Lloyd's List: The Shipping Podcast

EARLIER this month Lloyd's List conducted an industry survey to reveal the true extent of cyber-attacks across the maritime sector and how companies are dealing with the growing risk. The results will be published next week. But ahead of these being revealed we brought in a trio of cyber experts to discuss some of the key takeaways and headline figures. In short, the industry is still not doing en...

As the annual P&I renewal deadline approaches this week’s podcast offers you an expert insiders’ guide to how the rates hikes are shaping up and who is and who is out. Everything you ever wanted to know about P&I renewals, but were afraid to ask in under 20 minutes. Featuring: Alex Vullo, division director at broker Arthur J Gallagher Tom Bowsher, chief executive of the West of England club Bjorna...

SPONSORED CONTENT IN ASSOCIATION WITH ABS: In this podcast, Evan Gooch and Smarty Mathew John from ABS discuss progress towards the development of digital applications for ship and fleet management, and feedback from clients

Promising decarbonisation is easier than delivering it, so as the high profile pledges and projects that were born out of last year’s climate climax get underway were looking at the distance between rhetoric and reality this week on the podcast. Shell Shipping’s Claire Wright joins the discussion covering everything from future fuels and innovation to investment and second guessing political progr...

Maritime safety has plateaued. The overall number of incidents and fatalities has stagnated, with little improvement in recent years. So while we can argue that safety standards have never been better – we should also point that there is still a lot of room for improvement. This week’s podcast explores what it is going to take to continue improving safety standards and asks whether we have a Covid...

SPONSORED PODCAST from Lloyd's List in association with Orbit MI Data is widely regarded as the new crude oil. Like crude oil, data in its raw form has little intrinsic value. All data is noise until you discern what’s interesting. Only when you apply technologies and processes to transform it into actionable intelligence does data become the basis for improved safety, sustainability, and profitab...

The era of the long-distance value chain was waning long before Trump, Brexit, and COVID-19 and the current congestion and supply crunch has only further exposed the fragility of the just in time threads that hold the global economic together. What happens next will define shipping trade lanes and the industry itself. The renowned historian, economist and author Marc Levinson joins the podcast thi...

IF the Ever Given’s parking prang in the Suez canal last year was the artery blockage that gave capitalism a minor heart attack, then the ensuing diagnosis and treatment from governments has been focussed on all that ails global trade. Supply chain resilience is going to be the phrase of 2022. The pandemic has forced a fundamental shift in global trade policies as governments increasingly focus on...

In the final edition of the podcast for 2021, the Lloyd’s List editorial team take a look forward to 2022 and offer up their predictions for the stories that will be shaping the shipping markets next year covering everything from the core box, bulk and tanker markets to our view of regulatory inertia and marine insurance.

THAT depressingly familiar feeling of déjà vu as Covid restrictions are once again tightened has already been felt across the world’s 1.6m seafarers. The latest Omicron variant has delivered the world a rude reminder that the virus’s path to becoming an endemic disease will not be smooth. But for shipping there is a real and legitimate fear that unless coordinated action is taken by world leaders...

The annual Lloyd’s List Outlook Forum and industry poll is a reliably insightful gauge of issues keeping businesses leaders awake at night and this year regulatory uncertainty, looming overcapacity, a workforces skills crisis and supply chain disruption emerged as the hot topics causing sleepless nights. The podcast this week offers a view from the Outlook Forum panellists, explaining why business...

The pre-COP26 optimism that climate politics may finally being starting to move at pace has ended in a depressingly predictable cop-out inside the IMO this week. This week’s podcast looks at what happened, what didn’t happen and why multilateral negotiations are necessarily slow to deliver results, even amid a climate emergency

THE dry bulk derivatives market has nearly doubled in two years to become twice as large as the underlying physical market on which it is based. This week’s Lloyd’s List podcast examines this extraordinary and little-known evolution in commodities freight trading underway in the global shipping sector. John Banaszkiewicz, chair of the Baltic Exchange’s FFA Brokers’ Association and founder of Freig...

