Lloyd's List: The Shipping Podcast

It’s a special edition of the Lloyd’s List Podcast this week, featuring an extended debate on shipping’s decarbonization prospects taking in everything from state support, future fuel options fake zeros and the overwhelming need for clarity and standard definitions when it comes to ambitions Debating shipping’s decarbonization pathways on this week’s podcast: Peter Boyd from Yale University, Matth...

The Trump administration released long-awaited global industry guidance last week that detailed best practices to detect deceptive shipping. What is not being said is almost as important as what is, but the takeaway here is that the international maritime industry will remain in the crosshairs of US sanctions enforcement no matter who wins the presidential election in November. On the podcast this...

Shipping’s new normal of remote working may turn out to be more efficient than the air-mile eating customs of old. Could coronavirus spark a renaissance in shipping, turbo charging digital developments and cultivating collaboration and data standardization along the way? This week the podcast focuses on maritime innovation and entrepreneurship, featuring insights from Roger Holm, president of Wart...

The shipping industry’s 12-step plan to facilitate crew change was released this week and is expected to expedite a more effective government response to the crew change crisis that has seen thousands of seafarers stuck at sea for months. But it also highlights that the industry is bracing for a long period of disruption than many had been hoping for. It’s a wartime situation, says Columbia Shipma...

This week’s podcast homes in on the container market and the storm that awaits at the hands of the coronavirus pandemic. The Lloyd’s List box team convene to assess which of the major carriers are best and worst prepared for the storm that awaits, as a precursor to this month’s Lloyd’s List magazine. Joining the podcast this week too is Sea-Intelligence’s Lars Jensen, who looks even further forwar...

We should have been in Singapore this week, setting the agenda for digitalization and decarbonization. But in the absence of a Singapore Maritime Week this year we’ve drafted in guests from the heart of Maritime’s Lion City to offer up a view of how the sector is coping with the coronavirus challenges, whether we can expect the current disruption to catalyse innovation and why we should expect mor...

The doom-laden forecasts have been coming thick and fast this week warning of the steepest downturn since the Great Depression of the 1930s, a lost decade of growth in Latin America and a shrinking Chinese economy for the first time since 1992. To help put these figures into context and explain what the coronavirus economic fallout means for trade demand we have this week drafted in Tom Rogers, he...

With shipping companies continuing to postpone crew exchange and extend employment contracts as the only way of overcoming the coronavirus travel and quarantine restrictions, the industry has a ticking time bomb on its hands. Make no mistake - fatigue among seafarers will inevitably result in more accidents at sea. This is a safety issue and it’s a mental health issue. Several voices join the podc...

West African pirates clearly didn’t get the memo on social distancing. Undeterred by the global coronavirus pandemic, piracy is still rife and insecurity in the Gulf of Guinea in particular continues to blight the lives of seafarers working in the region. As the industry seeks to strength security measures with the latest publication of ‘Best Management Practice’ focused on the Gulf of Guinea hot-...

However horrific the disruption looks right now at a consumer level, we have to believe that Coronavirus is not going to structurally change the shipping markets. Can we hope for a V shaped recovery, or should we brace for a misshapen U? God forbid we even consider the prospect of an L shaped non-recovery. Joining Lloyd’s List Editor Richard Meade this week to discuss the shape of things to come i...

The coronavirus pandemic has left seafarers around the world in a precarious position, but as the focus shifts to European government responses the industry is pulling together to ensure that shipping, and seafarers, can keep world trade afloat. This week’s edition discusses concerns facing crew amid the Covid-19 restrictions and features maritime trade union Nautilus’ general secretary Mark Dicki...

In this special episode of the Lloyd’s List Shipping Podcast, Editor Richard Meade discusses the forthcoming Lloyd’s List Awards series, answering many of the questions that come up as companies and individuals are preparing their submissions, and setting listeners on the path to success with some sound advice.

Panic buying seems to be the trend of the moment, whether you’re stockpiling bathroom essentials amid coronavirus concerns, or making a grab for tanker tonnage amid an increasingly volatile oil price war – it’s all the same sentiment spooking markets. This week’s Podcast looks behind the inflated earnings of VLCCs and then examines the impact of a plummeting oil price on marine fuel spread strateg...

