The Maritime Risk Podcast

🎙️ Dive into the intriguing world of maritime cyber security with our latest Maritime Risk Podcast episode! Join us as we welcome Professor Stephen McCombie, an esteemed expert with a rich tapestry of experience spanning policing, academia, and the frontlines of cybercrime and digital forensics. In this captivating conversation, Stephen unveils the hidden depths of maritime cyber threats, sharing...

The episode rounds off our short series of educational podcasts which have been recorded to provide our listeners with a deeper understanding of our new MDCI product. In this the final episode we learn from the lifelong professional experience of George Chalos when defending shipowners and their crews before the U.S. courts and speaks to the value of the legal services we have embedded within the...

In this podcast episode, we invite you to explore the detailed benefits, policy limits, and how you can integrate MDCI into your current Shoreline coverage. For those listeners new to our insurance solutions, we explain how our flexible premium models are tailored to accommodate your vessel's unique attributes. Listen now, to discover how MDCI can serve as your protective shield against the risks...

In this very special episode of Shoreline’s Maritime Risk Podcast, we are excited to introduce a new insurance solution, namely, MDCI, which has been carefully crafted to address one of the most pressing challenges for ship owners and their crew trading their vessels to the U.S. today. After a year of research and collaboration with industry experts, maritime lawyers and marine reinsures at Lloyd’...

In this episode of Shoreline’s Maritime Risk Podcast, we discuss the main incentives and commercial goals driving hackers to target the maritime industry. We unravel how high-profile incidents, such as the Ever Given's Suez Canal blockage, have created newfound incentives for hackers to exploit vulnerabilities within the sector. Additionally, we uncover the emerging role of AI, specifically ChatGP...

Welcome to the latest episode of Shoreline’s Maritime Risk Podcast, in this episode we discuss an alarming statistic from the maritime industry. According to a report by RightShip, an Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)-focused digital maritime platform, half of the maritime incidents recorded in 2022 occurred in ports and terminals. This data was collected from various sources, including P...

In this episode of the Shoreline Maritime Risk Podcast , we have the pleasure of speaking with Andrew Roberts of RightShip.   Rightship represents itself to be the world’s leading Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) focused digital maritime platform, providing expertise in global safety, sustainability, and social responsibility practices.  Consequently, we were confident they would be the...

In this episode we have the pleasure of speaking with Max Boby’s once again, Max leads Hudson Cyber , a division of HudsonAnalytix.   Hudson has 30 years’ experience in the US oil spill response space and now see many parallels between oil spill response and the ever-evolving needs for a well structured and supported cyber response plan for vessels entering US waters.   They recently launched thei...

The depth of analytical insight and provision of ‘actionable intelligence' in the maritime domain has evolved considerably over the last few years. This has been made possible by the availability and accessibility of data sources and the involvement of data scientists and machine learning engineers to make sense of it. In this episode of Shoreline’s Maritime Risk Podcast , Shoreline consultant Nic...

Every Quarter, the Mission to Seafarers asks crew serving on vessels around the globe how they feel about their lives at sea. Covering their experiences onboard and the things that matter to them, from connectivity to wages. workload to welfare, training, shore leave to health, diet and interactions onboard. The Seafarers Happiness Index gives insight into the way those at sea feel, and the reason...

Introduction: In this episode, we focus on the intersection of geopolitical, socioeconomic, and cyber risk.  We ask leading risk experts, how the intersectionality of these three macro risk factors impacts the safe operation of ships at sea today? We discuss the motivations behind cyber-attacks, in particular nation state espionage and ransomware attacks?  And; finally, we gain a better understand...

Recently, Shoreline CEO Captain Thomas Brown has noted a spate of MARPOL violation cases in the US and pondered whether much has changed in the intervening 25 years since he was last at sea? In this podcast we will attempt to answer this question with the expert assistance of George Chalos , founding partner of the US maritime the law firm CHALOS & Co . George will hopefully bring us up to date wi...

In the first year that the Bank of England has agreed to include a maritime realistic disaster scenario into its general insurance stress test, the University of Plymouth’s Maritime Cyber Threats Research Group was asked to propose an appropriate maritime cyber stress test.   The stress test proposed concerns threat actors gaining access to the bridge systems of commercial seagoing vessels and com...

