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The Lloyd’s List Podcast: Is it possible to order a future-proofed ship today?
April 03, 2024 14:11 - 19 minutes - 16.9 MBShipping is getting increasingly more complex and more expensive. On balance, that could be a good thing in that it forces the hand of an industry that has been too cheap for too long and the direction of regulatory travel now at least favours the progressives over the laggards. But we don’t know the detail. We don’t know what fuel availability or costs looks like. We don’t know the detail of what market based mechanism or fuel standard will emerge – or even if it will. We don’t know when s...
The Lloyd’s List Podcast: How long can Ukraine keep its grain corridor open?
March 15, 2024 16:15 - 17 minutes - 13.1 MBLAST July Ukraine’s deep sea maritime trade dried up with the collapse of the Black Sea Initiative. Within days Ukraine put forward a proposal to the UN detailing a route that would see ships sailing through Romanian waters to reach the greater Odesa ports. In August Ukraine announced the opening of a “humanitarian” corridor, pitching the route as a way to evacuate stranded ships. The initial departures were indeed stuck ships, but in September the first vessels started to arrive from forei...
Sexual harassment, bullying and silence: Australia’s first female marine engineer reveals all
March 08, 2024 10:21 - 19 minutes - 11.6 MBOn International Women’s Day, Stephanie Zank tells Lloyd’s List her story about being a trailblazer in the world of shipping As a girl growing up in Australian in the 1980s Stephanie Zank hated office jobs and loved taking things apart and putting them back together. When she first stepped on board a ship, she knew that this was the career she wanted. But her story isn’t one that we’re normally being told on International Women’s Day. Stephanie Zank battled prejudice and abuse from her ca...
The Lloyd’s List Podcast: What this year’s P&I renewals mean for shipping
February 23, 2024 14:39 - 28 minutes - 22 MBTUESDAY this week marked P&I renewal day. That’s the name given to the annual hard deadline for the 90% of the world fleet by tonnage entered with International Group P&I clubs to renew their liability insurance for the following year. Historically, the date was considered the first on which Baltic ports were sufficiently ice free to be navigable. That looks rather quaint in these days of global warning. But 20 February is now hallowed by tradition, and doing things on 1 January like everybo...
The Lloyd’s List Podcast: Why the flagging standards of flag states are a problem for everyone
February 16, 2024 15:16 - 23 minutes - 20.7 MBTHE shipping industry has a problem that it doesn’t like to talk about. A dark secret. Safety standards, by and large, have been steadily improving over recent decades. Ship casualties and incidents reached an all-time low, in spite of a global pandemic and a steady tightening of regulatory standards have raised the bar across the board. But there is a significant and growing fleet of ships to which none of this applies. An unprecedented deluge of sanctions has divided the industry between ...
The Lloyd’s List Podcast: The lingering scandal of the Brilliante Virtuoso
February 05, 2024 16:25 - 15 minutes - 12 MBWhy has the marine insurance industry forgotten about Cynthia Mockett? That is the question at the heart of this week’s edition of the Lloyd’s List Podcast. The widow of a UK marine surveyor and consultant murdered in Yemen 13 years ago in one of the biggest marine insurance frauds in Lloyd’s of London history is still fighting for compensation, as well as payment for the work that led to his death. Cynthia Mockett, based in Plymouth, England, was the wife of Capt David Mockett, based in A...
The Lloyd’s List Podcast: What happened to supply chain resilience?
January 30, 2024 18:59 - 24 minutes - 21.4 MBBetween Black Sea disruption and two key canals choking under the pressure of climate and war, a triple whammy of blocked arteries threatens world trade. The impacts on the wider global economy could be profound. So what happened to all that talk of supply chain resilience? We have drafted in a couple experts this week to help me make sense of it all: Ryan Petersen, the founder and CEO of digital freight forwarder Flexport Jan Hoffmann, Chief of the United Nations Conference on Trade and D...
