Wavelength Plus: A podcast by TradeWinds

Eneti and Cadeler have agreed to merge in a deal that will create the biggest owner of wind turbine installation vessels. This week’s episode explores how this deal highlights the growing tightness in the market for these vessels that make the buildout of the offshore wind industry possible. We hear from Cadeler chief executive Mikkel Gleerup, Rystad Energy senior analyst Martin Lysne and Nicola T...

With shipping gearing up to join the European Union’s Emissions Trading System at the start of next year, TradeWinds took to the stage at Nor-Shipping to discuss how the industry will have to navigate carbon markets. Our panel of experts is made up of Trafigura head of wet freight Andrea Olivi; Klaveness Combination Carriers chief executive Engebret Dahm; Frederic Bouthillier, head of shipping at...

We explore how long-held commercial structures like voyage charter and time charter contracts contain features that can get in the way of reducing fuel consumption and emissions in shipping. We hear from Nautilus Labs chief executive Matt Heider, Altera Infrastructure chief executive Ingvild Saether, Wallenius Wilhelmsen chief executive Lasse Kristoffersen and Copenhagen Commercial Platform chief...

A fast-growing cadre of companies in the ocean industries is looking to capitalise on a new trade: shipping carbon and pumping it back below the seabed whence it came. This week’s episode brings you a conversation on the Ocean Stage at Nor-Shipping with Knutsen NYK Carbon Carriers chief executive Anders Lepsoe, Altera Infrastructure government relations advisor Anders Melhus and Panos Koutsourakis...

As shipping faces pressure to tackle its greenhouse gas emissions, will it be shipowners, charterers or another stakeholder who’s going to pay the cost of going green? For an answer, we listen in to the TradeWinds Shipowners Forum Singapore. TradeWinds editor-in-chief Julian Bray moderates a discussion with NYK Line’s Masahiro Takahashi, Mitsui OSK Lines’ Nobuo Shiotsu, Global Centre for Maritime...

Major container liner operators are charting a variety of pathways to adopting alternative fuels. In this week’s Green Seas podcast, TradeWinds’ container shipping correspondent Ian Lewis explains how LNG and methanol have each had a liner giant that served as a leader before others followed. We also hear from Lloyd’s Register chief executive Nick Brown and Pacific Environment climate campaign dir...

A group of nations at the International Maritime Organization have warned of the risk of an spill from tankers transferring oil at sea while masking their location to avoid sanctions. To explore the environmental dangers, Green Seas talks to United Against Nuclear Iran’s Claire Jungman, Windward’s Ami Daniel and NorthStandard’s Mike Salthouse. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more inform...

Car carrier operators are enjoying a strong market, but in first quarter earnings reports, they pointed to one problem: efforts in Australia to prevent stink bugs from entering the country. This week’s episode explains why stringent biosecurity measure are trying to stop invasive species from entering the country on ships. In this episode, we hear from Wallenius Wilhelmsen chief executive Lasse Kr...

The amount of data that we collect about the ocean and the climate above the 70% of the earth that it covers is small piece of the trillion gigabytes of data humans collect every year. Some companies in the ocean industries are taking action, but more are needed. We talk to Tim Janssen of Sofar Ocean, Paul Holthus and Bill Staby of the World Ocean Council and Simon Bennett of Swire Shipping. Your...

After last week’s parliamentary approval of a law that will include shipping in the EU Emissions Trading System, we look at what is effectively a carbon tax. In this episode, we hear from European Parliament president Roberta Metsola, Transport & Environment’s Faig Abbasov, SSY’s James Ash and Watson Farley & Williams’ Nick Walker. Also, Opportunity Green’s Aoife O’Leary explains why the Internati...

Environmentalists are increasingly calling for shipping to abandon LNG as a marine fuel as the industry looks to decarbonise, arguing that methane is to great a contributor to climate change. But LNG proponents argue that the fuel is an alternative fuel that is available and that efforts to reduce methane emissions are under way. We dig into the debate with Peter Keller and Steve Esau of SEA-LNG,8...

