TradeWinds Wavelength

Hosted by Craig Eason, in this week's episode, we keep our attention fixed on what is going on in the Red Sea as the MV Tutor sinks.  The sale of the ship manager V.Group is also in our sights as Gary Dixon talks to its chief executive Rene Kodof Olsen. Cargo owners who are signatories to the Sea Cargo Charter reveal their data for the third year in a row, and reveal the ways they are getting the data from the shipowners whose vessels they hire. And in San Francisco, Eric Priante Martine goes onboard the first hydrogen-powered ferry to see how it works and why things went so slowly to get it on the water.

In this week’s Wavelength podcast, we hear from the police prosecutor who issued Altera Infrastructure with a $700,000 fine for exporting two shuttle tankers for scrapping in India in contravention of the European waste shipping directive.We take a peek at chemical tanker operator Stolt Nielsen as the company hosts its first capital market day in a decade.And Paul Peachey talks to the Kyiv School of Economics to get its take on the dark fleet and how the international community will suddenly take more notice of it when something goes wrong.

In this episode we focus on a topic that kept recurring during the Posidonia TradeWinds Shipowner Forum, the dangers of an ageing dark fleet tankers, that often secretly meet to perform ship to ship transfers.We hear from Julian Bray, TradeWinds Editor in Chief, Michael Parker, Global Industry head of shipping at Citi and Evangelos Marinakis, Greek Shipping doyen and founder of Capital Maritime.AlsoEric Priante Martin reports on plans that the Panama Canal Authority has for finding extra water and get a glimpse of the topic of the latest Green Seas podcast, hearing why Union Maritime has decided to put cleantech wind propulsion systems onboard 34 newbuildings.

In Wavelength this week we look at the Greek orderbook as big names go big with their wallets ratcheting up both second hand purchases and $40bn of newbuilding orders ahead of PosidoniaHouthi attacks on a bulk vessel, Laax, and other vessels send shock waves around the insurance marketWeather damages US navy pier in Gaza halting shipments of humanitarian aid to GazaWhy general average could well become the answer to slow steaming as Blue Visby consortium assesses its successes.Host Craig Eason, produced by TradeWInds

The US National Transportation Safety Board publishes preliminary findings into the Dali accident in Baltimore with focus on the ship's electricity switchboardandHolly Birkett and Lucy Hine have been talking to female shipbrokers about working in the 'boys club' Host: Craig Eason

In this episode US Bureau Chief Eric Priante Martin looks at the bullish tanker markets who are reaping the benefits of a solid market.We visit the TradeWinds Shipowner Forum in Singapore where discussions turned to possible impact of elections (think 2nd term of Trump in the US) on shipping markets, and also at the whole idea of green corridors and they they my be flawed.Then back to the tankers market and the growing dark fleet taking oil cargoes from Russia, Venezuela etc in contravention of sanctions and price caps. We look at the numbers with Windward.Yannick Guerry on the TW news desk brings us upto speed with other news this weekHosted by Craig Eason

This week's episode of TradeWinds Wavelength: Sanctions and the oil price cap, a UK Parliamentary inquiry into them wants to see what is working and what is not. Marine insurers and P&I clubs have an idea. The huge LNG orderbook train rumbles on, but why when the world should be weaning itself off fossil fuels and why Carnival says LNG is its fuel of choice.

In this episode Eric Priante Martin has been talking to US-listed shipowners about their priorities, and the lack of pressure they have to decarbonise their operations.We delve into the car carrier markets with news that the Aponte led MSC has made a grab for Gram Car Carriers.And Holly Birkett goes to Chirp to talk safety and the real fears whistleblower still have of reporting anything.Other news mentioned:Norden profits dentHouthi launch fresh attacks in Red SeaGreece v Germany