TradeWinds Wavelength - a weekly shipping news show

In this episode of Wavelength:

TradeWinds’ Eric Priante Martin looks at the story of US shipbuilding as the industry turns to Donald Trump’s policies to make it great again. 

Read more: Here’s how much shipowners have saved up to invest in US-built tonnage

Oslo correspondent Jonas Walsgard talks to Norwegian Shipowners’ Association chief executive Knut Arild Hareide about its members’ attempts to go green and why they want more state help.

Read more: Norwegian shipowners call for more energy efficiency measures as ship emissions grow

Holly Birkett is back with Granular, our monthly look at key topics in the dry bulk market. This week it is about build quality.

Read more: Granular: Bulker age is nothing. Condition and quality are everything

And nuclear? Craig Eason introduces the Wavelength Plus, a two-part series examining renewed interest in nuclear power in shipping.

Read more ‘Going critical’: Shipping takes a step closer to nuclear reality

Producer and host: Craig Eason

Additional editorial input from: Eric Priante Martin, Jonas Walsgard, Holly Birkett and Yannick Guerry.

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In this episode:

Hapag Lloyd makes $4.2bn offer for Israeli liner carrier Zim. Will it work out?

Read more: Hapag-Lloyd seals $4.2bn Zim takeover

Read more: Israeli regulator raises doubts over Hapag-Lloyd’s $4.2bn Zim takeover

The US Maritime Action Plan has been revealed. What does the industry both inside the US and outside make of it?

Read more: Are MR product tankers the key to kick-starting the US shipbuilding revival?

Read more: Here’s how US shipping stakeholders assess the Trump administration’s maritime MAP

Green lobby groups are to get their day in court as they try and force the European Commission to stop labelling LNG fuel as sustainable under its green investment taxonomy

Read more: Europe’s gold standard green investment taxonomy faces credibility test in court battle

Exhaust gas cleaning systems have hit the news again as countries and lobby group put more pressure on wash water discharges

Read more: Industry pushes back on attempts by European member states to coordinate scrubber bans

Producer and host: Craig Eason

Additional editorial input: Ian Lewis, Eric Priante Martin

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In this week’s episode:

TradeWinds newbuilding team Lucy Hine and Irene Ang dissect the mega ordering of VLCCs.

Read more: Shipowner Evangelos Marinakis inks 11 VLCC newbuildings at Hengli.

Read more: Scorpio Tankers not ordering more VLCCs, says Robert Bugbee.

Intertanko calls on governments to be stronger in tackling the shadow fleet, arguing that the latest seizures will reveal how bad the ships are.

Read more: Tanker seizures set to reveal the state of the shadow fleet.

And wine tasting with a shipowner at his own vineyard. TradeWinds visits Odfjell Vineyard.

Read more: Laurence Odfjell sees sustainability as good business with fast payback

Producer and host: Craig Eason

Additional reporting from: Lucy Hine, Irene Ang, Eric Priante Martin and Yannick Guerry.

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In this week’s episode:

The Solong captain found guilty of manslaughter has been sentenced, but questions remain unanswered

Read more: Russian master jailed for six years for fiery North Sea collision caused by ‘complacency and arrogance’

The Sinokor VLCC buying spree has analysts asking questions. Here’s why

Read more: Charterers on the hunt for period VLCC deals as ‘the aggregator’ eyes more assets

Introducing shipping’s Guiding Stars who you think are making a difference

Read more: ‘Competitive edge’: Laurence Odfjell sees sustainability as good business with fast payback

Capturing shipping’s CO2 emissions and burying them in concrete

Read more: CEO of carbon capture firm Seabound wins Nor-Shipping Young Entrepreneur award

Producer and host: Craig Eason

Additional editorial input from: Matt Coyne, Paul Peachey, Holly Birkett, Eric Priante Martin

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IIn this week’s episode: 

Energy shipping in the Middle East is on alert after Trump sends naval forces to threaten Iran.

Read more: Iran official threatens ‘control over’ Hormuz traffic as Trump brandishes ‘massive armada’

The captain of the Solong testified in London courts about the incident in which his ship collided with a laden tanker, resulting in the death of a seafarer.

Read more: Russian master denies falling asleep before North Sea collision

Even more seafarers are found to have been lured from online shipping recruitment sites and kidnapped to work in illegal scam centres.

Read more: Vanishing Chinese seafarers spark fears over criminal gangs catfishing victims

Granular. Holly Birkett’s regular look at the dry bulk market as she focuses on the impact of unseasonal weather on trade. 