The Lloyd’s List Podcast: Why are some shipowners prepared to run the Red Sea gauntlet?
January 22, 2024 23:07 - 31 minutes - 25.7 MBA tipping point has been reached in the Red Sea. The industry is now divided between those who have called the Middle East security risk as a mid-term diversion to be managed, and those who are prepared to run the gauntlet of near daily attacks on the basis that the Houthis will only target ships with an Israeli, US or UK nexus. While containerships have been diverting away from the Suez Canal since mid-December, tankers and bulkers finally started making the call to follow them last week as...
The Lloyd’s List Podcast: Red sea risk explained
January 12, 2024 16:49 - 33 minutes - 29.7 MBIt seems that 27 was the magic number in the end. That was how many attacks the Houthi’s landed on international shipping before the inevitable military response was triggered. On January 12th America and Britain responded with more than 60 sea and air attacks on Houthi targets in Yemen in an attempt to restore open passage, expanding the scope of the Middle East conflict. As we recorded this week’s extended edition of the Lloyd’s list Podcast on Friday we had to insert the significant and ...
Fuelling the journey to net-zero
January 10, 2024 14:40 - 17 minutes - 14.7 MBThis sponsored edition of the podcast is produced in association with ExxonMobil In July, MEPC 80 agreed a new GHG strategy with a destination of net-zero GHG emissions by, or around, 2050. But will the fuels be ready and what does ‘net-zero’ actually mean? In this podcast, Christophe Pouts and Ken Kar of ExxonMobil address the challenge of reaching net-zero GHG emissions in maritime transportation and call for industry collaboration to make it happen.
The Lloyd’s List Podcast: What’s keeping the new IMO secretary general awake at night?
January 01, 2024 12:05 - 23 minutes - 17.1 MBThe new International Maritime Organization secretary general Arsenio Dominguez joins the Lloyd’s List Podcast this week to discuss the challenges ahead, his leadership style and just how much influence the 'SG' really has in setting the industry’s agenda. Happy new year to all Lloyd's List Podcast listeners
The Lloyd’s List Podcast: The outlook for shipping in 2024 and beyond
December 15, 2023 10:21 - 1 hour - 59.1 MBEach year, Lloyd’s List likes to gather a group of industry leaders, lock them in a room and not let them leave until they have divined the fate and fortunes of the shipping industry for the year to come. And that’s what we did this week in London at the annual Lloyd’s List Outlook Forum. Having gathered a baseline of crowdsourced knowledge from the ever insightful Lloyd’s List readers we invited an all star line up of industry leaders and guests to join us for a discussion of the opportuni...
The Lloyd’s List Podcast: Why are three P&I clubs dishing out $80m?
November 17, 2023 15:39 - 38 minutes - 28 MBThree of the five International Group affiliates that have announced strategies for the 2024 renewal have included sweeteners totalling more than $80m. But are the payouts as generous as they look? This week’s edition of the podcast offers a deep dive into the P&I landscape at the halfway point in renewal season. Lloyd's list Insurance Editor David Osler take the lead this week, talking to: Jonathan Andrews, chief executive of Steamship Mutual, who was in dialogue with Alex Vullo, a directo...
The Lloyd’s List Podcast: How does an economist solve shipping’s climate conundrum?
November 10, 2023 17:27 - 31 minutes - 27.2 MBTwo of the shipping industry’s leading academics, Professor Siri Pettersen Strandenes and Dr Martin Stopford join the podcast this week to discuss everything from the shifting nature of shipping economics to the digital and logistic solutions they would urge the industry consider in response. To hear more about the topics discussed in this week’s edition make sure you join us next week for a very special Lloyd’s List live webinar on Thursday 16th at 2pm UK time. We will be discussing whet...
The Lloyd’s List Podcast: Is shipping changing quickly enough?
