Lloyd's List: The Shipping Podcast

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....

Container shipping is not going to return to normal, according to Otto Schacht, the head of sea logistics at Kuehne+Nagel. The lines have a unique opportunity to permanently end the boom and bust cycles that have destroyed so much shareholder value over the years, and create an industry able to make decent money in bad times as well as good. Speaking of what happens next, the Lloyd’s List mid-year...

IMO secretary general Kitack Lim joins the podcast this week to reflect on why the industry has struggled to resolve the crew change crisis that has left seafarers globally dealing with overly harsh, inappropriate, even unlawful restrictions on seafarers’ freedom of movement. He also talks openly about the growing problem of crew abandonment, missing casualty investigations and responds to public...

Shipping’s image problem is not a new issue, but the pandemic has exposed the industry’s invisible status at a political level and the lack of understanding among the general public and mainstream media. That is a problem, but it is one of the industry’s own making having opted to operate in the shadows for years. Joining the podcast this week is Sabrina Chao, the new president of BIMCO, who has p...

Shipping experts are call for serious commitment on sustainability ‘NOW’ before it’s too late. What’s holding us back? Is the answer only to be found in zero carbon fuels, in which case how many years will it be until the right fuel or fuels have been trialled and tested under all conditions? What can be done while all this is going on, to reduce if not eliminate harmful emissions? And what has sh...

The IMO's environmental negotiators meet next week with a priority to finalise short term emissions measures. But their meeting is also the likely beginning of bigger and more difficult discussions for shipping's future. Environmental Defense Fund Europe international climate director Aoife O'Leary talks to Lloyd's List about what we should expect for the rest of this year and how a market based m...

‘How shipping pollutes the planet, avoids taxes, dodges regulations, & gets away with it’ – is the eye-catching strapline to the recent documentary Black Trail which has caused a stir in shipping circles. The film may not have taught us anything new about emissions, policy-making or the business of shipping, but seeing the outsider’ view of shipping on display offers a revealing, and worrying, ins...

We are joined on the podcast this week by the chief executive of the Maritime Anti-Corruption Network Cecilia Müller Torbrand. The ethical case against corruption is too obvious to need spelling out, and yet until relatively recently foreign bribery was essentially considered a tax-deductible reality of daily shipping operations. The fact that ships routinely carried an additional cargo of dollar...

This edition of the Lloyd's List Podcast is sponsored by Class NK. ClassNK experts Yukihito Fujinami and Tomoaki Yamada join the Lloyd’s List Podcast to discuss what the key elements are for designing the safety requirements for autonomous ships, what progress is being made, and how the organisation itself aims to contribute to the industry’s automation efforts Autonomous shipping is seen by many...

Opting for a generation of LNG-fuelled ships today will delay climate action in shipping by 20 years, according to Maersk and those dismissing the current trend towards dual-fuelled tonnage as little more than ‘greenwashing’. Pragmatic commercial opportunity? Perhaps. But is gas a viable climate strategy for shipping? This week’s podcast sucks the hot air out of shipping’s most important debate an...