TradeWinds Wavelength - a weekly shipping news show

What to do with the floating wreck of the gas carrier Arctic Metagaz

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 14:41:24 GMT

In this week’s episode:

What to do with 23-year old LNG carrier Arctic Metagaz, adrift in the Mediterranean after being attacked and gutted, and can any lessons be learned?

International Maritime Organization decarbonisation talks will restart soon. What next? Craig Eason talks to Tristan Smith at University College London about the proposals that are coming in and the two camps emerging in the battle

Maria Ogbugo from the African Future Policies Hub joins the podcast to talk about unifying the voice of Africa at the IMO despite some countries having very different views.

And the Climate Ethanol Alliance is urging US farmers and ethanol producers to see the huge potential in shipping’s decarbonisation.

Read more: Can US farmers sway Trump to make a U-turn on IMO decarbonisation policy?

Host/producer: Craig Eason

Additional reporting: Lucy Hine, Yannick Guerry

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One week, two landmark deals for crude tankers

Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:01:31 GMT

In this week’s Wavelength podcast:

It has been a landmark week for deals in the crude tanker space, but the big-money investments and fundraising come as around 20,000 seafarers remain trapped the Middle East Gulf.

It was confirmed this week that Gianluigi Aponte’s MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company is buying into South Korea’s Sinokor Maritime Co.

Sinokor’s buying and chartering spree this year has given the company a potential 20% to 25% market share in VLCCs.

Meanwhile in Oslo, Capital Tankers completed its initial public offering of shares marking the first shipping IPO anywhere for five years. Raising $500m, it was the biggest shipping public offering anywhere in two decades.

The Evangelos Marinakis-backed company had a great start on the bourse, but the share price was rocked by the war in the Middle East.

Questions are beginning to swirl about how crude tankers will be affected if there is less oil on the water, if the blockade of Hormuz drags on.

The International Maritime Organization this week called an emergency meeting to make plans for a humanitarian corridor that would allow ships and their crews to be evacuated from the Gulf through Hormuz.

But, as international politics clashed, the IMO meeting found that drawing up a viable plan and executing it quickly will be easier said than done.

The idea for an humanitarian corridor through Hormuz was supported this week by the vice president of the China Shipowners’ Association, Zhao Qingfeng.

Speaking at the TradeWinds Shipowners’ Forum in Shanghai, Zhao supported a specific window of time to allow vessels to leave the war zone.

Host: Craig Eason.

Producer: Holly Birkett.

Reporters: Andy Pierce, Paul Peachey, Matt Coyne and Yannick Guerry.

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The impacts of war

Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:04:55 GMT

In this week’s Wavelength episode:

As the conflict drags towards its third week, we examine the impact so far, including in China and the US.

We also look at a new voluntary injury compensation scheme for Bangladesh recycling workers.

And the intensifying debate over how to get sanctioned shadow fleet tankers out of the water and into the hands of recyclers.

Listen to the full interview on Wavelength Plus on ACAST

Producer and host: Craig Eason

Additional editorial input: Yannick Guerry, Eric Priante Martin and Huaqing Ma.

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War, global trade and risk

Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:03:21 GMT

This is episode 100 of the Wavelength podcast and published in the midst of turmoil and uncertainty in shipping

In this week’s episode:

The impact on shipping of the attacks by the US and Israel on IranWe look at the potential lack of planning by the Trump Administration to take into account how Operation Epic Fury will impact shipping and global trade

Read our full coverage here

Matt Coyne talks about how VLCC rates skyrocket on the back of conflict and crude oil shortage.

Paul Peachey reports that vessels heading to or in the Gulf region can not get war risk insurance are not true. He also talks to the IMO secretary general about seafarers stuck in the Gulf.

European Commission revealed its broadest ever plan to invest in shipping and the maritime industries. We get the response from European Shipowners secretary-general Sotiris Raptis.

Producer and host: Craig Eason

Additional editorial input: Julian Bray, Matt Coyne, Paul Peachey, Yannick Guerry

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The story behind US shipbuilding being great again

Fri, 27 Feb 2026 14:48:19 GMT

In this episode of Wavelength:

TradeWinds’ Eric Priante Martin looks at the story of US shipbuilding as the industry turns to Donald Trump’s policies to make it great again.

Oslo correspondent Jonas Walsgard talks to Norwegian Shipowners’ Association chief executive Knut Arild Hareide about its members’ attempts to go green and why they want more state help.

Holly Birkett is back with Granular, our monthly look at key topics in the dry bulk market. This week it is about build quality.

And nuclear? Craig Eason introduces the Wavelength Plus, a two-part series examining renewed interest in nuclear power in shipping.

Producer and host: Craig Eason

Additional editorial input from: Eric Priante Martin, Jonas Walsgard, Holly Birkett and Yannick Guerry.

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Zim and the golden share

Fri, 20 Feb 2026 15:07:32 GMT

In this episode:

Hapag Lloyd makes $4.2bn offer for Israeli liner carrier Zim. Will it work out?

The US Maritime Action Plan has been revealed. What does the industry both inside the US and outside make of it?

Green lobby groups are to get their day in court as they try and force the European Commission to stop labelling LNG fuel as sustainable under its green investment taxonomy

Exhaust gas cleaning systems have hit the news again as countries and lobby group put more pressure on wash water discharges

Producer and host: Craig Eason

Additional editorial input: Ian Lewis, Eric Priante Martin

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The VLCC mega orderbook, and why Scorpio Tankers is bucking the trend

Fri, 13 Feb 2026 14:47:40 GMT

In this week’s episode:

TradeWinds newbuilding team Lucy Hine and Irene Ang dissect the mega ordering of VLCCs.

Intertanko calls on governments to be stronger in tackling the shadow fleet, arguing that the latest seizures will reveal how bad the ships are.

And wine tasting with a shipowner at his own vineyard. TradeWinds visits Odfjell Vineyard.

Producer and host: Craig Eason

Additional reporting from: Lucy Hine, Irene Ang, Eric Priante Martin and Yannick Guerry.

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The VLCC aggregator unnerving analysts, and sentencing the manslaughter master

Fri, 06 Feb 2026 15:58:09 GMT

In this week’s episode:

The Solong captain found guilty of manslaughter has been sentenced, but questions remain unanswered

The Sinokor VLCC buying spree has analysts asking questions. Here’s why

Introducing shipping’s Guiding Stars who you think are making a difference

Capturing shipping’s CO2 emissions and burying them in concrete

Producer and host: Craig Eason

Additional editorial input from: Matt Coyne, Paul Peachey, Holly Birkett, Eric Priante Martin

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Conflict and risk as US forces gather off Iran

Fri, 30 Jan 2026 16:02:17 GMT

IIn this week’s episode:

Energy shipping in the Middle East is on alert after Trump sends naval forces to threaten Iran.

The captain of the Solong testified in London courts about the incident in which his ship collided with a laden tanker, resulting in the death of a seafarer.

Even more seafarers are found to have been lured from online shipping recruitment sites and kidnapped to work in illegal scam centres.

Granular. Holly Birkett’s regular look at the dry bulk market as she focuses on the impact of unseasonal weather on trade.

Producer and host: Craig Eason

Additional editorial from: Eric Priante Martin, Huaqing Ma, Holly Birkett and Yannick Guerry

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Greenland, Davos and identity theft at sea

Fri, 23 Jan 2026 16:06:12 GMT

In this episode:

Davos: Greenland and why can't Europe act like the US and sieze dark fleet tankers an their oil

A Greek shipowner has success in getting its tanker off the US sanctions list

ITF issues annual figures on seafarer abandonment figures and they look worse than ever. What's happening?

And the lobby group promoting the use of liquid natural gas as a fuel, Sea-LNG turns 10. What next as the fuel debate goes on?

Producer and host: Craig Eason

Additional reporting: Lucy Hine, Eric Priante Martin and Yannick Guerry

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Crude delights?

Fri, 16 Jan 2026 12:58:51 GMT

IIn this episode:

Eric Priante Martin takes a peek into the tanker markets that have begun to react to the impact of Donald Trump’s moves on Venezuelan crude and Iran.

Paul Peachey has been in the UK courts listening to the trial of Captain Vladimir Motin, charged with manslaughter after his boxship, the Solong, rammed into an anchored laden tanker, creating a fireball.

Huaqing Ma followed the case of a missing seafarer who thought he had a job offer to join a ship, only to disappear, believed to have been abducted to work in an illegal call centre compound in Cambodia.

Host and producer: Craig Eason

Additional reporting: Huaqing Ma, Eric Priante Martin, Paul Peachey, Yannick Guerry

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Venezuela

Fri, 09 Jan 2026 15:47:38 GMT

In this week’s episode:

Holly Birkett and Matt Coyne dissect what’s been going on in Venezuela and how it is likely to impact tanker markets, plus Claire Jungman from Vortexa on the impact on China.

The Singapore investigation into the allision of the Hafnia Nile with a dark fleet VLCC in 2024 has pointed the finger at the fatigue and actions of the officer on the Hafnia product tanker. Karen Ng examines the report findings.

