Lloyd's List: The Shipping Podcast

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...

Episode 3 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 examines the impact on shipping markets. To listen to the full series go to: http://bit.ly/3KbnQpS After three years of pandemic shutdowns, reopening booms, war, clogged supply chains and nascent inflation, it’s hard t...

Welcome to the second edition of a special Lloyd’s List Podcast series examining how the situation in Ukraine has had a lasting impact on different aspects of the shipping industry Chapter 2: The hostilities in Ukraine have left hundreds of seafarers held hostage, several dead and fundamentally affected the global supply of crew, but there are also longer term implications for the safety and secur...

Welcome to the first edition of a special series of Lloyd’s List Podcasts examining how the war in Ukraine has had a lasting impact on different aspects of the shipping industry. In this first edition, we examine the rise of the dark fleet and look at why Russia’s increasingly sophisticated sanctions evasion tactics present a lasting risk for the wider shipping industry. To listen to the full seri...

The podcast is stateside this week, coming to you live from the annual Connecticut Maritime Association event in Stamford. Our first interview this week is with Mark O’Neil, chief executive of Columbia Shipmanagement, which manages about 400 ships worldwide and regarded as one of the top performing companies in the sector. He stirred the pot at the CMA at one of the forums by promoting the continu...

EUROPE launched its much anticipated response to the US Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) this week and while it is not a shipping specific move there are significant implications for shipping. The Net Zero Industry Act essentially sets out plans to turbocharge the production of clean energy technologies across the EU, while enticing more green investment to the bloc, and reducing member states' relia...

SPONSORED CONTENT - in association with Rightship HOW easy is it to collaborate with competitors, people who want to take our business away from us? Who should we collaborate with, and to what purpose? These are the key questions addressed by Tarun Mehrotra, chief strategy officer, at RightShip, on this podcast. While acknowledging that working together for a greater good will demand rethinking ho...

THE container sector is no stranger to irrational exuberance. The last time we had an overcapacity market from 2016 to 2019, we saw nine off the top 20 carriers disappear in the space of two and a half years – a period that saw the carriers losing money on nearly every box they were moving. And as one of guests on this week’s edition of the Lloyd’s List Podcast points out, that was scary. But the...

Every study and every ounce of common sense points to the fact that for any organisation that relies on its people, it should be a strategic priority to broaden your talent pool, enlist a diverse range of skills and perspectives, and make the most of their potential. Just as Countries with more gender equality have better economic growth. Companies with more women leaders perform better. Shipping...

The lack of transparency and substance being attached to ESG announcements in shipping has become a pretty consistent theme of the Lloyd’s List Podcast over the last few years. We have paraded a long queue of earnest environmentalists and eager executives in front of you, all saying the same thing - that change is afoot. But what does that actually look like in terms of boardroom decisions, and ar...