Lloyd's List: The Shipping Podcast

Suat Hayri Aka, Turkiye’s candidate for the secretary general’s position at the International Maritime Organization, has probably the most diverse curriculum vitae of all seven candidates standing for election on Tuesday. He began his career as a deck officer, and after time at sea went ashore to work in shipmangement and other maritime businesses. In addition to seafaring and commercial experienc...

Well-known Zhang Xiajojie has run a low-key public campaign for the position of secretary general but the former head of delegation for China at the International Maritime Organisation is confident he is in with a decent chance. He began his career in the Ministry of Transport in 1994 and has travelled as part of the Chinese IMO delegation to London for 30 years, he told Lloyd’s List. In 2017 he w...

From a little girl in rural Kenya who listened to the sounds of the sea from cowrie shells to candidate for the top job at the International Maritime Organisation – Nancy Karigitu’s long maritime voyage may end with her becoming the first African and first woman secretary general in its 70-year history if she is elected next Tuesday. Karigitu was among the first of the seven candidates to flag her...

MINNA Kivimäki is the second candidate for the position of secretary general of International Maritime Organization featured in the Lloyd’s List podcast ahead of voting next Tuesday for the top diplomatic job in shipping. The four-year appointment begins on January 1, with the winner to succeed the incumbent over the past eight years, South Korea’s Kitack Lim. Lloyd’s List has interviewed all the...

THE International Maritime Organisation votes next Tuesday to replace its secretary general and seven countries are fielding candidates for the top diplomatic job in shipping. The four-year appointment begins on January 1, with the winner to succeed incumbent over the past eight years, South Korea’s Kitack Lim. Bangladesh (Moin Uddin Ahmed), China (Zhang Xiajojie), Dominica (Dr Cleopatra Doumbia-H...

The Lloyd’s List traditional mid-year health check on shipping’s core sectors highlighted a few underlying conditions in box and bulk but found tankers feeling much better after a period of prolonged depression. Join our resident specialists for a thorough examination of all that ails the maritime markets this week. Our traditional mid-year health check on shipping’s core sectors has flagged a few...

The shipping industry can decarbonize. If the political stars align and the right demand signals can be emitted, even the most ambitious zero carbon scenarios are no longer limited by the technology. Or commercial readiness of zero-carbon fuels, or infrastructure or yards. At least they are according to the slew of papers and studies being pumped out as the world’s governments sit down next week t...

We tend to talk a lot about what the future of shipping will look like in 2050. What the fuels will be, what the ships need to do and how trade lanes and business models are going to need to rapidly adapt. But we don’t talk enough about the people at the heart of this revolution - the seafarers. Without a skilled, agile and well-trained work force, the clean energy transformation of shipping will...

The Lloyd’s List Podcast moves to Japan this week, where MOL chairman Junichiro Ikeda shares his insights about what he considers to be biggest risks facing shipping and why MOL is looking to transform into a social infrastructure company Mitsui OSK Lines chairman Junichiro Ikeda has worked at the Japanese shipping giant for more than 40 years and has witnessed numerous testing periods in the ship...

SPONSORED CONTENT MEDIA headlines earlier this year called for a pause in the development of artificial intelligence because of fears that it will “tear humanity apart”. The most tech-savvy minds on the planet, having unleashed the beast, are having second thoughts. What’s the reality for AI and machine learning as they apply to the shipping and logistics business? What is their past, who is using...

Decarbonisation dominated the debate at this year’s NorShipping, but in between hot air and emissions there was time to take the temperature of an industry in flux. The Lloyd’s List team out in Oslo reflect on their key takeaways from four days of conversations and canapes Talking on today’s edition: • Richard Meade, Editor-in-Chief • Linton Nightingale, Deputy Editor • Bridget Diakun, Lloyd’s Lis...

It is day three of Norshipping out in Oslo and the Lloyd’s List team are finally penetrating the pre-prepared headline pushes and have started to find a more nuanced debate about the real progress being made in shipping amongst the front runners, the followers and the laggards. Today’s chat is with Cargill’s head of ocean transportation and the president of the Global Maritime Forum, Jan Dieleman....

