The ship.energy podcast

Martin Crawford-Brunt, CEO of Lookout Maritime, returns to the ship.energy podcast to discuss his work with the Baltic Exchange and ship owners on implementing the Carbon Intensity Indicator and shipping’s entry to the EU’s emission trading scheme. Martin and Mark Williams discuss ‘the good, the bad and the ugly’ elements of the CII and how it could take two more years of adjustments for it to wor...

On this week’s ship.energy podcast, Alberto Llopis Pascual of bound4blue talks to Mark Williams about the company’s rigid sail technology and its energy/emissions saving benefits – as well as the all-important ROI. He also considers the take-up of wind technology so far and outlines his hopes for its future. Alberto is Lead Aerodynamics Engineer at bound4blue where he is responsible for the aerody...

Our first podcast guests in March are Elissama Menezes, a climate and shipping consultant and the Global Director of the Say No to LNG campaign, and Dr Melissa Lem, a Vancouver-based physician who is President of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment. Elissama has ‘field experience’ as a deckhand working and living in a vessel designed to be a green ship, running primarily on...

This week, Steven Jones, Founder of the Seafarers Happiness Index, talks to Mark Williams about the training requirements for new low and zero carbon fuels. As seafarers recover from the difficulties of the pandemic, deal with the threat to their roles from autonomy, and cope with geopolitical uncertainty and conflict, how are they responding to the debate about decarbonisation?  Listen to this co...

This week, Ben Murray, CEO of Maritime UK, talks to Mark Williams about the organisation’s engagement with environmental issues – one of its five priorities, its cooperation with overseas industry associations, and the ways in which it can leverage industry concerns into government policy discussions. Maritime UK is the umbrella body for the maritime sector, bringing together the shipping, ports,...

In this week’s ship.energy podcast, Siri Khalsa, Founder and CEO of Stance Advocacy Services and a member of the board of directors of the Monaco Hydrogen Alliance, discusses the ambitions of the not-for-profit Association and explains how its members are working  to promote the use of green hydrogen in land, air, and maritime transportation, including through the Monaco Prize for Innovation in Re...

In this week’s ship.energy podcast, Mark Williams catches up again with Jason Miles, CEO of Quadrise Fuels International, along with energy and mobility consultant Vick Boiten Lee, who provided input on Quadrise’s 2022 Sustainability Report. In this conversation, Jason and Vicky discuss the methodology behind the report and they explain how and why they have applied ESG principles throughout the c...

The first ship.energy podcast guest of 2023 is Philip Goedkoop, CEO of Oilchart International, an Amsterdam-Rotterdam-Antwerp (ARA) marine fuels company. He joined Oilchart in May 2022 as CEO with a specific focus on the development of biofuel as a bunker fuel. In this conversation with Mark Williams, Philip looks at the sourcing, blending, storage and delivery of marine biofuels. He also addresse...

This week’s ship.energy podcast – and the last of 2022 – features Jacob Armstrong, a sustainable shipping officer at Brussels-based NGO Transport & Environment (T&E). As Europe’s ‘Fit for 55’ package of measures moves ever closer to final adoption, in this timely discussion Jacob offers his perspectives on shipping’s inclusion in the EU’s Emissions Trading System (ETS), the IMO’s progress...

In this week’s podcast, Dipak Mistry, Director of Commercial Partnerships at Ceres, explains the contribution that solid oxide fuel cells can make to shipping in terms of efficiency gains and emissions reduction. Dipak joined Ceres in 2021 as Director of Commercial Partnerships, responsible for establishing strategic partnerships in new and emerging markets for Ceres’ fuel cell and electrolyser te...

On this week’s ship.energy podcast, Mark Williams talks to Sandi Ennor, President and CEO of Transparensea Fuels, LLC. The conversation covers upcoming CII and EEXI regulations, demand for new shipping fuels, the energy landscape and climate policies in the US and, in the light of Sandi’s choice of name for her company, the rate of progress on achieving transparency in the shipping and bunker indu...

This week’s ship.energy podcast features Andy Erlam, Executive Chairman of Carbon Neutral Petrol Ltd, a UK-based start-up which markets its own patented synthetic fuel production process. In the podcast, Andy discusses CNPL’s activities, the rationale behind synthetic fuels and which they think has the best chance of success, and how fuel producers can deal with the extensive technical and cost is...

