Lloyd's List: The Shipping Podcast

Join Lloyd’s List Editor Richard Meade and our China Editor Cichen Shen for the first in a special series of evening reflections from the sidelines of Singapore Maritime Week. Today our dynamic duo are discussing why digitalisation doesn’t seem to have moved on since last SMW and why scrubbers are still the hot topic. If you’re not already signed up to attend our Smart Ports Forum, you might just...

We’re talking Smart Ports on the podcast this week in advance of the Lloyd’s list Singapore Maritime Week Forum where we will be examining why ports are the critical interface in the overall digitalisation of shipping. Joining editor Richard Meade, Capt. Rajesh Unni, Founder & Group CEO of Synergy Marine Group and Lloyd’s List’s own king of containers James Baker explore why data alone will not ge...

We are now nine months away from the 2020 low sulphur fuel regulations coming into effect and there are still a few stakeholders feeling a little nervous. We’re not quite a Brexit levels of last-minute panic just yet but it’s fair to say that there are still some pretty significant questions being raised about availability, quality and of course pricing. The fuel suppliers have smelled the fear an...

The shipping industry needs to take a more holistic view when looking to improve safety, environmental performance and operational efficiency, says DNVGL’s maritime chief executive Knut Orbeck-Nilssen, because right now the environmental agenda has overtaken safety concerns and that is worrying. Joining Lloyd’s List this week, Mr Orbeck-Nilssen and DNVGL’s environment director, Eirik Nyhus, discus...

Brian Johnson, the UK’s Maritime & Coastguard Agency’s new chief executive has taken over one of the toughest regulatory jobs in shipping just as the UK is teetering on the edge of Brexit, the UK flag is wilting under the political pressure and the fearsome pace of regulatory and technological change is disrupting established norms. Speaking to Lloyd’s List Editor Richard Meade on his inaugural po...

This week Lloyd’s List editor Richard Meade is joined by the other Richard, Lloyd’s List’s Chief Correspondent, Richard Clayton to discuss the stories they think are shaping the shipping markets this week. On the table for discussion: container consolidation, fuel costs, yet more digitalisation and the urgent need to focus on the human element.

This podcast is part of a special mini-series gathering the collected views of the international Lloyd’s List editorial team on what stories are going to be shaping the shipping markets in the coming months. Today’s edition features the US team talking about US LNG opportunities and the problem of port congestion. In this edition it was the turn of our US team to lead the agenda. Mark Fuechec, our...

This podcast is part of a special mini-series gathering the collected views of the international Lloyd’s List editorial team on what stories are going to be shaping the shipping markets in the coming months. Today’s edition features the Asia team talking about bunkering, LNG, trade tariffs and digitalisation. In this edition it was the turn of our Asia team to lead the agenda. Hwee Hwee Tan, our s...

This week’s podcast is part of a special mini-series gathering the collected views of the international Lloyd’s List editorial team on what stories are going to be shaping the shipping markets in the coming months. Today’s edition features the European editorial team. Look out next week for the US and Asia editions.

Joining the Lloyd’s List Podcast this week is the International Energy Agency’s head of oil markets, Neil Atkinson. While 2020 still looks challenging, he thinks the situation is far more manageable for shipping and refineries than previous forecasts suggested. Looking ahead to the IP Week debates starting Monday, Neil talks to Lloyd’s list editor Richard Meade about the OPEC outlooks, oil price a...

On this week’s podcast we sit down with the International Maritime Organization Secretary-General Kitack Lim as he reflects on the considerable challenges that lie ahead for the industry and his position at the top of the Lloyd’s List Top 100 Most Influential People in Shipping ranking.

The International Union of Marine Insurance held its winter meeting in London earlier this week, and David Osler caught up with a trio of the trade association’s leading lights. Richard Turner, Helle Hammer and Lars Lange reveal what they think the year ahead holds in store, and look forward to the organisation’s conference in Toronto in September. xx Key players in the International Union of Mari...