And Craig Eason talks to Rene Kofod-Olsen, chief executive of V.Group, on the company’s decision to purchase decarbonisation technology advisory Njord from Maersk Tankers and what it says about the evolution of ship management.

Host: Holly Birkett

Producer: Craig Eason

Additional reporting: Yannick Guerry, Matt Coyne, Karen Ng, Huaqing Ma and Craig Eason

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TradeWinds person of the year 2025

Fri, 19 Dec 2025 14:34:13 GMT

In this episode:

TradeWinds editor in chief Julian Bray introduces the “Person of the Year.”

Odfjell chief executive Harald Fotland explains why the Norwegian tanker owner has gone it alone with its own green corridor.

UAE shipowner Astro Offshore explains the group’s huge fleet expansion.

..... and who would you have for dinner? We preview your wish list dinner invites.

Producer and host: Craig Eason

Additional editorial: Julian Bray, Huaqing Ma, Eric Priante Martin

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Venezuela is on Trump's mind

Fri, 12 Dec 2025 14:17:13 GMT

In this episode:

US forces seize tanker laden with Venezuelan crude. What does this mean for shipping and the battle against the dark fleet?

Another Ukrainian drone attack on a sanctioned tanker in the Black Sea. Shipping warned to watch out for unexploded drones

On location. TradeWinds enjoys a Singapore anchorage and sees a hull cleaning operation up close

Producer and host: Craig Eason

Additional reporting: Eric Priante Martin, Huaqing Ma, Yannick Guerry

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Attacking the dark fleet

Fri, 05 Dec 2025 14:22:51 GMT

In this episode:

Examining the attacks by Ukraine forces on tankers linked to Russia

The need to strengthen the US Maritime Security Program (MSP) and the Tanker Security Program (TSP)

Whether Trump has exceeded his powers with his trarifs and what can Republicans do if he has

Production and host: Craig Eason

Additional reporting: Paul Peachey, Joe Brady, Eric Priante Martin and Yannick Guerry

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David and Goliath. The Diana and Genco takeover that's the talk of New York

Fri, 28 Nov 2025 13:27:31 GMT

In this episode:

TradeWinds finance correspondent Joe Brady comes into the studio to dissect the likelihood of Diana Shipping managing its acquisition of Genco, its bigger more stable peer on the New York Exchange.

Read: ‘Cash is king’: Why Diana Shipping’s ‘bizarre’ bid for Genco could pay off

Is shipping about to flood back to Red Sea transits? If so, what are the risks and what will it do to the markets?

Read: Container carriers brace for market turbulence amid talk of resuming Suez transits

Read: Red Sea warning: Tanker rates face hit as return of ships ‘appears closer than ever’

Green corridors are supposed to shape and encourage maritime decarbonisation. So far, they are a little behind target with only two active when there should be six. There are 84 initiatives underway, however, and China has joined the buzz.

Read: Green shipping corridor drive shows little progress, says Getting to Zero report

Is ship finance happier in Singapore than in Hong Kong or China?

Read: Chinese leasing faces prolonged USTR pressure as financiers warn of shifting capital flows

Host and producer: Craig Eason

Additional reporting: Joe Brady, Yannick Guerry and Huaqing Ma

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Singapore who? Hong Kong steps up the fight to stay competitive

Fri, 21 Nov 2025 14:40:05 GMT

This week's episode of Wavelength is a Hong Kong Special, following Hong Kong Maritime Week in the Chinese city-state this week.

Craig Eason and Huaqing Ma are here to report back on all the hot topics from Hong Kong Maritime Week and also from our TradeWinds Ship Recycling Forum, where scrapping dark-fleet vessels was hotly debated.

Eric Martin is here to wrap up the findings of the investigation into the ship crash in Baltimore that brought down a bridge, and resulted in the loss of lives. The probable cause of the accident was so tiny that investigators might easily have missed it, were it not for help from the ship's builder.

Finally, our newbuilding queens Lucy Hine and Irene Ang are here to discuss their upcoming special report on the shipbuilding sector, which will be published in TradeWinds next week. What has newbuilding business been like this year? Kind of muted, Irene and Lucy agreed.

Host and producer: Holly Birkett.

Additional reporting: Craig Eason, Huaqing Ma, Eric Priante Martin, Lucy Hine and Irene Ang.

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Has Iran captured an innocent tanker? And why 2026 will be a bleak year for shipping

Fri, 14 Nov 2025 17:14:28 GMT

In this week's Wavelength podcast from TradeWinds:

Has Iran snatched a loaded tanker leaving the Gulf and bound for Singapore?

Tanker ‘heads towards Iran’ in sudden course change after suspicious approach

Why 2026 may be a bleak year for shipping and why microgrids based on renewable energy will impact shipping

Shipping ‘navigating increasingly uncertain waters’, says Danish Ship Finance

Everllence says its new ammonia engine is ready. Are shipowners ready to buy?

‘Milestone’ hit as Everllence seeks order for ammonia dual-fuel engine

and introducing new podcast mini series looking at what happened to the containership Dali that led to a deadly collision with a bridge in Baltimore and what next in the story

Host and producer: Craig Eason

Additional reporting: Gary Dixon, Eric Priante Martin

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Is piracy rising again off Somalia

Fri, 07 Nov 2025 16:13:08 GMT

In this week's episode:

Piracy rising: Are recent attacks a sign that Somali piracy is ramping up again?

Somali pirates target LNG carrier after Latsco tanker attack

Latsco tanker crew ‘safe’ after pirate attack with warship on the way

Warship hunts pirate mothership after tanker attack

Is China stockpiling crude spoking ir helping the VLCC markets?

China poised to pounce on more crude to keep filling strategic storage reserves

and ... just how easy is it to sabotage a subsea power cable? We asked cable maker Nexans

Host and producer: Craig Eason

Additional editorial content: Eric Priante Martin, Lucy Hine, Yannick Guerry

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Pairing US and South Korea’s shipbuilding industries

Fri, 31 Oct 2025 15:37:43 GMT

In this week's episode:

Can the US upgrade its shipbuilding capacity?

‘Shipbuilding is a bipartisan issue’: Senate hearing highlights US support for boosting yard sector

What role for South Korea's shipbuilders as they sign up to help their ally?

Dealmaker Trump secures pledges from South Korea’s big three shipbuilders

‘Master of shipbuilding’ South Korea strikes $150bn trade and security deal with Trump

Is the US-China trade meeting a good deal for shipping?

Port fee pause: US and China declare one-year truce to maritime trade war measures

And, what does the grounding of a shadow fleet tanker say about the ongoing risks to shipping and the environment?

Suez Canal tanker grounding highlights how sanctions have struggled to land a glove on Russia

Sanctioned tanker that grounded in Suez Canal one of four blacklisted ships in convoy

Editorial contributions: Eric Priante Martin, Huaqing Ma, Matt Coyne

Production and host: Craig Eason

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Another TACO?

Fri, 24 Oct 2025 14:22:21 GMT

In this week's episode of Wavelength:

Shippers and shipping companies in the US await news from President Trump -- and President Xi, as Eric Martin reports,
Can South Korea help make American shipbuilding great again or is China too competitive? Irene Ang looks at the issues.
And Arsenio Dominguez, secretary general of the International Maritime Organization, reflects on last week's all-important MEPC vote with Holly Birkett. The full interview will follow on Tuesday in an episode of Wavelength+.

Host: Craig Eason.

Production: Eric Martin/Craig Eason.

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Carbon talk delay response

Sat, 18 Oct 2025 03:28:36 GMT

In this week's episode

The talks on IMO carbon rules go no where as nations call time out and delay a decision for a year. Not the ending anyone thought, but there may be a silver lining.

Also.

While international climate talks stumble, African nations are taking control of their own destiny and a number of countries are following Djibouti's idea of setting their own price on shipping's carbon emissions. Is it a model that can spread further afield?

And we look at the response in the US to China's port tariffs which are in response to the US tariffs

reporting by Paul Peachey and Eric Priante Martin

Host and producer: Craig Eason

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John Fredriksen’s game plan amid rumours of LR2 fleet sell off

Fri, 10 Oct 2025 15:09:57 GMT

In this week's Wavelength podcast:

Market speculation that John Fredriksen is about to sell off his LR2 product tanker fleet. Why now?

Cleaning out? Market weighs reports of $1bn deal to make John Fredriksen’s Frontline crude again

Shipping billionaire John Fredriksen is accelerating his long-planned succession strategy

Fredriksen stocking up private VLCC fleet as Frontline linked to $1bn-plus product tanker sale

Details emerge about the horrific ordeal of the VLCC crew locked up by Equatorial Guinea and Nigeria after believing a naval vessel was a pirate ship

‘Psychological torture’ inflicted on tanker crew after vessel seized in West Africa

Guards high on drugs and alcohol spark $60m court claim over crew held hostage on VLCC

and the Maritime history professor who has become shipping's YouTube influencer

Why millions of people are watching this maritime history professor’s YouTube shipping channel

Editorial: Andy Pierce, Paul Peachey, Eric Priante Martin

Host and Producer: Craig Eason

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Looming chaos?