This week’s ship.energy podcast features Steve Esau, COO of SEA-LNG, and Bruno Piga, Research Consultant at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Steve and Bruno discuss the findings of their recently published report,  Comparing the future demand for, supply of, and life-cycle emissions from bio, synthetic, and fossil LNG marine fuels in the European Union.  The study which was commissio...

This week’s ship.energy podcast guest is Elisabeth Munck af Rosenschöld who takes the lead on sustainability in IKEA’s Supply Chain Operations, based in Switzerland. She discusses the work IKEA has done to calculate and reduce its carbon footprint across its supply chain, as well as the role of a charterer and the importance of maritime stakeholder partnerships in facilitating and delivering trans...

A new study by UCL Energy Institute researchers has determined that the world’s growing fleet of ships that can run on LNG could potentially be at risk of asset value losses of $850 billion by 2030. In this week’s ship.energy podcast, Mark Williams talks to the report’s co-authors, Marie Fricaudet, a PhD student at the University College London (UCL) and Tristan Smith, Associate Professor at UCL E...

On this week’s podcast, Jason Miles, CEO of Quadrise Fuels International, discusses the development of Quadrise’s MSAR emulsion fuels and outlines the benefits of their use compared to ‘traditional’ heavy fuel oil and gasoil. He also explains how the MSAR offering can contribute to IMO 2030 emission reduction targets. Jason spent the first 12 years of his career developing emulsified fuels project...

In this week’s podcast, Erno Tenhunen, Managing Director of Danfoss Editron, discusses the role of electrification in shipping’s energy transition. He explains the company’s work on the Horizon 2020 E ferry project to electrify a ferry operating on the regional route between Søby and Fynshav in Denmark and considers the importance of industry collaboration in such initiatives. He also offers his p...

In this edition of the podcast, Carole Plessy, Head of Maritime Commercial Development at OneWeb, explains how predictive analytics can deliver value to shipowners in terms of managing opex and maintenance costs. She also looks at how digital services can assist in emissions reduction and considers how the shipping industry is stepping up to meet its ESG responsibilities. OneWeb is a global commun...

This week’s podcast guest is Anthony Mollet, who became the first Executive Officer of the newly formed Marine Fuels Alliance (MFA) in October 2021.  Mollet has over 20 years’ experience in the bunkering industry having started in Shell Trading as a buyer for the global fleet. He has also managed GAC Bunker Fuels, GAC UK’s Ship Agency network, Top Fenders, a Ship-To-Ship business operating in West...

In this week’s podcast Guillaume le Grand, founder and CEO of TransOceanic Wind Transport (TOWT), discusses how the French company is looking backwards to move forwards on the decarbonisation of shipping by building sailing cargo ships to carry goods across the world’s oceans. Earlier this year, the company contracted shipbuilder Piriou to build its first of its 80-metre Phoenix Class vessels. Sch...

In this edition of the podcast, Mark Williams talks to Valentina Keys, Senior Associate at Watson Farley and Williams about the latest developments in the European Union's work to bring shipping into its Emission Trading Scheme.  Their conversation covers the new start date and wider scope agreed in Strasbourg as well as the impact on EU and non-EU ship owners. They also discuss the parallel MEPC...

In this week’s ship.energy podcast, Jesse Fahnestock of the Global Maritime Forum explains the concept of Green Shipping Corridors. Introduced in the Clydebank Declaration launched at COP26 in Glasgow last year, these corridors are intended to bring together actors from across the value chain to get shipping to the point where it actively adopts low and zero carbon technologies in a competitive co...

In this week’s ship.energy podcast, Mark Williams talks to Mads Bjørnebye, Manager of Bunker Services at Teekay. Mads discusses ship operators’ varying routes to compliance for EEXI and CII and how annual emission reductions are required to be 1.42% from this year and every year to hit the IMO’s 2050 targets. He looks at the agenda for the forthcoming Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC...

In this week’s ship.energy podcast, Mark Williams talks to Marcus Schaerer, General Manager of Technical Services at Shell Marine.  Marcus explains Shell’s innovative approaches to engine monitoring technology and outlines the company’s vision for marine fuel and lubricants in a multi-energy future. He also discusses energy demand – in the decades ahead and, importantly, in the run-up to 2030. Bas...