TradeWinds Wavelength

The Wavelength podcast is produced by the editorial news team at TradeWinds, the leading maritime and shipping news site. More details on the stories can be found on TradeWindsnews.com.In this week's programme:The UCL/Getting to Zero report showing how shipping is behind on the road to decarbonisation with even the first, 2030, target likely to be missed.Just how does Wallenius Wilhelmsen justify superzising four car carrier newbuildings that will now have a 11,700 car capacity.The researcher who says port state control is not selecting the right vessels for safety inspections and has a software model to help them.Insights into the dry bulk market. TradeWinds Holly Birkett looks at what's happening with Western Bulk and Peter Twiss.Hosted by Craig Eason

In this week’s Wavelength podcast:US investigators say a faulty wire in a switchboard on MV Dali may have caused the blackout that led to the vessel smashing into the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore earlier this year. Could this help the shipowner and manager’s attempts to limit their financial liability?The US Biden administration is considering a port fee on Chinese-built ships in the latest stage of a trade war between the two countries. There is growing concern of a Baltic Sea disaster. The dark fleet of old, possibly uninsured, sanctions-busting tankers shuttling oil out of Russia will soon face ice conditions in the shallow sensitive waters of the nearly landlocked sea.And sustainability reporting is soon to be mandatory, but shipowners are behind the curve with European regulations set to come into force next year. We ask what they need to do to get themselves ready.

In this week's episode:UK and USA increase shipping sanctions, but this time in retaliation to Iran giving Russia missiles to use against UkraineThe bond markets are getting hungry for shipping.The UK shipping minister Mike Kane makes one of his first appearancesand the International Chamber of Shipping publishes its third industry barometer. ICS, secretary general Guy Platten lists what's keeping shipping executives up at night

In this episode we look at the risks of bottlenecks in engines supplied to newbuildings, yard capacity for retrofits and why the price of future fuels may not drop quickly enough for favourable offtake agreements to be signed. From the TradeWinds Shipowner Forum with DNV maritime head Knut-Orbeck Nilssen, Odfjell chief sustainability officer, Oistein Jensen, Rob Stevens, Topso, Rolf Habben Jensen, chief executive, Hapag Lloyd From SMM, Bjarne Foldager, head of two stroke engines, MAN ES and Arne Maibohm decarbonisation director, Hapag Lloyd.

In this episode:Question about the Delta Tankers MV Sounion. It sits abandoned, boarded by houthis, set on fire and fully laden with crude oil. What next?DNV offers TradeWInds an insight to what tech and fuels it thinks are getting traction. And who needs a kick in the backside to get the decarbonisation job doneand a DNB fund manager explains to TradeWinds which shipping stock he has chosen for an equity fund, and why.

In this episode:Eric Priante Martin examines Navios Maritime Partners’ financial results and focuses on its debt.Sandra Boga talks to UK Chamber of Shipping director of communications Tom Bartosak-Harlow about calls for the UK government to finally publish a maritime decarbonisation plan.And Holly Birkett has been in Oslo for the Youngship conference, Shipcon.Host: Craig Eason, TradeWinds

In this week's Wavelength programme:We look at what is behind the growth of a dark fleet of LNG carriers used to beat trade sanctions with insights from Flex LNG chief executive Oystein Kalleklev and Lucy Hine.The VLCC market gets our attention as market analysts see storm clouds and sunshine. TradeWind's deputy editor Eric Priante Martin takes the temperature with help from DHT chief executive Svein Moxnes Harfjeld.And, dry bulk port state detentions get Rightship’s attention. Chief executive Steen Lund talks with podcast host Craig Eason about the role of vetting inspections to bring numbers down.

In this week's episode of Wavelength:Hoegh Autoliners chairman and major shareholder Leif O Hoegh talks about the decision to go big and early with newbuildings.We delve into the decisions by dry bulk operators such as Copenhagen-based Norden to buy assets and offload at a profit after years of moving to an asset-light business model.And we look deeper at the decision by Maersk to go to LNG after painting itself green with methanol.

In this week's wavelength podcast, we talk about:The collision of two bulkers was caught on video and captured our interest. One of them is LNG duel-fuelled and a stern-mounted fuel tank is ripped open.No LNG leak was reported, but Lucy Hine notes it is not the first incident involving a vessel carrying LNGWe dive into the Scorpio Tankers results and some of the interesting comments during an analyst call, including why the company would not invest in scrubbers today.And UK-based West P&I is heading West. It is opening up an office in Dubai, the first P&I Club to do so. Its chief executive Tom Bowsher talks to Paul Peachey about the reasons and how it will protect itself from the risks of ongoing sanctions and the dark fleet.