Wavelength Plus: A podcast by TradeWinds

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...

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 third Guiding Stars finalist is Dola Oluteye, a senior research fellow in energy and transport policy at University College London’s Energy Institute. She helped represent African nations at the IMO during the 2023 deliberations to...

The dark fleet of sanctioned vessels which transport Russian, Venezuelan and Iranian crude above a given price cap are largely old and pooröy maintained. They are due for scrapping but no cash buyer operating in US dollars wants to touch these vessels, and the reputabe yards will not either. Many yards in India have spent a lot of money in recent years to be come compliant with the standards of th...

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 second Guiding Stars finalist is Scarlett Barnett-Smith, working deck officer and founder of The Scarlett Box. Her company has developed boxes with emergency period products for women working onboard ships, but The Scarlett Box has...

Interest in using nuclear power in shipping has exploded. Whether it is on the argument that there is a need for energy security, clean power or potentially cheaper power, many countries are developing national nuclear programmes. In this first of two episodes, Craig Eason examines the latest developments by talking to start-ups developing new nuclear reactors and why they eye shipping as a market...

Before he joined the shipping business his family is known for, Laurence Odfjell worked with his father to build a unique winery in the Maipo Valley winemaking region in Chile. Odfjell Vineyards has since forged new paths in producing highly-rated, organic wines using biodynamic agriculture in a competitive winemaking country. TradeWinds paid a visit. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for mor...

Each month, TradeWinds will publish a profile of a finalist in our Guiding Stars series, a project highlighting the people working to make shipping’s future brighter. This week, we focus on the first nominee: Odfjell SE chairman Laurence Odfjell. He explains why sustainability is rooted in the Odfjell family’s Norwegian identity and why fuel efficiency is just good business. Hosted on Acast. See a...

V.Group is one of a handful of ship management firms that have been spearheading a significant revamp of the shipping industry. Ship managers are the companies hired by shipowners to operate and manage their vessels and fleets while they focus on other things - like making money. While it is an incredibly fragmented industry, the trend for shipowners to sell off or outsource their ship management...

While marine casualty investigations tend to narrow down their conclusions to a single probable cause, the depth of the probe into the shipping accident that destroyed Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge also uncovered a variety of other safety issues that. And while many weren’t causal, some impacted the container ship Dali’s ability to prevent a catastrophe after its power outage just four minu...

Investigators responding to the shipping accident that destroyed the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore faced a needle-in-a-haystack search. An electrical failure had caused the 9,971-teu Dali (built 2015) to lose power just three ship lengths from the bridge. But the ship’s thousands of wires stretch for miles. Which one caused the problem? In the fourth episode of our Marine Investigatio...

Removing wrecks is an expensive business. And the bill continues to rise as governments and the public demand cleaner, clearer oceans. TradeWinds counts the costs of retrieving stricken ships. by Paul Peachey a TradeWinds/DN Media podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode TradeWinds's Asia correspondent Huaqing Ma talks to John Rowley, chief executive of Hong Kong-based Wallem. Wallem is one of the leading ship managers in the maritime sector. Huaqing and John talk about the challenges of being a modern ship manager in a competitive world and why the company is so closely bonded with Hong Kong. Read Huaqing's full articles here: From combat zones to...