
The Lloyd's List Shipping Podcast
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The half-year outlook 2025: Dry bulk
Lloyd’s List reporters Joshua Minchin and Greg Miller offer an assessment of the first half of the year for the dry bulk market and look ahead to what the rest of 2025 might hold

The half-year outlook 2025: Tankers
Lloyd’s List senior reporter Greg Miller analyses the first six months of the year for the tanker market and offers some insight into what the second half of 2025 might hold

The half-year outlook 2025: Containers
Lloyd’s List reviews the first half of the year for the container sector and identifies the key things you should be looking out for in the next six months

Buying ships in 2025: what the average owner needs to think about
Lloyd’s List’s insurance editor David Osler asks how on earth can the average shipowner make informed decisions on their next purchase with so much market uncertainty

How to find a commercial carbon advantage in shipping
Listen to the latest edition of the Lloyd’s List weekly podcast — your free weekly briefing on the stories shaping shipping

What happens next in the Baltimore bridge case?
Lloyd’s List law and marine insurance editor David Osler examines the next steps in the maritime casualty of the decade

The MEPC post-mortem
Senior reporter Declan Bush brings you immediate reaction from a momentous week in shipping’s decarbonisation journey and gathers three experts to discuss the impact of what was agreed at the IMO’s Marine Environment Protection Committee

Can green ship finance deliver in 2025?
Lloyd’s List senior reporter Declan Bush asks what’s next for green ship finance amid an ESG backlash, a second Trump presidency and big questions over technology and regulation

Buying ships in 2025: what the average owner needs to think about
Lloyd’s List’s insurance editor David Osler asks how on earth can the average shipowner make informed decisions on their next purchase with so much market uncertainty

Who are the winners and losers of shipping’s decarbonised regulatory future?
Lloyd’s List’s editor-in-chief moderates a conversation in Oslo featuring thought leaders from within shipping to ask who stands to do the best and worst from increasing sustainability regulation

How to find a commercial carbon advantage in shipping
Listen to the latest edition of the Lloyd’s List weekly podcast — your free weekly briefing on the stories shaping shipping

Why doing nothing about decarbonisation is now the most expensive option
The details of shipping’s net zero trajectory remain riddled with uncertainties, but when has shipping ever relied on certainty? This week’s edition of the podcast offers a resolutely rosy take on why shipping must now move ahead with green investment and why doing nothing comes with a highest price tag

Is freedom of navigation under threat? Part II
Lloyd’s List editor-in-chief Richard Meade returns to the freedom of navigation debate and asks whether states risk breaking international law in their efforts to curb Russia’s oil exports

What to look out for in 2025 in risk and compliance
Lloyd’s List’s editorial team gives you a head start for 2025 by discussing the most important things to look out for this year in their field

The Lloyd’s List Outlook Forum: Is the dark fleet getting darker?
We bring you more highlights from the Lloyd’s List outlook forum held in London earlier this month, featuring foremost sanctions lawyers and Lloyd’s List Intelligence analysts

The unintended consequences of sanctions
Navigating the rapid escalation of sanctions has proved to be a steep and expensive learning curve for P&I clubs as they try to enforce the unenforceable. They now walk a precarious regulatory tightrope through the dark fleet, which now presents a global threat in terms of uninsured risk. But if you think this is just a problem for the insurers — think again

The half-year outlook 2025: Dry bulk
Lloyd’s List reporters Joshua Minchin and Greg Miller offer an assessment of the first half of the year for the dry bulk market and look ahead to what the rest of 2025 might hold

The half-year outlook 2025: Tankers
Lloyd’s List senior reporter Greg Miller analyses the first six months of the year for the tanker market and offers some insight into what the second half of 2025 might hold

The half-year outlook 2025: Containers
Lloyd’s List reviews the first half of the year for the container sector and identifies the key things you should be looking out for in the next six months

Shipping’s secret trade: the fightback
Lloyd’s List reporter Joshua Minchin looks again at the secret illegal trades using our vessels and ports to understand how industry, NGOs and law enforcement are taking the fight to the smugglers

What happened to shipping’s innovation boom? Part II
Lloyd’s List editor-in-chief Richard Meade brings you the second half of his deep dive into innovation within shipping, this time focusing on the human factor

What happened to shipping’s innovation boom?
Lloyd’s List editor-in-chief Richard Meade speaks to shipping’s thought leaders to find out where the true innovation in the industry is happening

How worried should we really be about cyber security?
Lloyd’s List reporter Joshua Minchin talks to cyber security experts to assess the current threat level to shipping and ask whether shipowners should be more worried now than they have been before

How does an economist solve shipping’s climate conundrum?
Two of the shipping industry’s leading academics, Professor Siri Pettersen Strandenes and Dr Martin Stopford, join the podcast this week to discuss everything from the shifting nature of shipping economics to the digital and logistic solutions they would urge the industry to consider in response

Buying ships in 2025: what the average owner needs to think about
Lloyd’s List’s insurance editor David Osler asks how on earth can the average shipowner make informed decisions on their next purchase with so much market uncertainty

Who are the winners and losers of shipping’s decarbonised regulatory future?
Lloyd’s List’s editor-in-chief moderates a conversation in Oslo featuring thought leaders from within shipping to ask who stands to do the best and worst from increasing sustainability regulation

How to find a commercial carbon advantage in shipping
Listen to the latest edition of the Lloyd’s List weekly podcast — your free weekly briefing on the stories shaping shipping

Why shipping has hit the pause button on investment
Lloyd’s List editor-in-chief Richard Meade reports from Singapore Maritime Week and tries to find out why the best thing to do at the moment in shipping… is nothing

Shipping’s secret trade: the problem
Lloyd’s List news reporter Joshua Minchin speaks to several frontline experts on how they tackle smuggling, whether it be illegal narcotics or wildlife

Is freedom of navigation under threat?
From the Red and Black Seas to the Baltic and the Taiwan Strait: shipping’s access to trade lanes is coming under fire while a political and legal war is being waged in the background to redefine what is and is not acceptable under the law of the sea. Is freedom of navigation, a fundamental principle of the law of the sea and a pillar of modern international law, something we have quietly given up on?

How worried should we really be about cyber security?
Lloyd’s List reporter Joshua Minchin talks to cyber security experts to assess the current threat level to shipping and ask whether shipowners should be more worried now than they have been before

Can navies protect shipping?
In this week’s edition of the Lloyd’s List podcast, security experts join maritime risk analyst Bridget Diakun to ask whether navies can protect shipping from the threats facing seafarers on a daily basis

Driving efficiency and compliance through digital innovation
Maritime’s new landscape puts pressure on classification societies and shipowners

Think big, execute with pragmatism: the path toward a sustainable blue economy
In an era of accelerating climate crisis and geopolitical turmoil, the ocean is where the world’s urgent needs and challenges intersect

The role of AI in maritime: can it help us be more human?
Eric Christofferson is Chief Product Officer at Veson Nautical, which is a provider of maritime data and freight management solutions to support global commerce. His experience with AI outside maritime reveals interesting insights in how to approach AI and get the most from it.

Enhancing compliance and reducing risk through digital certificate management
Any shipowner and operator understands that vessel certifications are not just bureaucracy; they are vital to a ship’s operation and safety
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