In this week's Wavelength podcast:

Market speculation that John Fredriksen is about to sell off his LR2 product tanker fleet. Why now?

Cleaning out? Market weighs reports of $1bn deal to make John Fredriksen’s Frontline crude again

Shipping billionaire John Fredriksen is accelerating his long-planned succession strategy

Fredriksen stocking up private VLCC fleet as Frontline linked to $1bn-plus product tanker sale

Details emerge about the horrific ordeal of the VLCC crew locked up by Equatorial Guinea and Nigeria after believing a naval vessel was a pirate ship

‘Psychological torture’ inflicted on tanker crew after vessel seized in West Africa

Guards high on drugs and alcohol spark $60m court claim over crew held hostage on VLCC

and the Maritime history professor who has become shipping's YouTube influencer

Why millions of people are watching this maritime history professor’s YouTube shipping channel

Editorial: Andy Pierce, Paul Peachey, Eric Priante Martin

Host and Producer: Craig Eason

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