On this week's podcast our senior reporters consider what the deadly collapse of a dam around one of Vale's iron ore mines and sanctions against Venenzuela's oil business mean for the maritime industry. xx A tumultuous week in South America saw a fatal dam collapse in Brazil and a struggle for power with international involvement in Venezuela. Iron more behemoth Vale found itself at the center of...

Joining Lloyd’s List Editor Richard Meade this week in the hot seat is Inmarsat Maritime president, Ronald Spithout. ….. The shipping industry is experiencing a period of accelerated digital change For those at the vanguard of this brave new digital world these changes have the potential to add value and enhance efficiency across an increasingly integrated global supply chain. And yet most of the...

The enhanced efficiencies promised by the introduction of new technologies and a fully integrated supply chain will need to overcome the practical problems of a traditional industry that continues to operate in silos. For some, this is about technology, for others, digitalisation offers a new way of engaging with customers, but ultimately we are often talking about entirely new ways of doing busin...

The Gulf of Guinea has been a persistent problem when it comes to maritime security and there is good reason to be concerned that 2019 is only going to get worse. This week’s podcast examines the security situation for shipping talking to Bimco’s head of security Jakob Larsen and Senior Maritime Analyst at Control Risks, Cormac Mc Garry. For the full story visit Lloydslist.com and register for a f...

This year promises to be an interesting one for the maritime industry, so before we get back into the regular weekly podcast we thought we would offer you a view from our correspondents on the stories they think will be shaping the year ahead in shipping. Many of the ideas discussed here are explored in more detail in our annual Lloyd’s List Outlook Report, which subscribers will have seen some of...

This week’s podcast is a special edition and slightly longer than usual. It showcases the highlights from Lloyd’s List’s annual Top 100 People, which identifies and ranks the most influential people in the global maritime industry. Lloyd’s List Europe Editor-in-Chief Helen Kelly talks to fellow journalists and editors involved in the project about game-changing environmental regulation and how new...

This week’s podcast offers a short taster of our live 2019 Outlook Business Briefing that we held in London on December 11th. Lloyd’s List editor Richard Meade is joined on stage by six of the sharpest shipping minds in the business to discuss the key challenges and opportunities that shipping will face over the next 18 months. ---- The maritime industry faces a year of uncertainty in 2019, underp...

This week Lloyd’s List Editor Richard Meade talks to International Salvage Union president Charo Coll and Global Head of Marine Risk Consulting Allianz Capt. Rahul Khanna as they consider the future of salvage, the future of risk and why Friday the 13th is more than just a superstition when it comes to maritime safety. --- THOSE in the salvage sector are the unsung heroes of shipping. But could th...

The UK’s Brexit deal may not be pretty, but it just about works for shipping in that the prospect of simply crashing out of the EU next March looks much worse. But is the maritime sector being listened to by a government that is apparently struggling to work out the significance of one of its own major ports? Lloyd’s List Editor Richard Meade sits down with UK Chamber of Shipping chief executive B...

Artificial intelligence will help the shipping industry make better decisions, argues Signal Group's Ioannis Martinos, but the technology has not yet reach a tipping point where there is sufficient trust from the users. The Greek ship manager and shipping AI pioneer joins Lloyd’s List reporter Anastassios Adamopoulos in London to talk about how technology can help shipping manoeuvre through the 20...

The Lloyd’s List Podcast: Why Paddy Rodgers believes the solution to pollution is not dilution by Lloyd's List

The annual convention of the International Bunkering Industry Association is perhaps not traditionally the highest profile event in the industry’s calendar, but with the sulphur cap on everyone’s horizon this year’s shindig has attracted a bit more interest, so we sent our chief correspondent Richard Clayton and our man with 2020 vision Anastassios Adamopoulos to Copenhagen this week to find out w...

Joining Lloyd’s List Editor Richard Meade on this week’s Lloyd’s List podcast is Olaf Merk who heads the OECD’s influential inter-governmental think tank – the International Transport Forum. He’s just dropped a bombshell into the European Commission’s review of competition rules for liner shipping arguing that current block exemption regulation should be allowed to expire in April 2020.