William Winters, managing director of Wärtsilä Underwater Services, joins Lloyd’s List chief correspondent Richard Clayton to look below the surface at vessel maintenance and monitoring, and says divers’ own expertise is an integral part of the sustainability journey in this sponsored edition of the Lloyd’s List Shipping Podcast.

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The Lloyd’s List Podcast: Taking a deep dive into sustainability

In this special midweek edition of the Lloyd's List Shipping podcast, editor Richard Meade discusses the new ICS/BIMCO Seafarer Workforce Report with International Chamber of Shipping secretary-general Guy Platten. Every five years, the report measures the supply and demand of officers and crew and provides an opportunity for the industry, at least in theory, to adapt it's training and recruitment policies to fit. Subscribe to Lloyd's List: https://bit.ly/372TqSi

The Lloyd's List Podcast: Why the world is about to run out of seafarers

In the first of this two-part special edition of the Lloyd's List Podcast, our sustainability editor Anastassios Adamopoulos spoke at length with Faig Abbasov of the Brussels-based NGO Transport and Environment and Sotiris Raptis, of the European Community Shipowners' Association, on the European Commission's new environmental proposals for shipping For more information check out Lloyd’s List’s Shipping Sustainability Hub: https://bit.ly/3jaeCgw

The Lloyd’s List Podcast: Dissecting the EU's climate offensive on shipping

Our sustainability editor Anastassios Adamopoulos caught up with Johannah Christensen, the new chief executive of the Global Maritime Forum this week. They discuss where she sees the international NGO heading, why the global crewing crisis is likely to worsen and how this sector is still doing so little to decarbonise. Access the new standard in sanctions compliance risk analysis. Seasearcher Advanced Risk & Compliance gives you insight previously unattainable, enabling you to save time and effort completing sanctions compliance checks, investigations and monitoring vessels for illicit activity. https://www.lloydslistintelligence.com/services/data-and-analytics/advanced-risk-and-compliance?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=productsite_lloydslist

The Lloyd’s List Podcast: Shipping’s coalition of the willing

Don’t mistake the anticipated lifting of Iranian sanctions for an easing of compliance risk. For those banks and insurers seeking to apply transparency to the opaquest end of seaborne trade, many are only just realising how far they still need to go in order to mitigate the risk that the Trump era in some way helped expose. For shipping that means more investment in due diligence and surveillance. Talking to Lloyd’s List editor Richard Meade on this week’s edition about how shipping can navigate the murky waters of sanctions risk and compliance are: Amalie Korning Wedege, head of sanctions compliance at Danske Bank and Leigh Hannson, a partner at the law firm Reed Smith specializing in sanctions compliance for shipping Access the new standard in sanctions compliance risk analysis. Seasearcher Advanced Risk & Compliance gives you insight previously unattainable, enabling you to save time and effort completing sanctions compliance checks, investigations and monitoring vessels for illicit activity. https://www.lloydslistintelligence.com/services/data-and-analytics/advanced-risk-and-compliance?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=productsite_lloydslist

The Lloyd’s List Podcast: Why shipping is not going to get any sanctions risk relief

Container shipping is not going to return to normal, according to Otto Schacht, the head of sea logistics at Kuehne+Nagel. The lines have a unique opportunity to permanently end the boom and bust cycles that have destroyed so much shareholder value over the years, and create an industry able to make decent money in bad times as well as good. Speaking of what happens next, the Lloyd’s List mid-year Markets Outlook finds shipowners in a better place than they anticipated 12 months ago. While tankers will have to wait for a meaningful vaccine-led recovery, box and bulk are booming, with prospects of earnings stretching well into 2022. Our exclusive report examines all key sectors plus the regulation, insurance and finance outlook. Required reading for everyone in shipping! Check it out here: https://lloydslist.maritimeintelligence.informa.com/special-reports/2021/Special-report-Half-year-outlook-2021

The Lloyd’s List Podcast: Why container shipping will never be the same again

IMO secretary general Kitack Lim joins the podcast this week to reflect on why the industry has struggled to resolve the crew change crisis that has left seafarers globally dealing with overly harsh, inappropriate, even unlawful restrictions on seafarers’ freedom of movement. He also talks openly about the growing problem of crew abandonment, missing casualty investigations and responds to public mage concerns raised in recent media coverage. While we have your attention, can we also urge all podcast listeners to register for our next FREE webinar. As part of our Future of Shipping Series we are turning our attention to the question of how to innovate in shipping. We will be discussing how best to overcome the blockers and siloes preventing entrepreneurial ideas reach their full potential in the maritime space with industry leaders from Eastern Pacific Shipping, MSC, Lloyd’s Register and Rainmaking. Register now and get your questions for the experts ready. Sign up here: https://pages.maritimeintelligence.informa.com/lloyds-list-fos-innovation-webinar

The Lloyd’s List Podcast: A fair future for seafarers?