Fri, 03 Oct 2025 16:23:58 GMT

In this week's Wavelength podcast:

Problem solving. Cargill's Jan Dieleman explains the trading group's huge bulker deal with Costamare

Problem-solving and bulker investments: Cargill shipping boss digests Costamare Bulkers deal

Costamare seals tie-up with Cargill to invest in bulker assets, charter ships and transfer trading book

How shipping can navigate the US shutdown chaos

Here’s how the US government shutdown impacts federal maritime agencies

Tariff collection and cargo inspections continue as US Customs stays open during shutdown

There's no alternative other than chaos. International Chamber of Shipping chair designate explains why the IMO carbon deal is the deal and why ICS believes it will be approved.

‘There is no Plan B’: John Denholm says alternative to IMO carbon rules is ‘chaos’

John Denholm to take ICS reins when Emanuele Grimaldi steps down

Editorial Contributions this week: Holly Birkett, Eric Priante Martin, Yannick Guerry

Host and production: Craig Eason

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The 800 pound US gorilla

Fri, 26 Sep 2025 15:47:00 GMT

In this week’s episode, Joe Brady reports from the Association of Ship Brokers and Agents’ Miami conference on the 14 October date for new fees by the Office of the US Trade Representative.

‘It’s crazy’: Panels at ASBA Miami conference puzzle over US trade policy uncertainty

Paul Pathy: The man from Montreal tackles tariffs, port fees and trusting IMO with $30bn

We explore why International Chamber of Shipping secretary general does not want to see the IMO become a bank for shipping’s carbon cash.

‘Do not make the IMO the biggest commercial bank in the world’: ICS pleads

And we look at why diversity is still an issue and ignoring it hurts the industry.

Outdated maritime leadership is driving staff to jump ship, study warns

Assault, abuse and underlying misogyny: Gay and transgender maritime leaders share ‘battle fatigue’

Host and production by Craig Eason, with editorial contributions from Joe Brady, Eric Priante Martin, Holly Birkett and Julian Bray.

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Introducing Wavelength Plus

Wed, 24 Sep 2025 09:48:48 GMT

TradeWinds has launched Wavelength Plus, a weekly deeper dive into the shipping industry. Whether it is a one-on-one with leading shipowners, or a focused topical analysis of a kry industry theme, each week a key must listen to episode.

Wavelength Plus replaces GreenSeas, just search for TradeWinds Wavelength Plus where ever you listen to Wavelength

In this first episode Holly Birkett spoke to Holly Birkett about market spercycles, decarbonisation and John Fredriksen

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Timeout! ABS and others call for IMO to pause decarbonisation talks at 11th hour

Fri, 19 Sep 2025 10:14:30 GMT

In this episode:

US class society ABS calls on the International Maritime Organisation to take a timeout on climate talks.

‘LNG heavily penalised’ in IMO’s decarbonisation plans, says ABS boss Chris Wiernicki

‘IMO needs to take a timeout’: ABS joins US resistance to Net-Zero Framework ahead of key vote

Intertanko chief adds voice to heated fuel debate after week of ‘desire to polarise discussion’

Arsenio Dominguez confident of IMO carbon vote success in October

Global Maritime Forum report shows net-zero fuels (green ammonia, green methanol and green hydrogen) are not going to be able to meet 2030 usage targets.

Shipping off track to achieve 2030 net-zero target

And we look at the impact on shipping investors if Trump gets his way and axes quarterly reports.

Will Trump dump quarterly earnings reports for America’s listed companies?

Host and producer: Craig Eason

Additional reporting: Eric Priante Martin and Holly Birkett

A TradeWinds/DN Media poodcast

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DNV boss slams IMO approach to LNG, anti-LNG lobby slams DNV

Fri, 12 Sep 2025 11:07:57 GMT

In this week’s episode:

Technology and regulation editor Craig Eason talks to Knut Orbeck Nilssen about his criticism of how LNG is being labelled under the International Maritime Organisation’s fuel standards.

DNV’s Orbeck-Nilssen slams IMO for trying to stifle LNG as a future fuel

We also hear from Tristan Smith, at UCL Energy Institute, about his reaction to DNV claims and why he is worried about class getting involved in policy measures.

Paul Peachey has been to the annual conference of the International Union of Marine Insurers to hear why claims have been rising.

Lessons from IUMI Singapore: Protectionism, competition and technology forge a new world order for marine insurers

And Lucy Hine has been to Milan for the annual Gastech tradeshow to sample the mood of the industry.

US sends in big guns to deliver message on filling the Russian energy hole in Europe

NextDecade greenlights fourth LNG train amid growing talk of supply glut

Host: Holly Birkett

Additional reporting from Yannick Guerry, Lucy Hine, Paul Peachey and Craig Eason

Production: Craig Eason

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Is a tanker industry mega merger on the cards?

Fri, 05 Sep 2025 13:27:22 GMT

In this episode:

TradeWinds head of news Andy Pierce assesses the potential of Hafnia investing into Torm

Hafnia chief Mikael Skov champions M&A to boost profit and woo investors after Torm swoop

‘A very good nose for business’: Nordic investors weigh in on Hafnia play for tanker rival Torm

Wall Street would welcome Torm and Hafnia merger. Deal could forge $5bn company with a fleet of 300 tankers

Matt Coyne was in Donsö, the unique island off the Swedish west coast and talked to Stena Bulk chief executive Eric Hånell about the company's reflagging and work in US and Swedish security deployment

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Paul Peachey has spoken to Claire Jungman who has been hunting out sanctioned oil for United Against Nuclear Iran

Host and producer: Craig Eason

News and reporting by: Matt Coyne, Andy Pierce and Paul Peachey

Additional news: Yannick Guerry

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Getting marine fuel makers to up their game

Fri, 29 Aug 2025 13:28:55 GMT

In this week's episode:

Wavelength host has been talking to Lloyd's Register chief executive Nick Brown about his concerns over getting enough green fuel to shipping and making it fuel the industry can trust.

Tap IMO carbon money pot directly to fund fuel production and supply, says Lloyd’s Register chief Nick Brown

‘Where we need to be’: Global Maritime Forum paints positive picture of methanol and ammonia fuel infrastructure

South Korea has been meeting Trump's administration, signing trade deals and seeing opportunity in US plans to rejuvenate its shipbuilding sector.

HD Hyundai strikes investment partnership aimed at revitalising US shipbuilding

Hanwha Ocean pumps $70m into US yard to ramp up capacity

Host and producer: Craig Eason

Additional news: Eric Priante Martin and Yannick Guerry

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Profiling a suspected Iranian shadow shipping kingpin

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 13:48:59 GMT

In this week's episode:

Wavelength host Craig Eason, with the help of Blanaid Sheeran from Opportunity Green, looks at the papers sent to the International Maritime Organisation by Saudi Arabia and the US that try to derail agreement on climate rules.

Environmental law group pours cold water on latest attempts to derail climate talks

‘Strong opposition’: Trump administration fires torpedo at IMO’s carbon deal

Eric Priante profiles the huge network of an Iranian shipping kingpin linked by US authorities to shadow tankers, gas carriers and container ships.

Meet the dark-fleet kingpin whose network stretches from shadow tankers to alleged arms trading

And Holly Birkett is back with the regular look at the dry bulk market, this week with the help of Michael Jorgensen, head of dry bulk at the Torvald Klaveness group.

Extra news from Yannick Guerry on the TradeWind newsdesk

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Lloyd’s Register and Anemoi: The innovations of wind propulsion technology

Wed, 20 Aug 2025 12:51:07 GMT

Lloyd’s Register ship manager Santiago Suarez de la Fuente and ANEMOI’s technical director Luke McEwan discuss the challenges historically facing the industry as well as the demands and investment opportunities for wind propulsion technology.

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Tracking the man linked to a ship registry on an uninhabited island

Fri, 15 Aug 2025 13:20:38 GMT

In this week's episode:

Eric Priante Martin has been talking to the Center for Advanced Defense Studies which has been tracking the activities of Suniel Kuma Sharma. Sharma has been travelling the world opening ship registries including one on small Pacific island inhabited only by seabirds.

False flag agent: Meet the man linked to a network of illicit ship registries

Jonas Walsgard looks into the Norwegian Sovereign wealth fund, the largest in the world, and what shipping assets it has sold or bought in the first half of this year.

Norwegian sovereign wealth fund swoops for Maersk shares as shipping book grows to $4.8bn

And Holly Birkett is on the podcast to talk about the reaction to her opinion piece on the role of shipbrokers and sanctions regimes that has got our subscribers' attention.

Producer and host: Craig Eason.

Editorial input from: Eric Priante Martin, Jonas Walsgard, Holly Birkett, Yannick Guerry.

A TradeWinds/DN Media podcast.

Other news in this episode

Short of cash: Tor Olav Troim VLCC venture pushes back shipyard payments to buy time

Blacklisted oil trader 2Rivers to wind up under ‘extraordinary’ sanctions pressure

New US-listed Latsis family vehicle pivots to product tanker investments

Torm buys 13 leased tankers and sells older vessels as profit slashed

Why tankers are to blame for jellyfish stowaways shutting down a French nuclear power station

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Tanker markets, India and Trump

Fri, 08 Aug 2025 13:42:44 GMT

In this episode:

Paul Peachey looks at the fall out and likely outcome of Trump's continued threats to hike up tariffs on India.