There is a visible gap between what the industry is saying it is doing about decarbonisation and what it is actually doing. But that oversimplifies the pace of a complex set of transitions underway and the significant strides already taken by the front runners pushing a progressive agenda, argue those behind the industry’s leading hubs for decarbonisation. Today’s edition of the podcast live from...

There has been an outbreak of optimism as the industry converges on Oslo this week to discuss the tectonic shifts of decarbonisation and digitalisation. The first in a daily series of podcasts live from NorShipping hears how DNV Maritime’s chief Knut Ørbeck-Nilssen wants to fuel progress with collaboration and why MSC’s head of maritime policy and government affairs Bud Darr is brimming with hope...

We are approaching the anniversary of the Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2022 enactment, which one head of a US shippers association said "changed what the Federal Maritime Commission is all about" The bill was signed in the midst of the supply chain crises that saw carriers' profits surge – much to their great surprise - while shippers were encumbered with skyrocketing rates and piles of per-diem f...

A sponsored podcast from Rivertrace Rivertrace, the UK-based water quality monitoring specialist, has evolved as the maritime industry developed away from analogue systems to digital technology. Digital monitoring has become not only an accepted but also an essential part of modern shipping. In this podcast, the company’s owner and executive chairman Mike Coomber shares his thoughts on monitoring,...

On paper the industry is pushing ahead with a twin track project of near term efficiency gains while politicians agree a clear regulatory timeline that unlocks the investment, scales low-emission fuels, and addresses ongoing concerns about future supply and demand. In reality the distant prospect of any meaningful political agreement is being routinely used as a pretext for widespread inaction, or...

SPONSORED PODCAST in association with Rightship Let’s face it, shipping is no longer data-poor; in fact, it’s in danger of being overloaded with data. The problem is rather that data resides in inaccessible silos, in a range of formats, and when you do access it, it’s at an unaffordable cost. Yet data is seen as the foundation of the industry’s push towards decarbonisation. Other business sectors,...

SANCTIONS against Russia are about to be tightened once again and this time shipping is very much the focus from regulators both in the US and EU. US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has been in Japan this week ahead of forthcoming G7 talks, where she is talking up Washington’s intention to crack down on Russia’s ability to skirt sanctions. Meanwhile, over in Kyiv, European Commission President Urs...

SOMETHING ground-breaking has happened in shipping. Navigator Gas, best known for owning and operating the world’s largest fleet of handysize gas tankers, this month revealed that they had done something no other shipowner has done before. The US-listed LPG carrier have taken out the industry’s first ever gender diversity-linked loan. In another words, they’ve drawn down on a $200 million loan fac...

ONE chief executive Jeremy Nixon says carriers need to stay ‘lean and agile’ to deal with long term geopolitical shifts including widening divisions between the US and China that are changing container shipping trade flows Jeremy joins the podcast this week to expand on his thoughts about evolving trade lanes, but he also discussed the more immediate concerns ahead for the box sector starting with...

Despite an unprecedented proliferation of sanctions over the past 12 months, high profile enforcement cases have been notably absent in shipping, but that is about to change and much of the industry is still woefully unprepared for what is about to follow. Last year was about installing an unparalleled network of sanctions restricting trade. The remainder of 2023 is going to be defined by an incre...

Scale through a merger is a useful tool to better tackle new emission rules, increasing sanctions risks, among other market uncertainties facing shipowners even in the most fragmented segments today. But you’ll have to get the right chemistry between people first. Cetus Maritime chief executive Mark Young joins our Asia editor Cichen Shen for this week's edition of the podcast to discuss is it a g...

Episode 5 of a special six-part series of Lloyd’s List Podcasts examining how the war in Ukraine has had a lasting impact on different aspects of the shipping industry. This fifth edition of the podcast looks the knock-on effect that Russia’s war in Ukraine has had on trade in the Black Sea. To listen to the full series go to: http://bit.ly/3KbnQpS The headline creation of the grain corridor, allo...

Episode 4 of a special six-part series of Lloyd’s List Podcasts examining how the war in Ukraine has had a lasting impact on different aspects of the shipping industry. This episode looks at why one of the lasting effects of the Ukraine was is going to be a significantly elevated series of risk factors for shipping. To listen to the full series go to: http://bit.ly/3KbnQpS Previous episodes examin...