandemic. Gover...

When Şadan Kaptanoğlu was elected President of BIMCO – the world’s largest shipping association – back in May 2019, she knew that the tectonic shifts in shipping would mean a busy agenda. A year into her tenure grappling with shipping’s response to the environment, security and digitalization, she now has the added burden of how to lead through a global pandemic that’s wiped over a billion tonnes...

Our podcast guest this week is a return guest, Emanuele Grimaldi, one of the co-owners of Italy’s Grimaldi Group, which operates a significant fleet of car carriers and roro ferries. As he put it in a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal – “We are waiting for the World to restart” – a sentiment no doubt shared by many of his peers. In this week’s interview we talk about his expectations f...

Euronav chief executive Hugo De Stoop joins the podcast this week to talk us through his experience of the continuing bureaucratic logjam that has stranded tens of thousands of seafarers at sea and is fast becoming a humanitarian crisis. Despite unified industry intervention and even some divine intervention from the Pope this week supporting seafarers, nothing seems to be able to get the problems...

We are talking ship recycling on the podcast this week. Specifically we’re looking at how we drive positive change in ship recycling and move this conversation on beyond the finger pointing politics that has dominated the scrapping debate in shipping for many years. It’s an extended special edition this week because we needed a panel of experts to get to the heart of the matter. Talking to Lloyd’s...

Times are tough across the industry right now, but there is a silver linings playbook for those prepared to look beyond the obvious and immediate crises in front of us and embrace a collaborative future with new eyes. That’s the view of our guest this week - DNVGL’s chief executive of maritime Knut Ørbeck-Nilssen, who believes that we are headed into a maritime renaissance. Things that we have tra...