Lloyd’s List has been polling the industry on everything from AI to zero carbon fuels over the past months and the results formed the backbone of the discussions at our annual Outlook Forum in London last week, with a panel of experts offering the analysis and context. This week’s podcast offers you a few highlights from the events including views from Citi, Shell and Intertanko on: the greatest challenge to the future efficiency of operations in shipping, the greatest threat to the shipping industry over the next five years and the question of which fuel is going to propel shipping into a zero carbon future.

How do the Greek shipowners feel this year has gone and what’s keeping them up at night when they look to 2020? The podcast lands in Athens this week for the annual sequined festival of camp showbiz excess and shipping excellence that is the Greek Shipping Awards. Joining Lloyd’s List editor Richard Meade to dissect for the fortunes of shipping’s most vibrant of markets are our two resident Greeks, Athens correspondent Nigel Lowry and London-based reporter Anastassios Adamopoulos

This week we’re crunching the numbers and offering up a market forecast with Lloyd’s List Intelligence’s analytical oracle Christopher Pålsson and our own Editor and regular Podcast host Richard Meade. The pair talk through everything from growth trends to regulatory risk in their consideration of the dynamic trends that will be shaping shipping markets in 2020.

The Lloyd’s List team have continued their world tour this week hosting events in the Middle East and Asia. In this week’s audio dispatch our chief correspondent Richard Clayton offers up his view from Dubai where he has been talking smart ports, while our China Editor Cichen Shen and Asia news editor Vincent Wee give us the insider’s view from Hong Kong maritime week and more importantly the Lloyd’s List’s eagerly anticipated Innovation Forum

The campaign for mandatory speed limits for shipping suffered a blow during technical talks at IMO this week. For some that is crucial mistake and a missed opportunity. For others it is an effective strategy to reduce emissions. In this week's podcast we get the view from both sides: Danish Shipping director Maria Skipper Schwenn and Transport & Environment shipping analyst Faig Abbasov explain what the future is for decarbonisation

The Lloyd’s List Podcast is in Shanghai this week where China’s President Xi Jinping has been leading the discussions around trade policy and Chinese shipping giant Cosco has been talking up the value of a multi-lateral, value-added approach to supply chains. Joining Lloyd’s List Editor Richard Meade to discuss everything from trade policy and Trump bashing to Chinese leasing and why cargo interests are leapfrogging shipowners in news deals are China Editor Cichen Shen and special guest Bill Guo, executive director of the Chinese leasing giant ICBC.

Environmental protection is ultimately going to trump trade, according to our Podcast guest this week - the IMO’s head of air pollution and energy efficiency, Edmund Hughes. Speaking to Lloyd’s List Editor Richard Meade and reporter Anastassios Adamopoulos in this week’s edition he talks us through his confidence around 2020 implementation, the lessons learned there about what happens next in the decarbonisation debate, and the role of the IMO amid rapidly changing political dynamics that it has limited agency in controlling.

The Podcast is in Naples this week as our law and insurance expert David Osler talks over the legal challenges of autonomy, Brexit and 2020 sulphur rules with some of the shipping industry’s finest legal minds. Featuring this week are: Mans Jacobsson, the now-retired former director of the International Oil Pollution Compensation funds; Tiejha Smyth, a solicitor who now works as deputy director of freight, demurrage and defence at North Group, James Leabeater QC and Hamish Macrae, one of Britain’s best-known economics journalists.

The Podcast comes from Singapore this week where Lloyd’s List hosted the Asia Trade Outlook Forum, casting a critical eye over the market trends shaping shipping business decisions in the next 12 months. Joining Lloyd’s List Editor Richard Meade to discuss the key takeaways from the forum are the Asia editorial team: Cichen Shen. Vincent Wee, Hwee Hwee Tan and Inderpreet Walia.

In this week’s review of the stories shaping shipping our containers kingpins James Baker and Linton Nightingale discuss the peak season that never was and why flexibility trumps size, our chief correspondent Richard Clayton offers up the key lessons he’s learned from talking to the leading shipmanagment executives and Nida Bakhsh explains why governments are considering their options when it comes to casualty reporting.

For further details of all the Lloyd’s List Events mentioned at the top of this week’s edition, head to Lloydslist.com