Shipping’s image problem is not a new issue, but the pandemic has exposed the industry’s invisible status at a political level and the lack of understanding among the general public and mainstream media. That is a problem, but it is one of the industry’s own making having opted to operate in the shadows for years. Joining the podcast this week is Sabrina Chao, the new president of BIMCO, who has pledged that the task of making shipping’s voice better heard by the outside world will be at the top of her agenda over the next two years. While we have your attention, can we also urge all podcast listeners to register for our next FREE webinar. As part of our Future of Shipping Series we are turning our attention to the question of how to innovate in shipping. We will be discussing how best to overcome the blockers and siloes preventing entrepreneurial ideas reach their full potential in the maritime space with industry leaders from Eastern Pacific Shipping, MSC, Lloyd’s Register and Rainmaking. Register now and get your questions for the experts ready. Sign up here: https://pages.maritimeintelligence.informa.com/lloyds-list-fos-innovation-webinar

The Lloyd’s List Podcast: Shipping has an image problem

Shipping experts are call for serious commitment on sustainability ‘NOW’ before it’s too late. What’s holding us back? Is the answer only to be found in zero carbon fuels, in which case how many years will it be until the right fuel or fuels have been trialled and tested under all conditions? What can be done while all this is going on, to reduce if not eliminate harmful emissions? And what has shipping discovered from several years of digitalisation to move us in the right direction? Roger Strevens, VP Global Sustainability at Wallenius Wilhelmsen, explains why reducing carbon intensity by one-third since 2008 is not enough. While you’re here make sure you sign up to our forthcoming webinar – How to Innovate Shipping on July 14 at 9am UK time. https://pages.maritimeintelligence.informa.com/lloyds-list-fos-innovation-webinar

The Lloyd’s List Podcast: Why sustainability needs digital solutions as well as decarbonisation

The IMO's environmental negotiators meet next week with a priority to finalise short term emissions measures. But their meeting is also the likely beginning of bigger and more difficult discussions for shipping's future. Environmental Defense Fund Europe international climate director Aoife O'Leary talks to Lloyd's List about what we should expect for the rest of this year and how a market based measure should come in

The Lloyd’s List Shipping Podcast: A guide to the next chapter of shipping emissions negotiations

‘How shipping pollutes the planet, avoids taxes, dodges regulations, & gets away with it’ – is the eye-catching strapline to the recent documentary Black Trail which has caused a stir in shipping circles. The film may not have taught us anything new about emissions, policy-making or the business of shipping, but seeing the outsider’ view of shipping on display offers a revealing, and worrying, insight into how the industry is being portrayed. This week’s podcast features the two lead journalists behind the film Zeynep Sentek, and Craig Shaw

The Lloyd’s List Podcast: Why we shouldn’t dismiss shipping’s Black Trail

We are joined on the podcast this week by the chief executive of the Maritime Anti-Corruption Network Cecilia Müller Torbrand. The ethical case against corruption is too obvious to need spelling out, and yet until relatively recently foreign bribery was essentially considered a tax-deductible reality of daily shipping operations. The fact that ships routinely carried an additional cargo of dollar bills, Marlboro Red cartons and Jonny Walker Black label in order to smooth out the vessel’s passage through certain port calls and canal transits, well that was just a reality of international trade. But despite its reputation for opaque business practice, the shipping industry has, over the past decade, been going through a quietly effective anti-corruption revolution. When the Maritime Anti-Corruption Network was created in 2011, it started to tackle the issue of corruption on an industry-wide collaborative basis, instead of leaving companies working in silos against systemic issues of graft and dodgy dealings. It has been a quiet success story that has received little attention, but the impact has been dramatic. MACN today represents over 50% of the worlds tonnage, giving the shipping industry significant leverage when engaging in dialogue with governments ad institutions to stamp out corruption.

