Lloyd's List: The Shipping Podcast

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...

In the latest edition of this special bonus run of podcasts for London International Shipping Week we are looking at why shipping is telling the wrong story. How can the industry build a better reputation, and who should be responsible for reframing the conversation? Those are the questions on the table today at LISW so we are offering you an exclusive early insight into one of the key debates of...

Welcome to day three of this run of bonus edition Lloyd’s List Podcasts bringing you voices from inside London International Shipping Week. While we hope those of you out and about in thick of it this week are enjoying getting back to face to face to meetings, we know many podcast regulars are not able to attend, so consider this your window into what’s happening around the conferences. This being...

In the second of our special London International Shipping Week daily editions of the Lloyd’s List Podcast we talk to the outgoing UK Chamber of Shipping chief executive Bob Sanguinetti about the state of British shipping, Brexit, cyclical government support for shipping and the vexed question of decarbonising the global supply chain.

IT’S London International Shipping Week so we will be producing a short bonus edition of the Lloyd’s List Podcast each day this week. To start the week we are focussing on the unsung heroes of shipping in advance of a special awards ceremony on Tuesday. The impact of the pandemic has been felt by us all. But the 1.6m men and women who crew the world fleet have had their lives turned upside down li...

Taylor Maritime founder Ed Buttery started planning his moves in 2013 while working for Nordea, hoping for the best, but well aware of the blows that shipping markets tend to deliver optimists. Eight years on and he has positioned himself inside a market highpoint with a successful IPO in London. Luck comes to those who are best prepared, he argues. Speaking on the Lloyd’s List Podcast this week h...

Perhaps the biggest conundrum in shipping is how ship owners can order new ships when they don’t know which fuel will be specified as environmentally sound, safe for the crew, and widely available. Moreover, how can they comply with regulations that won’t be in place until 2030 or 2040? The answer, says DNV in its Maritime Forecast 2050, is to work with class and other partners on a step-by-step a...

Spoiler alert – the container crunch is going to get worse before it gets better. With the seasonal surge in demand only adding to the existing chaos there is no immediate end in sight to the supply chain disruption that has generated one of the most extraordinary container markets ever witnessed. The Lloyd’s List Podcast takes a step back this week to consider the state of container shipping, wha...

Methanol is the focus for this week’s podcast. Specifically, green Methanol and how the industry can scale the limited production of truly carbon neutral supply and move to a more transparent accounting of fuel choices via a ‘well-to-wake’ assessment of lifecycle emissions. Featuring in the discussions this week are: Berit Hinnemann, head of decarbonisation business development at A. P. Moller Mae...

The consensus findings of the world’s leading climate scientists were issued this week as a “code red for humanity”. We are already too late to avert dangerous climate change and can only now manage the amount by which we overshoot our stated target, argues our guest on this week’s podcast, the leading climate expert of low carbon shipping Dr Tristan Smith. He joins Lloyd’s List Editor Richard Mea...

P&I premiums for shipowners could cost half as much again in four years’ time. In this week’s Podcast we talk to Alex Vullo, the Gallagher analyst who’s forecast this week predicted a 50% hike and North Group’s chief underwriting officer Thya Kathiravel about why some clubs are better placed than others. If you liked this podcast - please leave us a review and a rating. You can subscribe to Lloyd'...

In the second of this two-part special edition of the Lloyd's List Shipping Podcast, our sustainability editor Anastassios Adamopoulos spoke at length with Faig Abbasov of the Brussels-based NGO Transport and Environment and Sotiris Raptis, of the European Community Shipowners’ Association, on the European Commission’s new environmental proposals for shipping. Listen to Part One of this podcast he...

William Winters, managing director of Wärtsilä Underwater Services, joins Lloyd’s List chief correspondent Richard Clayton to look below the surface at vessel maintenance and monitoring, and says divers’ own expertise is an integral part of the sustainability journey in this sponsored edition of the Lloyd’s List Shipping Podcast.

In this special midweek edition of the Lloyd's List Shipping podcast, editor Richard Meade discusses the new ICS/BIMCO Seafarer Workforce Report with International Chamber of Shipping secretary-general Guy Platten. Every five years, the report measures the supply and demand of officers and crew and provides an opportunity for the industry, at least in theory, to adapt it's training and recruitment...

In the first of this two-part special edition of the Lloyd's List Podcast, our sustainability editor Anastassios Adamopoulos spoke at length with Faig Abbasov of the Brussels-based NGO Transport and Environment and Sotiris Raptis, of the European Community Shipowners' Association, on the European Commission's new environmental proposals for shipping For more information check out Lloyd’s List’s Sh...

Our sustainability editor Anastassios Adamopoulos caught up with Johannah Christensen, the new chief executive of the Global Maritime Forum this week. They discuss where she sees the international NGO heading, why the global crewing crisis is likely to worsen and how this sector is still doing so little to decarbonise. Access the new standard in sanctions compliance risk analysis. Seasearcher Adva...

Don’t mistake the anticipated lifting of Iranian sanctions for an easing of compliance risk. For those banks and insurers seeking to apply transparency to the opaquest end of seaborne trade, many are only just realising how far they still need to go in order to mitigate the risk that the Trump era in some way helped expose. For shipping that means more investment in due diligence and surveillance....