November 04, 2023 08:52 - 31 minutes - 28.1 MBOn pretty much every metric you care to think about right now, the industry does not have sufficient pace behind the transitions required. But you knew that already, so we are exploring the reasons why in a little more depth in this week’s edition of the podcast. Like last week’s edition these conversations all stem from around the recent Global Maritime Forum held in Athens, but they are part of a wider series of conversations with industry leaders about the tipping points in the industry ...
The Lloyd’s List Podcast: Why moving from ambition to action is easier said than done
October 20, 2023 15:51 - 33 minutes - 29.3 MBThe zero emission capable ships may be coming, but they are not coming quickly enough. But even if we squint and avoid the question of how environmentally friendly a theoretically environmentally friendly ship really is, the ships aren’t really the biggest problem right now. It’s the lack of zero carbon fuels coming down the pipeline that’s keeping most industry executives awake at night. The scale of the challenge to produce green fuels is being vastly underestimated and all the imagined gr...
The Lloyd’s List Podcast: Where are the tipping points in global trade?
October 13, 2023 15:06 - 19 minutes - 18.2 MBIn a world rife with cascading crises – macro-economic fragmentation, retreating development, multilateralism under attack and of course the defining challenge of the age - climate change – maritime trade serves as a stabilizing anchor, holding fast against the turbulent currents of disruption. But it is changing. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine shifted trade lanes – in terms of grain obviously, but it has increased the distances travelled by tankers as the Russian Federation sought new export ...
The Lloyd’s List Podcast: What does FMC chair Dan Maffei think about shipping?
October 11, 2023 16:21 - 32 minutes - 25.8 MBTWO years ago Federal Maritime Commission chairman Daniel Maffei sat in front of the Lloyd’s List microphone and bluntly told the container carriers to buck up their public relations. They needed to do a better job of explaining the economics of container shipping and the industry’s essential role in supporting commerce, was his basic beef. Well, a lot has happened since then so when Maffei was in town recently we couldn’t pass up the opportunity to drag him once again into a small office an...
LNG might not be green, but neither is it black
October 11, 2023 10:51 - 11 minutes - 7.4 MBA LLOYD’S LIST SPONSORED PODCAST LNG is a fossil fuel: the groundswell of opinion says it’s the answer to the wrong question. But some nevertheless believe it has significant advantages over alternative fuels and it is a useful steppingstone to the next level. In this podcast, RINA technical director Antonios Trakakis, who is responsible for leading maritime sustainability initiatives at the Italian classification society, takes a ship engineer’s view of LNG. He argues it is safe and affor...
The Lloyd’s List Podcast: Where next for shipping finance?
September 28, 2023 14:29 - 35 minutes - 28.1 MBAS anybody looking to renew a fixed-rate mortgage right now will tell you, these are tough times for those seeking to borrow money. The decade and more in which the outlook for interest rates were “lower for longer”, as central bankers sought to encourage economic activity in the wake of the global financial crisis, are just a memory. The new enemy is inflation, which has jumped dramatically in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year. Policy rates in most major economies have ris...
The Lloyd’s List Podcast: Everything you need to know about marine insurance, but were afraid to ask
September 22, 2023 14:01 - 25 minutes - 34.6 MBThe International Union of Marine Insurance conference is the annual health check for the shipping industry’s risk cover and as such offers an important, if not at time impenetrably complex view of the sector as a whole. This week’s podcast offers up a clear explanation of everything you need to know about marine insurance from the people who understand it best. Consider this week’s edition your best, and perhaps only opportunity to learn the marine insurance sector in under 25 minutes x FOR ...
The Lloyd’s List Podcast: Here’s what we learned from London International Shipping Week
September 15, 2023 16:15 - 21 minutes - 16.2 MBShipping does like to talk. And this week we have talked our way through sanctions, geo-political risk, diversity, digitalization and of course the big green elephant in the room at every event – decarbonisation. So as London International Shipping Week puts the champagne flutes in the dishwasher and sweeps up the last crumbs of canapes from the floor, the Lloyd’s List team have gathered around the podcast microphone for a short reflection on what we have learned this week. Joining Lloyd’s ...
