Lloyd's List: The Shipping Podcast

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...

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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.

Wells Fargo lead analyst Michael Webber has for the fourth straight year been named shipping’s top equity analyst by Institutional Investor magazine. He joins Lloyd’s List Editor Richard Meade on this week’s podcast to talk LNG and why the market is looking positive for another few years at least; the IMO 2020 game changer and why corporate governance in shipping is improving, albeit slower than w...

On this week’s podcast we’re in London looking ahead to next week’s pivotal IMO meeting on 2020 sulphur enforcement and greenhouse gas strategy, then we’re off to Italy to talk to a Greek shipowner about why the well-publicised woes of German shipping have made it harder for companies from other nations to secure finance. Don’t forget, you can now subscribe to the Lloyd’s List Podcast via iTunes a...

Joining Lloyd’s list Editor Richard Meade on the podcast this week is former Affinity Research, now independent shipping consultant, Mark Williams. The two of them talk trade outlook, Chinese-fuelled optimism and why 2020 is much like ordering a decaf macchiato. Don’t forget, you can now subscribe to the Lloyd’s List Podcast via iTunes and most other podcast providers. And make sure you are regist...

This week Lloyd’s List Editor Richard Meade is in Singapore taking the temperature of Asia’s shipping market. On the agenda: why the reshoring and near-shoring effect of the trade war is bad news for container shipping; how the box sector BAF battle is shaping up and why the looming 2020 deadline is dominating pretty much every discussion we’re having in Asia right now. Amid a flurry of conference...

This week Lloyd’s List Editor Richard Meade is joined by Lars Robert Pedersen, deputy secretary-general of BIMCO as they examine problems with the looming sulphur regulations and discuss why the controversial move by industry associations and major flags to avert enforcement issues does not amount to a delay.

This week Lloyd’s List Editor Richard Meade is joined by our jet-setting journalist David Osler, who has been in Rotterdam talking no-deal Brexit implications before heading off to Cape Town for the annual marine insurance pow wow with IUMI.

Lloyd’s List Editor Richard Meade talks technology ambitions and reality with Anastassios Adamopoulos who joins the podcast live from the SMM 2018 event in Hamburg this week.

Lloyd’s List Europe editor-in-chief Helen Kelly unveils the Top 100 Container Ports with editor Linton Nightingale. They are joined by BIMCO chief analyst Peter Sand and Drewry senior analyst Neil Davidson

This week Lloyd’s List Editor Richard Meade is examining the growing crisis surrounding bunker fuel contamination. He is joined by Dragos Rauta, technical director of the tanker industry body Intertanko and the chief executive of the International Bunker Industry Association, Justin Murphy