Lloyd's List: The Shipping Podcast

After a two-year frenzy, the container shipping market is showing signs of normalisation. How it will avoid mistakes of the past during a period of slowdown? How does it manage the risk of supply chain resilience? How will it find the efficiencies to steam through near term regulation and long term decarbonisation and how will it address the lingering safety concerns of cargo fires? All the questi...

Shipowners appear to be feeling pretty sanguine about the introduction of new carbon ratings from January 2023. Yes, there might be some slowing down and some retrofitting, but the initial implications are pretty limited. Or are they? Has the industry genuinely understood the implications of CII? Or are the owners suffering from boiled frog syndrome? Roger Strevens, Head of sustainability at Walle...

WHEN people talk about shipping being driven by strong characters, they tend to mean people like Robert Bugbee. The bullish president of Scorpio Tankers is a divisive figure on Wall Street, but he is always engaging. How many other shipping executives can lay claim to having their own parody account on Twitter? While Lloyd’s List consistently took a negative view of the tanker recovery, Mr Bugbee...

SPONSORED CONTENT IN ASSOCIATION WITH RINA: Classification is deep into its transition to strategic partnership with clients. Indeed, it’s probable that no other sector has changed quite so thoroughly in its vision and mission than class. What we thought of as certification and verification services have evolved into professional transformation advisors, client sustainability partners, and regulat...

What has the Apollo astronaut programme got to do with ageing Japanese seafarers and funding for autonomous shipping? Listen to this week’s edition of the Lloyd’s List Podcast to find out! On the podcast this week; Naoto Nakagawa, the former head of the Japanese delegation to MEPC, currently in charge of the Nippon Foundation’s project to create fully autonomous shipping, “MEGURI 2040”. Also featu...

THE wave of carbon compliance acronyms heading towards shipping companies should not be news to listeners of this podcast. EEXI, CII, EU ETS – these should all be familiar terms as the industry prepares for a generational shift towards a net zero emissions industry. And yet, the detail of what these acronyms mean in terms of business practice and charter party changes is still not widely understoo...

Imagine pulling up to the petrol pump in your car and being confronted with 20 pumps, each offering different blends of different fuels. Now imagine a scenario where at each petrol station you visit next, that choice of different fuels is going to be entirely different. Welcome to the future of shipping. We talk in broad terms about a multi-fuel future coming for shipping, but there is still such...

The deal to allow the safe transport of grain out of the Ukraine by sea is an unprecedented agreement between enemy combatants, but it is still a work in progress and the list of potential risks that could yet scupper it are long. This week we talk to war risk expert and head of marine and aviation at the Lloyd’s Market Association, Neil Roberts about the insurance hurdles yet to be overcome. And...

The debate about how we build a generation of green ships is ubiquitous and everyone wants in on it. The question of how we get rid of the current fleet is less popular. Whichever way you look at it global recycling volumes are going to grow significantly, doubling by 2028 to 14 million light displacement tonnes and near quadrupling by 2033. That means more, bigger recycling facilities set up to d...

THE Lloyd’s List Podcast is taking a temporary detour into the true crime genre this week. Our guest Kit Chellel is one of the writers behind the book that everyone in shipping should be taking to the beach with them this summer – Dead in the Water. The book tells the remarkable tale of the suezmax Brillante Virtuoso which was apparently attacked by pirates in 2011 and set her ablaze. But when Dav...

SHIPPING has about eight years to set its course for success or failure on the path to decarbonisation. It may be the defining challenge of the next half-century, but the decisions taken now are the ones that matter. And that’s why we have seen a slew of commitments, declarations, and pledges being hastily pumped out of the industry with some urgency. But how do you set a strategy amid so much unc...

Shipping has focussed on fuels as the one factor it can control in the push to decarbonise, but the creation of a truly sustainable industry will require a more holistic ‘lifecycle’ approach. The concept of a circular economy requiring us to reduce, reuse, refurbish and recycle should be a sustainability slam dunk, but it requires cross sectoral collaboration, global regulation and business model...