The Lloyd’s List Podcast: Shipping’s decarbonisation dilemma
September 14, 2023 16:20 - 23 minutes - 21.5 MBShipping’s decarbonization dialogue is starting to sound a little schizophrenic. For the first half of the year all we heard was that the IMO was not going far or fast enough and everyone was lobbying for a 1.5 degree alignment in terms of the 2050 decarbonisation targets with some stringent 2030 and 2040 waypoints. We didn’t quite get there, but we weren’t far off. So was that enough to catalyse the final investment decisions needed to get green fuel supplies off the ground? Well, no is t...
The Lloyd’s List Podcast: The outlook for shipping’s decisive decade
September 13, 2023 15:46 - 29 minutes - 24.6 MBForecasts are difficult, especially about the future. But shipping’s focus for a while now has been squarely on 2050 when, let’s face it, the majority of those making bold pledges about the industry’s transformation are not going to be around to observe the accuracy of their optimism. Setting out what’s achievable by 2030 is more difficult, arguably impossible. Reports setting out the likelihood of future scenarios for shipping’s zero carbon transition have become a regular waypoint in help...
The Lloyd’s List Podcast: Why shipping is struggling to navigate increasingly complex risks
September 12, 2023 14:42 - 23 minutes - 21 MBEIGHTEEN months in, it’s perhaps not a shocker to hear that the shipping industry is still struggling with the complexities of the ever-evolving sanctions compliance regime they find themselves navigating. But the geopolitical realities of the situation that lies ahead are now starting to hit home. Shipping is trading in an increasingly bi-polar political environment and while no risk analyst worth talking to is going to target their crystal ball settings beyond a five year horizon, there w...
The Lloyd’s List Podcast: What’s keeping the shipping industry awake at night?
September 10, 2023 07:20 - 26 minutes - 19.4 MBIt seems we find ourselves in an era of “cascading crises”. The de-risked, de-coupled, low growth, fractious trading environment that the industry is navigating today is laden with uncertainty. China’s growth engine is sputtering. The consequences of sanctions and regional bloc economics is creating a bi-polar political and trading environment and inflation is starting to bite. And then there’s the existing twin track revolution of decarbonisation and digitalisation to deal with. For those...
The Lloyd’s List Podcast: How the future of globalization plays out for shipping
August 04, 2023 06:52 - 22 minutes - 17.8 MBTHE world economy is slowing down. Last month China reported that its economy grew by a mere 0.8% in the second quarter compared with the prior three months. The much anticipated post Covid pick up has seen the Middle Kingdom return with a whimper rather than the hoped for roar after the government finally abandoned its “zero-covid” policy in December. Global manufacturing has suffered as consumers came out of lockdowns and began eating out more and buying less home-office equipment. And, al...
It’s time for the independent ship manager to shine
August 02, 2023 15:05 - 22 minutes - 9.89 MBTHIS IS A SPONSORED PODCAST IN ASSOCIATION WITH EAGLESTAR In this podast, Eaglestar managing director Capt Peter Liew discusses how to future-proof the ship manager at a time of change, and how to position the business to be competitive. For most of its life, Eaglestar was the in-house manager for Malaysia’s MISC. Now fully independent, it has found new opportunities for business in the world of sustainability. Is ship management an art or a science? Can a third-party manager that began li...
The Lloyd's List Podcast: How to rebuilding resilience into container supply chains
July 28, 2023 13:46 - 33 minutes - 23.8 MBThe immediate disruptions of the pandemic may have eased, but has the industry learned sufficient lessons to prevent the same chaos next time around? Shippers need to plan ahead for both known and unknown disruptions according to the panel of experts we gathered for this week’s edition of the podcast. Discussing how to build supply chain resilience with Lloyd’s List’s very own containers editor James Baker: • Peter Sand, Xeneta • Alex Horsham, Zencargo • James Hookham, Global Shippers’ Foru...
