Aronnax
77 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 year ago -This regular podcast is powered by Fathom.World and hosted by Craig Eason - a former sailor, broadcast journalist and now maritime journalist, editor and event host.
Aronnax delves into the transformation of the ocean and maritime industries as they face some of their greatest sustainability challenges to date. It focuses on technology, the environment and the digital enablers that help drive our quest for sustainable and equitable ocean use.
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Pressure and Propulsion
May 01, 2021 16:01 - 17 minutes - 40.7 MBLinks to stories: The cost of decarbonisation Nigel Topping on the need for governments to align their message on decarbonisation: Podcast transcript Hello and welcome to another episode of the Aronnax show, the podcast powered by Fathom World and hosted by me, Crag Eason. Later in the programme we will hear from Orestis Schinas from innovative ship finance firm HHX.Blue who has estimated for the EU funded wind assisted ship propulsion project, the potential value of the wind assist p...
Training for autonomoy & electronic lookouts
April 16, 2021 12:52 - 20 minutes - 47.7 MBThis episode looks at attracting youngsters into shipping with an apprenticeship focused on autonomy and unmanned ships and how technology can be the eyes and ears of a ship officer on the bridge (as a proposed electornic lookout function). With Gordon Meadow, CEO, SeaBot XR Eero Lehtovaara, Head of Regulatory Affairs, ABB Industry updates from Nick Chubb, Founder, Thetius Host Craig Eason, Fathom.World Full transcript below Craig Eason Hello and welcome to the Aronnax Show. This...
Shipping's future ammonia engine
April 10, 2021 05:11 - 22 minutes - 50.4 MBHello and welcome to the Aronnax Show a podcast focused nt he transformation of the shipping, maritime and ocean space My name is Craig Eason, and I own and edit the Fathom World website. Today’s show is focused on the efforts being made in the industry to develop the first engines capable of being powered by ammonia. Ammonia is being seen by some as a key fuel for international shipping to decarbonise. It’s chemical composition (one nitrogen atom and three hydrogen atoms in each molecule)...
Ardmore Shipping
March 21, 2021 07:53 - 28 minutes - 39.6 MBIn this episode of the Aronnax Show, Craig Eason talks to Mark Cameron, Chief Operating Officer at Irish shipowner Ardmore Shipping about the company's unusual decision to launch a join venture commercial enterprise looking to marinise methanol reformers for shipping. The technology takes liquid methanol and makes hydrogen which can be fed into a PEM fuel cell. The company believes this technology could be used to replace electrical generators and auxiliary engines in ocean going ships and ...
Greenship boost
February 21, 2021 11:01 - 22 minutes - 31.2 MBLast week there were two noticeable announcements from shipping companies about the types of ships they are going to, or to be accurate could be, ordering in the future, and these were noticeable as these two vessels were a methanol powered container ship and a wind powered deep sea car carrier. As we see the drive to decarbonise society and the shipping industry there is pressure on many sides for more action and less talking. But given the ask, the action has been slow to materialise. As...
Stena goes electric and the ammonia report
February 08, 2021 11:13 - 16 minutes - 22.7 MBIn the first episode of 2021 we hear about the TransZero Partnership between the Port of Göteborg, Stena Line, Scania and Volvo, especially the decision by the Swedish shipowner to build a pair of battery powered freight and passenger vessels to sail across from the Swedish Port to Denmark. We also look at the potential of ammonia production to meet shipping's potential demand for the fuel, providing it can be made from renewable hydrogen. Voices in this episode: Craig Eason, Host & Edito...
Seamanship is dead, long live the seafarer
December 13, 2020 21:30 - 26 minutes - 37 MBThis particular podcast episode looks at two stories that have been in the news. One deals with changing definition of seamanship in connection with the technologies, and the other the search for technologies to help seafarers. First we have an academic paper published in Norway (NTNU) which has raised the question about what seamanship is ….and whether it is the right word to be using in modern shipping. Then we look at how fatigue, tiredness, the COVID-19 Pandemic, and the mandatory req...
The fight against greenwashing
December 04, 2020 20:46 - 21 minutes - 28.9 MBThis show is all about greenwashing, and in particular a drive coming out of Norway to get companies, all companies, to be more honest about the environmental impact of their products and services. Greenwashing is not a Norwegian issue, but there is one organisation in Norway that has now got a few hundred companies to sign a pledge to adhere to ten key principles of greenwashing. SKIFT is a membership organisation of Norwegian industry leaders. Its goal is to attract the most climate ambit...