The impact of coronavirus continues to ripple through the shipping industry and the wider global supply chain, so to help make sense of the increasingly complex picture we have once again sought a diverse range of industry insight for this week’s edition. Guy Platen, secretary general of the International Chamber of Shipping, discusses the latest advice being issued to the industry after consultat...

With Qatar’s National Vision 2030 clearly in mind, this Maritime and Logistics Summit looked beyond liquefied natural gas to a diversified maritime cluster. The new Hamad port with its next-generation terminals and free zone form the foundation of a maritime cluster that draws on best practice elsewhere. This Summit heard from speakers from major Qatar and foreign companies and associations. It’s...

We have a climate emergency, we can’t wait for the IMO, says Jutta Paulus, the European Parliament’s maritime emissions rapporteur. In this week’s Podcast Anastassios Adamopoulos sits down with the controversial MEP in Brussels to discuss her proposal that would effectively force ships to operate under an emissions cap and trade system, increase their carbon intensity performance and contribute to...

SHIPPING lobbies have criticised a European Union proposal for the regulation of shipping emissions as damaging international decarbonisation progress and lacking understanding. The proposed rules, which will require legislative and political scrutiny before approval, would apply to those ships of 5,000 tonnes and above that use EU ports, regardless of their flag, and would affect almost 12,000 ve...

When China sneezes, we all catch the flu, but shipping seems to have initially underestimated quite how significant the impact of the coronavirus outbreak was going to be. It is now painfully clear that the extended shutdown of China will temporarily cripple the shipping markets and hit hard on freight rates well beyond the current schedule disruption and yard delays. In this week’s podcast we get...

LNG may not be the silver bullet to shipping’s decarbonization dilemma, but there plenty of owners betting billions of dollars that it offers a safe bet on the right pathway to a greener future. So the emergence of a new report this week challenging the received wisdom that LNG provides a 20% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and might actually more environmentally damaging than conventional f...

Next month Doha will play host to the Qatar Maritime and Logistics Summit, an event that promises to be one not to miss on the maritime calendar. Previewing the Summit we have even chair Richard Clayton, Mwani Qatar head of marketing Shammi Mohan, and Lloyd’s List’s Intelligence head of consulting Chris Pålsson. Linton Nightingale takes over from Richard Meade in the hot seat Registration details...

The Lloyd’s List Intelligence Executive Meeting is an annual Gothenburg gathering of shipping leaders and analysts who share views on how best to navigate the turbulent waters that lie ahead. While this is generally a pretty exclusive affair the podcast team were granted an access all areas pass and headed off to Gothenburg in search of insight. Featuring on this week’s edition with our Markets Ed...

Shipping has once again been left with the threat of getting caught in the crossfire of escalating tensions in the wake of the US killing of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani. Joining the Podcast this week to discuss the risk assessment for shipping in the Strait of Hormuz are Bimco’s head of safety and security Jakob Larsen and Senior Maritime Analyst at Control Risks, Cormac Mc Garry

It’s that time of year when we start to reflect on the achievements of the past 12 months, look forward to what next year holds in store, then hurry to the Lloyd’s List local for a festive round of drinks. The questions on the table for this week’s Podcast are simple: What was your story of 2019 and what is your prediction for 2020? Gathered around the Lloyd’s List microphone with Editor Richard M...

Lloyd’s List has been polling the industry on everything from AI to zero carbon fuels over the past months and the results formed the backbone of the discussions at our annual Outlook Forum in London last week, with a panel of experts offering the analysis and context. This week’s podcast offers you a few highlights from the events including views from Citi, Shell and Intertanko on: the greatest c...

How do the Greek shipowners feel this year has gone and what’s keeping them up at night when they look to 2020? The podcast lands in Athens this week for the annual sequined festival of camp showbiz excess and shipping excellence that is the Greek Shipping Awards. Joining Lloyd’s List editor Richard Meade to dissect for the fortunes of shipping’s most vibrant of markets are our two resident Greeks...