Trade trouble and regulatory reform

This week Lloyd’s List Editor Richard Meade is crossing continents bringing you the view from China via a conversation in Hong Kong with China Editor Cichen Shen and then he’s back to London for a chat with outgoing International Chamber of Shipping secretarygeneral Peter Hinchliffe.

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Earlier this week Europe Editor-in-Chief Helen Kelly spoke with Dr Karen Purnell, managing director of ITOPF - A not for profit scientific organisation based in London.

ITOPF has been providing technical advice on the clean-up of oil spills at sea for 50 years.

It has worked with industry to bring major tanker accidents down from one every two weeks in the 1970s to one or two per year today.

Dr Purnell talked about how ITOPF is evolving to include other types of pollution at sea, and why flag states should file accident investigation reports much more quickly.

This week Lloyd’s List Editor Richard Meade is joined by Bimco’s chief analyst Peter Sand and Lloyd’s List markets editor to discuss the outlook for markets and the shipping implications of a trade war.

This week the UK Chamber of Shipping and Mission to Seafarers talk to us about seafarer mental health and wellbeing, as part of Seafarers Awareness Week and 2018 Day of the Seafarer

On this week's podcast we are joined by Sue Terpilowski OBE, at the Braemar Shipbroking offices in central London, host to the Women in Maritime Taskforce group set up with Maritime UK and the Department for Transport. As chair of the group Sue tells us why we still haven't got the gender balance right in UK maritime and what can be done about it

On this week's podcast: a diplomatic row erupted earlier this week over Italy and Malta's refusal to take a rescue vessel carrying 629 people. As the vessel heads towards Spain we talk to International Chamber of Shipping secretary-general Peter Hinchliffe about the moral obligations of EU member states to help people in distress and the potential fallout for merchant shipping in the Mediterranean

On today’s podcast we are joined by some of the industry’s leading analysts from BIMCO, NS Lemos and DVB Bank

On today’s podcast we are joined by another special guest — Stephen Gordon, managing director of Clarksons Research Services

On today’s podcast we are joined by a special guest - Knut Ørbeck-Nilssen, chief executive of DNVGL’s maritime division and outgoing chair of IACS.

On today’s podcast: The Lloyd’s List Business Briefing and why Silicon Valley has decamped to Pireaus.

In the first of a special series of Lloyd’s List podcasts live from Athens, the editorial team reflect on day one of Posidonia and discuss key takeaways from the Lloyd’s List Business Briefing.