Lloyd's List: The Shipping Podcast

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  Unlocking port performance: rethinking capability, infrastructure and towage operations 15.09.2026 19min

  As chief executive of international towage and marine services company Svitzer, Kasper Friis Nilaus has identified opportunities to improve performance at many ports where the company operates. In this podcast, he shares his ideas for achieving greater efficiency
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  Do you take weather risk seriously? Part One 14.09.2026 18min

  This episode of the Lloyd’s List Podcast is brought to you by Veson ASK the compliance team of a major shipping company what the biggest risk to their business is and they might say its sanctions. Ask the security officer and they’ll likely say geopolitical uncertainty and conflict. But ask the operations manager and they might give you a different answer: the weather. Weather risk is something that is assessed by people working hard in shipping offices and on board vessels all over the world, but it has been catapulted into the headlines in recent months amid drought in Europe and a so-called “Super El Nino” phenomenon currently unfolding across the Pacific. How is extreme weather affecting the way vessels operate? What can we expect from El Nino in the coming months? Should we be braced for low water levels across river systems in the future? Joining Joshua on this week’s episode are: Drew Lerner, founder, World Weather Chris Aversano, partnership lead, Wood Mackenzie Eirik Hooper, senior associate ports and terminals, Drewry
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  Is Somali piracy back? 07.09.2026 18min

  This episode of the Lloyd’s List podcast is brought to you by Veson. To find out more visit www.veson.com FIFTEEN years ago, Somali piracy was one of the biggest stories in mainstream news, not just shipping. That may be hard to fathom today, with threats stretching from the Gulf and Red Sea to the Black Sea, which has become one of the most dangerous places in the world for seafarers in recent weeks. Yet between 2010 and 2012, Somali pirates hijacked almost 100 vessels, according to the International Maritime Bureau. By 2013, that number had fallen to zero and remained there through 2016. In fact, just two major commercial vessels were hijacked between 2013 and 2023. What was once the biggest risk to commercial shipping was successfully repelled through international cooperation, but in recent months there is evidence to suggest that Somali piracy is once again on the rise. Six commercial vessels have been hijacked since the start of 2026, including sanctioned Sibu 1 which was hijacked in late August. Rather chillingly, the crew changed its location on its automatic identification system to “pirates onboard help”. The increase in attacks is concerning, but suspicious approaches and occasional hijackings have occurred periodically over the past few years. Many were viewed as isolated incidents, often attributed to a single pirate group acquiring a mothership and exploiting an opportunity. Is this a proper resurgence? Is Somali piracy really back? Joining Joshua on the podcast this week are: Vice Admiral Ignacio Villanueva Serrano, Eunavfor Operation Atalanta Jakob Larsen, chief safety and security officer, Bimco
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  Lloyd’s List Top 100 Container Ports 2026: Why resilience beats scale 01.09.2026 17min

  In previous editions of the Lloyd’s List Top 100 Container Ports, scale has been king. The more boxes you can handle, the higher up the rankings you will be. But in 2026, the ability to adapt, solve problems and present carriers with alternatives in an age where the shocks keep on coming is proving almost as important as the number of cranes you have available. Deputy editor Linton Nightingale talks through the key takeaways from this year’s rankings, including why the geography of container shipping is shifting and why one simple decision from a major carrier can make or break a port’s fortunes.
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  How International Seaways navigates today’s historic tanker markets 28.08.2026 27min

  This episode of the Lloyd’s List podcast is brought to you by Wirana THERE is plenty of risk in the tanker market today. The Strait of Hormuz, Red Sea and Black Sea have become very dangerous places to operate vessels, but for those who take the risk on, the rewards are substantial. Lloyd’s List senior reporter Greg Miller speaks to International Seaways chief executive officer Lois Zabrocky and chief financial officer Jeffrey Pribor to understand how they choose to deploy their fleet of 64 crude and product tankers. How much is too much risk? And How is this tanker cycle different from the last supercycle we saw in the 2000s? Listen to find out.
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  Unchanged Gulf situation hampers recycling market 26.08.2026 19min

  This episode is brought to you by Wirana This second episode of a year-long series by the Middle East Vice President and Green Recycling Coordinator at the Singapore-based cash buyer Wirana, Hitesh Vyas, reflects on market developments and outlines the possibility of a significant change in the EU’s attitude to Asian recycling yards.
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  Strait of Hormuz: Where are the off ramps coming from? 20.08.2026 17min

  SHIPOWNERS have stopped asking when the strait of Hormuz is going to open. Instead, they’re asking if it will open by the end of the year, or even further into the future. Military escalation might have ceased for a variety of reasons, but the situation has settle into somewhat of a stalemate. The US wants to avoid the conflict getting hotter, especially before the upcoming elections, while Iran might well think time is on its side in this particular battle. Which begs the question: where are the off-ramps coming from? To answer that question, we’re bringing you highlights of our weekly webinar, in which our analysts discuss the volume and type of traffic passing through the chokepoint, as well as how the Chinese market is assessing the risk in the middle east right now. Joining editor-in-chief Richard Meade on the podcast this week are: • Bridget Diakun, maritime intelligence and research director, Lloyd’s List Intelligence • Cichen Shen, maritime intelligence director – APAC, Lloyd’s List Intelligence • Dina Arakji, analyst, Control Risks
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  Is the container the most important invention of the last 100 years? 10.08.2026 14min

