Lloyd's List: The Shipping Podcast

In this special edition of the podcast, sponsored by Marlink, Lloyd’s List Chief Correspondent Richard Clayton is joined by Tore Morten Olsen, President of Marlink’s maritime division, to discuss the future of remote operations for maritime. It’s good to talk. Shipping and its technology partners have worked hard during the coronavirus pandemic to keep seafarers connected. But connectivity between...

The crewing crisis never went away, the industry just worked around the problems, but with India now engulfed with a new Covid strain, Myanmar seafarers locked out due to sanctions at home and existing logjams getting worse, there is a very real possibility that shipping has a global crew shortage coming in the post. Joining the podcast this week to discuss the current crew changeover constraints...

In this special edition of the podcast sponsored by Qatar Airways we look at the crew change crisis from the perspective of those who tasked with moving seafarers around the world amid a global pandemic. Lloyd’s List Chief Correspondent Richard Clayton hears from Qatar Airways Chief Commercial Officer Thierry Antinori that the Gulf state’s blockade experience was turned to the good for mariners.

Lloyd’s List is team up with its sister publication Insurance Day this week for our first joint edition of the Podcast looking at the insurance implication and scenarios in the wake of the Ever Given casualty in the Suez Canal. Jonathan Humm, who leads the marine hull team at Aegis London, and Stephen Hawke, managing director of PL Ferrari, the P&I specialist broker join the discussions this week...

Governments and industry are jostling for position this week in the run up to a series of important decarbonisations meetings where shipping will be called to account, and likely a target. But amid the greenwashing and spin, companies are having to take real risks, incur some serious costs and make decisions based on very few certainties. Joining the podcast this week is Stena Chief executive Erik...

THE shipping industry lost one of its most influential people with the passing of John Angelicoussis. Mr Angelicoussis died at 72 on April 10 in Athens, after suffering a heart attack three weeks earlier. Considered by many the biggest Greek shipowner, in terms of both fleet size and stature, his career in shipping spanned almost five decades, during which he grew the family business into the 150...

The transition to zero carbon shipping is riddled with uncertainties, most outside of the control of shipping companies and the industry itself, so why do so many shipping executives seem so certain about timelines and fuel strategy? “This is not a challenge where success is measured by the best soundbite or the best aspirational goal or date you set yourself,” counters Bud Darr, MSC’s executive v...

Fenna van de Merwe, principal consultant at DNV, joins Lloyd’s List Chief Correspondent Richard Clayton to look at digitalisation, decarbonisation and the need for a reassessment of the safety risks they pose in this special edition of the Lloyd’s List podcast

For several years there have been warnings that the ballooning size of boxships have been outpacing the industry’s ability to deal with the growing risk of such large assets. This week we ask whether the Suez crisis might just be the wake-up call that shipping needs to reassess it’s readiness when it comes to dealing with super-sized casualties. Joining the podcast is global head of marine risk co...

Sustainability is about more than carbon reduction, but we are currently evaluating the shift to new fuels on the basis of price, availability and technical feasibility. The ability to provide transportation infrastructure and services that are safe, socially inclusive, accessible, reliable, affordable, fuel-efficient, environmentally friendly, low-carbon and resilient to shocks and disruptions in...

On the Lloyd’s List Podcast this week: ITOPF managing director Dr Karen Purnell tells us why oil spills from tankers have declined so much and what impact all those containers that are lost at sea could really have

Nuclear power is back on the agenda in shipping. The atomic evangelists behind the new generation of molten salt reactor (MSR) technology believe it can kick-start a second atomic era, where climate change is the main driver of powerful, inexpensive and safe new energy solutions. On the podcast this week we talk to Mikal Boe, founder and chief executive of London-based Core-Power, about why nuclea...

