The ship.energy podcast

The first ship.energy podcast in April features Christophe Tytgat, Secretary General, SEA Europe  (Shipyards and Marine Equipment Association) and CESA . Christophe is a professional lobbyist with an extensive network in the European Institutions, in European lobbying associations and in the shipping and transport industry.  He is an expert in European policy and legal matters as well as in shippi...

The EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) and the drivers of the market in EU Allowances (EUAs) are the topics up for discussion in this week’s ship.energy podcast, featuring Arne Lohmann Rasmussen, Chief Analyst and Head of Research at Global Risk Management (GRM), part of Bunker Holding Group. In conversation with Mark Williams, Arne demystifies EUAs and answers some key questions along the way,...

This week, Mark Williams talks to George Haysom, CCO of Idwal, about his role in the strategic development of the company’s offerings to target markets and, more specifically, on the growth of the business’s condition improvement programme, Idwal ID. Mark and George discuss the Idwal ID online service in detail, different user cases, and how environmental, social and governance data can be managed...

Gianni Soglia is the founder and CEO of New Power Energy (NPE), based in Budapest, Hungary.  NPE has developed a chemical process that reportedly captures nearly 100% of CO₂ emissions from fossil fuel combustion, converting the captured CO₂ and other gases into clean energy. With a background in manufacturing and engineering, Gianni discovered this technology by chance while working on another pro...

Fuel cells take centre stage on this week’s ship.energy podcast. In conversation with Mark Williams, Johan Burgren, Business Manager at PowerCell Sweden AB, discusses their role in the decarbonisation of the RoPax and ferry segments – and their potential for scalability. Johan has been with PowerCell since 2017 and before that worked at Volvo from 1998. PowerCell Sweden AB was founded in 2008 as a...

This week’s ship.energy podcast guest is Michael Barnard and in conversation with Mark Williams he discusses his work projecting scenarios for decarbonisation 40-80 years into the future and his recent publications around maritime decarbonisation. Whether it's refuelling aviation, grid storage, vehicle-to-grid, or hydrogen demand, his work is based on the fundamentals of physics, economics and hum...

In the first ship.energy podcast of 2024, Mark Williams talks to Hans Judek, President and CEO of J.E. Access Ltd. Hans discusses his CAMBIO fuel project in which he works with partners from the Americas, Europe and Asia on the conversion of biowaste from agriculture into a synthetic liquid marine fuel with an asphaltic byproduct which captures and stores carbon, thus making the process carbon neg...

Steven Jones returns to the ship.energy podcast this week to discuss the strategic priorities of the Sustainable Shipping Initiative. As its recently appointed CEO, Steven explains how this multi-stakeholder collective is combining policy research with positive actions that its members can make within key focus areas: Oceans, Communities, People, Transparency, Finance, and Energy.  Steven and ship...

This week’s ship.energy podcast features two guests - Toni Stojcevski, General Manager, Project Sales & Development at Wärtsilä, and Tim Scarbrough, Director of Maritime at Ricardo. In conversation with Mark Williams, Toni and Tim discuss the ‘what, where, and when’ in relation to decarbonisation technology and regulations. The discussion covers engine developments, including for dual-fuelled...

This week’s ship.energy podcast guest is Simon Sharpe, Senior Fellow at the World Resources Institute and Director of Economics for the Climate Champions Team. He is the author of ‘Five Times Faster: Rethinking the Science, Economics, and Diplomacy of Climate Change’, which has been longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year 2023. In the podcast, Simon discusses his work and his...

On the ship.energy podcast this week, Mark Williams talks to Claudia Beumer, Global Account Manager at VT Group (Verenigde Tankrederij BV), who discusses the company’s approaches to the energy transition as well as her role as a board member of the International Bunker Industry Association (IBIA) where she participates in a number of working groups. Claudia is a chemical engineer by education, but...

We have a repeat visitor to the ship.energy podcast this week, Aoife O’Leary, founder and CEO of the environmental NGO, Opportunity Green. This time round, however, Aoife is talking about the aims and work of the Skies and Sea Hydrogen-fuels Accelerator (SASHA) Coalition which was established earlier this year to bring together shipping and aviation to ensure that an adequate supply of green hydro...

On the ship.energy podcast this week, Simon Hindley, Managing Director of Solis Marine Engineering, joins Mark Williams to discuss his experience of working with hydrogen, ammonia, electric and methanol fuelled projects and he offers his views on which of these really has the potential to provide the answer to the maritime industry’s future fuel requirements.  Simon is a naval architect with exper...

