Lloyd's List: The Shipping Podcast

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

This week Lloyd’s List Editor Richard Meade is joined by Lloyd’s List containers kingpins James Baker and Cichen Shen to discuss DP World's pricey move into shipowning via Unifeeder, OOCL’s big box ambitions and the proliferation of profit warnings. Meanwhile the legal eagles from Watson Farley & Williams guide us through the regulatory minefield created by US sanctions against Iran and Europe’s f...

This week David Osler stands in for Richard Meade and talks to CEO and co-founder Michel Löwy of SC Lowy about Italian shipping debt transaction and speaks with Menelaus Kouzoupis of Stephenson Harwood on cyber security, ransoms and making a ship one kilometre in diameter

This week Lloyd’s List Editor Richard Meade is pulling in international help to decipher what the apparent ceasefire between the US and EU over trade tariffs means for soyabeans and LNG, and talking cyber security in the wake of a ransomware attack on Chinese box giant Cosco.

Trade trouble and regulatory reform This week Lloyd’s List Editor Richard Meade is crossing continents bringing you the view from China via a conversation in Hong Kong with China Editor Cichen Shen and then he’s back to London for a chat with outgoing International Chamber of Shipping secretarygeneral Peter Hinchliffe. Listen to the latest edition of Lloyd’s List’s weekly podcast — your weekly bri...

Earlier this week Europe Editor-in-Chief Helen Kelly spoke with Dr Karen Purnell, managing director of ITOPF - A not for profit scientific organisation based in London. ITOPF has been providing technical advice on the clean-up of oil spills at sea for 50 years. It has worked with industry to bring major tanker accidents down from one every two weeks in the 1970s to one or two per year today. Dr Pu...

This week Lloyd’s List Editor Richard Meade is joined by Bimco’s chief analyst Peter Sand and Lloyd’s List markets editor to discuss the outlook for markets and the shipping implications of a trade war.

This week the UK Chamber of Shipping and Mission to Seafarers talk to us about seafarer mental health and wellbeing, as part of Seafarers Awareness Week and 2018 Day of the Seafarer

On this week's podcast we are joined by Sue Terpilowski OBE, at the Braemar Shipbroking offices in central London, host to the Women in Maritime Taskforce group set up with Maritime UK and the Department for Transport. As chair of the group Sue tells us why we still haven't got the gender balance right in UK maritime and what can be done about it

On this week's podcast: a diplomatic row erupted earlier this week over Italy and Malta's refusal to take a rescue vessel carrying 629 people. As the vessel heads towards Spain we talk to International Chamber of Shipping secretary-general Peter Hinchliffe about the moral obligations of EU member states to help people in distress and the potential fallout for merchant shipping in the Mediterranean

On today’s podcast we are joined by some of the industry’s leading analysts from BIMCO, NS Lemos and DVB Bank

On today’s podcast we are joined by another special guest — Stephen Gordon, managing director of Clarksons Research Services

On today’s podcast we are joined by a special guest - Knut Ørbeck-Nilssen, chief executive of DNVGL’s maritime division and outgoing chair of IACS.

On today’s podcast: The Lloyd’s List Business Briefing and why Silicon Valley has decamped to Pireaus. In the first of a special series of Lloyd’s List podcasts live from Athens, the editorial team reflect on day one of Posidonia and discuss key takeaways from the Lloyd’s List Business Briefing.

THE Lloyd’s List editorial team have packed their sunglasses, notepads and aspirin and are preparing for a busy week out in Athens. Before the newshounds headed off we managed to pin some of them down long enough to gather their thoughts on what to expect and offer a little insight into the stories they are chasing this week. The podcast is a little shorter this week but we will be bringing you re...

A COMBINATION of rapidly evolving technologies are converging on shipping, challenging the traditional operating models of shipping, and with it, the role of class. It is no longer sufficient for a classification society to simply ensure that the technology works together the way that it is supposed to – they are simultaneously leading a rapid pace of innovation while balancing the complex questio...

WHEN Maersk chief executive Søren Skou declared his company’s latest results “unsatisfactory” this week, he no doubt garnered a sympathetic sigh of solidarity from his peers. The container lines may have a strategic eye on their digital future where their value as part of an integrated, efficient global supply chain is recognised both in terms of rates and utilisation, but they are certainly not t...