Expert Voice

How can bulk owners and operators balance short-term commercial pressures and long-term climate imperatives? What investments, strategies and collaborations can best position fleets for deep decarbonisation? What role do class societies and other stakeholders play in enabling the transition?  This podcast will deliver meaningful insights on what it takes to ‘green’ bulk shipping while balancing commercial realities and climate imperatives.  The dry bulk shipping industry is at a crossroads. Bulk carrier owners and operators must pursue deep emissions cuts, while maintaining uninterrupted services.  New regulations like IMO’s 2050 net zero target and the Carbon Intensity Index will force change, yet adequate zero-carbon fuels and technology remain years from being market-ready. How can new regulations, alternative fuels, efficiency gains, and innovations like wind assisted propulsion enable the transition?  How can bulk owners and operators balance short-term commercial pressures and long-term climate imperatives? What investments, strategies and collaborations can best position fleets for deep decarbonisation? What role do class societies and other stakeholders play in enabling the transition?  This podcast will deliver meaningful insights on what it takes to ‘green’ bulk shipping while balancing commercial realities and climate imperatives.  Talking points: How shipowners face a lottery in choosing future green fuels and technologies todayMetrics like IMO’s CII/AER and their unintended consequencesAchieving alignment between shippers and ownersWind power: its potential as well as limitations in scaling across route networksThe near-term efficiency gains offered through waste heat recovery and digital optimisationAlternative fuels, safety, ship redesign and regulationOnboard carbon capture and managing captured CO2 waste streams

Join Lloyd's Register's Nikolaos Mikas and Riviera Maritime Media's Edwin Lampert in open discussion on these critical points as a panellist on a special Lloyd's Register / Riviera Maritime Media Expert Voices podcast. Buoyant crude and product tanker markets, delivery dates of 2026 and 2027 for new tonnage and continued uncertainty on fuel choices at the newbuilding stage have propelled sales and purchase activity in the second hand tanker market and set asset values soaring.  This development brings key questions into sharp focus.The looming tanker capacity crunchAvailable tonnage on the second hand marketFactoring in CII and EEXI requirementsMatching the right secondhand tanker and the right trade  Understanding terminal restrictions and requirementsOptions for extending service life of older tonnage

What are the key investment risks? What do green corridors and the Silk Alliance do to address this? Options are limited right now and with high risks. Most are unable to invest in long-term solutions.Collaborations with governments and ports are needed in green corridors to support the investments.Many aspects and challenges remain, but we need to gain exposure and education on them as a first step to solving them. 

Shipping has focused on fuels as the one factor it can control in the push to decarbonise, but the creation of a truly sustainable industry will require a more holistic ‘lifecycle’ approach. 

This episode of the Aronnax Podcast featuring Lloyd’s Register brings together the shipowner, ship designer, and the two cargo owners to look at the story of With Orca. We discuss what the Approval in Principle means for shipping, Norway and the confidence to change.

In a podcast moderated by Lloyd’s List managing editor Richard Meade, the Sustainable Shipping Initiative (SSI) and Lloyd’s Register bring together industry experts to talk about why the sustainability of marine fuels needs to be taken into account alongside price, availability and technical feasibility considerations.  SSI recently published the white paper Defining sustainability criteria for zero and low carbon marine fuels which sets out sustainability issues and principles surrounding marine fuels under consideration for shipping’s decarbonisation. SSI member representatives will talk about how sustainability criteria can contribute to the development of industry standards and certification schemes to assure and facilitate the selection of – and demand for – sustainable marine fuels. 

In this podcast, we discuss liquefied natural gas (LNG) as a fuel and how it has come to prominence in the past decade. We consider how it’s addressing the industry requirements as well as the risk and opportunities associated with its use. Our experts also cast an eye into the future, assessing LNG’s role in the fuel mix given an evolving regulatory landscape.In this conversation hosted by Nicola Good, the head of Brand and External relations for Marine and Offshore at Lloyd’s Register, we are delighted to welcome Stavros Hatzigrigoris the Technical Director of Zodiac Maritime and Panos Mitrou, Lloyd’s Register’s Global Gas Segment Manager.

This time around, we are talking about remote capability and how the COVID-19 crisis has transformed the maritime industry's appetite and acceptance of remote technologies. Across the board, classification societies have seen an increase in remote surveys, but our conversation will focus on developments; how equivalence must evolve to enhance the efficiency of remote capability. What technologies will we need to employ to drive further efficiencies in remote capability, and what will the next step-change look like?Nicola Good, Global Head of Brand and External Relations for Lloyd's Register, hosts a conversation with Ralph Juhl, Senior Vice President, at Hafnia and James Forsdyke, Head of Product Management for Lloyd's Register.