Wavelength Plus: A podcast by TradeWinds

Jotaro Tamura, president and chief executive, MOL Lines talks to TradeWinds senior editor Craig Eason during the recent Tokyo Shipowners Forum about the groups increased investment in LNG (hint: data centres and energy security the need to still look at the transition and the need for cleantech solutions and how the Japanese conglomerate must tread a geopolitical tightrope at times. A TradeWinds/...

This is the third and final episode of a three part podcast series looking at the role venture capital is playing in shipping industry Marina Hadjipateras explains why she did not focus on shipping and maritime when she co-founded TMV, despite coming from a renown ship owning family. The discussion also looks at the role global uncertainty is playing in the industry and those start-ups that can pl...

Venture capital fund creators Joshua Gold, Krishnan Naravanan and Kate Danaher discuss the expectations of start-up founders in this second of three episodes of this Wavelength Plus mini series. Do founders believe their businesses can become valued at two billion dollars if there is a global fleet of 200,000 ships? A key requirements can be that startups have potential in adjacent industries like...

The must listen to episode about investing in innovation and change in shipping and maritime. Part one In this unique round the world deep dive talk recorded specifically for TradeWinds Wavelength Plus subscribers, five venture experts offer their insights on capital flows towards today's innovations and bright ideas. Guests Joshua Gold from TMV in New York, Kate Danaher from the Oceans Invest...

In August a fully laden VLCC ( a supertanker for the non shipping folk reading this) arrived off the US East coast and found itself being boarded by US coastguard officials and FBI investigators. They boarded because they suspected the vessel had been subject to a potential major cyber hack that that rendered parts of its engine or machinery inoperative. The general media only heard about this in...

What makes a news story? How do you talk to the press — and what do you do when things go wrong? This special episode of the Wavelength podcast comes in conjunction with YoungShip in Oslo as part of last week's Oslo Ocean Days events. It was recorded in front of an audience of YoungShip members, who had a chance to quiz TradeWinds journalists Matt Coyne and Holly Birkett, along with casualty lawye...

This is the closing keynote speech given by Leif Hoegh at the Headline conference of the Oslo Ocean Days. The story of Hoegh is one that summarises what shipping is all about, he says in this recording. He points to the fact that the family company has accumulated capital only over about 20% of the last 100 years, with the rest of the time “treading water or wasting capital”. But he says the compa...

This conversation was recorded before the audience of the TradeWinds Shipowner Forum, during SMM in Hamburg on September 1st 2026 For details of TradeWinds shipowner forums and other high level events visit the events website . International Maritime Organization secretary general Arsenio Dominguez talks to TradeWinds editor in chief Julian Bray about the situation in the Gulf, the threat of fees...

This episode comes from the halls of SMM, the shipbuilding, machinery and marine trade show in Hamburg, Germany. Everllence, once known as MAN Energy Services, Man Diesel and Turbo, MAN W&W (Burmeister and Wain) os simply Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg is one of the oldest and largest engine makers in shipping. The name Everllence came as its parent group, Volkswagen Group, looked to sell a...

After making a big deal about its belief that green ammonia is the future fuel for shipping, Oslo-listed and based Hoegh Autoliners has just placed an order for a further 12 vessels to be built to be fuelled by LNG and diesel. It is a move that suggests it may not believe in its green objectives anymore, afterall its previous orderbook was for 12 of its new "Aurora" class vessels, with the latter...

Each month until October, TradeWinds will publish a profile of a finalist in our Guiding Stars series, a project highlighting the people making tangible change in shipping. Our seventh Guiding Stars finalist is Evangelos Efstathiou, chief executive of digital platforms Marsoft and Burmester & Vogel (B&V) and founder of Skysail Advisors. Evan has been deeply entrenched in the maritime tech...

LNG shipping can be something of a conservative, risk-averse sector. So to learn that the first mover on a new three-tank vessel design was BW LNG surprised some in the sector. In this episode of Wavelength+, TradeWinds correspondent Lucy Hine, who has a focus on LNG, sat down with three senior executives from the company to hear about the new vessel and why the company had opted to make the move....

The shipping industry is taking the potential of nuclear power seriously. In this second deep dive into its developments we look at the liability regimes, government involvement, indemnity needs and finance. Modular reactor developers are promising a new age of clean concentrated power which is chaper and safer than critics claim For shipping this may be one answer to its energy transition. Hear f...