IMO and the other race to sustainable shipping
November 20, 2020 08:42 - 41 minutes - 56.4 MBThe International Maritime Industry, through the environmental protection committee is working to find agreement on how to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions of shipping. It is difficult as member states send representatives to toe a particular political line, making compromise hard. However it is not impossible, but progress is slow (which annoys the green lobby groups) and the debate sometimes heated (especially as the current meeting is online and subject to truncated hours and ongoing ...
Allure
October 11, 2020 17:36 - 37 minutes - 51.4 MBIn this episode of Aronnax, host Craig Eason is in France (albeit remotely) to talk to two people working in the field of wind-powered systems to see what can make shipping a more attractive industry for today's young professional. Is shipping sexy enough for the millennials that are today's university graduates and tomorrow's game changers. He asks a naval architect and project manager, SImon Watin about switching from the glittery world of high octane ocean racing yachts and luxury cruis...
Under Pressure
September 29, 2020 07:04 - 34 minutes - 47.4 MBIn this episode we start with a look at ITF concerns about the use of ships' crews, who may be stranded onboard due to Covid restrictions, performing safety related surveys. We hear from Odd Rune Malterud, co-author of the ITF report "Beyond the Limit" about what needs to change, and to DNV GL's maritime CEO Knut Ørbeck-Nilssen about the value of being able to do remote surveys and so keep ships in service. Then. Angela is a coastal Chief Engineer in the US having gone to maritime academy...
Will shipping going into Europe's ETS hurt both?
September 21, 2020 07:36 - 24 minutes - 33.7 MBThe European Parliament voted on amendments to a proposal that will have sweeping implications. Craig Eason, Editorial Director at Fathom.World the shipping and maritime news portal speaks to Martin Dorsman at the European Community Shipowners' Associations, which represents national shipowner associations in policy issues in Brussels. Craig also talks to Jasper Faber, maritime specialist at CE Delft, who has been a key author of the IMO's 4th study into shipping's greenhouse gas emissions...
Europe's latest thrust towards shipping's decarbonisation
September 13, 2020 22:29 - 31 minutes - 43.9 MBCraig Eason speaks to Jutta Paulus, Green MEP about her push to include shipping in Europe's emission trading scheme, as well as her proposal to force existing ships to improve efficiency by 40% by 2030. He also talks to Adam Berman (International Emissions Trading Association) to explain how the ETS works, what impact shipping's introduction may have on other sectors and finds out what he has heard about a Carbon Border Mechanism that could also have an impact on vessels coming into Europea...
Autonomous Ships- the start-ups
July 06, 2020 09:53 - 22 minutes - 31.5 MBThis is our last episode before a summer break, and we have the last of the three episodes looking at the development of autonomous ships and autonomous vessel systems. We have heard about the commercial projects and the development of international regulations earlier, but not all the technologies on autonomous vessel systems are bound for vessels that need to company with the international regulations that have been written by the International Maritime Organisation. There are many drone...
Autonomous ships: Human in the loop
June 27, 2020 06:45 - 23 minutes - 31.9 MBThis is the second of our short series of Aronnax episodes looking at the evolution of autonomous ships and surface vessels in the shipping and ocean space. . Now this podcast looks at all things maritime and related to the oceans, how we use it – and try not to abuse it – and how we are likely to use technological advances to make it better. Within this there are the developments of autonomous systems, ships or unmanned craft. We looked at some of the commercial factors in the first epis...
Where's all the autonomous ships?
June 19, 2020 13:35 - 26 minutes - 36.4 MBThere's a lot of talk about autonomous and unmanned planes, trains, cars and rockets, and in the marine sphere a lot of talk about unmanned autonomous ships. In the first of three episodes Craig Eason talks to experts about current developments to assess where the market currently stands and what it all means. In the first episode he e-meets Pia Meling from Massterly- the manager of the Yara Birkelend project - and Ørnulf Rødseth at SINTEF Ocean a research group in Norway, to talk about com...
LNG & the hydrogen next step
June 07, 2020 12:56 - 21 minutes - 29.6 MBKnut Ørbeck Nilssen,head of DNV GL Maritime and Madadh MacLaine, secretary general of the Zero Emission Ship Technology Association talk to Craig Eason about the role of LNG as a transition fuel towards a decarbonised shipping future, with comments from Brian Østergaard Sørensen at MAN ES about fuel systems and the future diesel engine. Plus Thetius CEO Nick Chubb offers his insights to the latest technology trends. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/aronnax. Hosted on Acast. S...