  IN 1956 the SS Ideal X sailed from New Jersey to Houston with 58 containers on board, marking the birth of modern commercial container shipping. Malcom McClean’s vision of unitized, efficient and relatively cheap global freight has evolved into a global network, criss-crossing the world’s oceans to connect businesses with consumers across continents. Has there been a more important innovation in global trade? What would Malcom McClean say if he walked into a modern container terminal? And is the everyday consumer aware of just how much their lives have been changed by the development of the shipping container? Joining Joshua on the Lloyd’s List podcast are: Joe Kramek, chief executive, World Shipping Council Henning Morgen, group historian, Maersk
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  Three conflicts converge: what does that mean for tanker rates? 31.07.2026 22min

  SHIPPING is attempting to navigate three distinct, but increasingly overlapping conflicts at present. The resumption of Houthi violence in the Red Sea can be added to the ongoing Strait of Hormuz crisis and the Russia-Ukraine war in the Black Sea. This episode of the Lloyd’s List podcast brings you highlights from our weekly webinar, chaired by editor-in-chief Richard Meade, in which we discussed whether the Houthis really have the power or capability to attack ships en masse again, plus our senior reporter Greg Miller gives a comprehensive overview of how the tanker market is responding to the crises. Joining Richard on the podcast are: Bridget Diakun, maritime intelligence and research director, Lloyd’s List Greg Miller, senior reporter, Lloyd’s List Ian Ralby, founder, IR Consilium
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  Are the EU ETS revisions fair? 28.07.2026 19min

  IT’S been years of waiting and lobbying, but we finally have Europe’s proposals for how the EU Emissions Trading System will look beyond 2030. The European Commission has released its long list of proposals for how to reform the cap-and-trade scheme, including how much shipping pays, and how much of the proceeds it gets back. Shipowners, like most European businesses, have to buy and surrender credits called allowances for each tonne of carbon they emit. The industry reckons it will pay about 90 billion euros into the scheme between 2030 and 2040, and it wants that money reinvested in decarbonisation. To remedy that, the European Commission wants to include earmarking 110 million allowances in a mechanism called Sustainable Maritime Alternative Propulsion, or SMAP, to subsidise low and zero-emission fuels. That’s about ten billion euros, give or take. It will crack down on evasive port calls by including some 20 more neighbouring non-EU ports in the schem. And it will also cover smaller vessels, with the minimum gross tonnage limit lowered from 5000 to just 400. Are the revisions fair? Has shipping got what it’s asked for? To find out, Lloyd’s List senior editor Declan Bush is joined by: Sotiris Raptis, secretary general of European Shipowners Simon Bergulf, vice president for environment and climate, World Shipping Council Delphine Kaczorowski, EU advocacy manager, Opportunity Green
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  The Houthis are back: what next for shipping? 23.07.2026 21min

  SHIPPING has another hotspot to worry about, and it’s a familiar one. Reports that the Houthis were preparing to attack commercial shipping were proven correct after at least one Saudi-linked vessel was attacked in the Red Sea yesterday. This week’s podcast comes from Lloyd’s List’s weekly webinar, which usually focusses on the Strait of Hormuz, but this time also looks at the impact of violence resuming in the Red Sea and where vessels that have already been diverted once would go to then. Joining Joshua on this week’s episode are: Bridget Diakun, maritime intelligence and research director, Lloyd’s List Matthew Rajendra, senior reporter, Lloyd’s List Crystal Chan, principal analyst, Infospectrum Listen to this week's webinar here: https://event.on24.com/wcc/r/5431828/8E1ADBE115D62A0FD8046D6F13A32E5A
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  The short life of General License X 14.07.2026 18min

  LESS than a month after its introduction, the US revoked General License X, the waiver allowing the sale and transport of Iranian oil granted in the wake of the Memorandum of Understanding signed between the two countries. Lloyd’s List editor-in-chief Richard Meade and maritime risk analyst Tomer Raanan speak to several sanctions experts to find out if the short-lived waiver benefitted anyone, and why it will take more than just a stroke of the pen to undo decades of legislation aimed at crippling the Iranian economy. Joining the podcast this week are: • Claire O'Neill McCleskey, co-founder, Clarity Consultancy • Claire Grunewald, co-founder, Clarity Consultancy • Leigh Hansson, partner, Reed Smith
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  The new shipbuilding supercycle: Cyclical upswing or structural shift? 06.07.2026 27min