“The world is changing, and shipping must change with it, says Emanuele Grimaldi, Managing Director of the Grimaldi Group who took over chair of the International Chamber of Shipping this week. Mr Grimaldi joins the podcast this week to discuss his agenda, seafarers, decarbonization and why he is confident that shipping will remain a force for good on the international stage

President Biden claims to be “viscerally angry” about the container lines who he blames for inflation, soaring freight rates, supply chain congestion and much in between. The political theatre of the Ocean Shipping Reform Act was on show in the US this week, but to help explain what it really means for shipping this week’s Lloyd’s List Podcast features two people who really know what’s going on: F...

The Lloyd’s List team have been out and about in Athens this week selflessly digesting canapés, gossip and debate to bring you the comprehensive view of a week at Posidonia in under23 minutes. After a Covid-induced hiatus, the industry descended upon Athens this week to schmooze, gossip, test the water and in some cases actually do some business in between canapes and sweaty taxi rides. While the...

WE all know shipping needs to decarbonise, now the industry is confronting the detail. Countries meeting at the IMO next week now have five plans for carbon price policies in front of them. Island states and the International Chamber of Shipping are for carbon levies. Norway and European Union members prefer a cap-and-trade scheme, while China and Japan have proposed more complex rebates. This is...

The landscape of sanctions and political risk has made the business of shipping significantly more complex, but not everyone is set up to deal with that complexity. This week’s podcast pulls in the sanctions experts to discuss how shipping is navigating the new world order of Russian sanctions and what the industry needs to understand about regulatory enforcement appetites and increasingly forensi...

THIS week’s edition of the Lloyd’s List podcast comes to you via New York where markets editor Michelle Wiese Bockmann has been speaking with with three key maritime and shipping leaders in their field that each provide a unique financial and investment perspective on our industry. Svein Engh is senior managing director and portfolio manager of Entrust Global. The lending business has raised nearl...

THE world is supposedly in the middle of an artificial-intelligence and machine-learning revolution Not that you would necessarily know that looking at the shipping industry. While there are some interesting projects out there and you will find AI liberally peppered across marketing documents, the reality is that we are barely scratching the surface of what’s possible with some imaginative applica...

Economic measures to cut Russia off from the world’s financial arteries are the most extensive seen since the Second World War and the impact is starting to be felt. This week’ episode of the Lloyd’s List Podcast examines what that means for shipping companies trying to navigate the morass of rapidly evolving financial trade restrictions. For more detail check out our special report examining risk...

Lloyd’s List’s latest quarterly outlook for shipping examines the trends across all shipping sectors, so for this week’s edition of the podcast the editorial team have gathered around the microphone to offer their view of what happens next in containers, tankers, dry bulk, the orderbook and regulation.

There is a disconnect between the increasing risk to maritime businesses posed by Cyber attacks and the defences being erected in response. So as UK president Joe Biden was declaring it a "patriotic obligation" for businesses to bridge that gap, Lloyd’s List and Insurance Day were busy this week gathering the industry’s leading experts for a frank discussion of the evolving threat to shipping and...

Amid the chaos, sanctions and global trade disruption, the long term implications of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are starting to become clearer and the implications for seaborne trade are inevitably complex. To help unravel the uncertainties and offer an independent expert eye on what this all means for the global shipping industry, Lloyd’s List has once again gathered it’s leading analysts to of...

Several ships have been hit, seafarers have been killed and injured and seafarers of all nationalities are trapped on ships as a result of the war in Ukraine. Quite apart from the immediate security fears, the impact of Russia’s invasion is likely to spark a crewing crisis with a lasting impact on global supply chains. International Chamber of Shipping secretary General Guy Platten joins the podca...

As shipping markets adapt to the new realities of global trade in an era of high-risk economic warfare, analysts from across the Lloyd’s List and Lloyd’s List Intelligence team assess the fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the impact on global shipping markets and businesses.