TradeWinds Wavelength

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.

In this week's episode.An update on what has happened in the last week after two tankers collided off Singapore and MalaysiaCruise ship giant Royal Caribbean parties but investors have questions.After Anthony Gurnee, Ardmore founder and CEO announced his retirement, TradeWinds went to Cork for an exit interviewAs the European Commissioners start a new term in office, there's a refocus on the green deal and ensuring financing is in place as Europe tackles tough competition.MSC has put forward its position on the potential use of the Northern Sea Route following disruption on to major trade arteries 

US-based conglomerate Crowley has come to a settlement agreement on sex tracking allegations. Eric Priante Martin looks at what this means and the larger picture in the US. We look at the lead-up to the Ultra Galaxy listing dramatically and then drifting onto the South African beaches in bad weather. We also hear from the South African Maritime Safety Authority about salvage plans And experts assess the risk of swarm attacks by Houthis in the Red Sea as their strategy to disrupt shipping evolves.

In this episode of the Wavelength podcast: Dof Group of Norway this week announced a plan to buy fellow offshore supply vessel owner Maersk Supply Service for $1.1bn — could similar deals be on the way? Gianluigi Aponte’s Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) will soon control one-fifth of the world’s container fleet but as the orderbook racking up, could there be a risk of fleet overcapacity on the horizon? Finally, new claims data collated by protection and indemnity insurer Gard shows a worrying rise in crew injuries and sheds new light on suicide at sea. 

In this episode On 1 July new cyber resilience requirements come into force for newbuildings. It’s made shipowners speed up orders. There is a ban on fuel oil use in the Arctic. It could have little impact due to gaping exemptions. We met with John T Essberger in Germany as the quiet chemical tanker player christens two newbuildings and celebrates a century of business. And in Singapore, as the authorities build a massive new container terminal there are concerns seafarers’ needs will no longer be met.Embed: series embed

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.