Putin and Trump plan to meet as US president threatens to extend Russia trading penalty to China

Expanding European sanctions herald unexpected consequences

Trump hits India with additional tariffs for Russian oil imports in bid to punish Putin

Eric Priante Martin dissects the results of Tidewater to give a flavour of the good and bad news for the offshore markets.

Tidewater adds $400m to share value after earnings surprise

Tidewater earnings surge as revenue defies Wall Street expectations

Holly Birkett has been picking through what dry bulk operator Pacific Basin has to say about the first six months of the year.

Pacific Basin bulker earnings fall as company braces for USTR impact

Hong Kong bulker giant Pacific Basin Shipping plots how to navigate Trump’s port fees

Producer and host: Craig Eason

Additional reporting: Yannick Guerry

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Trump targets Russia's trading partners, tanker market reaction

Fri, 01 Aug 2025 11:59:01 GMT

In this episode:

Donald Trump gets impatient with Putin and brings forward penalties on India, one of the country's main importers of crude. Eric Priante Martin reports on the response from the tanker companies, which have begun reporting their first-half results.

Host Craig Eason has been talking to Interferry head of regulatory affairs Johan Roos.

Interferry said something has to be done to prevent all of shipping needing to pay twice for CO2 emissions, as there will be both the international rules and the European rules, which will lead to shipping having to pay into funds. Roos tells Craig the answer is to take shipping out of the European ETS.

TradeWinds has reported previously that African states are looking to emulate Europe with regional emissions trading schemes.

‘Administrative nightmare’: Shipowners risk having to pay twice for emissions

And Holly Birkett launches Granular, - drybulk news in small pieces- a new segment for Wavelength subscribers. In episode one the focus is on Australia to China trades (C5).

Host and production: Craig Eason

Reporting: Eric Priante Martin and Holly Birkett

Additional news: Yannick Guerry

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New Russia sanctions examined and LNG shipbuilding returns to US

Fri, 25 Jul 2025 17:02:44 GMT

In this week's episode, TradeWinds reporter Paul Peachey explains why the latest round of sanctions by the UK and European Union against Russia has significant implications for shipping. Eric Priante Martin explores the first LNG carrier order in the US in nearly five decades. Joe Brady also explains a capital markets deal by Diana Shipping that is raising eyebrows.

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Big-bucks boxship deals show big is still beautiful — but small is sublime

Fri, 18 Jul 2025 16:05:22 GMT

A $1.3bn boxship order by Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has made the front page of the TradeWinds newspaper this week.

Reporter Ian Lewis speaks to host Holly Birkett about why megaship orders are still going strong, even as most other owners are favouring smaller vessels. Ian also fills us in on the rationale behind MPC Container Ships' $228m order for four 4,500-teu boxships.

The US has threatened countries that trade with Russia with secondary trade tariffs. US bureau chief Eric Priante Martin explores the possible ramifications for shipping in the future.

Finally, reporter Matt Coyne has looked at tanker traffic in the Red Sea following the latest round of deadly Houthi attacks on vessels. He talks about some surprising trends.

Host and producer: Holly Birkett.

Additional news: Yannick Guerry.

Craig Eason is away.

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Risk special: Ships are under attack as militants and saboteurs take aim

Fri, 11 Jul 2025 15:14:41 GMT

Shipping has once again found itself in the crosshairs of conflict and military action. Militants and saboteurs have attacked vessels and their crews to show support of wider geopolitical disputes, which over the past week alone has resulted in the loss of multiple lives and the sinking of two ships in the Red Sea.

TradeWinds reporters Eric Priante Martin and Harry Papachristou discuss the rapid escalation in Houthi violence in the Red Sea.

And Paul Peachey, TradeWinds' insurance and risk correspondent, talks to host Holly Birkett about a series of vessel attacks with possible Ukrainian backing that appear to be scare tactics, designed to deter operators from lifting cargoes in Russia.

In this 'Risk Special' edition of Wavelength, we recap and explore some of the elements threatening the security of vessels and crew right now.

Craig Eason is away.

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Trump's big beautiful bill vs shipping

Fri, 04 Jul 2025 13:00:00 GMT

In this week's Wavelength newscast:

Donald Trump's big beautiful bill has got through the house of representatives after being passed, just, by the US senate. But what does it mean for shipping. US bureau chief Eric Priante Martin has the details.

Trump’s grand maritime agenda remains mostly intact after tax-and-spending bill clears Senate

A report from a group of green lawyers says that the vast money that could be raised by shipping's decarbonisation needs to have an equitable and just focus. UK -based opportunity green has argued that while shipping needs the rewards to help with its decarbonisation, there is a risk that a poor set of regulations from the International ternaitonal Maritime Organisation would damage least developed nations who are at risk of being impacted worse by climate change.

Money raised by IMO carbon rules needs to go to developing countries, green group argues

A Norwegian firefighter has argued that ships crews need mandatory training on lithium ion fires. A number of fires on car carriers believed to have been caused by electric vehicles and indicents where marine battery systems have caught fire and exploded suggest more needs to be done to make crwws aware and avoid making the wrong decisions.

How to tackle an explosive battery fire, according to man who battled Norwegian ferry blaze

Allianz issued statistics this week showing that cargo theft numbers have been rising. TradeWinds Paul Peachey talks to Allianz's Justus Heinrich.

Criminal gangs target ships as cargo theft cases spike globally

Host and producer: Craig Eason

Additional news: Yannick Guerry

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Tanker rates in the aftermath of Iran attacks and why seafarers keep dying

Fri, 27 Jun 2025 13:29:06 GMT

In this episode of the wavelength podcast:

Matt Coyne examines the ongoing impact of Middle East tension on tanker rates.

In the week of the Day of the Seafarer, insurance and risk reporter Paul Peachey looks at why seafarer deaths remain so high.

And the ship recycling convention is now in force. What's good, what's bad about it?

The father of the convention Nikos Mikelis comments on the challenges it faces from the Basel Convention, especially as it was Basel that asked the International Maritime Organization to handle shipping.

Producer and host: Craig Eason

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So, what happened in the Gulf this week?

Fri, 20 Jun 2025 15:04:21 GMT

In this episode:

TradeWinds’ Gary Dixon looks at what has happened in the Gulf after two tankers collided and caught fire.

We also look at the developments in satellite spoofing and jamming and how the Israel-Iran conflict could affect shipping in and outside the region.

We hear the story of a Chinese master who refused to frame his crew when drugs were found on his ship, and how he spent two years in prison without being properly charged.

And Lucy Hine gives listeners a round-up of recent developments in the CO2 shipping market after we reported on vessel deliveries and new partnerships for transportation for the nascent carbon capture and sequestration market.

Producer and host: Craig Eason

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A cut in the Russia oil price cap and US car carrier fees back down

Fri, 13 Jun 2025 14:28:03 GMT

In this episode:

TradeWinds Paul Peachey talks to former chair of International Group's sanctions committee Malin Hogberg about Europe's plans to slash the Russian oil price cap.

Eric Priante Martin examines the US plans to review the fees for car carriers enetering the country

Also we dig into the latest data from the signatories of the Sea Cargo Charter and the concerns researchers have about it and similar private initiatives seeking to stimulate shippings decarbonisation journey.

And we get Granular, a new regular feature in Wavelength lifting the lid on the dry bulk markets with Holly Birkett.

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Barstad, Marinakis, Kerry, tariffs, clean fuel rules and Nottingham Forest

Fri, 06 Jun 2025 16:16:05 GMT

This week’s rundown of what is happening comes from the TradeWinds Shipowners Forum where editor-in-chief Julian Bray gets into details with Evangelos Marinakis owner of Capital Maritime & Trading, and Lars Barstad of Frontline.

We also hear from Norway’s leading climate negotiator, Sveinung Oftedal, as well as Marie-Caroline Laurent of MSC Group and Andrian Dacy of JP Morgan Asset Management’s Global Transport Group.

There’s also former US secretary of state John Kerry and Andrew Forest, owner and executive chair of mining giant, talking to Craig Eason on the Nor-Shipping Blue Talks stage.

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Ammonia v LNG

Fri, 30 May 2025 13:39:05 GMT

In this episode:

Host Craig Eason talks to Tristan Smith from University College London about a new academic paper assessing the costs of ownership for shipowners when they opt for new fuels, and why he calls ammonia fuel the 'no brainer' choice.

Steve Esau from Sea-LNG is on hand to counter that position though.

We have an interview with Roberto Cazzulo, current chair of the international Association of Classification Societies about the challenges facing class as they develop safety guidance for all the cleantech solutions emerging.

And Eric Priante looks at why the US administration's tariffs and trade policies have led to investors calling taco

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Turning shipping's latest sanction screws

Fri, 23 May 2025 14:16:45 GMT

In this week's episode:

Paul Peachey examines the latest round of UK and EU sanctions imposed on vessels and people who are believed to be involved in the shadow fleet.

Eric Priante Martin has been digging into the big earners in shipping. Here's his countdown

Holly Birkett has been talking to Kpler about the market movers.

and Craig Eason talks to a gardening shipping executive who has turned to AI to get insights into the financial results of his old company.

