Lloyd's List: The Shipping Podcast

A tipping point has been reached in the Red Sea. The industry is now divided between those who have called the Middle East security risk as a mid-term diversion to be managed, and those who are prepared to run the gauntlet of near daily attacks on the basis that the Houthis will only target ships with an Israeli, US or UK nexus. While containerships have been diverting away from the Suez Canal sin...

It seems that 27 was the magic number in the end. That was how many attacks the Houthi’s landed on international shipping before the inevitable military response was triggered. On January 12th America and Britain responded with more than 60 sea and air attacks on Houthi targets in Yemen in an attempt to restore open passage, expanding the scope of the Middle East conflict. As we recorded this week...

This sponsored edition of the podcast is produced in association with ExxonMobil In July, MEPC 80 agreed a new GHG strategy with a destination of net-zero GHG emissions by, or around, 2050. But will the fuels be ready and what does ‘net-zero’ actually mean? In this podcast, Christophe Pouts and Ken Kar of ExxonMobil address the challenge of reaching net-zero GHG emissions in maritime transportatio...

The new International Maritime Organization secretary general Arsenio Dominguez joins the Lloyd’s List Podcast this week to discuss the challenges ahead, his leadership style and just how much influence the 'SG' really has in setting the industry’s agenda. Happy new year to all Lloyd's List Podcast listeners

Each year, Lloyd’s List likes to gather a group of industry leaders, lock them in a room and not let them leave until they have divined the fate and fortunes of the shipping industry for the year to come. And that’s what we did this week in London at the annual Lloyd’s List Outlook Forum. Having gathered a baseline of crowdsourced knowledge from the ever insightful Lloyd’s List readers we invited...

Three of the five International Group affiliates that have announced strategies for the 2024 renewal have included sweeteners totalling more than $80m. But are the payouts as generous as they look? This week’s edition of the podcast offers a deep dive into the P&I landscape at the halfway point in renewal season. Lloyd's list Insurance Editor David Osler take the lead this week, talking to: Jonath...

Two of the shipping industry’s leading academics, Professor Siri Pettersen Strandenes and Dr Martin Stopford join the podcast this week to discuss everything from the shifting nature of shipping economics to the digital and logistic solutions they would urge the industry consider in response. To hear more about the topics discussed in this week’s edition make sure you join us next week for a very...

On pretty much every metric you care to think about right now, the industry does not have sufficient pace behind the transitions required. But you knew that already, so we are exploring the reasons why in a little more depth in this week’s edition of the podcast. Like last week’s edition these conversations all stem from around the recent Global Maritime Forum held in Athens, but they are part of...

The zero emission capable ships may be coming, but they are not coming quickly enough. But even if we squint and avoid the question of how environmentally friendly a theoretically environmentally friendly ship really is, the ships aren’t really the biggest problem right now. It’s the lack of zero carbon fuels coming down the pipeline that’s keeping most industry executives awake at night. The scal...

In a world rife with cascading crises – macro-economic fragmentation, retreating development, multilateralism under attack and of course the defining challenge of the age - climate change – maritime trade serves as a stabilizing anchor, holding fast against the turbulent currents of disruption. But it is changing. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine shifted trade lanes – in terms of grain obviously, but...

TWO years ago Federal Maritime Commission chairman Daniel Maffei sat in front of the Lloyd’s List microphone and bluntly told the container carriers to buck up their public relations. They needed to do a better job of explaining the economics of container shipping and the industry’s essential role in supporting commerce, was his basic beef. Well, a lot has happened since then so when Maffei was in...

A LLOYD’S LIST SPONSORED PODCAST LNG is a fossil fuel: the groundswell of opinion says it’s the answer to the wrong question. But some nevertheless believe it has significant advantages over alternative fuels and it is a useful steppingstone to the next level. In this podcast, RINA technical director Antonios Trakakis, who is responsible for leading maritime sustainability initiatives at the Itali...

AS anybody looking to renew a fixed-rate mortgage right now will tell you, these are tough times for those seeking to borrow money. The decade and more in which the outlook for interest rates were “lower for longer”, as central bankers sought to encourage economic activity in the wake of the global financial crisis, are just a memory. The new enemy is inflation, which has jumped dramatically in th...

