Lloyd's List: The Shipping Podcast

Head to Lloydslist.com and register for this year’s Outlook Webinar on December 8th at 9am UK time. This is the big one – it’s our annual look at the forces shaping shipping and I’ll be joined by Karrie Trauth, the head of shipping for Shell, Michael Parker president of transportation at Citi and chair of the Poseidon Principles, and Rasmus Back Nielsen, global head of Fuel Decarbonisation at Traf...

Recent litigation in vessel pollution cases resurfaces the dillemas faced by companies and the seafarers they employ. Under US law, crewmembers who bring forward information that leads to a successful prosecution in a vessel pollution case are entitled to up to half of the fine levied on the guilty parties. The US has awarded tens of millions of dollars to whistleblowers throughout the years, whil...

The podcast this week features highlights from our live innovation webinar hosted by Lloyd’s List Editor Richard Meade on Thursday 27 October. The full recording of the webinar is available on demand, just register here: https://bit.ly/3zkdtue The webinar features: - Leslie Dang, Managing Director, Singapore at Nautilus Labs - Osku Kälkäjä, Head of Digital Business at ABB Marine & Ports - Gary Noo...

UNSAFE shipping is not the clarion call of the environmental pirate, gleefully operating leaky ships with impunity risking the lives of crew for the hell of it. Safety is the problem that happens when nobody is paying attention. Which is why is perhaps concerning that safety has until relatively recently not figured as a particularly high profile part of the decarbonisation discussions. It’s menti...

Shipping is too small. The inefficiency of shipping’s fragmented approach to ownership and operations has been holding back innovation and operational efficiency. That much is obvious, but for all the promise of inevitable consolidation, it hasn’t happened. Not in a meaningful way. But Maersk Tankers wants to change that. Having completed a pretty radical series of asset sales and spin offs, the s...

THIS week’s edition of the podcast is delivered from Cyprus, from where our markets editor Michelle Wiese Bockmann attended the Cyprus Maritime 2022 conference. More than 900 delegates from 35 countries gathered at one of Europe’s most important maritime clusters to discuss the three Cs – crises, challenges and competitiveness. Cyprus shipping deputy minister Vassilios Demetriades is our guest thi...

SHIPPING is not decarbonising in isolation. Perhaps that’s an obvious point to be making in 2022, but it’s a point that needs to be talked about more inside the shipping industry. The process by which we eliminate fossil fuels from seaborne trade is no longer a shipping problem. It never has been. The industry needs to start realising that it cannot achieve progress in silos. There are important c...

The annual marine insurance confab, IUMI, was held in Chicago this year. So Lloyd’s List selflessly hopped on a flight with microphones in hand to gather insights from the sector’s most influential figures for this week’s edition of the podcast. Featuring: • Rama Chandan of QBE Singapore, outgoing chair of IUMI’s ocean hull committee. • P&I, and International Group chief executive Nick Shaw • Rich...

THE great and the good of the shipping industry steamed towards US shores this week, lured in by a pretty pivotal series of energy transition events. New York played host to UN Climate Week, the UN General Assembly and the Global Maritime Forum while the Clean Energy Forum in Pittsburgh ensured that diplomats and delegates clocked up a few extra airmiles in the race to cut emissions. These meeting...

After a two-year frenzy, the container shipping market is showing signs of normalisation. How it will avoid mistakes of the past during a period of slowdown? How does it manage the risk of supply chain resilience? How will it find the efficiencies to steam through near term regulation and long term decarbonisation and how will it address the lingering safety concerns of cargo fires? All the questi...

Shipowners appear to be feeling pretty sanguine about the introduction of new carbon ratings from January 2023. Yes, there might be some slowing down and some retrofitting, but the initial implications are pretty limited. Or are they? Has the industry genuinely understood the implications of CII? Or are the owners suffering from boiled frog syndrome? Roger Strevens, Head of sustainability at Walle...

WHEN people talk about shipping being driven by strong characters, they tend to mean people like Robert Bugbee. The bullish president of Scorpio Tankers is a divisive figure on Wall Street, but he is always engaging. How many other shipping executives can lay claim to having their own parody account on Twitter? While Lloyd’s List consistently took a negative view of the tanker recovery, Mr Bugbee...