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On women, and men

Fri, 16 May 2025 05:00:00 GMT

International Women in Maritime Day is on May 18th every year.

But is Gender equality in the maritime industries under threat as some regions appear to push back on DEI drives?

Also, what can men do? Is gender a women only issue, or something from the boardroom down regardless of who you are?

Craig Eason and Holly Birkett are joined in the Wavelength studio by Anne Jensen, chief operating office of Danish shipowner Norden Matt Duke, chief executive, Grieg Maritime Group for a special episode.

Here's our WiM Day 2025 articles:

‘We must redouble our efforts,’ IMO calls for action on gender diversity setback

Chronic lack of young female seafarers highlights shipping’s diversity crisis

Africa and women are an obvious answer to global seafarer shortage

Reframing the narrative for women in maritime

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Product tankers, bulkers, and are the seafarers on them happy?

Fri, 09 May 2025 14:38:54 GMT

In this week's episode:

Tradewinds correspondent Gary Dixon discusses the product tanker markets as the first quarter results come in. What's up and what's down?

2020 Bulkers comes under the spotlight of Holly Birkett.

And are seafarer's happy? The Mission to Seafarers has issued its annual barometer of seafarer welfare, the Seafarer Happiness Index. Its founder and stalwart supporter of seafarers Steven Jones looks at the results

News briefs from Yannick Guerry.

Host: Craig Eason

Producer: Craig Eason/TradeWinds

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Shareholder disgruntlement at Clarksons

Fri, 02 May 2025 14:08:24 GMT

This is shipping's free to access weekly news summary from the TradeWinds news team. You can also find the news show on all major podcast platforms.

In this week's episode:

Gary Dixon looks at what's been going on at Clarkson's one of shipping’s biggest broker houses, as shareholder disgruntlement over bonuses grows despite record profits.

Eric Priante Martin talks to Alexander Saverys about merging Golden Ocean's fossil fuel-powered dry bulk fleet with CMB.Tech’s fleet of vessels.

Holly Birkett picks up the mood in the drybulk market after spending time in Geneva.

Swallowing Golden Ocean

Fri, 25 Apr 2025 12:49:53 GMT

In this episode:

Holly Birkett joins host Craig Eason to analyse the news that CMB.Tech has said it will merge Golden Ocean in a move many saw coming, but at what price?

Eric Priante Martin digs into the finalised tariff announcements in the US and why car carriers and ro-ro operators are shocked. But does the Trump administration understand shipping yet?

Sandra Boga talks to Mark Dickinson from ITF and the seafarer union Nautilus about news on crew wages going up, international requirements on fair treatment of crews and rest hours aimed at tackling fatigue.

Hosted and produced by Craig Eason/TradeWinds

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Easter special: have events of the past two weeks changed shipping forever?

Fri, 18 Apr 2025 09:44:31 GMT

In this Easter special episode of the Wavelength podcast, TradeWinds’ editor-in-chief Julian Bray has the floor in conversation with reporter Holly Birkett.

The question is: following new policies set by the IMO and by US president Donald Trump’s administration, have events of the past two weeks changed shipping forever?

Are the “easy” days of shipping done?

Is there any end in sight for The Age of Uncertainty?

Don't expect any easy answers!

Craig Eason is away.

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Trump's attack on shipping and the climate battles at the IMO

Fri, 11 Apr 2025 22:49:02 GMT

In this episode Eric Priante Martin and Craig Eason examine Trump's latest moves on shipping and the fights at the IMO to find a compromise deal on how shipping will be made to decarbonise

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Are Trump's tariffs terrifying shipping?

Fri, 04 Apr 2025 16:23:27 GMT

In this episode:

Eric Priante Martin keeps us updated on Trump's tariffs and how they impact shipping

Host, Craig Eason, talks to experts about what has been happening behind the scenes at the IMO as climate talks reach a climax

and Insurance correspondent Paul Peachey joins Craig Eason to dig into the initial accident investigation report into the Solong collision with Stena Immaculate last month

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Trump policies spark concern and criticism in Washington and Singapore

Fri, 28 Mar 2025 16:42:57 GMT

In this episode

Eric Martin speaks to supply chain representatives who expressed concern over new US port fees for China-linked vessels during hearings in Washington DC this week,

Caroline Yang, president of the Singapore Shipping Association, tells the TradeWinds Shipowners’ Forum in the Lion City that Trump is creating uncertainty that is not good for shipping,

Paul Peachey speaks to Skuld CEO Stale Hansen about whether the sanctions-influenced shift of vessels to protection and indemnity (P&I) insurers in countries like China and India means the International Group of P&I Clubs should increase its Asian membership,

and host Holly Birkett speaks to green fuels consultancy group Green Marine, which has helped put together a submission to the IMO’s upcoming Marine Environment Protection Committee for pure ethanol as a marine fuel

Host: Holly Birkett.

Produced by TradeWinds.

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Fredriksen’s savvy play and Hing Chao’s warning that ‘global trade is under threat’

Fri, 21 Mar 2025 13:20:26 GMT

In this week’s Wavelength podcast, Joe Brady tells episode host Eric Priante Martin why John Fredriksen’s purchase of a stake in Star Bulk Carriers represented a smart arbitrage move after the Norwegian shipping tycoon sold out of another bulker owner.

Craig Eason interviews Wah Kwong Maritime Transport chairman Hing Chao about the threat that the policies of US President Donald Trump pose to shipping.

Sandra Boga talks to Rafet Emek Kurt, who heads the Maritime Human Factors Centre at the University of Strathclyde at the UK’s University of Strathclyde, about seafarer safety in ammonia-fuelled shipping.

And Paul Peachey reports on the link between misdeclared cargoes and container ship fires.

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What really happened onboard the ships that collided in the North Sea? Update on US fees on Chinese ships and changing of the guard at CTM

Fri, 14 Mar 2025 14:54:49 GMT

In this episode

Host, Craig Eason, talks to experienced master mariner and maritime accident investigator Captain Jim Staples on the question of fatigue, technology

(p.s 'gundecking' is US maritime slang for faking reports)

Paul Peachey assesses the risk and liability questions around the allision

Eric Priante Martin helps you unravel some of the questions about the US intention to place fees on Chinese-built ships

and Holly Birkett chats to Carlos Pena and John Michael Radziwill about the changes at Sea Transport Maritime Group

Host Craig Eason

Produced by TradeWinds

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Reaction to Fredriksen selling Golden Ocean, Trump says US will build ships again, and at the ball with Wista UK

Fri, 07 Mar 2025 13:27:01 GMT

In this week’s episode:

Gary Dixon and Jonas Walsgard on the reaction to Norwegian tycoon John Fredriksen’s sudden sale of his stake in dry bulk owner Golden Ocean to Savery’s CMB.tech.

Eric Priante Martin reports on plans for the US to relaunch its commercial shipbuilding industry.

And Wista UK has a ball with Sandra Boga there to pick up the mood ahead of International Women’s Day.

Host and producer: Craig Eason

A TradeWinds news editorial production

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Trump targets shipping, and this time its not with tariffs, nuclear shipping and results season round up

Fri, 28 Feb 2025 14:31:42 GMT

In this episode:

US bureau chief Eric Priante Martin talks to shipping experts about Donald Trump’s ire on Chinese ships.

Paul Peachey investigates the growing interest in nuclear-powered ships.

And, it’s full-year results season in shipping, so we’ve gathered TradeWinds sector correspondents to offer their views on the annual results.

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The case of the ammonia-less ammonia carriers, the latest climate talks at the IMO, and is shipping being sabotaged?

Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:31:36 GMT

In this week’s episode we have a new host, TradeWinds’ Paul Peachey.

Eric Priante Martin looks at the potential disparity between the sudden ammonia carrier orderbook and the supply of ammonia being seen as essential for industrial decarbonisation. It forms part of the TradeWinds’ Special Report on Energy Shipping now available for subscribers.

Also, the first two months of 2025 have been full of casualty announcements, with TradeWinds reporting at least 18. But for some of these, deliberate sabotage is not being ruled out. TradeWinds casualty correspondent Gary Dixon joins the podcast to dig into the numbers.

And Craig Eason looks at what happened this week behind the closed doors at the International Maritime Organization where five of 11 days of debate to decide shipping’s future have now passed.

Host: Paul Peachey

Producer: Craig Eason

A TradeWinds News production

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Iran, closed door GHG talks to change shipping for ever, P&I transfers and Gas bloodbath

Fri, 14 Feb 2025 17:09:54 GMT

In this episode:

Eric Priante Martin reports on US sanctions on Iran giving shipping mixed message

University College London’s Tristan Smith joins host Craig Eason to explain as the IMO kicks off five of the last 11 days of talks that will change shipping forever

Here's a link to a IMO GHG talks Q and A

Also, the protection and indemnity club transfer window is set to close as renewal season ends.

And is there an LNG bloodbath? We discuss the market horrors of LNG carrier owners.

