Lloyd's List: The Shipping Podcast

Data lies behind virtually all decisions and calculations related to vessel performance, yet errors can easily creep in, says Selin Sari, a product manager at StormGeo. In this podcast, she explores where data quality can go wrong and why getting the data right is critical to making better performance and commercial decisions. She also considers the role of AI and human expertise in interpreting v...

Record premiums, softening rates and war risk dominated debate at IUMI 2026, and Lloyd’s List’s marine insurance editor David Osler was there to find out whether there’s more to the eye-catching numbers being discussed

Any company planning to incorporate AI into its operations should start with a clear plan and set of objectives, Ben Thurecht, chief technology officer at maritime freight management solution provider Veson Nautical, advises in this podcast

WEATHER risk is increasing for shipping. In part one of this episode, we highlighted some particular hotspots to watch out for in the near-term future and laid out how more regions of the globe will be affected by changing weather in the long-term future. This week, Lloyd’s List senior reporter Joshua Minchin asks how stakeholders can mitigate their risk and avoid being disrupted by weather affect...

As chief executive of international towage and marine services company Svitzer, Kasper Friis Nilaus has identified opportunities to improve performance at many ports where the company operates. In this podcast, he shares his ideas for achieving greater efficiency

This episode of the Lloyd’s List Podcast is brought to you by Veson ASK the compliance team of a major shipping company what the biggest risk to their business is and they might say its sanctions. Ask the security officer and they’ll likely say geopolitical uncertainty and conflict. But ask the operations manager and they might give you a different answer: the weather. Weather risk is something th...

This episode of the Lloyd’s List podcast is brought to you by Veson. To find out more visit www.veson.com FIFTEEN years ago, Somali piracy was one of the biggest stories in mainstream news, not just shipping. That may be hard to fathom today, with threats stretching from the Gulf and Red Sea to the Black Sea, which has become one of the most dangerous places in the world for seafarers in recent we...

In previous editions of the Lloyd’s List Top 100 Container Ports, scale has been king. The more boxes you can handle, the higher up the rankings you will be. But in 2026, the ability to adapt, solve problems and present carriers with alternatives in an age where the shocks keep on coming is proving almost as important as the number of cranes you have available. Deputy editor Linton Nightingale tal...

This episode of the Lloyd’s List podcast is brought to you by Wirana THERE is plenty of risk in the tanker market today. The Strait of Hormuz, Red Sea and Black Sea have become very dangerous places to operate vessels, but for those who take the risk on, the rewards are substantial. Lloyd’s List senior reporter Greg Miller speaks to International Seaways chief executive officer Lois Zabrocky and c...

This episode is brought to you by Wirana This second episode of a year-long series by the Middle East Vice President and Green Recycling Coordinator at the Singapore-based cash buyer Wirana, Hitesh Vyas, reflects on market developments and outlines the possibility of a significant change in the EU’s attitude to Asian recycling yards.

SHIPOWNERS have stopped asking when the strait of Hormuz is going to open. Instead, they’re asking if it will open by the end of the year, or even further into the future. Military escalation might have ceased for a variety of reasons, but the situation has settle into somewhat of a stalemate. The US wants to avoid the conflict getting hotter, especially before the upcoming elections, while Iran m...

IN 1956 the SS Ideal X sailed from New Jersey to Houston with 58 containers on board, marking the birth of modern commercial container shipping. Malcom McClean’s vision of unitized, efficient and relatively cheap global freight has evolved into a global network, criss-crossing the world’s oceans to connect businesses with consumers across continents. Has there been a more important innovation in g...

SHIPPING is attempting to navigate three distinct, but increasingly overlapping conflicts at present. The resumption of Houthi violence in the Red Sea can be added to the ongoing Strait of Hormuz crisis and the Russia-Ukraine war in the Black Sea. This episode of the Lloyd’s List podcast brings you highlights from our weekly webinar, chaired by editor-in-chief Richard Meade, in which we discussed...

IT’S been years of waiting and lobbying, but we finally have Europe’s proposals for how the EU Emissions Trading System will look beyond 2030. The European Commission has released its long list of proposals for how to reform the cap-and-trade scheme, including how much shipping pays, and how much of the proceeds it gets back. Shipowners, like most European businesses, have to buy and surrender cre...

SHIPPING has another hotspot to worry about, and it’s a familiar one. Reports that the Houthis were preparing to attack commercial shipping were proven correct after at least one Saudi-linked vessel was attacked in the Red Sea yesterday. This week’s podcast comes from Lloyd’s List’s weekly webinar, which usually focusses on the Strait of Hormuz, but this time also looks at the impact of violence r...

LESS than a month after its introduction, the US revoked General License X, the waiver allowing the sale and transport of Iranian oil granted in the wake of the Memorandum of Understanding signed between the two countries. Lloyd’s List editor-in-chief Richard Meade and maritime risk analyst Tomer Raanan speak to several sanctions experts to find out if the short-lived waiver benefitted anyone, and...

The new shipbuilding supercycle: Cyclical upswing or structural shift? by Lloyd's List

To mark 2026’s Day of the Seafarer, this edition of the Lloyd’s List podcast asks what shipping has learned from the Strait of Hormuz crisis from a seafarer perspective. Perhaps most importantly, he asks experts whether crews feel empowered to exercise their right to refuse to transit if they feel unsafe, and learns more about how associations and unions are seeking to improve welfare and mental h...

It is a seller’s market at the moment in the ship recycling sector, thanks to a shortage of tonnage. But Hitesh Vyas of the Singapore-based cash buyer Wirana says in this first of six podcasts that this could change, depending on the outcome of the situation in the Gulf.

This episode of the Lloyd’s List podcast is brough to you by Veson. Visit www.veson.com for more information Open, closed, and now open again? Optimism that traffic might return to something resembling normality fairly quickly turned to uncertainty again as the Islamic Revolutionary Guard proclaimed the Strait of Hormuz closed on Saturday. It accused the US of not following its agreement and cited...

Trusted data is essential for shipping to get the best from the AI revolution, argues Russ Hubbard, Chief Commercial Officer of Veson Nautical. In this podcast, he explains why that is the case and considers the future impact of further AI implementation on maritime companies and their personnel.

IT’S now been two years since the EU Emissions Trading System was extended to shipping. But it hasn’t always been a happy relationship. Shipowners are not necessarily keen paying extra taxes, especially the green variety. Meanwhile operators in Asia are not fond of having to create accounts in EU countries to report and pay their emissions bills, without seeing any of the revenue. On the other sid...

This episode of the Lloyd’s List podcast is brought to you by Veson. Visit www.veson.com for more information EVERY year, seafarers are held for months on end on suspicion of crimes that ultimately, there is little evidence they had anything to do with. Whether its pollution events or, as is increasingly common, suspected drug smuggling, crew are often the only potential perpetrators investigators...

ATTEND any one of the multiple receptions and parties thrown in Athens this week and you would not walk away necessarily thinking anyone in shipping is remotely worried. A packed exhibition with the whole spectrum of industry stakeholders demonstrated shipping’s diversity and vibrance, but quietly, over coffees in corners, there was tangible concern. Markets are good at the moment, ask any tanker...

This episode of the Lloyd's List Podcast is brought to you by Veson SHIPPING is resilient, and many will tell you it thrives on volatility, but the number of and frequency of crises is taking its toll. It’s also preventing the industry from having honest conversations about other, equally meaningful and perhaps even more treacherous problems coming down the track. Are we going to run out of seafar...