Lloyd's List: The Shipping Podcast

As part of a Lloyd’s List special report on digitalisation in shipping we are looking at shipping’s progress towards efficiency and integration on the podcast this week. Joining Lloyd’s List Editor Richard Meade is Sean Fernback, President of Wärtsilä Voyage who is a relative newcomer to the sector and offers an outsider’s perspective on the challenges and opportunities that shipping has yet to fa...

With the help of Bimco’s chief shipping analyst Peter Sand we’re taking a quick run through the key tipping points that will shape the shipping markets in 2021 on this podcast this week. Peter and Lloyd’s List editor Richard Meade cast their eyes over box market buoyancy, tanker troubles and the bulk market’s optimistic expectations for the year that inevitably all hinge on China. The next 12 mont...

Joining the Lloyd’s List Podcast this week, David Hammond, the founder and chief executive of Human Rights at Sea explains why the crewing crisis has helped highlight wider abuses in the maritime sector and why we can’t let that attention fade along with Covid once the vaccination programme kicks in.

On the podcast this week we examine whether shippers’ complaints that box lines are profiteering hold any water. We then turn to the results of the Lloyd’s List Decarbonisation Survey that we conducted late last year in search of some much-needed clarity regarding carbon reduction. xx ARE container lines profiteering? Well the short answer of course is if they are then they’re really not very good...

A low orderbook never saved a market – you need demand to recover. Oil needs to return to pre-pandemic levels before you can recalibrate the supply demand of the fleet and think about a more sustainable upturn, so says veteran equity analyst Jonathan Chappell from Evercore. He talks tankers with Lloyd’s List Editor Richard Meade this week, and sets out his forecast to 2022.

IT’S that most wonderful time of the year. The Lloyd’s List editorial team have been making a list, they’ve checked it twice they’ve been very busy finding out who’s been naughty or nice this year. The Lloyd’s List Top 100 annual ranking of the most influential people in shipping is finally here. This is the eleventh edition of the list that makes no bones of its subjective assessment of the real...

Before you listen to the podcast this week register for the Lloyd’s List Outlook Forum on December 1. Go to Lloydslist.com and follow the banner or copy this link to go direct to the registration page: https://pages.maritimeintelligence.informa.com/2021ShippingOutlook Despite all the positive examples of innovation, entrepreneurship and collaboration, shipping still struggles to move from siloed p...

Go to Lloydslist.com to complete our Decarbonisation Survey and register for free to attend the Outlook Forum on December 1 BW has pioneered dual-fuelled LPG engines and recently announced a world first with a VLGC voyage on full LPG propulsion across the Pacific. It’s a voyage expected to produce 20% less greenhouse gas emissions and use 10% less fuel. Given the chorus of pro LNG duel fuel zealot...

IF entrepreneurs form companies to solve a problem and capitalise on a gap in the market, then it seems shipping’s problems are growing exponentially. The recent proliferation of accelerators, incubators and established maritime players all doggedly chasing start-ups as a testing ground for viable, and scalable, new business models – all suggests something of an entrepreneurial explosion. This wee...

THE hot topic of cargo related fires on board containerships refuses to be extinguished, despite a recent flurry of industry efforts to snuff out the problem. We’ve not seen a Yantian Express, Maersk Honam or an MSC Flaminia reach the headlines in recent months, but there has been a persistent series of smaller fires that have gone un-noticed. And the numbers are not going down. According to the P...

Listen to the third of three special edition podcasts produced in association with DNV GL examining the tectonic shift shaping shipping’s future: decarbonisation, alternative fuels and digitalisation. Stener Stenersen, DNV GL’s Head of Technical Support Norway, and Bjorn-Johan Vartdal, Digital Director for Maritime, join Lloyd’s List Chief Correspondent Richard Clayton to discuss the next steps in...

On our podcast this week, senior reporter and editor of the Lloyd's List magazine Linton Nightingale is joined by the chair of our editorial board Janet Porter and Container Trades Statistics chief executive Peter Webber. The trio chew the fat over the history of CTS and how it came to be, while analysing the latest container trade volume data which points to an unlikely peak season as the industr...