As part of our continuing quest to assess the options for shipping carbon free future we’re looking at the case for Ammonia this week. Joining our sustainability editor Anastassios Adamopoulos to discuss why NH3 should be at the heart of any shipowners’ strategy is Milton Bevington and Stephen Crolius of Carbon Neutral Consulting

Ahead of the P&I renewals deadline we have been speaking to both sides of the annual battle. Clubs are seeking sharp increases in prices, while shipowners are trying their best not to end up paying more, sending their insurance brokers into bat to keep those rate hikes down. So who’s winning? This week we talk to: David Mahoney of Aon, Stephen Hawke of Ferrari, Gard’s chief underwriting officer Bj...

By 2050, Africa’s 1.1 billion person population is slated to double, with 80% of this growth happening in cities, By 2025 more than 100 cities in Africa will contain over a million people. With this breakneck pace of urbanization comes many unprecedented economic opportunities and with it a renewed interest for shipping following the trade. But Africa’s potential is hardly new news – China has bee...

Despite significant efforts by international organizations, unions, companies and some governments to sort this, we are now starting to see the situation getting worse as governments bring in more travel bans in response to the new strains of the Covid-19 virus. On the podcast this week to discuss the implications is Graham Westgarth, chairman of V.Group. As a key figure behind the Neptune Declara...

As part of a Lloyd’s List special report on digitalisation in shipping we are looking at shipping’s progress towards efficiency and integration on the podcast this week. Joining Lloyd’s List Editor Richard Meade is Sean Fernback, President of Wärtsilä Voyage who is a relative newcomer to the sector and offers an outsider’s perspective on the challenges and opportunities that shipping has yet to fa...

With the help of Bimco’s chief shipping analyst Peter Sand we’re taking a quick run through the key tipping points that will shape the shipping markets in 2021 on this podcast this week. Peter and Lloyd’s List editor Richard Meade cast their eyes over box market buoyancy, tanker troubles and the bulk market’s optimistic expectations for the year that inevitably all hinge on China. The next 12 mont...

Joining the Lloyd’s List Podcast this week, David Hammond, the founder and chief executive of Human Rights at Sea explains why the crewing crisis has helped highlight wider abuses in the maritime sector and why we can’t let that attention fade along with Covid once the vaccination programme kicks in.

On the podcast this week we examine whether shippers’ complaints that box lines are profiteering hold any water. We then turn to the results of the Lloyd’s List Decarbonisation Survey that we conducted late last year in search of some much-needed clarity regarding carbon reduction. xx ARE container lines profiteering? Well the short answer of course is if they are then they’re really not very good...

A low orderbook never saved a market – you need demand to recover. Oil needs to return to pre-pandemic levels before you can recalibrate the supply demand of the fleet and think about a more sustainable upturn, so says veteran equity analyst Jonathan Chappell from Evercore. He talks tankers with Lloyd’s List Editor Richard Meade this week, and sets out his forecast to 2022.

IT’S that most wonderful time of the year. The Lloyd’s List editorial team have been making a list, they’ve checked it twice they’ve been very busy finding out who’s been naughty or nice this year. The Lloyd’s List Top 100 annual ranking of the most influential people in shipping is finally here. This is the eleventh edition of the list that makes no bones of its subjective assessment of the real...

Before you listen to the podcast this week register for the Lloyd’s List Outlook Forum on December 1. Go to Lloydslist.com and follow the banner or copy this link to go direct to the registration page: https://pages.maritimeintelligence.informa.com/2021ShippingOutlook Despite all the positive examples of innovation, entrepreneurship and collaboration, shipping still struggles to move from siloed p...

Go to Lloydslist.com to complete our Decarbonisation Survey and register for free to attend the Outlook Forum on December 1 BW has pioneered dual-fuelled LPG engines and recently announced a world first with a VLGC voyage on full LPG propulsion across the Pacific. It’s a voyage expected to produce 20% less greenhouse gas emissions and use 10% less fuel. Given the chorus of pro LNG duel fuel zealot...

IF entrepreneurs form companies to solve a problem and capitalise on a gap in the market, then it seems shipping’s problems are growing exponentially. The recent proliferation of accelerators, incubators and established maritime players all doggedly chasing start-ups as a testing ground for viable, and scalable, new business models – all suggests something of an entrepreneurial explosion. This wee...