The International Union of Marine Insurance conference is the annual health check for the shipping industry’s risk cover and as such offers an important, if not at time impenetrably complex view of the sector as a whole. This week’s podcast offers up a clear explanation of everything you need to know about marine insurance from the people who understand it best. Consider this week’s edition your b...

Shipping does like to talk. And this week we have talked our way through sanctions, geo-political risk, diversity, digitalization and of course the big green elephant in the room at every event – decarbonisation. So as London International Shipping Week puts the champagne flutes in the dishwasher and sweeps up the last crumbs of canapes from the floor, the Lloyd’s List team have gathered around th...

Shipping’s decarbonization dialogue is starting to sound a little schizophrenic. For the first half of the year all we heard was that the IMO was not going far or fast enough and everyone was lobbying for a 1.5 degree alignment in terms of the 2050 decarbonisation targets with some stringent 2030 and 2040 waypoints. We didn’t quite get there, but we weren’t far off. So was that enough to catalyse...

Forecasts are difficult, especially about the future. But shipping’s focus for a while now has been squarely on 2050 when, let’s face it, the majority of those making bold pledges about the industry’s transformation are not going to be around to observe the accuracy of their optimism. Setting out what’s achievable by 2030 is more difficult, arguably impossible. Reports setting out the likelihood o...

EIGHTEEN months in, it’s perhaps not a shocker to hear that the shipping industry is still struggling with the complexities of the ever-evolving sanctions compliance regime they find themselves navigating. But the geopolitical realities of the situation that lies ahead are now starting to hit home. Shipping is trading in an increasingly bi-polar political environment and while no risk analyst wort...

It seems we find ourselves in an era of “cascading crises”. The de-risked, de-coupled, low growth, fractious trading environment that the industry is navigating today is laden with uncertainty. China’s growth engine is sputtering. The consequences of sanctions and regional bloc economics is creating a bi-polar political and trading environment and inflation is starting to bite. And then there’s th...

THE world economy is slowing down. Last month China reported that its economy grew by a mere 0.8% in the second quarter compared with the prior three months. The much anticipated post Covid pick up has seen the Middle Kingdom return with a whimper rather than the hoped for roar after the government finally abandoned its “zero-covid” policy in December. Global manufacturing has suffered as consumer...

THIS IS A SPONSORED PODCAST IN ASSOCIATION WITH EAGLESTAR In this podast, Eaglestar managing director Capt Peter Liew discusses how to future-proof the ship manager at a time of change, and how to position the business to be competitive. For most of its life, Eaglestar was the in-house manager for Malaysia’s MISC. Now fully independent, it has found new opportunities for business in the world of s...

The immediate disruptions of the pandemic may have eased, but has the industry learned sufficient lessons to prevent the same chaos next time around? Shippers need to plan ahead for both known and unknown disruptions according to the panel of experts we gathered for this week’s edition of the podcast. Discussing how to build supply chain resilience with Lloyd’s List’s very own containers editor Ja...

We now know what shipping needs to do by 2050. We have a pretty good idea of what 2040 and even 2030 looks like on paper. But after the big political showdown in the IMO earlier this month we’re now looking at the difficult detail of what follows. This is something of a recurring theme for the Lloyd’s List podcast, so as regular listeners will well understand we’re not talking about a shipping iss...

Moin Ahmed is one of two candidates nominated for the position of secretary general with a seafaring background.(The other candidate is from Türkiye). After 10 years at sea Ahmed came ashore to work at Bangladesh’s national shipping line, but his journey to the International Maritime Organisation began when he was posted to the UK as the company’s European regional representative more than 25 year...

Few people in shipping can claim to be a best-selling author but the book published in 1985 by Dominica’s candidate, Dr Cleopatra Doumbia-Henry, The Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Sea, is a text that thousands in international maritime law will be familiar with. Doumbia-Henry concluded her eight-year term as president of Sweden’s World Maritime University last month, the latest post in a trailblaz...