Host: Craig Eason

Produced by the editorial team at TradeWinds

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Can a tariff war disrupt global trade and shipping? plus Europe pushes on with green rules as US dithers and dry bulk operators get an appetite for project cargo

Fri, 07 Feb 2025 16:42:51 GMT

In the week's Wavelength podcast:

Eric Priante Martin looks at the US fuelled tariff war and what it means now and later in the year.

Host Craig Eason looks at how Europe has no intention in easing back on its green rhetoric as EMSA publishes its second European Maritime Transport Environment Report.

and,

Holly Birkett dives into the dry bulk sector to look at the growing appetite to get involved in project cargoes.

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The need for a big CO2 levy, tanker market scratches its head and the scourge of seafarer abandonment

Fri, 31 Jan 2025 16:27:27 GMT

In this week's episode

Host Craig Eason talks with UCL's leading decarbonisation researcher Tristan Smith about its latest paper showing that only a proposed levy will do the job of funding clean fuels and making the transition equitable

And Oslo-based tanker correspondent Matt Coyne discusses the confusing messages from Donald Trump that have the tanker brokers scratching their heads.

and the scourge of the industry that just keeps on going. Seafarer abandonment is not only still an issue, it seems to be getting worse.

Wavelength talks to the ITF about its concerns as the number of cases exploded in 2024

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Trump's orders, busting carbon budgets and huge clean fuel liabilities

Fri, 24 Jan 2025 17:03:32 GMT

In this week's episode of the Wavelength podcast:

Eric Priante Martin looks at the executive orders by US president Donald Trump that could influence shipping,

Holly Birkett talks to Fearnley's head of research Dag Kilen about the geopolitical trends set to influence shipping,

Also, Wavelength host Craig Eason talks to UCL research scientists Marie Fricaudet and Nish Rehmatulla about their new report showing how shipping is emitting far too much CO2 if it wants to remain on track

And Haris Zografakis, partner at law firm Stephenson Harwood, joins the show to explain how there is a gaping liability hole which could leave shipowners high and dry if they have accidents with green fuel powered ships.

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Trump, Putin and a ceasefire — what a start to 2025

Fri, 17 Jan 2025 17:06:07 GMT

In this episode of TradeWinds Wavelength:

Eric Priante Martin takes a look at the impact of Donald Trump's return to the White House on shipping.

TradeWinds insurance and risk reporter Paul Peachey joins Wavelength host Craig Eason to discuss the latest round of sanctions on the dark fleet and why this time there seems to be change.

And Oslo based tanker correspondent Matt Coyne analyses what an Israeli-Hamas ceasefire may mean to the Houthis and the Red Sea attacks on shipping.

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Sabotage ship highlights Baltic risks with old, poor quality tonnage, plusCOSCO gets blacklisted by the US

Fri, 10 Jan 2025 15:24:02 GMT

In this episode, we look at the latest news from the Baltic Sea with the help of former EMSA boss Markku Mylly, a maritime safety veteran.

Did the Eagle S anchor get released by accident and how can Finland respond to the risks of a shadow tanker disaster?

Eric Priante Martin looks at the implications of the US labelling COSCO a military company.

Produced and hosted by Craig Eason

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The free Baltic Exchange FuelEU calculator, UECC’s bet on biomethane and FUMES 2 chasing fugitive methane

Fri, 13 Dec 2024 16:42:27 GMT

In this episode, Craig Eason talks to Martine Crawford-Brunt about the Baltic Exchange’s Fuel EU Maritime calculator for industry. Also, Eric Priante Martin talks to United European Car Carriers about its growing belief in biomethane, and we take a look a the ongoing battle against methane emissions from shipping, both during loading cargos of LNG and from using LNG as a fuel.

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More naval vessels to the Red Sea please. MAN's MEGA issue. Hagen's Viking Holding bonanza

Fri, 06 Dec 2024 14:03:28 GMT

In this episode of the Wavelength podcast:

The head of the EU’s Red Sea naval force Aspides says that shipping needs more military assets in the region.

MAN ES defends its decision to axe the MEGA gas engines as WinGD says it is picking up orders.

Torsten Hagen's New York listing bonanza with Viking Holdings.

And, TradeWinds finance correspondent Jonas Walsgard talks to Storebrand’s top fund manager Hans Thrane Nielsen about the shipping stocks he sees as hot, and those that are not.

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What does bellwether Frontline say about prospects for the markets and what links Mark Zuckerberg's Meta and Norden?

Fri, 29 Nov 2024 16:03:39 GMT

In this episode:

We look what Frontline had to say about its third quarter results and what this says about the prospects of the tanker markets.

And we delve into book and claim with the Smart Freight Centre after Meta and Norden sign a market agreement on emissions

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An anniversary no one wants, the Bahri barometer and recycling

Fri, 22 Nov 2024 12:00:25 GMT

In this week's episode:

We look at a year of attacks in the Red Sea, who is funding them, and what could happen next.

BRS Shipbrokers were out in force at Bahri Week which has become the place to be apparently for the tanker markets. So we get the BRS Bahri barometer

Following the TradeWinds Ship Recycling event we offer a peek into what was said and how one speaker thinks there will be a scrap steel market in Europe that could boost EU recycling

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Benchmarking vessels on similar routes, cyber risk taking and commodities bull run

Fri, 15 Nov 2024 11:59:37 GMT

In this episode:

Danish Ship Finance innovation guru Christopher Rex explains is ideas for benchmarking fuel consumption on similar routes, setting a fuel budget and sharing the benefits, even with the ship crew.

Sandra Boga talks to WFW lawyer Sumeet Malhotra on whay commodities are set for a bull run thanks to Trump's relection

and Paul Peachey looks at the continued risks being taken by shipping who do not take cyber security seriously. More cyber risk and security news from the last week can be found here.

produced by Tradewinds

Host: Craig Eason

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A shipbuilding boom dominated by China, the impact of Trump and the election day shuttle tanker deal reveal by Angelicoussis

Fri, 08 Nov 2024 11:10:44 GMT

In this episode:

Newbuilding order numbers are large, and the order book continues to grow. China has the lion’s share of this but what’s next? It is all in the TradeWinds shipbuilding special report.

How could the re-election of Donald Trump impact shipping in the US and globally? We sift through the rhetoric.

And the biggest shuttle tanker deal gets announced on UK election day. We assess the Angelicoussis deal for Altera Shuttle tankers.

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Halloween is over so what’s spooking investors in car carriers? Plus Scorpio Tankers invests in VLCC company and FuelEU edges closer

Fri, 01 Nov 2024 14:52:53 GMT

In this episode:

Boo! No surprises in car carrier companies’ third-quarter results — apart from the reaction from investors.
Scorpio Tankers is getting dirty by taking a stake in VLCC company DHT Holdings. We dig into the details.
Two months remain before the new FuelEU law enters into force. TradeWinds speaks to those helping companies prepare.

Hosted by Holly Birkett (Craig Eason is away).

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Is ABS liable for a lethal capsize? 6 years of the Poseidon Principles and DNB's new climate transition loans

Fri, 25 Oct 2024 05:23:05 GMT

In this episode:

ABS in wrongful death court fight that could test classification society liability

Citi’s Michael Parker calls for shipowner emissions data to be made public

DNB launches ‘missing link’ loans for shipping’s green transition

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Sanctions. US and UK up the sanctions ante against Iran and Russia. NYK boss Soga talks investment and competition. And the era of noble-isation is here

Fri, 18 Oct 2024 05:04:39 GMT

In this week's episode:

The US turned up the sanctions heat on Iran while the UK did the same with Russia. Will they make a difference?

NYK boss Takaya Soga talks to Julian Bray on the TradeWinds Shipowner Forum stage in Japan about competition and investment.

Norden's head of dry cargo Asia Peter Koch Hansen, talks to TradeWinds about the company's position in China market, and why a slow down is not really being felt.

And Holly Birkett has a chat with one of shipping's most well known futurists, KD Adamson, on the sidelines of the 50th anniversary of WISTA, the Women in Shipping and Trading association, and asked her to explain her view of the future and what the trends today mean.

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Examining the US and UK funding plans for shipping’s transition, RightShip's age drop for ship inspections and supply chain chaos if Houthi attacks stop

Fri, 11 Oct 2024 14:57:42 GMT

In this episode:

Maritime clean fuel projects in the US are suffering as promised tax relief fails to materialise.

The UK shipping industry lays out how much it wants from the new Labour government to its transition.

RightShip boss Steen Lund elaborates on dropping the age trigger for dry bulk inspections from 14 down to 10.

and

Maersk explains why it thinks there will be chaos in the container trade when the Houthi attacks stop and Red Sea transits can start again.

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One year to regulatory certainty as IMO carbon talks reach final lap, LNG bunker vessel demand rockets and the US ESG shipping scorecard

Fri, 04 Oct 2024 20:08:54 GMT

In this episode:

One year to go until shipping has certainty over the GHG rules that will make it decarbonise

Meanwhile shipowners continue ordering gas-powered ships, meaning there is a shortage of bunker vessels to supply the fuel, and there are some new companies entering the market to fill the gap.

and

There is a US based ESG scorecard that ranks 64 listed shipping companies. We look at who is top, who is bottom and who seems to be on a downward slope

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Supersizing, slow fuels, risk profiling and drybulk games

Fri, 27 Sep 2024 12:32:15 GMT

The Wavelength podcast is produced by the editorial news team at TradeWinds, the leading maritime and shipping news site. More details on the stories can be found on TradeWindsnews.com.