Producer and host: Craig Eason

Additional editorial from: Eric Priante Martin, Huaqing Ma, Holly Birkett and Yannick Guerry

A TradeWinds/DN Media podcast

The Wavelength archive

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In this episode:

Davos: Greenland and why can't Europe act like the US and sieze dark fleet tankers an their oil

Read more: Trump’s ‘surreal’ threat to seize Greenland puts container shipping on notice

Read more: Polar perspective puts new spin on Trump’s Greenland grab

A Greek shipowner has success in getting its tanker off the US sanctions list

Read more: US removes Altomare from blacklist after Greek shipowner hit with ‘comprehensive identity theft’

ITF issues annual figures on seafarer abandonment figures and they look worse than ever. What's happening?

Read more: ‘Nothing short of a disgrace’: Seafarer abandonments hit new record

And the lobby group promoting the use of liquid natural gas as a fuel, Sea-LNG turns 10. What next as the fuel debate goes on?

Read more: LNG fuelling ‘cleared for take-off’ with bio-methane uptake ‘exploding’, SEA-LNG says

Producer and host: Craig Eason

Additional reporting: Lucy Hine, Eric Priante Martin and Yannick Guerry

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IIn this episode:

Eric Priante Martin takes a peek into the tanker markets that have begun to react to the impact of Donald Trump’s moves on Venezuelan crude and Iran.

Read more: US-seized tanker emerges off Venezuela as two sit in Texas waters. Where will the latest land?

Paul Peachey has been in the UK courts listening to the trial of Captain Vladimir Motin, charged with manslaughter after his boxship, the Solong, rammed into an anchored laden tanker, creating a fireball.

Read more: Jury shown moment of fiery collision in North Sea that killed seafarer

Huaqing Ma followed the case of a missing seafarer who thought he had a job offer to join a ship, only to disappear, believed to have been abducted to work in an illegal call centre compound in Cambodia.

Read more: Are criminal syndicates kidnapping seafarers to work in scam call centres? The wife of a missing Chinese sailor believes so

Host and producer: Craig Eason

Additional reporting: Huaqing Ma, Eric Priante Martin, Paul Peachey, Yannick Guerry

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In this week’s episode:

Holly Birkett and Matt Coyne dissect what’s been going on in Venezuela and how it is likely to impact tanker markets, plus Claire Jungman from Vortexa on the impact on China.

Read more:  Trump uses old Latin America playbook to bring new dimension to geopolitical uncertainty

Read more: Venezuela-to-China oil flows slowed by US pressure on departures, Vortexa says

The Singapore investigation into the allision of the Hafnia Nile with a dark fleet VLCC in 2024 has pointed the finger at the fatigue and actions of the officer on the Hafnia product tanker. Karen Ng examines the report findings.

Read more: Fatal collision between Hafnia tanker and dark fleet VLCC unpicked in safety report

And Craig Eason talks to Rene Kofod-Olsen, chief executive of V.Group, on the company’s decision to purchase decarbonisation technology advisory Njord from Maersk Tankers and what it says about the evolution of ship management.

Read more: V.Group takes over fuel-efficiency firm founded by Maersk Tankers

Host: Holly Birkett

Producer: Craig Eason

Additional reporting: Yannick Guerry, Matt Coyne, Karen Ng, Huaqing Ma and Craig Eason

A TradeWinds/DN media podcast

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In this episode:

TradeWinds editor in chief Julian Bray introduces the “Person of the Year.”

Read more:  ‘Person of the Year’: Chen Jianhua has resuscitated a shipyard giant to leave Korean rivals ‘very worried’

Odfjell chief executive Harald Fotland explains why the Norwegian tanker owner has gone it alone with its own green corridor.

Read more:  Odfjell signs biofuel offtake deal with Petrobas to launch its own green corridor

UAE shipowner Astro Offshore explains the group’s huge fleet expansion.

Read more: From 25 to 50 ships in a year — and Astro Offshore CEO says expansion is far from over

..... and who would you have for dinner? We preview your wish list dinner invites.

Producer and host: Craig Eason

Additional editorial: Julian Bray, Huaqing Ma, Eric Priante Martin

A TradeWinds/DN Media podcast

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode:

US forces seize tanker laden with Venezuelan crude. What does this mean for shipping and the battle against the dark fleet?

Read more: US sanctions six VLCCs as Trump ramps up pressure on Venezuela

Read more: US draws up hit list of Venezuela-linked tankers as more seizures planned

Another Ukrainian drone attack on a sanctioned tanker in the Black Sea. Shipping warned to watch out for unexploded drones

Read more: Video shows explosions as Ukraine targets alleged dark fleet tanker

Read more: Sanctioned, Ukraine-hit tanker evacuated again after bungled salvage operation

On location. TradeWinds enjoys a Singapore anchorage and sees a hull cleaning operation up close

Read more: ‘Last Breath’ moment drives engineer to swap human divers with hull-cleaning robots

Producer and host: Craig Eason

Additional reporting: Eric Priante Martin, Huaqing Ma, Yannick Guerry

A TradeWinds/DN Media podcast

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.