Hydrogen funding and the 10 year gap
May 31, 2020 21:59 - 16 minutes - 22.2 MBThe EU announced its funding to get the bloc out of the Covid-19 induced recession, and it includes speeding the hydrogen roapmap. However as the Climate Bonds Initiative has its draft low carbon shipping criteria out for consultation, SEA-LNG, which promotes LNG as a marine fuel, wants it to reconsider its non-inclusion of LNG carriers saying shipping can't wait 10 years for hydrogen economies and ammonia fuel to become mature enough. It wants LN to be seen as a transition not as a dead en...
financing shipping decarbonisation
May 24, 2020 18:12 - 20 minutes - 28.3 MBA report was issued this year estimating the investment needed to decarbonise shipping at about $1.2tr between 2030 and 2050. The work was conducted by UMAS (University Maritime Advisory Services) in the UK for the Copenhagen based Global Maritime Forum. One of the key points was that this figure does ot apply as much to what shipowners will need to invest, but what needs to be invested into creating a fuel supply chain for a carbon free fuel such as Ammonia. Dr Tristan Smith Reader in Ener...
Nudge Nudge
May 17, 2020 09:33 - 29 minutes - 40.1 MBBehavioral economics, the understanding of what makes people tick, and getting them to make the right decisions, is not exactly new, and in politics, not always welcome. But when it comes to openly encouraging us to make decisions that have a positive impact on the environment then it certainly gets attention. One UK-based startup company Signol has taken this approach and is applying it to shipping having already proven its case in aviation. Here we here from Signol co-founder Dan White. ...
The return of sail? It's not as simple as you think
May 11, 2020 11:12 - 17 minutes - 24.1 MBWhile a return to the days of sailing vessels taking cargo around the world sounds romantic, it is also unrealistic. The great sails of old were no where near as efficient as ships are today. However with shipping being forced down a decarbonisation road, it is likely that some modern alternatives will be part of the mix of fossil fuel free solutions. Many of the solutions that have been demonstrated so far are retrofitted onto ships. There are few newbuild vessels with a wind assist techno...
A new role for the IMO: Is the leviathan changing course?
May 01, 2020 16:30 - 28 minutes - 39.5 MBThe global effort to significantly lower the amount of man-made carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases has seen a lot of government-backed collaborative efforts in recent years. In the shipping maritime and ocean spaces this has been somewhat fragmented, with different international agencies taking on different responsibilities. The UN's shipping agency, the International Maritime Organization, recently announced an internal reform that has led to the creation of a new partnerships and p...
Keeping ships' crews in our minds
April 19, 2020 12:45 - 16 minutes - 23.2 MBGlobal trade is largely based on just-in-time, lean.supply chains with goods shipped around the world as they are needed. The Covid-19 lockdowns have brought this into stark relief. It also raises the profile of the ships crews that are needed to keep the ships going that keep these ships going. There are stories of crews being forced to stay on board and work much longer than they should, which will impact mental health and abilities, as well as crews finding themselves off a ship, but stra...
The wind two
April 01, 2020 13:09 - 25 minutes - 34.9 MBThe second in our series looking at the new wave of wind propulsion systems for shipping. Fathom World editorial director talks to co-owner Frank Nieuwenhuis and technical director and system inventor Guus van der Bles from Dutch solution provider Econowind, about the system , its abilities and how they see wind solutions being used in a decarbonised shipping industry. More details can be found at: http://fathom.world/key-wind-assist-propulsion-installation-starts-north-sea-operations/ an...
The wind one
March 25, 2020 14:05 - 28 minutes - 39 MBA new age of sail is emerging for shipping. It's true, we may be able to say once more that ships are sailing and mean it. It may lack the image of the great tea clippers and multi-sailed vessels of the previous centuries, but a new breed of companies and engineers are re-examining what can be done with the wind as shipping looks to decarbonise. They are not looking to bring back multi-rigged sailing ships, despite how wonderful that thought and image may be, but to use a new breed of sail ...
Shipping wants to pay for a $5bn R&D fund
March 09, 2020 14:59 - 17 minutes - 23.6 MBWith international regulator, The IMO, working on how it can make international shipping, which means up to 60,000 very large ships, decarbonise, the main shipowner groups have put forward their own version of a research and development fund that could be created by the International Maritime Organisation to help with the industry reach its goal. Read more on the website: https://fathom.world/shipowners-unprecedented-self-financed-decarbonisation-fund/ In this episode of Aronnax, Craig E...
MAN and the Plan (to drop CO2 from ships into the seabed)
February 24, 2020 12:09 - 23 minutes - 32.6 MBWelcome to the inaugural episode of the Aronnax podcast focused on the transformation of the maritime and shipping space, powered by Fathom.World and presented by Craig Eason In our first episode we visit MAN, (yes, the engine maker owned by the Volkswagen Group) that changed one of its business unit names from MAN Diesel and Turbo to MAN Energy Solutions, as it recognised the writing on the wall. Most MAN engines burn a range of hydrocarbon fuels in large amounts to power the world's bigge...