Bitesize Risk Podcast  Welcome to this the 12th episode, in the series of Shoreline’s Maritime Risk podcasts.  Today, your host Captain Thomas Brown has the pleasure of speaking with Antonio “Johnny” Martinelli.  Johnny came to our attention when he appeared in this year’s Maritime Cyber Conference, ‘Hack the Port’ in Florida.  Johnny is currently the Director of Cybersecurity Training with the Gr...

In this bitsize episode Shoreline discusses a malware at sea attack with Cyber Owl’s CEO – Daniel Ng . Cyber Owl provides maritime cyber security monitoring services, in this episode, we hear how Cyber Owl detected a malware attack on a number of vessels within a shipowner’s fleet whilst at sea. Daniel walks us through the process of detection, confinement and neutralization of the malicious code...

Episode 10 is brought to you by myself Captain Thomas Brown who will be in conversation with Max Bobys.  Max leads Hudson Cyber, a division of HudsonAnalytix. Hudson are a company Shoreline has a long relationship with, dating back to the early days of OPA 90 and the requirement for QI and OSRO services. In more recent times Shoreline has welcomed Max’s input when developing Shoreline’s insurance...

In this episode, we check in with AcrisureRe's Cyber Practice Leader Tom Quy. Tom provides a thorough explanation of the current cyber insurance market dynamics, how the cyber threat is evolving and what his means for buyers of maritime cyber insurance.

Host: Captain Thomas Brown CEO Shoreline Guest: Anthony Hess CEO Asceris Intel’s legendary co-founder and former CEO Andy Grove put it best when he said, “Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid will survive.” When a shipping company measures success by its historical ability to avoid a cyber-attack, it becomes complacent and ever more prone to attack. Only by bei...

Shoreline’s Cyber consultant Nick Taylor we will be speaking to Julian Clark.  Julian is the Global Senior Partner at Ince and Co. and also heads up Ince Maritime’s new cyber initiative. The time to speak about the legal and insurance issues as they relate to maritime cyber risk has never felt more prescient than it does today. With the exclusion of silent cyber risk from property and liability po...

The shipping and commodities industries have found themselves at the forefront of sanctions developments in recent months.   As the United States continues its campaign of sanctions against Iran, North Korea, Syria and Venezuela, the Office of Foreign Assets Control or ‘OFAC’, is increasing the pressure on the maritime and commodities industries to require sanctions compliance. My name is Nick Mad...

Facilitation payments have long been the scourge of the port visit for the deep-sea master. The outstretched hand, the muffled request; that sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach when you realise you have no option but to facilitate the permission needed for ship operations to progress smoothly and unencumbered.   It's the asymmetry of the risk versus remedy equation that has taxed the consci...

Just before midnight on October 3rd 2020, the ten year old, Maltese flagged, Greek owned, Aframax tanker - MV Syra suffered an explosion and damage to her forward section, whilst taking on crude at the Bir Ali crude single buoy mooring system, located in central Yemeni waters. The explosion was thought to have been caused by a sea mine or floating improvised explosive device.  Today Shoreline’s Ca...

According to the UN Refugee Agency, some 40,000 people have attempted to cross from North Africa to Europe in 2020 alone, the size of this humanitarian crisis is further compounded when we learn that 400 of these migrants are reported to have lost their lives when making this dangerous journey.    The legal complexities of migrant rescue involves the application of international conventions and mu...

The volume of data available in the world is growing exponentially; according to recent predictions by International Data Corporation, the amount of data created worldwide in 2025 will be ten times what it was in 2017.  Increased digitalisation of the shipping industry is an inevitability. The consumption of data analytics to gain deeper maritime domain awareness is on the increase. Indeed Shoreli...

On the 4th of July, 2019, the Iranian tanker Grace One was detained by UK forces in Gibraltar on suspicion of EU sanction violations and on the 19th of July a British flag tanker, the Stena Impero was detained by Iran's Islamic revolutionary guard Corps. Track forward to August 2020, and we find Iranian forces once again, boarding another vessel this time a Liberian flag tanker, the MV Wila.  Are...