The United Nations is mounting an effort to prevent a catastrophic oil spill from a tanker in the Red Sea. We talk to David Gressly, the resident humanitarian coordinator for the UN in Yemen, and IR Concilium chief executive Ian Ralby. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tech companies are developing batteries that can be exchanged each time they need a charge as a way to make electric shipping more viable. We talk to Shift Clean Energy’s Brent Perry and Seas at Risk’s Lucy Gilliam. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Green Seas visits the Seatrade Cruise Global conference, where emissions were a major topic. But while the cruise sector touts its efforts to tackle greenhouse gas emissions and seeks access to new fuels, questions remain over its use of LNG as an alternative fuel. We hear from MSC Cruises’ Pierfrancesco Vago, CLIA’s Kelly Craighead, Carnival’s Josh Weinstein and William Burke, International Counc...

At our Green Seas Fuels Forum, an audience question about nuclear power sparked a debate over whether it is a safe and effective way to tackle the industry’s greenhouse gas emissions. We hear from Core Power’s Mikal Boe, Carnival Corp’s William Burke, Cargill’s Eman Abdalla, Star Bulk Carriers’ Hamish Norton, Webber Research & Advisory’s Michael Webber, Tufton’s Nikos Petrakakos,Macquarie’s Morten...

At Green Seas’ first live event, we talked to shipowners, charterers and operators who are among the first movers in using methanol as a maritime fuel. Cargill’s Eman Abdalla, Waterfront Shipping’s Paul Hexter and Vale’s Rodrigo Bermelho talk about prospects for sourcing greener versions of the alternative fuel. We also hear from Kendra Ulrich of Stand.earth about how she believes retail brands th...

The International Chamber of Shipping wants the industry’s global regulator to adopt a levy on carbon as early as next year. We talk to deputy secretary general Simon Bennett about why the group wants to go so fast. We also hear from University of Oslo’s professor Erik Rosaeg and Zero Emissions Ship Technology Association secretary general Madadh MacLaine. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy fo...

Carbon capture and storage is becoming an increasingly important solution for industries to tackle greenhouse gas emissions, but it will take a new class of vessels to ship it around the world. We talk to two companies that are preparing to move CO2 by sea. We hear from Baris Dolek of Northern Lights and Jasper Heikens of EcoLog. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If made with renewable electricity, e-fuels offer the prospect of zero-carbon shipping fuels, including green hydrogen, ammonia and methanol. But right now, they are in short supply and very expensive. We hear from Dorothe Gortz of HPC Hamburg Port Consulting, Andreas Kopf and Matteo Craglia of the International Transport Forum, and David Dupont-Mouritzen of HOST PtX Esbjerg. Hosted on Acast. See...

Ammonia is tantalising as a shipping fuel because it has no carbon, but the first vessels planned for 2026 are just one step in a longer journey. We talk to Robert Tustin of Lloyd’s Register, Brian Ostergaard Sorensen of MAN Energy Solutions and Christos Chryssakis of DNV. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Biofuels are proving an easy way to cut the well-to-wake greenhouse gas footprint of existing ships, but demand for them is limited amid high costs. We speak to Cargill’s Olivier Josse, Eagle Bulk Shipping’s Jonathan Dowsett and Quadrise Fuels International’s Jason Miles to understand the role biofuels will play in shipping’s decarbonisation journey. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more...

When a global sulphur cap was imposed on shipping in 2020, technology stepped in to allow companies to take the pollutant out of vessels’ ship exhaust. Will carbon capture play the same role as the industry grapples with greenhouse gas emissions? We hear from Sigurd Jenssen, director of exhaust gas cleaning systems at Wartsila, and Georgios Plevrakis, vice president of global sustainability at Ame...

As shipping grapples with its greenhouse gas emissions, industry stakeholders often point to the higher carbon content of low-sulphur fuels brought in to comply with the global IMO 2020 regulation three years ago. Green Seas talks to International Council on Clean Transportation researcher Bryan Comer about why the regulation didn’t hike shipping’s carbon emissions. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/...

While the International Maritime Organization debated carbon cuts last week, a lower-profile discussions saw environmentalist groups ask for a ban on devices aimed at tackling sulphur And they argued that the exception that allowed scrubbers to serve as a way to keep using heavy fuel oil after the 2020 global sulphur cap conflicts with another international convention: the UN Law of the Sea. We he...

If most countries at the International Maritime Organization are in favour of a zero-carbon target for shipping, why was the UN shipping regulator unable to agree to that this week? This week’s podcasts explores the positions of some of the 10 nations that are holding back. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.