The ship.energy podcast

This week’s ship.energy podcast guest is Jesper Bo Hansen, the recently appointed Chief Revenue Officer at Danish vessel optimisation specialist Zero North.   Prior to joining ZeroNorth at the start of 2022, Jesper was the Managing Director of Maersk Broker Advisory Services, where he set up a consultancy on climate affairs for shipping companies, investors and lenders.    He has also held leaders...

This week’s podcast guest is Patrick Ryan, Senior Vice President – Engineering and Technology for ABS. In his discussion with Mark Williams, Patrick gives his perspective on the role of Class in shipping’s decarbonisation. With a strong background in digital innovation, he also considers how digital advances – such as simulation technology – will play a role in addressing maritime’s energy challen...

On this week’s ship.energy podcast, Mark Williams is in conversation with Sjoerd de Jager , MD of the port call optimisation software specialist, PortXchange, and Adina Fenton , Business Development Director of the data and analytics company Windward. The focus of the discussion is on how digitalisation is optimising and streamlining port and vessel operations, thereby delivering more transparency...

This week’s ship.energy podcast guest is Roger Strevens, VP, Global Sustainability at Wallenius Wilhelmsen. In discussion with Mark Williams, Roger explains the company’s approach to decarbonisation, including its ‘Lean Green’ strategy. He also looks at the impact of the energy transition on the liner sector, offers an overview of the company’s projects involving wind technology, and considers how...

This week’s ship.energy podcast guest is Robin Byde, an equity research analyst who works for a leading independent investment bank in the London market, Zeus Capital. Robin gives his perspectives on investor attitudes to transport decarbonisation and, looking more closely at the shipping sector, he considers whether ESG concerns could be advantageous for shipping companies seeking investment. He...

This week’s ship.energy podcast guest is Martin Crawford Brunt, CEO at Lookout Maritime. He talks to Mark Williams about Lookout Maritime, which he set up last year to contribute towards sustainable business practices in the maritime industry, and he also identifies the particular challenges facing the maritime industry at this point in the energy transition Martin is well known in the industry. H...

In this week’s podcast, Mark Williams and Di Gilpin discuss the ways in which technological innovation can make a difference today, and how wind power is future proof and can survive the energy transition. They also take in a review of COP26 maritime events and the challenges innovators face when raising venture capital. 

Our next ship.energy podcast guest is Antoon van Coillie, CEO of Zulu Associates, who discusses his company’s work in the area of autonomous and zero emission shipping. Zulu is a Belgian firm which describes itself as an ‘initiator, developer and operator of innovations in the marine component of logistic chains.’ It has two main business arms: Blue Line Logistics and Anglo Belgian Shipping Compan...

Our next podcast guest, offering her perspectives on some of the themes and conversations coming out of COP 26, is Natalie Gupta, Director of Bunkering – Value Chain Partnerships, at Yara Clean Ammonia. In discussion with Mark Williams, Natalie gives an overview of Yara’s operations and introduces the company’s newly established business unit, Yara Clean Ammonia. She also talks about ammonia as a...

Our next podcast guest is Simon Tarrant, Director, Commercial Engine Lubricants, Large Engines, at the specialty chemical provider, Lubrizol. In conversation with Mark Williams, Simon offers his insights on shipping’s decarbonisation challenges and also explains Lubrizol’s key role in developing additives used in marine lubricants, not only for today’s range of bunker fuel grades but also for the...

In this ship.energy podcast, Gavin Allwright, Secretary General of the International Windship Association (ISWA), explains why he is such a passionate advocate for the use of wind propulsion for commercial shipping worldwide. ISWA has just announced its campaign, ‘The decade of wind propulsion.’ The Association is a forum for all industry stakeholders, experts, academics and NGO supporters in the...

Our next COP 26 podcast guest is Steven Lua, CEO and Founder of Unitrove Group – and a recent contributor to September’s virtual ship.energy summit. Unitrove’s mission statement tells it like it is: To create a virtuous world for the next thousand generations powered entirely by clean, reliable and affordable energy.  An ambitious ambition. In conversation with Mark Williams, Steven looks at the I...

Aoife O’Leary is a lawyer and economist who has been working on climate change for many years, and has just started her own organisation, Opportunity Green, to continue that journey. In the first of ship.energy ’s series of podcasts focussing on the key challenges and issue to be debated at COP 26, Aoife explains how her new venture will address shipping’s decarbonisation by identifying and unlock...