In this week's programme:

The UCL/Getting to Zero report showing how shipping is behind on the road to decarbonisation with even the first, 2030, target likely to be missed.

Just how does Wallenius Wilhelmsen justify superzising four car carrier newbuildings that will now have a 11,700 car capacity.

The researcher who says port state control is not selecting the right vessels for safety inspections and has a software model to help them.

Insights into the dry bulk market. TradeWinds Holly Birkett looks at what's happening with Western Bulk and Peter Twiss.

Hosted by Craig Eason

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How a faulty wire can save Dali's owner millions, US port fees for Chinese built ships, the ‘accident waiting to happen’ in the icey Baltic, and how shipowners fail on ESG reporting

Fri, 20 Sep 2024 12:33:44 GMT

In this week’s Wavelength podcast:

US investigators say a faulty wire in a switchboard on MV Dali may have caused the blackout that led to the vessel smashing into the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore earlier this year. Could this help the shipowner and manager’s attempts to limit their financial liability?

The US Biden administration is considering a port fee on Chinese-built ships in the latest stage of a trade war between the two countries.

There is growing concern of a Baltic Sea disaster. The dark fleet of old, possibly uninsured, sanctions-busting tankers shuttling oil out of Russia will soon face ice conditions in the shallow sensitive waters of the nearly landlocked sea.

And sustainability reporting is soon to be mandatory, but shipowners are behind the curve with European regulations set to come into force next year. We ask what they need to do to get themselves ready.

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Bans, bonds, barometers and promises

Fri, 13 Sep 2024 14:56:13 GMT

In this week's episode:

UK and USA increase shipping sanctions, but this time in retaliation to Iran giving Russia missiles to use against Ukraine

The bond markets are getting hungry for shipping.

The UK shipping minister Mike Kane makes one of his first appearances

and the International Chamber of Shipping publishes its third industry barometer. ICS, secretary general Guy Platten lists what's keeping shipping executives up at night

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From SMM: bottlenecks in the yards, future fuel prices will not drop

Fri, 06 Sep 2024 08:44:24 GMT

In this episode we look at the risks of bottlenecks in engines supplied to newbuildings, yard capacity for retrofits and why the price of future fuels may not drop quickly enough for favourable offtake agreements to be signed.

From the TradeWinds Shipowner Forum with DNV maritime head Knut-Orbeck Nilssen, Odfjell chief sustainability officer, Oistein Jensen, Rob Stevens, Topso, Rolf Habben Jensen, chief executive, Hapag Lloyd

From SMM, Bjarne Foldager, head of two stroke engines, MAN ES and Arne Maibohm decarbonisation director, Hapag Lloyd.

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Sounion's insurance questions, DNV says its more than shipping that needs a kick, and a shipping fund manager gives us tips

Fri, 30 Aug 2024 14:22:26 GMT

In this episode:

Question about the Delta Tankers MV Sounion. It sits abandoned, boarded by houthis, set on fire and fully laden with crude oil. What next?

DNV offers TradeWInds an insight to what tech and fuels it thinks are getting traction. And who needs a kick in the backside to get the decarbonisation job done

and a DNB fund manager explains to TradeWinds which shipping stock he has chosen for an equity fund, and why.

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Navios’ big debt, UK shipping’s missing decarbonisation plan, Youngship’s Shipcon

Fri, 23 Aug 2024 10:17:02 GMT

In this episode:

Eric Priante Martin examines Navios Maritime Partners’ financial results and focuses on its debt.

Sandra Boga talks to UK Chamber of Shipping director of communications Tom Bartosak-Harlow about calls for the UK government to finally publish a maritime decarbonisation plan.

And Holly Birkett has been in Oslo for the Youngship conference, Shipcon.

Host: Craig Eason, TradeWinds

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Growth of the dark LNG fleet, VLCC sunshine and dry-bulk detention risks

Fri, 16 Aug 2024 09:35:32 GMT

In this week's Wavelength programme:

We look at what is behind the growth of a dark fleet of LNG carriers used to beat trade sanctions with insights from Flex LNG chief executive Oystein Kalleklev and Lucy Hine.

The VLCC market gets our attention as market analysts see storm clouds and sunshine. TradeWind's deputy editor Eric Priante Martin takes the temperature with help from DHT chief executive Svein Moxnes Harfjeld.

And, dry bulk port state detentions get Rightship’s attention. Chief executive Steen Lund talks with podcast host Craig Eason about the role of vetting inspections to bring numbers down.

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Leif Hoegh and Norden on investments and Maersk’s methanol pivot

Fri, 09 Aug 2024 15:06:33 GMT

In this week's episode of Wavelength:

Hoegh Autoliners chairman and major shareholder Leif O Hoegh talks about the decision to go big and early with newbuildings.

We delve into the decisions by dry bulk operators such as Copenhagen-based Norden to buy assets and offload at a profit after years of moving to an asset-light business model.

And we look deeper at the decision by Maersk to go to LNG after painting itself green with methanol.

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LNG fuelled collision, Scorpio sets the pace, West P&I heads East

Fri, 02 Aug 2024 12:19:20 GMT

In this week's wavelength podcast, we talk about:

The collision of two bulkers was caught on video and captured our interest.

One of them is LNG duel-fuelled and a stern-mounted fuel tank is ripped open.

No LNG leak was reported, but Lucy Hine notes it is not the first incident involving a vessel carrying LNG

We dive into the Scorpio Tankers results and some of the interesting comments during an analyst call, including why the company would not invest in scrubbers today.

And UK-based West P&I is heading West. It is opening up an office in Dubai, the first P&I Club to do so.

Its chief executive Tom Bowsher talks to Paul Peachey about the reasons and how it will protect itself from the risks of ongoing sanctions and the dark fleet.

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Dark fleet tanker fears, cruise investors spoil the party and behind the scenes at Ardmore

Fri, 26 Jul 2024 10:40:36 GMT

In this week's episode.

An update on what has happened in the last week after two tankers collided off Singapore and Malaysia

Cruise ship giant Royal Caribbean parties but investors have questions.

After Anthony Gurnee, Ardmore founder and CEO announced his retirement, TradeWinds went to Cork for an exit interview

As the European Commissioners start a new term in office, there's a refocus on the green deal and ensuring financing is in place as Europe tackles tough competition.

MSC has put forward its position on the potential use of the Northern Sea Route following disruption on to major trade arteries

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Update on VLCC and LR1 tanker disaster, refuting Houthi Med attack claims, strike risks in US and WISTA at 50

Fri, 19 Jul 2024 14:26:48 GMT

July 19th 2024

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Crowley settles, Ultra Galaxy lists and grounds, and Houthis go for swarm attacks

Fri, 12 Jul 2024 14:16:16 GMT

US-based conglomerate Crowley has come to a settlement agreement on sex tracking allegations. Eric Priante Martin looks at what this means and the larger picture in the US.

We look at the lead-up to the Ultra Galaxy listing dramatically and then drifting onto the South African beaches in bad weather. We also hear from the South African Maritime Safety Authority about salvage plans

And experts assess the risk of swarm attacks by Houthis in the Red Sea as their strategy to disrupt shipping evolves.

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A billion-dollar offshore deal, the boxship bonanza and concerning seafarer safety stats

Fri, 05 Jul 2024 15:07:38 GMT

In this episode of the Wavelength podcast:

Dof Group of Norway this week announced a plan to buy fellow offshore supply vessel owner Maersk Supply Service for $1.1bn — could similar deals be on the way?

Gianluigi Aponte’s Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) will soon control one-fifth of the world’s container fleet but as the orderbook racking up, could there be a risk of fleet overcapacity on the horizon?

Finally, new claims data collated by protection and indemnity insurer Gard shows a worrying rise in crew injuries and sheds new light on suicide at sea.

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Cyber resilience rules kick in, pushing newbuilding orders forward, Arctic fuel oil ban has gaping exemptions and meeting the Essbergers

Fri, 28 Jun 2024 11:44:53 GMT

In this episode

On 1 July new cyber resilience requirements come into force for newbuildings. It’s made shipowners speed up orders.

There is a ban on fuel oil use in the Arctic. It could have little impact due to gaping exemptions.

We met with John T Essberger in Germany as the quiet chemical tanker player christens two newbuildings and celebrates a century of business.

And in Singapore, as the authorities build a massive new container terminal there are concerns seafarers’ needs will no longer be met.

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More deaths in the Red Sea, V.Group sold again, the growing influence of the Sea Cargo Charter

Fri, 21 Jun 2024 10:01:15 GMT

Hosted by Craig Eason, in this week's episode, we keep our attention fixed on what is going on in the Red Sea as the MV Tutor sinks.

The sale of the ship manager V.Group is also in our sights as Gary Dixon talks to its chief executive Rene Kodof Olsen.

Cargo owners who are signatories to the Sea Cargo Charter reveal their data for the third year in a row, and reveal the ways they are getting the data from the shipowners whose vessels they hire.

