Wavelength Plus: A podcast by TradeWinds

This is the closing keynote speech given by Leif Hoegh at the Headline conference of the Oslo Ocean Days.The story of Hoegh is one that summarises what shipping is all about, he says in this recording.He points to the fact that the family company has accumulated capital only over about 20% of the last 100 years, with the rest of the time “treading water or wasting capital”.But he says the company has always had an appetite for risk and being a first mover."If you do not take any risks, you do not learn anything, you do not fail and you do not get the opportunity to get back on your feet. “And I think in this environment, as much as in any of the last 100 years, being able to take risks in people, in technology, in commercial solutions is the key.”

This conversation was recorded before the audience of the TradeWinds Shipowner Forum, during SMM in Hamburg on September 1st 2026For details of TradeWinds shipowner forums and other high level events visit the events website.International Maritime Organization secretary general Arsenio Dominguez talks to TradeWinds editor in chief Julian Bray about the situation in the Gulf, the threat of fees to pass through the Strait of Hormuz, and the 6,000 seafarers still stuck in the Gulf since the conflict between the US and Iran began.The conversation also covers the ongoing impasse at the IMO regarding an industry appetite, or not, for a carbon levy on shipping and where a solution can be found this year as decarbonisation talks once again ramp up.

This episode comes from the halls of SMM, the shipbuilding, machinery and marine trade show in Hamburg, Germany.Everllence, once known as MAN Energy Services, Man Diesel and Turbo, MAN W&W (Burmeister and Wain) os simply Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg is one of the oldest and largest engine makers in shipping.The name Everllence came as its parent group, Volkswagen Group, looked to sell a majority stake of the division while retaining the MAN name for its other business lines.This year the sale of a 51% stake of Everllence was agreed for about $8.5bn to a private equity firm Bain. VW retaining the other 49%In this interview TradeWinds senior editor Craig Eason sits down with Everllence chief executive Dr Uwe Lauber to talk about the sale, the future and the lack of shipowner appetite for the new engines that the company has spent millions of dollars developing.

After making a big deal about its belief that green ammonia is the future fuel for shipping, Oslo-listed and based Hoegh Autoliners has just placed an order for a further 12 vessels to be built to be fuelled by LNG and diesel.It is a move that suggests it may not believe in its green objectives anymore, afterall its previous orderbook was for 12 of its new "Aurora" class vessels, with the latter four to be delivered with the ability to use green ammonia on delivery, as the fuel produces no CO2 when used in a ship's engine.In this interview with TradeWInds senior editor Craig Eason, Hoegh Autoliner chief executive Andreas Enger explains the decision and why he still believes that the company Aurora fleet will be fuelled by ammonia eventually.In this interview he lays the blame and points to where the ammonia is going to come from.produced nd hosted: Craig EasonGuest: Andreas Enger, chief executive, Hoegh AutolinersA 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 tangible change in shipping.Our seventh Guiding Stars finalist is Evangelos Efstathiou, chief executive of digital platforms Marsoft and Burmester & Vogel (B&V) and founder of Skysail Advisors.Evan has been deeply entrenched in the maritime tech world for over 20 years, during which time he has developed new software, advised on investments and mergers and acquisitions in the space, and also completed some deals of his own. He reflects on his own career, how shipping uses data, investor appetite for maritime tech and looks ahead to how the era of AI will make or maybe even break some vendors in the space.TradeWinds' 10 Guiding Stars finalists have been nominated by our readers and editorial team. These are people who are innovating and tackling some of shipping's 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.Host and producer: Holly Birkett, TradeWinds reporter.

The shipping industry is taking the potential of nuclear power seriously. In this second deep dive into its developments we look at the liability regimes, government involvement, indemnity needs and finance.Modular reactor developers are promising a new age of clean concentrated power which is chaper and safer than critics claimFor shipping this may be one answer to its energy transition.Hear from financiers, insurers, shipowners and policy lobbyists about these latest developments.Further details on nuclear can be found on TradeWindsnews.com:How funding, insurance and emotion need to align for shipping to go nuclearGreen Seas: Are we drinking the nuclear kool-aid?What a vessel from the 1960s can teach us about nuclear shippingIndia joins nuclear shipping race amid energy security concernsCore Power to study floating nuclear power plants using SMR technologyGreen Seas: There are critical questions to answer about nuclear for shippingRewriting the rules: Winning hearts and minds for a nuclear future‘Going critical’: Shipping takes a step closer to nuclear realityProduction and host: Craig EasonA TradeWinds/DN Media podcast

For many shipping executives, ships are assets. For Emily Koo, they can feel more like family.In this episode of Wavelength+, TradeWinds China correspondent Huaqing Ma sits down with the fourth-generation managing director of TCC Group, whose roots trace back to Shanghai in 1917.Koo reflects on growing up aboard company vessels, learning from seafarers who later became her mentors, and why spotting a TCC funnel at sea still feels “like seeing a relative”.The conversation ranges from her journey at Columbia Business School and life outside shipping to family stewardship, ancestral roots in mainland China, and the challenges of leading a century-old company through what she describes as an increasingly “chaotic” era.Koo also shares the management advice she still carries from her trading days, explains why trust takes generations to build, and discusses the Chinese saying that wealth rarely survives beyond three generations.How does a fourth-generation shipping family balance heritage and change? And what does it take to sustain a business into its second century?The full story is also available on tradewindsnews.com.

Cetus Maritime is a Hong Kong-based operator focused on the minor bulk market. Like many shipping companies, it has spent recent years navigating geopolitical disruption, shifting trade patterns and growing regulatory complexity.Chief operating officer Olivia Lennox-King believes the industry is operating outside traditional shipping cycles, with wars, sanctions and political risk increasingly influencing commercial decisions.In this episode of Wavelength+, Lennox-King speaks with TradeWinds China correspondent and podcast host Huaqing Ma about the disruption to shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, the charter disputes likely to follow, China’s role as the “factory of the factories”, and why fragmented emissions regulations may become one of shipping’s biggest future challenges.The full story is also available on our website: ‘There will be a lot of charter disputes’: Cetus shuns Middle East Gulf tradesA TradeWinds/DN Media podcast