The Lloyd’s List Podcast: Shipping’s quiet corruption revolution

This edition of the Lloyd's List Podcast is sponsored by Class NK. ClassNK experts Yukihito Fujinami and Tomoaki Yamada join the Lloyd’s List Podcast to discuss what the key elements are for designing the safety requirements for autonomous ships, what progress is being made, and how the organisation itself aims to contribute to the industry’s automation efforts Autonomous shipping is seen by many an inevitable path towards a safer, smarter, and even cleaner maritime transport. It is an exciting yet long journey that requires innovative thinking as well as step-by-step efforts. As we remain at an early stage in the process today, classification societies are facing the necessity to help set up a new standards and safety regime required to frame and facilitate the development of technologies. It’s both a big role to play and a challenging task to fulfill. The safety requirements for autonomous ships must be strict enough to be effective but also, at the same time, flexible enough to be practical. How to establish that sense of balance requires careful orchestration of various factors, including understanding the difference between the approaches aimed at “human support” and “human substitution”. Mr Yukihito Fujinami and Tomoaki Yamada from the Research Institute of ClassNK will discuss what the key elements are for designing the safety requirements, what progress is being made, and how the organisation itself aims to contribute to the industry’s automation efforts. Many of these issues will also be expanded in the ClassNK Technical Journal to be published in June of the year.

The Lloyd's List Podcast: The big and challenging role for class societies in autonomous shipping

Opting for a generation of LNG-fuelled ships today will delay climate action in shipping by 20 years, according to Maersk and those dismissing the current trend towards dual-fuelled tonnage as little more than ‘greenwashing’. Pragmatic commercial opportunity? Perhaps. But is gas a viable climate strategy for shipping? This week’s podcast sucks the hot air out of shipping’s most important debate and looks at why there is a schism developing in the industry. Any podcast listers looking for the On Demand replay of this week’s webinar should head to Lloydslist.com or direct via this link: https://pages.maritimeintelligence.informa.com/lloyds-list-fos-decarbonisation-webinar

The Lloyd’s List Podcast: Is LNG really borderline greenwashing?

In this special edition of the podcast, sponsored by Marlink, Lloyd’s List Chief Correspondent Richard Clayton is joined by Tore Morten Olsen, President of Marlink’s maritime division, to discuss the future of remote operations for maritime. It’s good to talk. Shipping and its technology partners have worked hard during the coronavirus pandemic to keep seafarers connected. But connectivity between ship and shore will be cascaded to the next level when the industry emerges from Covid-19. Digitally driven shipping is no longer a dream; it is becoming a reality. Discovering what is commercially viable in the short term is the key to data-led shipping. One of the harder nuts to crack is remote operations. This has been discussed at length over the past five years and technologists are getting closer to delivering software and systems that ship owners, operators, and managers can use. Tore Morten Olsen, President of Marlink’s Maritime division, has been working on a Remotely Operated Service at Sea (ROSS) project with SeaOwl, a French offshore services operator. This project involved a collaboration of stakeholders working with a common purpose. In this Lloyd’s List podcast, Mr Olsen outlines the five ‘R’s of remote operations– remote voyage support, remote software installation, remote compliance – training of crew and enabling inspections, remote medical aid, and remote operations. He tackles the issue of whether it will be possible to control vessels with a master and navigation team ashore, saying Covid-19 has “accelerated the maturity of the client-base to think in this way”. Mr Olsen discusses whether shipping is ready for remote operations; what is needed from regulators, class societies, and from ship owners themselves; and how the industry can use digitalisation to improve efficiency and save money. Remote operations is unlikely to be suitable for all ships on all trades but, he argues, in certain segments it will make a significant commercial difference. That’s why the industry should watch developments such as the ROSS project. “With SeaOwl, requirements of regulation, safety, and cyber security are much higher than vessels operating between two ports,” he says. There are already elements of remote operations that can be leveraged today, so companies can already benefit from elements used in this project. The potential of autonomous shipping has been on shipping’s agenda for many years, now the viability of remote operations is very much in the spotlight.

The Lloyd’s List Podcast: Remotely operated shipping in the spotlight

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