Wavelength Plus: A podcast by TradeWinds

In this episode of Wavelength Plus, TradeWInds editor in chief Julian Bray talks leadership strategies with Cyril Ducau, chief executive of Eastern Pacific ShippingThe recording is form the TradeWinds Shipowners Forum in Singapore on April 21st 2026 in front of a live audience of shipowners and other leading industry executivesMore details about TradeWinds leading events portfolio can be found on www.tradewinds.events Producer and introduction: Craig EasonWith Cyril Ducau, chief executive, Eastern Pacific Shipping and Julian Bray, editor in chief, TradeWindsA TradeWinds/DN Media podcast

Greek/British shipowner Lomar Shipping has a fleet of about 30 ships. In 2022 it decided it wanted to look at new technologies that offer environmental or crew welfare improvements while making economic sense.It launched Lomar Labs as a project in 2022 and formalised it as a business in 2023. Lomar Shipping technical director Stylianos Papageorgiou was brought in to run the startup investor as its managing director.Lomar Labs has now invested in 12 startup companies and is offering the Lomar ships as floating test beds, with Stylianos saying more companies will soon be announced.In this episode of Wavelength Plus, Stylianos talks to TradeWinds senior editor and podcast host Craig Eason about the ethos the company has, why it does what it does, and how it assesses startups to get involved withThe full story is also available on TradeWindsnews.com

As Carl-Antoine Saverys, chief executive of Belgium gas carrier owner Exmar headed off to South Korea to name two new ammonia-fuelled gas carriers he spoke to TradeWInds Lucy Hine about the vessels, plans for deployment, and his belief in green ammonia as a maritime fuelHe also outlines the work to make sure regulation for future fuels needs to be simple to apply and not overly complicated, and how commercial interests will shape fuel choice as much as regulationsHost: Lucy HineProducer: Craig EasonA TradeWInds/DN Media podcast

Each month until October, TradeWinds will publish a profile of a finalist in our Guiding Stars series, a project highlighting the people making change in shipping. Our third Guiding Stars finalist is Dola Oluteye, a senior research fellow in energy and transport policy at University College London’s Energy Institute. She helped represent African nations at the IMO during the 2023 deliberations to revise its greenhouse gas strategy and now leads the Leading Effective Afrocentric Participation (LEAP) project there.TradeWinds' 10 Guiding Stars finalists have been nominated by our readers and editorial team. These are people who are innovating and creating real, tangible change in shipping and tackling some of its biggest issues. Later this year, we will ask you to vote on who will receive our TradeWinds Guiding Star award for 2026, which will be announced in November.

The dark fleet of sanctioned vessels which transport Russian, Venezuelan and Iranian crude above a given price cap are largely old and pooröy maintained.They are due for scrapping but no cash buyer operating in US dollars wants to touch these vessels, and the reputabe yards will not either.Many yards in India have spent a lot of money in recent years to be come compliant with the standards of the Hong Kong Ship Recycling Conventionwhich is now in place, but a good shipping market has meant very little tonnage has been scrapped (owners want to keep their vessels while the sun is shippingand they can make hay). So these shadow fleet tankers are a tempting option in lean times. In this deep-dive episode of Wavelength Plus,TradeWinds' Craig Eason talks to Anil Sharma, Founder and CEO at GMS, one of the shipping industry's cash buyers of old tonnage destined for recycling. For 30 years he has been buying old ships and selling them direct to the ship recycling facilities in Alang in India and other places.Dr Sharma talks to Craig about the need to make it possible to legally sell these vessels and scrap them before they become a disaster and to prevent the shadow recycling yards taking them without doing all the safety and environmental checks expected under the HKSRC.

Each month until October, TradeWinds will publish a profile of a finalist in our Guiding Stars series, a project highlighting the people making change in shipping. Our second Guiding Stars finalist is Scarlett Barnett-Smith, working deck officer and founder of The Scarlett Box. Her company has developed boxes with emergency period products for women working onboard ships, but The Scarlett Box has a wider mission to make shipping more inclusive of women to help attract and retain female talent.TradeWinds' 10 Guiding Stars finalists have been nominated by our readers and editorial team. These are people who are innovating and creating real, tangible change in shipping and tackling some of its biggest issues.Later this year, we will ask you to vote on who will receive our TradeWinds Guiding Star award for 2026, which will be announced in November.