This week, Rachel Hoyland, shipping lawyer and Senior Associate, Hill Dickinson, returns to ship.energy to explore a sometimes overlooked theme in shipping’s decarbonisation – downsizing or, to put it another way, decarbonising by default. In conversation with ship.energy ’s Mark Williams, Rachel picks up the threads of a talk she gave in advance of London International Shipping Week . ( https://b...

In this week’s ship.energy podcast, Harold Malone, Principal of Sea/Switch Partners and a seasoned shipping finance and operational leader, discusses whether ship owners need to change their traditional approach to financing ships as the industry decarbonises. Will they, for example have to become more ‘corporate’ in their operations? In conversation with Mark Williams, Harold talks about the Mari...

In this week’s podcast, John Phillips of Awyr Las joins Mark Williams to discuss the challenges around organisational structure, skills and knowledge development during shipping’s energy transition; why Maersk’s methanol solution may not wash for other ship operators; and why innovation in marine fuels continues to generate unexpected opportunities. 

Alex is a PhD researcher at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford, where his research focuses on the identification and transmission of fossil-fuel related economic risks in the public sector, and how governments and their agents should respond to these risks, with a focus on China.  Alex supports Oxford's engagement with China through the Economics of Energy Inn...

This week’s podcast guest is Rashpal Bhatti, VP, Maritime and Supply Chain Excellence at the Anglo-Australian multinational mining, metals and petroleum company, BHP. Recently announced as a director at the Maritime Decarbonisation Centre in Singapore, where BHP is one of the founding members, Rashpal discusses how BHP is already approaching the challenge of reducing the carbon impact of transport...

Titan LNG is a leading LNG fuel supplier, experienced in truck-to-ship and ship-to-ship refuelling across the world. Titan’s fleet of FlexFueller LNG barges operate in the ARA region and in addition to these Titan operates chartered LNG carriers globally. As Commercial Director Marine, Michael Schaap leads the development of the marine and bunkering proposition for Titan LNG. Michael has an extens...

In this week’s podcast Jay Goodgal, MD of Castalia Partners Ltd, New York, tackles the tough questions about investing in shipping. How can an investor find value in today’s shipping market with such uncertainty about future regulations? Are ESG scorecards useful – and are they being used? How is the Biden Administration measuring up in terms of its environmental policy? And, perhaps the most diff...

In this week’s podcast, Mark Williams is joined by Mathieu Philippe, Commercial Director, Marine Offshore Division, Bureau Veritas. In this wide-ranging discussion, Mathieu explains the contribution that BV is making as a class society in assisting shipping to address and comes up with solutions to the challenge of decarbonisation. Started in 1999 as a trainee at BRS in Paris, Mathieu went to Duba...

This week’s ship.energy podcast focuses on vessel design and retrofit options to meet forthcoming emission regulations. Mark Williams is joined by Jonathan Strachan, Director of Ship Design and Engineering at Houlder Ltd. He and Mark discuss why today is a great time to be a naval architect; how ship owners and designers can future-proof their vessels; financial and other constraints on upgrading...

In his conversation with Mark Williams, Denis Petropoulos, Chairman of the Baltic Exchange, ranges over some original ideas to cut emissions; how the Baltic Exchange might alter its operations in a multi-fuel world; whether a ‘sweet spot’ exists at which  cargo owner bears responsibility for ships’ emissions and their costs while assisting owners with sailing ‘with due despatch’ and what happens t...

This week’s podcast guest is Rachel Hoyland, shipping lawyer and Senior Associate at Hill Dickinson. She provides an incisive and informative legal ‘take’ on the key issues on the decarbonisation agenda. As the call grows for a price to be put on shipping’s GHG emissions, and countries begin to implement their own emissions trading systems, Rachel takes a look at recent regulatory developments. Sh...

This week, Charles Haskell, Decarbonisation Program Manager at Lloyd’s Register, is taking centre stage as ship.energy ’s podcast guest. Class societies are playing a key and proactive role in assisting the shipping industry to meet the massive challenge of decarbonisation and deliver on the IMO’s 2030 and 2050 GHG emission reduction targets. Earlier this week, some of the leading class societies...