The Lloyd’s List Podcast: How to get shipping into the clean energy value chain
July 21, 2023 12:16 - 23 minutes - 18.9 MBWe now know what shipping needs to do by 2050. We have a pretty good idea of what 2040 and even 2030 looks like on paper. But after the big political showdown in the IMO earlier this month we’re now looking at the difficult detail of what follows. This is something of a recurring theme for the Lloyd’s List podcast, so as regular listeners will well understand we’re not talking about a shipping issue here – we’re talking about a global energy transition. Working out where shipping fits into ...
The next IMO secretary-general: Moin Ahmed
July 14, 2023 14:44 - 15 minutes - 10.1 MBMoin Ahmed is one of two candidates nominated for the position of secretary general with a seafaring background.(The other candidate is from Türkiye). After 10 years at sea Ahmed came ashore to work at Bangladesh’s national shipping line, but his journey to the International Maritime Organisation began when he was posted to the UK as the company’s European regional representative more than 25 year ago. From there, he began representing his country at the UN agency and has used his marine t...
The next IMO secretary-general: Dr Cleopatra Doumbia-Henry
July 14, 2023 11:28 - 16 minutes - 12.9 MBFew people in shipping can claim to be a best-selling author but the book published in 1985 by Dominica’s candidate, Dr Cleopatra Doumbia-Henry, The Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Sea, is a text that thousands in international maritime law will be familiar with. Doumbia-Henry concluded her eight-year term as president of Sweden’s World Maritime University last month, the latest post in a trailblazing career that has included time in The Hague working with the Iran-US Claims Tribunal, and the...
The next IMO secretary-general: Suat Hayri Aka
July 14, 2023 09:57 - 13 minutes - 7.91 MBSuat Hayri Aka, Turkiye’s candidate for the secretary general’s position at the International Maritime Organization, has probably the most diverse curriculum vitae of all seven candidates standing for election on Tuesday. He began his career as a deck officer, and after time at sea went ashore to work in shipmangement and other maritime businesses. In addition to seafaring and commercial experience, Aka’s government roles include head of Turkiye’s maritime authority, and secretary, deputy ...
The next IMO secretary-general: Zhang Xiajojie
July 13, 2023 15:45 - 13 minutes - 10.3 MBWell-known Zhang Xiajojie has run a low-key public campaign for the position of secretary general but the former head of delegation for China at the International Maritime Organisation is confident he is in with a decent chance. He began his career in the Ministry of Transport in 1994 and has travelled as part of the Chinese IMO delegation to London for 30 years, he told Lloyd’s List. In 2017 he was elected as chair of the IMO council. At the beginning of 2020, Xiajojie left Beijing and mo...
The next IMO secretary-general: Nancy Karigitu
July 13, 2023 12:55 - 18 minutes - 12.5 MBFrom a little girl in rural Kenya who listened to the sounds of the sea from cowrie shells to candidate for the top job at the International Maritime Organisation – Nancy Karigitu’s long maritime voyage may end with her becoming the first African and first woman secretary general in its 70-year history if she is elected next Tuesday. Karigitu was among the first of the seven candidates to flag her interest for the secretary general’s position which begins on January 1, with the winner succee...
The next IMO secretary-general: Minna Kivimäki
July 12, 2023 15:14 - 18 minutes - 15.1 MBMINNA Kivimäki is the second candidate for the position of secretary general of International Maritime Organization featured in the Lloyd’s List podcast ahead of voting next Tuesday for the top diplomatic job in shipping.The four-year appointment begins on January 1, with the winner to succeed the incumbent over the past eight years, South Korea’s Kitack Lim. Lloyd’s List has interviewed all the candidates, asking them to explain why they nominated and their plans for the IMO should they be...