And in San Francisco, Eric Priante Martine goes onboard the first hydrogen-powered ferry to see how it works and why things went so slowly to get it on the water.

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Altera Infrastructure v police prosecutor over scrapping tankers in India, behind the scenes at Stolt Nielsen and the dark fleet from Ukraine's perspective

Fri, 14 Jun 2024 09:00:53 GMT

In this week’s Wavelength podcast, we hear from the police prosecutor who issued Altera Infrastructure with a $700,000 fine for exporting two shuttle tankers for scrapping in India in contravention of the European waste shipping directive.

We take a peek at chemical tanker operator Stolt Nielsen as the company hosts its first capital market day in a decade.

And Paul Peachey talks to the Kyiv School of Economics to get its take on the dark fleet and how the international community will suddenly take more notice of it when something goes wrong.

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Dark fleet dominates Posidonia discussions, Panama Canal seeks more water and the biggest ever wind propulsion order

Fri, 07 Jun 2024 15:32:20 GMT

In this episode we focus on a topic that kept recurring during the Posidonia TradeWinds Shipowner Forum, the dangers of an ageing dark fleet tankers, that often secretly meet to perform ship to ship transfers.

We hear from Julian Bray, TradeWinds Editor in Chief, Michael Parker, Global Industry head of shipping at Citi and Evangelos Marinakis, Greek Shipping doyen and founder of Capital Maritime.

Also

Eric Priante Martin reports on plans that the Panama Canal Authority has for finding extra water and get a glimpse of the topic of the latest Green Seas podcast, hearing why Union Maritime has decided to put cleantech wind propulsion systems onboard 34 newbuildings.

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Greek owners open wallets for second hand and newbuilding vessels, the Houthi attack on Laax, and is general average the answer to slow steaming

Fri, 31 May 2024 13:37:17 GMT

In Wavelength this week we look at the Greek orderbook as big names go big with their wallets ratcheting up both second hand purchases and $40bn of newbuilding orders ahead of Posidonia

Houthi attacks on a bulk vessel, Laax, and other vessels send shock waves around the insurance market

Weather damages US navy pier in Gaza halting shipments of humanitarian aid to Gaza

Why general average could well become the answer to slow steaming as Blue Visby consortium assesses its successes.

Host Craig Eason, produced by TradeWInds

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Are flag states influencing port state inspections? Shippings safety barometer published by Allianz, and what's behind broker houses getting fined

Fri, 24 May 2024 11:16:24 GMT

In this week's episode of Wavelength.

Are Port State Control inspectors being urged to turn a blind eye to glaring safety deficiencies and not retain substandard ships?

Shipping's annual safety and risk barometer is published. We hear form the author on some of the key risk pressure points.

Clarkson's could be fined $2m by regulators. It is not the only one to fall foul of the rules. What's going on

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What caused the Dali to crash into the bridge, inside the shipbrokers: a woman's view

Fri, 17 May 2024 12:00:22 GMT

The US National Transportation Safety Board publishes preliminary findings into the Dali accident in Baltimore with focus on the ship's electricity switchboard

and

Holly Birkett and Lucy Hine have been talking to female shipbrokers about working in the 'boys club'

Host: Craig Eason

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Tanker markets rocketing, dark fleet gets darker, ‘green corridors’ questions and seismic Baltic tweeks

Fri, 10 May 2024 08:00:18 GMT

In this episode US Bureau Chief Eric Priante Martin looks at the bullish tanker markets who are reaping the benefits of a solid market.

We visit the TradeWinds Shipowner Forum in Singapore where discussions turned to possible impact of elections (think 2nd term of Trump in the US) on shipping markets, and also at the whole idea of green corridors and they they my be flawed.

Then back to the tankers market and the growing dark fleet taking oil cargoes from Russia, Venezuela etc in contravention of sanctions and price caps. We look at the numbers with Windward.

Yannick Guerry on the TW news desk brings us upto speed with other news this week

Hosted by Craig Eason

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Marine insurers' upset with Russia price cap regime, hundreds of gas carriers on order, are we still decarbonising. Carnival's big gas bet

Fri, 03 May 2024 11:38:42 GMT

This week's episode of TradeWinds Wavelength: Sanctions and the oil price cap, a UK Parliamentary inquiry into them wants to see what is working and what is not. Marine insurers and P&I clubs have an idea. The huge LNG orderbook train rumbles on, but why when the world should be weaning itself off fossil fuels and why Carnival says LNG is its fuel of choice.

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Laissez-faire about climate, focused on profit? containers and car carriers. The threats to whistleblowers

Fri, 26 Apr 2024 10:17:42 GMT

In this episode Eric Priante Martin has been talking to US-listed shipowners about their priorities, and the lack of pressure they have to decarbonise their operations.

We delve into the car carrier markets with news that the Aponte led MSC has made a grab for Gram Car Carriers.

And Holly Birkett goes to Chirp to talk safety and the real fears whistleblower still have of reporting anything.

Other news mentioned:

Norden profits dent

Houthi launch fresh attacks in Red Sea

Greece v Germany

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Genco boardroom brawl, cargo owners sign on the line to pay extra to get clean ocean supply chain

Fri, 19 Apr 2024 10:28:14 GMT

This week the TradeWinds news team look at boardroom brawl at listed bulk operator Genco. At the TradeWinds Shipowners Forum USA in New York, Joe Brady asked Genco chief executive John Wobensmith what has been going on. Also on the Forum Us Bureau chief Eric Priante Martin heard from shipowners about the impact of geopolitical tensions and in Singapore Craig Eason spoke to Zemba, the cargo owners alliance which has said it will pay extra for cargoes to be shipped green, and have signed a contract to do so.

Show host: Holly Birkett

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NYSE gets excited over new tanker shipping stock, Copenhagen's musical executive chairs, and Asia's new building slot gamble

Fri, 12 Apr 2024 04:42:04 GMT

TradeWinds' NY correspondent Joe Brady talks us through recent IPO of Hafnia on the NYSE and what this implies for both NY and Oslo. Holly Birkett is back from Copenhagen where she found a swather of senior shipping names are moving about like its a football transfer window, and Lucy Hine has the update on the surge in newbuilding orders in Asia as cash rich owners place their bets.

Hosted by Craig Eason.

Links to stories

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Is bad fuel to blame for the Dali accident? How are the crew on the ship? And can the Baltic Exchange get more investors interested in shipping?

Fri, 05 Apr 2024 12:52:49 GMT

The investigation continues into what caused the blackout of the containership Dali and how it led to the collapse of a major road bridge in Baltimore, but how are the crew doing? and are fuel impurities a cause of the blackout and power issues before the vessel even left port?

We also discuss the Baltic Exchanges new indices and how they may or may not bring more finance into shipping.

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Steps closer to decarbonisation, Norway's shipowners get taxed, drybulk buyers hit by bubble and the unknown Jones Act

Fri, 22 Mar 2024 17:33:15 GMT

In the TradeWinds Wavelength podcast this week we update you on the IMO talks about decarbonising the industry, ask if shipowners are being hounded out of Norway, examine the dry bulk bubble which may soon burst, and discover that the Jones Act is not what American’s think it is.

Find them ON Tradewindnews.com

IMO updates

IMO results opinion

Norwegian shipowner tax woes

Drybulk bubbles

Why you don't know your Jones Act

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Rerouting benefits for container lines hang in the balance, diving into impacts of the IMO market based measure proposals

Fri, 15 Mar 2024 15:25:56 GMT

In this episode of the TradeWInds Wavelength Podcast we dive into the impact of the red sea situation on container rates and the benefit that some owners have seen vanishing should the Houthi threats be removed and shipping resume transits of the Red Sea and Suez Canal

And, as IMO member states send delegations to the IMO we focus in on the planned assessment of the economic and technical measures that are under discussion to decarbonise shipping. We speak to UNCTAD about about the need for being thorough and quick in the work while the whole shipping world waits.

On Hapag Lloyd

On Zim and rate predictions if Red Sea transits resume

Ray Car Carriers and its VLCC orderbook

Tim Jones and Neu Shipping

Hijacked bulker

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Red Sea escalation: Death, insurance and charter rates

Fri, 08 Mar 2024 10:41:41 GMT

In this week's Wavelength Podcast the focus is squarely on the impact of recent attacks on shipping by Houthi rebels in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.

With two vessels being hit, one sinking and one leading to the tragic death of three seafarers the questions on how shipping and the international community should respond.

US-based security analyst Ian Ralby argues that the focus should be put on supporting the Yemen government.

Adam Corbett, TradeWinds insurance correspondent offers insights into the insurance cover for vessels and what may and may not be able to heppen witn any salvage operation.

We also look at the impact of the Red Sea attacks on the container market, notably charter rates-

And it is International Women's Day, so our correspondent Holly Birkett has been talking to Elpi Petraki, president of the Women's International Shipping and Trading Association, WISTA, about what this day should mean in the shipping industry.

Full transcript and link to stories on www.tradewindsnews.com

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Hello

Fri, 01 Mar 2024 14:11:45 GMT

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Introduction to the new TradeWinds Wavelength podcast with host Craig Eason and editor in chief Julian Bray

Fri, 01 Mar 2024 05:45:40 GMT

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