Lloyd's List: The Shipping Podcast

The landscape of sanctions and political risk has made the business of shipping significantly more complex, but not everyone is set up to deal with that complexity. This week’s podcast pulls in the sanctions experts to discuss how shipping is navigating the new world order of Russian sanctions and what the industry needs to understand about regulatory enforcement appetites and increasingly forensi...

THIS week’s edition of the Lloyd’s List podcast comes to you via New York where markets editor Michelle Wiese Bockmann has been speaking with with three key maritime and shipping leaders in their field that each provide a unique financial and investment perspective on our industry. Svein Engh is senior managing director and portfolio manager of Entrust Global. The lending business has raised nearl...

THE world is supposedly in the middle of an artificial-intelligence and machine-learning revolution Not that you would necessarily know that looking at the shipping industry. While there are some interesting projects out there and you will find AI liberally peppered across marketing documents, the reality is that we are barely scratching the surface of what’s possible with some imaginative applica...

Economic measures to cut Russia off from the world’s financial arteries are the most extensive seen since the Second World War and the impact is starting to be felt. This week’ episode of the Lloyd’s List Podcast examines what that means for shipping companies trying to navigate the morass of rapidly evolving financial trade restrictions. For more detail check out our special report examining risk...

Lloyd’s List’s latest quarterly outlook for shipping examines the trends across all shipping sectors, so for this week’s edition of the podcast the editorial team have gathered around the microphone to offer their view of what happens next in containers, tankers, dry bulk, the orderbook and regulation.

There is a disconnect between the increasing risk to maritime businesses posed by Cyber attacks and the defences being erected in response. So as UK president Joe Biden was declaring it a "patriotic obligation" for businesses to bridge that gap, Lloyd’s List and Insurance Day were busy this week gathering the industry’s leading experts for a frank discussion of the evolving threat to shipping and...

Amid the chaos, sanctions and global trade disruption, the long term implications of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are starting to become clearer and the implications for seaborne trade are inevitably complex. To help unravel the uncertainties and offer an independent expert eye on what this all means for the global shipping industry, Lloyd’s List has once again gathered it’s leading analysts to of...

Several ships have been hit, seafarers have been killed and injured and seafarers of all nationalities are trapped on ships as a result of the war in Ukraine. Quite apart from the immediate security fears, the impact of Russia’s invasion is likely to spark a crewing crisis with a lasting impact on global supply chains. International Chamber of Shipping secretary General Guy Platten joins the podca...

As shipping markets adapt to the new realities of global trade in an era of high-risk economic warfare, analysts from across the Lloyd’s List and Lloyd’s List Intelligence team assess the fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the impact on global shipping markets and businesses.

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...