The next IMO secretary general: Arsenio Dominguez
July 11, 2023 14:49 - 22 minutes - 17.2 MBTHE International Maritime Organisation votes next Tuesday to replace its secretary general and seven countries are fielding candidates for the top diplomatic job in shipping. The four-year appointment begins on January 1, with the winner to succeed incumbent over the past eight years, South Korea’s Kitack Lim. Bangladesh (Moin Uddin Ahmed), China (Zhang Xiajojie), Dominica (Dr Cleopatra Doumbia-Henry), Finland (Minna Kivimäki), Kenya (Nancy Karigithu), Panama (Arsenio Dominguez) and Turkey (...
The Lloyd’s List Podcast: A midyear markets health check for shipping
July 07, 2023 10:40 - 25 minutes - 21.2 MBThe Lloyd’s List traditional mid-year health check on shipping’s core sectors highlighted a few underlying conditions in box and bulk but found tankers feeling much better after a period of prolonged depression. Join our resident specialists for a thorough examination of all that ails the maritime markets this week. Our traditional mid-year health check on shipping’s core sectors has flagged a few underlying health conditions that are in need of treatment. Inflationary pressures, the eurozo...
The Lloyd’s List Podcast: Is shipping’s zero carbon revolution on track?
June 30, 2023 14:55 - 31 minutes - 27.9 MBThe shipping industry can decarbonize. If the political stars align and the right demand signals can be emitted, even the most ambitious zero carbon scenarios are no longer limited by the technology. Or commercial readiness of zero-carbon fuels, or infrastructure or yards. At least they are according to the slew of papers and studies being pumped out as the world’s governments sit down next week to consider the crucial question of just how quickly shipping can decarbonise. The industry, howe...
The Lloyd's List Podcast: Why seafarers need all hands on deck
June 24, 2023 05:54 - 25 minutes - 20.1 MBWe tend to talk a lot about what the future of shipping will look like in 2050. What the fuels will be, what the ships need to do and how trade lanes and business models are going to need to rapidly adapt. But we don’t talk enough about the people at the heart of this revolution - the seafarers. Without a skilled, agile and well-trained work force, the clean energy transformation of shipping will be stifled, and the rapid and smooth conduct of global trade put at risk. The powers that be ar...
The Lloyd’s List Podcast: What's keeping MOL chairman Junichiro Ikeda awake at night?
June 16, 2023 05:53 - 12 minutes - 18.7 MBThe Lloyd’s List Podcast moves to Japan this week, where MOL chairman Junichiro Ikeda shares his insights about what he considers to be biggest risks facing shipping and why MOL is looking to transform into a social infrastructure company Mitsui OSK Lines chairman Junichiro Ikeda has worked at the Japanese shipping giant for more than 40 years and has witnessed numerous testing periods in the shipping industry. Just two years after he joined the company in 1979, dry bulkers entered one of th...
AI in shipping: transformational — but for good or ill?
June 14, 2023 14:13 - 24 minutes - 11 MBSPONSORED CONTENT MEDIA headlines earlier this year called for a pause in the development of artificial intelligence because of fears that it will “tear humanity apart”. The most tech-savvy minds on the planet, having unleashed the beast, are having second thoughts. What’s the reality for AI and machine learning as they apply to the shipping and logistics business? What is their past, who is using these processes today, and where will AI be most effective in future? Although the transport...
