Lloyd's List: The Shipping Podcast

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...

In this special edition of the podcast, sponsored by Marlink, Lloyd’s List Chief Correspondent Richard Clayton is joined by Tore Morten Olsen, President of Marlink’s maritime division, to discuss the future of remote operations for maritime. It’s good to talk. Shipping and its technology partners have worked hard during the coronavirus pandemic to keep seafarers connected. But connectivity between...

The crewing crisis never went away, the industry just worked around the problems, but with India now engulfed with a new Covid strain, Myanmar seafarers locked out due to sanctions at home and existing logjams getting worse, there is a very real possibility that shipping has a global crew shortage coming in the post. Joining the podcast this week to discuss the current crew changeover constraints...

In this special edition of the podcast sponsored by Qatar Airways we look at the crew change crisis from the perspective of those who tasked with moving seafarers around the world amid a global pandemic. Lloyd’s List Chief Correspondent Richard Clayton hears from Qatar Airways Chief Commercial Officer Thierry Antinori that the Gulf state’s blockade experience was turned to the good for mariners.

Lloyd’s List is team up with its sister publication Insurance Day this week for our first joint edition of the Podcast looking at the insurance implication and scenarios in the wake of the Ever Given casualty in the Suez Canal. Jonathan Humm, who leads the marine hull team at Aegis London, and Stephen Hawke, managing director of PL Ferrari, the P&I specialist broker join the discussions this week...

Governments and industry are jostling for position this week in the run up to a series of important decarbonisations meetings where shipping will be called to account, and likely a target. But amid the greenwashing and spin, companies are having to take real risks, incur some serious costs and make decisions based on very few certainties. Joining the podcast this week is Stena Chief executive Erik...

THE shipping industry lost one of its most influential people with the passing of John Angelicoussis. Mr Angelicoussis died at 72 on April 10 in Athens, after suffering a heart attack three weeks earlier. Considered by many the biggest Greek shipowner, in terms of both fleet size and stature, his career in shipping spanned almost five decades, during which he grew the family business into the 150...

The transition to zero carbon shipping is riddled with uncertainties, most outside of the control of shipping companies and the industry itself, so why do so many shipping executives seem so certain about timelines and fuel strategy? “This is not a challenge where success is measured by the best soundbite or the best aspirational goal or date you set yourself,” counters Bud Darr, MSC’s executive v...

Fenna van de Merwe, principal consultant at DNV, joins Lloyd’s List Chief Correspondent Richard Clayton to look at digitalisation, decarbonisation and the need for a reassessment of the safety risks they pose in this special edition of the Lloyd’s List podcast

For several years there have been warnings that the ballooning size of boxships have been outpacing the industry’s ability to deal with the growing risk of such large assets. This week we ask whether the Suez crisis might just be the wake-up call that shipping needs to reassess it’s readiness when it comes to dealing with super-sized casualties. Joining the podcast is global head of marine risk co...

Sustainability is about more than carbon reduction, but we are currently evaluating the shift to new fuels on the basis of price, availability and technical feasibility. The ability to provide transportation infrastructure and services that are safe, socially inclusive, accessible, reliable, affordable, fuel-efficient, environmentally friendly, low-carbon and resilient to shocks and disruptions in...

On the Lloyd’s List Podcast this week: ITOPF managing director Dr Karen Purnell tells us why oil spills from tankers have declined so much and what impact all those containers that are lost at sea could really have

Nuclear power is back on the agenda in shipping. The atomic evangelists behind the new generation of molten salt reactor (MSR) technology believe it can kick-start a second atomic era, where climate change is the main driver of powerful, inexpensive and safe new energy solutions. On the podcast this week we talk to Mikal Boe, founder and chief executive of London-based Core-Power, about why nuclea...

As part of our continuing quest to assess the options for shipping carbon free future we’re looking at the case for Ammonia this week. Joining our sustainability editor Anastassios Adamopoulos to discuss why NH3 should be at the heart of any shipowners’ strategy is Milton Bevington and Stephen Crolius of Carbon Neutral Consulting

Ahead of the P&I renewals deadline we have been speaking to both sides of the annual battle. Clubs are seeking sharp increases in prices, while shipowners are trying their best not to end up paying more, sending their insurance brokers into bat to keep those rate hikes down. So who’s winning? This week we talk to: David Mahoney of Aon, Stephen Hawke of Ferrari, Gard’s chief underwriting officer Bj...

By 2050, Africa’s 1.1 billion person population is slated to double, with 80% of this growth happening in cities, By 2025 more than 100 cities in Africa will contain over a million people. With this breakneck pace of urbanization comes many unprecedented economic opportunities and with it a renewed interest for shipping following the trade. But Africa’s potential is hardly new news – China has bee...

Despite significant efforts by international organizations, unions, companies and some governments to sort this, we are now starting to see the situation getting worse as governments bring in more travel bans in response to the new strains of the Covid-19 virus. On the podcast this week to discuss the implications is Graham Westgarth, chairman of V.Group. As a key figure behind the Neptune Declara...