SPONSORED CONTENT IN ASSOCIATION WITH RINA: Classification is deep into its transition to strategic partnership with clients. Indeed, it’s probable that no other sector has changed quite so thoroughly in its vision and mission than class. What we thought of as certification and verification services have evolved into professional transformation advisors, client sustainability partners, and regulat...

What has the Apollo astronaut programme got to do with ageing Japanese seafarers and funding for autonomous shipping? Listen to this week’s edition of the Lloyd’s List Podcast to find out! On the podcast this week; Naoto Nakagawa, the former head of the Japanese delegation to MEPC, currently in charge of the Nippon Foundation’s project to create fully autonomous shipping, “MEGURI 2040”. Also featu...

THE wave of carbon compliance acronyms heading towards shipping companies should not be news to listeners of this podcast. EEXI, CII, EU ETS – these should all be familiar terms as the industry prepares for a generational shift towards a net zero emissions industry. And yet, the detail of what these acronyms mean in terms of business practice and charter party changes is still not widely understoo...

Imagine pulling up to the petrol pump in your car and being confronted with 20 pumps, each offering different blends of different fuels. Now imagine a scenario where at each petrol station you visit next, that choice of different fuels is going to be entirely different. Welcome to the future of shipping. We talk in broad terms about a multi-fuel future coming for shipping, but there is still such...

The deal to allow the safe transport of grain out of the Ukraine by sea is an unprecedented agreement between enemy combatants, but it is still a work in progress and the list of potential risks that could yet scupper it are long. This week we talk to war risk expert and head of marine and aviation at the Lloyd’s Market Association, Neil Roberts about the insurance hurdles yet to be overcome. And...

The debate about how we build a generation of green ships is ubiquitous and everyone wants in on it. The question of how we get rid of the current fleet is less popular. Whichever way you look at it global recycling volumes are going to grow significantly, doubling by 2028 to 14 million light displacement tonnes and near quadrupling by 2033. That means more, bigger recycling facilities set up to d...

THE Lloyd’s List Podcast is taking a temporary detour into the true crime genre this week. Our guest Kit Chellel is one of the writers behind the book that everyone in shipping should be taking to the beach with them this summer – Dead in the Water. The book tells the remarkable tale of the suezmax Brillante Virtuoso which was apparently attacked by pirates in 2011 and set her ablaze. But when Dav...

SHIPPING has about eight years to set its course for success or failure on the path to decarbonisation. It may be the defining challenge of the next half-century, but the decisions taken now are the ones that matter. And that’s why we have seen a slew of commitments, declarations, and pledges being hastily pumped out of the industry with some urgency. But how do you set a strategy amid so much unc...

Shipping has focussed on fuels as the one factor it can control in the push to decarbonise, but the creation of a truly sustainable industry will require a more holistic ‘lifecycle’ approach. The concept of a circular economy requiring us to reduce, reuse, refurbish and recycle should be a sustainability slam dunk, but it requires cross sectoral collaboration, global regulation and business model...

“The world is changing, and shipping must change with it, says Emanuele Grimaldi, Managing Director of the Grimaldi Group who took over chair of the International Chamber of Shipping this week. Mr Grimaldi joins the podcast this week to discuss his agenda, seafarers, decarbonization and why he is confident that shipping will remain a force for good on the international stage

President Biden claims to be “viscerally angry” about the container lines who he blames for inflation, soaring freight rates, supply chain congestion and much in between. The political theatre of the Ocean Shipping Reform Act was on show in the US this week, but to help explain what it really means for shipping this week’s Lloyd’s List Podcast features two people who really know what’s going on: F...

The Lloyd’s List team have been out and about in Athens this week selflessly digesting canapés, gossip and debate to bring you the comprehensive view of a week at Posidonia in under23 minutes. After a Covid-induced hiatus, the industry descended upon Athens this week to schmooze, gossip, test the water and in some cases actually do some business in between canapes and sweaty taxi rides. While the...

WE all know shipping needs to decarbonise, now the industry is confronting the detail. Countries meeting at the IMO next week now have five plans for carbon price policies in front of them. Island states and the International Chamber of Shipping are for carbon levies. Norway and European Union members prefer a cap-and-trade scheme, while China and Japan have proposed more complex rebates. This is...