SPONSORED CONTENT from Wärtsilä Voyage, in association with Lloyd’s List Five years ago, it all sounded pretty easy. Create a connected digital ecosystem onboard, gather a steady stream of data from sensors, send the required data via satellite to the operations centre ashore, enable ship to work with shore to optimise performance. Job done. But reality has kicked in. Apparently, shipping is a lit...

Those representing shipping at the COP26 climate talks have left broadly optimistic about some progress amid the hot air and greenwashing, but the litmus test will be what happens when the IMO begins its discussions on climate once the circus has moved on from Glasgow. Dissecting what COP26 has meant for shipping and what this means for IMO talks we have shipping’s Climate Champion within the COP2...

SPONSORED CONTENT from I-Tech, in association with Lloyd's List Research into the level of vessel idling globally between 2009 and 2020 has shown a linear trend in the wrong direction. And as trade between developing countries grows, these ships are idling in biofouling hotspots. This is more than academically interesting, it has a significant impact on the amount of fuel being consumed, and there...

With major cargo interests rejecting LNG tonnage and the World Bank taking its case to stop building additional LNG bunkering infrastructure to the IMO, the decarbonising credentials of Liquefied natural gas have taken something of a battering of late. This week’s edition offers the counterpoint to that criticism via Peter Keller, chairman of the pro-LNG lobby group SEA-LNG.

Why does COP26 matter to shipping and what does the difference between a good COP and a bad COP look like for the industry? This week’s Lloyd’s List podcast explains why progress at COP26 will directly inform the pace of change inside the IMO and why failure will slow investment, undermine the IMO and amplify financial risk for the entire sector. Our expert panel of guests this week includes Felip...

On this week’s podcast we are assessing the outlook for general increases, or GIs to those in the know, at the next P&I renewal round. The last two renewal rounds have seen most clubs ask for mid to high single digit rises and early indications suggest we should brace for more, but significantly, a handful have explicitly rejected the notion of GIs altogether. We get the expert analysis from Mark...

As scrutiny of the subterfuge shipping fleet skirting sanctions to deliver blocked cargoes has intensified, the tactics being deployed by the murkier end of the maritime sector have rapidly evolved. This week’s edition of the podcast peers behind the increasingly complex network of opaque tactic and institutions being set up to obfuscate sanctions evasion at sea. Featuring insights from: BIMCO, Ll...

This edition of the podcast is sponsored by Wärtsilä Voyage It has proved hard to take seafarer training away from the classroom. Although e-learning has been with us for more than 20 years, still seafarers have been making their way by land, sea, or air to a training academy to receive teaching in the age-old way. Maritime training was falling behind even before Covid-19. The pandemic forced a ch...

Ask most people how they found themselves enjoying a career in shipping and they’ll likely tell you they fell into shipping by accident. Yet the maritime sector contributes £14.5 billion and employs some 1.1 million people in the UK, and it’s one of the most invisible and under-appreciated sectors. The UK government released its Maritime 2050 plan back in 2019 which aimed to look at how to future-...

It’s a special World Maritime Day edition of the podcast this week and International Maritime Organization secretary general Mr Kitack Lim joins us to offer his view, not just on the future vision for seafarers, but the immediate problems that industry, institutions and governments have seemingly been unable to resolve.

Carriers may be following the letter of the law, but not necessarily the spirit of it, and are not always behaving like good corporate citizens, according to our guest this week. Daniel Maffei is the chairman of the Federal Maritime Commission – the Washington agency responsible for regulating the US ocean shipping trades so when he tells liner bosses to ‘put on their commonsense caps’ they should...

In this Lloyd’s List Podcast this week, we dissect the key takeaways from London International Shipping Week and IUMI, covering everything from the environmental debates as industry and politicians jostle for position in advance of COP 26, the rising dominance of Chinese marine insurance, and why the UK shipping minister may need to offer more than tales of his teenage bedroom wall to win round th...