  The new shipbuilding supercycle: Cyclical upswing or structural shift? by Lloyd's List
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  Day of the Seafarer 2026: Lessons learned from Hormuz 25.06.2026 24min

  To mark 2026’s Day of the Seafarer, this edition of the Lloyd’s List podcast asks what shipping has learned from the Strait of Hormuz crisis from a seafarer perspective. Perhaps most importantly, he asks experts whether crews feel empowered to exercise their right to refuse to transit if they feel unsafe, and learns more about how associations and unions are seeking to improve welfare and mental health support during crises. Joining Matt on this week’s podcast are: Helio Vicente, employment affairs director, International Chamber of Shipping Anil Devli, chief executive, Indian National Shipowners Association Captain Sundeep Sequeria, chair, seafarers’ factors workgroup, Singapore Shipping Association Peter Rouch, secretary general, The Mission to Seafarers Learn more about Lloyd's List Intelligence at https://www.lloydslistintelligence.com/
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  Recycling values are high, but Gulf situation is pivotal 23.06.2026 19min

  It is a seller’s market at the moment in the ship recycling sector, thanks to a shortage of tonnage. But Hitesh Vyas of the Singapore-based cash buyer Wirana says in this first of six podcasts that this could change, depending on the outcome of the situation in the Gulf.
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  What is going on in the Strait of Hormuz? 22.06.2026 19min

  This episode of the Lloyd’s List podcast is brough to you by Veson. Visit www.veson.com for more information Open, closed, and now open again? Optimism that traffic might return to something resembling normality fairly quickly turned to uncertainty again as the Islamic Revolutionary Guard proclaimed the Strait of Hormuz closed on Saturday. It accused the US of not following its agreement and cited Israeli strikes on Lebanon as rationale for closing the strait again. How, as a shipowner, do you begin to decide whether to transit the strait or return to the Middle East Gulf? Will you have to pay a toll? What are investors making of the uncertainty? To answer those questions, Lloyd’s List senior reporter Joshua Minchin was joined by: • Richard Meade, editor-in-chief, Lloyd’s List • Cichen Shen, Asia Pacific editor, Lloyd’s List • Tomer Raanan, maritime risk analyst, Lloyd’s List
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  Shipping needs its own maritime-specific AI revolution 17.06.2026 19min

  Trusted data is essential for shipping to get the best from the AI revolution, argues Russ Hubbard, Chief Commercial Officer of Veson Nautical. In this podcast, he explains why that is the case and considers the future impact of further AI implementation on maritime companies and their personnel.
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  An EU ETS that liner shipping can live with? 16.06.2026 15min

  IT’S now been two years since the EU Emissions Trading System was extended to shipping. But it hasn’t always been a happy relationship. Shipowners are not necessarily keen paying extra taxes, especially the green variety. Meanwhile operators in Asia are not fond of having to create accounts in EU countries to report and pay their emissions bills, without seeing any of the revenue. On the other side, greens don’t like the ETS because the extra cost per tonne — about €70 to €80 ($81 to $93) over the past year — isn’t enough to make switching to greener fuels worthwhile. Shipping’s share of ETS credits is about sixty to eighty million a year – less than 10% of the market, so the price of those allowances is outside the industry’s control. It’s considered a good regulation for emissions on land, but a poor one for emissions at sea. But now, an opportunity for change is on the horizon. To find out what changes shipping wants, Lloyd’s List senior reporter Declan Bush spoke to World Shipping Council vice president of environment and climate, Simon Bergulf.
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  Can we stop seafarers from being criminalised? 08.06.2026 18min

  This episode of the Lloyd’s List podcast is brought to you by Veson. Visit www.veson.com for more information EVERY year, seafarers are held for months on end on suspicion of crimes that ultimately, there is little evidence they had anything to do with. Whether its pollution events or, as is increasingly common, suspected drug smuggling, crew are often the only potential perpetrators investigators can lay their hands on. So is there a lot the industry can do to stop this? Once seafarers do land themselves on the wrong side of the law, how can flag states intercede on their behalf? Joining Joshua on the podcast this week are: Ben Bailey, director of programme, Mission to Seafarers Kiran Khosla, principal legal director, International Chamber of Shipping Eleni Antoniadou, lawyer, Gard Leo Bolivar, country manager, Marshall Islands Registry
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  The Posidonia 2026 wrap: overcapacity concerns and the AI buzz 05.06.2026 24min

  ATTEND any one of the multiple receptions and parties thrown in Athens this week and you would not walk away necessarily thinking anyone in shipping is remotely worried. A packed exhibition with the whole spectrum of industry stakeholders demonstrated shipping’s diversity and vibrance, but quietly, over coffees in corners, there was tangible concern. Markets are good at the moment, ask any tanker owner, but the undercurrent of caution was palpable. On this week’s episode of the podcast are: • Joshua Minchin, senior reporter, Lloyd’s List • Linton Nightingale, deputy editor, Lloyd’s List • Declan Bush, senior reporter, Lloyd’s List