TradeWinds Wavelength - a weekly shipping news show

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Examining the attacks by Ukraine forces on tankers linked to Russia

Read More: Kyiv’s shadow fleet explosions and Moscow’s empty threats

The need to strengthen the US Maritime Security Program (MSP) and the Tanker Security Program (TSP)

Read More: ‘It’s the cargo, stupid!’ US maritime revival hopes get a dose of Louisiana candour

Whether Trump has exceeded his powers with his trarifs and what can Republicans do if he has

Read more: Trump’s Plan B: US can ‘recreate’ tariffs if Supreme Court shoots them down, official says

Production and host: Craig Eason

Additional reporting: Paul Peachey, Joe Brady, Eric Priante Martin and Yannick Guerry

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TradeWinds finance correspondent Joe Brady comes into the studio to dissect the likelihood of Diana Shipping managing its acquisition of Genco, its bigger more stable peer on the New York Exchange.

Read: ‘Cash is king’: Why Diana Shipping’s ‘bizarre’ bid for Genco could pay off

Is shipping about to flood back to Red Sea transits? If so, what are the risks and what will it do to the markets?

Read: Container carriers brace for market turbulence amid talk of resuming Suez transits

Read: Red Sea warning: Tanker rates face hit as return of ships ‘appears closer than ever’

Green corridors are supposed to shape and encourage maritime decarbonisation. So far, they are a little behind target with only two active when there should be six. There are 84 initiatives underway, however, and China has joined the buzz.

Read: Green shipping corridor drive shows little progress, says Getting to Zero report

Is ship finance happier in Singapore than in Hong Kong or China?

Read: Chinese leasing faces prolonged USTR pressure as financiers warn of shifting capital flows

Host and producer: Craig Eason

Additional reporting: Joe Brady, Yannick Guerry and Huaqing Ma

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This week's episode of Wavelength is a Hong Kong Special, following Hong Kong Maritime Week in the Chinese city-state this week.

Craig Eason and Huaqing Ma are here to report back on all the hot topics from Hong Kong Maritime Week and also from our TradeWinds Ship Recycling Forum, where scrapping dark-fleet vessels was hotly debated.

Eric Martin is here to wrap up the findings of the investigation into the ship crash in Baltimore that brought down a bridge, and resulted in the loss of lives. The probable cause of the accident was so tiny that investigators might easily have missed it, were it not for help from the ship's builder.

Finally, our newbuilding queens Lucy Hine and Irene Ang are here to discuss their upcoming special report on the shipbuilding sector, which will be published in TradeWinds next week. What has newbuilding business been like this year? Kind of muted, Irene and Lucy agreed.

Host and producer: Holly Birkett.

Additional reporting: Craig Eason, Huaqing Ma, Eric Priante Martin, Lucy Hine and Irene Ang.

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In this week's Wavelength podcast from TradeWinds:

Has Iran snatched a loaded tanker leaving the Gulf and bound for Singapore?

Tanker ‘heads towards Iran’ in sudden course change after suspicious approach

Why 2026 may be a bleak year for shipping and why microgrids based on renewable energy will impact shipping

Shipping ‘navigating increasingly uncertain waters’, says Danish Ship Finance

Everllence says its new ammonia engine is ready. Are shipowners ready to buy?

‘Milestone’ hit as Everllence seeks order for ammonia dual-fuel engine

and introducing new podcast mini series looking at what happened to the containership Dali that led to a deadly collision with a bridge in Baltimore and what next in the story

Host and producer: Craig Eason

Additional reporting: Gary Dixon, Eric Priante Martin

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In this week's episode:

Piracy rising: Are recent attacks a sign that Somali piracy is ramping up again?

Somali pirates target LNG carrier after Latsco tanker attack

Latsco tanker crew ‘safe’ after pirate attack with warship on the way

Warship hunts pirate mothership after tanker attack

Is China stockpiling crude spoking ir helping the VLCC markets?

China poised to pounce on more crude to keep filling strategic storage reserves

and ... just how easy is it to sabotage a subsea power cable? We asked cable maker Nexans

Host and producer: Craig Eason

Additional editorial content: Eric Priante Martin, Lucy Hine, Yannick Guerry

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In this week's episode:

Can the US upgrade its shipbuilding capacity?

‘Shipbuilding is a bipartisan issue’: Senate hearing highlights US support for boosting yard sector

What role for South Korea's shipbuilders as they sign up to help their ally?

Dealmaker Trump secures pledges from South Korea’s big three shipbuilders

‘Master of shipbuilding’ South Korea strikes $150bn trade and security deal with Trump

Is the US-China trade meeting a good deal for shipping?

Port fee pause: US and China declare one-year truce to maritime trade war measures

And, what does the grounding of a shadow fleet tanker say about the ongoing risks to shipping and the environment?

Suez Canal tanker grounding highlights how sanctions have struggled to land a glove on Russia

Sanctioned tanker that grounded in Suez Canal one of four blacklisted ships in convoy

Editorial contributions: Eric Priante Martin, Huaqing Ma, Matt Coyne

Production and host: Craig Eason

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In this week's episode of Wavelength:

• Shippers and shipping companies in the US await news from President Trump -- and President Xi, as Eric Martin reports,
• Can South Korea help make American shipbuilding great again or is China too competitive? Irene Ang looks at the issues.
• And Arsenio Dominguez, secretary general of the International Maritime Organization, reflects on last week's all-important MEPC vote with Holly Birkett. The full interview will follow on Tuesday in an episode of Wavelength+.

Host: Craig Eason.

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In this week's episode

The talks on IMO carbon rules go no where as nations call time out and delay a decision for a year. Not the ending anyone thought, but there may be a silver lining.

Also.

While international climate talks stumble, African nations are taking control of their own destiny and a number of countries are following Djibouti's idea of setting their own price on shipping's carbon emissions. Is it a model that can spread further afield?

And we look at the response in the US to China's port tariffs which are in response to the US tariffs

reporting by Paul Peachey and Eric Priante Martin

Host and producer: Craig Eason

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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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In this week's Wavelength podcast:

Problem solving. Cargill's Jan Dieleman explains the trading group's huge bulker deal with Costamare

Problem-solving and bulker investments: Cargill shipping boss digests Costamare Bulkers deal

Costamare seals tie-up with Cargill to invest in bulker assets, charter ships and transfer trading book

How shipping can navigate the US shutdown chaos

Here’s how the US government shutdown impacts federal maritime agencies

Tariff collection and cargo inspections continue as US Customs stays open during shutdown

There's no alternative other than chaos. International Chamber of Shipping chair designate explains why the IMO carbon deal is the deal and why ICS believes it will be approved.

‘There is no Plan B’: John Denholm says alternative to IMO carbon rules is ‘chaos’

John Denholm to take ICS reins when Emanuele Grimaldi steps down

Editorial Contributions this week: Holly Birkett, Eric Priante Martin, Yannick Guerry

Host and production: Craig Eason

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