The Lloyd’s List Podcast: What we learned from NorShipping
June 08, 2023 12:21 - 18 minutes - 14.8 MBDecarbonisation dominated the debate at this year’s NorShipping, but in between hot air and emissions there was time to take the temperature of an industry in flux. The Lloyd’s List team out in Oslo reflect on their key takeaways from four days of conversations and canapes Talking on today’s edition: • Richard Meade, Editor-in-Chief • Linton Nightingale, Deputy Editor • Bridget Diakun, Lloyd’s List Data Analyst • Enes Tunagur, Sustainability Editor
The Lloyd’s List Podcast: Beyond the good, the bad and the ugly
June 07, 2023 11:51 - 17 minutes - 15 MBIt is day three of Norshipping out in Oslo and the Lloyd’s List team are finally penetrating the pre-prepared headline pushes and have started to find a more nuanced debate about the real progress being made in shipping amongst the front runners, the followers and the laggards. Today’s chat is with Cargill’s head of ocean transportation and the president of the Global Maritime Forum, Jan Dieleman. xx THE Lloyd’s List team out n Nor-Shipping have been getting a bit heat this week for calling...
The Lloyd’s List Podcast: Is the industry moving fast enough?
June 06, 2023 20:18 - 16 minutes - 14.7 MBThere is a visible gap between what the industry is saying it is doing about decarbonisation and what it is actually doing. But that oversimplifies the pace of a complex set of transitions underway and the significant strides already taken by the front runners pushing a progressive agenda, argue those behind the industry’s leading hubs for decarbonisation. Today’s edition of the podcast live from Norway challenges the naysayers and offers a compelling case for positivity. Featuring: • Johan...
The Lloyd's List Podcast: Optimism overflows in Oslo
June 05, 2023 17:29 - 20 minutes - 16.8 MBThere has been an outbreak of optimism as the industry converges on Oslo this week to discuss the tectonic shifts of decarbonisation and digitalisation. The first in a daily series of podcasts live from NorShipping hears how DNV Maritime’s chief Knut Ørbeck-Nilssen wants to fuel progress with collaboration and why MSC’s head of maritime policy and government affairs Bud Darr is brimming with hope Out in NorShipping? Get in touch via @Lloydslisted or [email protected]
The Lloyd's List Podcast: US lawmakers continue to look at ocean shipping
May 26, 2023 15:30 - 23 minutes - 16.1 MBWe are approaching the anniversary of the Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2022 enactment, which one head of a US shippers association said "changed what the Federal Maritime Commission is all about" The bill was signed in the midst of the supply chain crises that saw carriers' profits surge – much to their great surprise - while shippers were encumbered with skyrocketing rates and piles of per-diem fees, often levied indifferently and for circumstances beyond their control. In the run up and a...
Fuels and the future: an alternative view
May 25, 2023 08:46 - 16 minutes - 7.14 MBA sponsored podcast from Rivertrace Rivertrace, the UK-based water quality monitoring specialist, has evolved as the maritime industry developed away from analogue systems to digital technology. Digital monitoring has become not only an accepted but also an essential part of modern shipping. In this podcast, the company’s owner and executive chairman Mike Coomber shares his thoughts on monitoring, fuels, new technologies, automation, and crewing. He concludes that the only way to achieve d...
The Lloyd’s List Podcast: A case for optimism in shipping's zero carbon challenge
May 19, 2023 07:26 - 24 minutes - 24.6 MBOn paper the industry is pushing ahead with a twin track project of near term efficiency gains while politicians agree a clear regulatory timeline that unlocks the investment, scales low-emission fuels, and addresses ongoing concerns about future supply and demand. In reality the distant prospect of any meaningful political agreement is being routinely used as a pretext for widespread inaction, or worse, outright greenwashing as companies attempt to keep up the pretence of progress amid gro...
The data store that could revolutionise shipping
May 17, 2023 07:42 - 17 minutes - 7.47 MBSPONSORED PODCAST in association with Rightship Let’s face it, shipping is no longer data-poor; in fact, it’s in danger of being overloaded with data. The problem is rather that data resides in inaccessible silos, in a range of formats, and when you do access it, it’s at an unaffordable cost. Yet data is seen as the foundation of the industry’s push towards decarbonisation. Other business sectors, such as FinTech, have addressed the data conundrum over the past decade. That wasn’t without i...