In this edition of the ship.energy podcast, Mark Williams talks to Danial Kaabi, CEO of Sea Horizon Marine Services about the expansion of the north Field expansion project and whether low carbon technologies were specified for suppliers. With COP 28 to be held in the UAE in November this year, Mark and Danial discuss changing attitudes to the energy transition across the Middle East among governm...

On the ship.energy podcast this week, Mark Williams is conversation with Yuvraj Thakur, Commercial VP for Maritime Transport and the General Manager of Verifavia Technical Services, who explains the role of an independent maritime data verifier– particularly in relation to the upcoming inclusion of shipping in the EU’s Emissions Trading System (ETS). Yuvraj discusses the type of data that ship own...

On this week’s ship.energy podcast, Mark Williams talks to Jimmy Redman, MD of SulNOx Fuel Fusions, and Nawaz Haq, Executive Director of the green tech company which provides solutions towards the decarbonisation of liquid hydrocarbon fuels. Inventor of the SulNOx range of chemistry, Jimmy Redman has four decades of experience in diverse chemical fields from technical printing chemistry, coatings...

In this week’s ship.energy podcast, Tim Smith of MSI considers how changes in global energy consumption out to 2050 might impact global shipping demand. He also addresses the oft-mooted issue of ‘stranded assets’ in the context of the energy transition. Could ships become obsolete – from a technological and regulatory standpoint - before their assumed 25-year lifespan? Tim leads MSI’s oil tanker m...

In a new ship.energy podcast, Danielle Southcott talks to Mark Williams about her ambitions for zero carbon shipping and her role as founder of SAILCARGO INC. and Veer Group (which is nominated for the EarthShot prize). Danielle was named by the Royal Institute of Naval Architects as one of the most influential women of the past century and was listed by The Ocean Opportunity Lab as an inspiration...

In this, the first ship.energy podcast of the week, Michelle Wiese Bockmann, Senior Analyst at Lloyd’s List Intelligence and also Markets Editor at Lloyd’s List, and Mark Williams discuss the recent MEPC 80 meeting at the IMO HQ in London, England. Michelle offers an independent view of progress and roadblocks towards net zero.  Michelle has worked at Lloyd’s List Intelligence/Lloyd’s list since 2...

This week’s ship.energy podcast guest is Dylan Keil Co-Founder and CEO of Bearing, a company which uses its proprietary technology to leverage large amounts of real-world data to generate highly accurate ship performance models. Keil started out as a business analyst for McKinsey (2008-10) and, via number of start-ups, came to Bearing, which was established in mid-2019. Based in Palo Alto, Califor...

Making a return visit to the ship.energy podcast, this week’s guest is Valentina Keys, Senior Associate in the Environment, Health & Safety Team at law firm Watson Farley & Williams.  In conversation with Mark Williams, Valentina assesses the impact of the Carbon Intensity Index (CII), which came into play in January this year. She also looks forward to the discussions and decisions expect...

This week’s ship.energy podcast features Professor Simon Baughen, Professor of Shipping Law at the University of Swansea. In conversation with Mark Williams, Professor Baughen considers the impact of the EU’s ‘Fit for 55’ basket of measures on the shipping sector, including the possibility that shipbuilding contracts may require revision. He looks at the ongoing discussion about altering charterpa...

This week, ship.energy contributing editor Mark Williams is in conversation with Gina Panayiotou, an ESG strategist with a background in maritime law and an MBA focused on change management and ethical leadership. They discuss where decarbonisation sits within an overall ESG strategy as well as the role of P&I clubs in supporting this agenda. Gina has held senior roles, mainly within shipownin...

In this week’s ship.energy podcast, Steve Bee, Group Commercial & Business Development Director for fuel quality testing specialist VPS, discusses the company’s approaches to digitalisation and decarbonisation, including its Core software which enables vessel owners to plan for fleet-wide emissions-reducing initiatives. Steve also talks about marine biofuels and the absence – as yet – of a com...

This week’s ship.energy podcast guest is Madadh MacLaine, the Founder and CEO of Zero Emissions Maritime Technology Ltd (ZEM-Tech) and Secretary-General of the Zero Emissions Ship Technology Association (ZESTAs), which was recently granted consultative status at the International Maritime Organization (IMO). The IMO recognises that 15% of GHG emissions from international shipping result from vesse...