For many shipping executives, ships are assets. For Emily Koo, they can feel more like family. In this episode of Wavelength+, TradeWinds China correspondent Huaqing Ma sits down with the fourth-generation managing director of TCC Group, whose roots trace back to Shanghai in 1917. Koo reflects on growing up aboard company vessels, learning from seafarers who later became her mentors, and why spott...

Cetus Maritime is a Hong Kong-based operator focused on the minor bulk market. Like many shipping companies, it has spent recent years navigating geopolitical disruption, shifting trade patterns and growing regulatory complexity. Chief operating officer Olivia Lennox-King believes the industry is operating outside traditional shipping cycles, with wars, sanctions and political risk increasingly in...

In this episode TradeWinds Finance guru Joe Brady sits down and talks to one of Greece's, and the US shipping markets. most well known shipowners, George Economou. In this candid interview Economou is taken back to the beginning when he decided he wanted to invest in shipping, to the rollercoaster ride of DryShips public listing and the attempt at Genco. The conversation between Joe Brady and Geor...

A conversation between TradeWinds editor in chief Julian Bray and Evangelos Marinakis, owner of Capital Group taken from the Greece Shipowners Forum during this years Posidonia. TradeWinds subscribers can get more context and insight here: Marinakis voices VLCC confidence and applauds ‘brilliant’ Sinokor-Aponte strike Strait of Hormuz toll may be a price worth paying, says Evangelos Marinakis Posi...

Three months into the disruption around the Strait of Hormuz, Hong Kong-based Anglo-Eastern Ship Management has 16 ships and around 360 crew members operating inside the Gulf. In this Wavelength+ episode, Anglo-Eastern chief executive Bjorn Hojgaard and group managing director for operations and shared services Swapnodeep Mondal speak to TradeWinds China correspondent Huaqing Ma in the company’s f...

Sophisticated cyber attacks are no longer the work of well funded state actors. Thanks to artificial intelligence they can be carried out by almost anyone. The increased tie up between a ship owner's IT system and a vessel's onboard operational technology, coupled with powerful AI models, is worrying experts. Hackers no longer just seek to phish for data and then hold systems to ransom, they may s...

Each month until October, TradeWinds will publish a profile of a finalist in our Guiding Stars series, a project highlighting the people making change in shipping. Our fourth Guiding Stars finalist is Kuet Ee Yoon, a former Singapore Navy officer who has spent decades across naval operations, offshore shipping, maritime heritage and safety advocacy in Singapore. The 67-year-old maritime veteran di...

Laura DiBella became the chairman of the Federal Maritime Commission, the US agency that regulates international shipping, in January. She has already taken steps in her new role that are fairly new for FMC leaders, such as rejecting container operators' requests to raise rates amid the Strait of Hormuz crisis and playing a visible role in the US delegation at the International Maritime Organ...

The Poseidon Principles are a set of requirements for signatories, all financial institutions engaged in shipping, to collect and report climate risks of their portfolios and investments. While it does not have any regulatory teeth it has undoubtedly become a motivation for banks to look at their books. Paul Taylor, head of maritime industries at French financial giant Societe Generale, took up th...

In this episode of Wavelength Plus, TradeWInds editor in chief Julian Bray talks leadership strategies with Cyril Ducau, chief executive of Eastern Pacific Shipping The recording is form the TradeWinds Shipowners Forum in Singapore on April 21st 2026 in front of a live audience of shipowners and other leading industry executives More details about TradeWinds leading events portfolio can be found o...

Greek/British shipowner Lomar Shipping has a fleet of about 30 ships. In 2022 it decided it wanted to look at new technologies that offer environmental or crew welfare improvements while making economic sense. It launched Lomar Labs as a project in 2022 and formalised it as a business in 2023. Lomar Shipping technical director Stylianos Papageorgiou was brought in to run the startup investor as it...

As Carl-Antoine Saverys, chief executive of Belgium gas carrier owner Exmar headed off to South Korea to name two new ammonia-fuelled gas carriers he spoke to TradeWInds Lucy Hine about the vessels, plans for deployment, and his belief in green ammonia as a maritime fuel He also outlines the work to make sure regulation for future fuels needs to be simple to apply and not overly complicated, and h...