The Greek shipping community have always been wilfully contrary bunch in their attitude and outlook – it’s still the case that where the Greeks lead in countercyclical plays others follow and even in these capital constrained times it’s a brave analyst who bets against the Greek owner’s ability to turn a global crisis into an opportunity. That said, there are fault lines emerging in shipping right...

This special edition is brought to you by Hyde Marine. Christopher Todd, executive director of Hyde Marine and Calgon Carbon UV, joins Lloyd’s List news reporter Anastassios Adamopoulos to discuss the state of the ballast water treatment system market, the effects of the pandemic on manufacturers and shipowners and what is in store for the sector.

THE global health crisis has exposed known flaws within shipping. The fragmented response to the crewing crisis is only the latest fault line in an industry that has struggled to speak with unity on fundamental issues of safety, decarbonisation and digitalisation. One of the key voices to emerge from the current crisis is that of Synergy Group founder and chief executive Rajesh Unni, who joins Llo...

ABS chief Chris Wiernicki is our return guest on the podcast this week, covering decarbonisation pathways, shipbuilding decisions, the threat of regionalism in climate change policy and why a rapid mindset shift is required from the shipping industry to keep up with the pace and scope of changes afoot.

Christos Chryssakis, Business Development Manager at DNV GL, and Narve Mjøs, Director of DNV GL’s Green Shipping Programme, join Lloyd’s List Chief Correspondent Richard Clayton to discuss the next steps in the journey to carbon-neutral fuels in this special edition of the Lloyd's List Podcast

Commodities trader Trafigura is calling for "drastic" measures to speed up the decarbonisation of shipping through a bunker levy charge as well as pushing for measures including enforced slow steaming. Without urgent action the industry risks costly regional confusion, slow update of zero emissions fuels and the inevitably of having decisions forced upon them. A level plays playing field is essent...

THE International Union of Marine Insurance conference is the highlight of the marine insurance year. But, thanks to the pandemic, what was supposed to have been a four-day physical gathering in Stockholm has metamorphosed into a two-week virtual event. Nevertheless, attendance was substantially up and the standard of the online presentations has been as high as ever. So we’re delighted to have th...

The Global Maritime Forum, the organisation behind some of the leading sustainability initiatives in the industry, including the Poseidon Principles and the Getting to Zero Coalition, is founded on the idea that progress happens when people from all parts of a system – in this case the global maritime industry – come together to discuss challenges and work together on finding new solutions. So, th...

ON August 5, the tanker Maersk Etienne rescued 27 people, including a child and a pregnant woman, from a small boat at the behest of Maltese authorities. But since then the vessel, it’s crew and the rescued migrants on board have become something of a political football kicked from port to port as nation states argue the toss over whose responsibility it is to disembark those rescued at sea. The m...

This is the first of three special edition podcasts produced in association with DNVGL examining the tectonic shift shaping shipping's future: decarbonisation, alternative fuels and digitalization In this first edition Eirik Nyhus, DNVGL's director of environment and Tore Longva, principal consultant at DNV GL, join Lloyd’s List Chief Correspondent Richard Clayton to assess shipping’s position on...

The Panama Canal is arguably the most difficult engineering project humanity has ever undertaken, and it’s so large, you can see it from space. More than a million vessels have used it as a shortcut between the Atlantic and the Pacific since it was opened in 1914, and canal dues raise $2bn a year, making it the economic mainstay of an entire country. Ilya Marotta, was appointed as Deputy Administr...

James Marshall is the chief executive of Berge Bulk and he has a plan to get their 75 vessels to become a net zero fleet by 2025. In this week’s podcast he talks to Lloyd’s list Editor Richard Meade about how he plans to get there, why existing technology can get you nearer than you think and why nuclear reactors on board vessels should be back on the table as an industry option.

When we set up this podcast one of the stated aims was to tell the story of interesting and important people doing interesting and important things within the shipping industry, so this week I’m handing over the reigns to our insurance and law editor David Osler who has been out and about talking to just such a pair of people. Lindsay Malen-Habib is a senior sales director at Resolve Marine Group,...