TradeWinds Wavelength - a weekly shipping news show

In this week's episode:

Eric Priante Martin has been talking to the Center for Advanced Defense Studies which has been tracking the activities of Suniel Kuma Sharma. Sharma has been travelling the world opening ship registries including one on small Pacific island inhabited only by seabirds.

False flag agent: Meet the man linked to a network of illicit ship registries

Jonas Walsgard looks into the Norwegian Sovereign wealth fund, the largest in the world, and what shipping assets it has sold or bought in the first half of this year.

Norwegian sovereign wealth fund swoops for Maersk shares as shipping book grows to $4.8bn

And Holly Birkett is on the podcast to talk about the reaction to her opinion piece on the role of shipbrokers and sanctions regimes that has got our subscribers' attention.  

Producer and host: Craig Eason.

Editorial input from: Eric Priante Martin, Jonas Walsgard, Holly Birkett, Yannick Guerry.

A TradeWinds/DN Media podcast.

Other news in this episode

Short of cash: Tor Olav Troim VLCC venture pushes back shipyard payments to buy time

Blacklisted oil trader 2Rivers to wind up under ‘extraordinary’ sanctions pressure

New US-listed Latsis family vehicle pivots to product tanker investments

Torm buys 13 leased tankers and sells older vessels as profit slashed

Why tankers are to blame for jellyfish stowaways shutting down a French nuclear power station

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In this episode:

Paul Peachey looks at the fall out and likely outcome of Trump's continued threats to hike up tariffs on India.

Putin and Trump plan to meet as US president threatens to extend Russia trading penalty to China

Expanding European sanctions herald unexpected consequences

Trump hits India with additional tariffs for Russian oil imports in bid to punish Putin

Eric Priante Martin dissects the results of Tidewater to give a flavour of the good and bad news for the offshore markets.

Tidewater adds $400m to share value after earnings surprise

Tidewater earnings surge as revenue defies Wall Street expectations

Holly Birkett has been picking through what dry bulk operator Pacific Basin has to say about the first six months of the year.

Pacific Basin bulker earnings fall as company braces for USTR impact

Hong Kong bulker giant Pacific Basin Shipping plots how to navigate Trump’s port fees

Producer and host: Craig Eason

Additional reporting: Yannick Guerry

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In this episode:

In this episode:

Donald Trump gets impatient with Putin and brings forward penalties on India, one of the country's main importers of crude. Eric Priante Martin reports on the response from the tanker companies, which have begun reporting their first-half results.

Host Craig Eason has been talking to Interferry head of regulatory affairs Johan Roos. 

Interferry said something has to be done to prevent all of shipping needing to pay twice for CO2 emissions, as there will be both the international rules and the European rules, which will lead to shipping having to pay into funds. Roos tells Craig the answer is to take shipping out of the European ETS.

TradeWinds has reported previously that African states are looking to emulate Europe with regional emissions trading schemes.

‘Administrative nightmare’: Shipowners risk having to pay twice for emissions

And Holly Birkett launches Granular, - drybulk news in small pieces- a new segment for Wavelength subscribers. In episode one the focus is on Australia to China trades (C5).

Host and production: Craig Eason

Reporting: Eric Priante Martin and Holly Birkett

Additional news: Yannick Guerry

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A $1.3bn boxship order by Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has made the front page of the TradeWinds newspaper this week.

Reporter Ian Lewis speaks to host Holly Birkett about why megaship orders are still going strong, even as most other owners are favouring smaller vessels. Ian also fills us in on the rationale behind MPC Container Ships' $228m order for four 4,500-teu boxships.

The US has threatened countries that trade with Russia with secondary trade tariffs. US bureau chief Eric Priante Martin explores the possible ramifications for shipping in the future. 

Finally, reporter Matt Coyne has looked at tanker traffic in the Red Sea following the latest round of deadly Houthi attacks on vessels. He talks about some surprising trends.

Host and producer: Holly Birkett.

Additional news: Yannick Guerry.

Craig Eason is away.

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Shipping has once again found itself in the crosshairs of conflict and military action. Militants and saboteurs have attacked vessels and their crews to show support of wider geopolitical disputes, which over the past week alone has resulted in the loss of multiple lives and the sinking of two ships in the Red Sea.

TradeWinds reporters Eric Priante Martin and Harry Papachristou discuss the rapid escalation in Houthi violence in the Red Sea.

And Paul Peachey, TradeWinds' insurance and risk correspondent, talks to host Holly Birkett about a series of vessel attacks with possible Ukrainian backing that appear to be scare tactics, designed to deter operators from lifting cargoes in Russia.

In this 'Risk Special' edition of Wavelength, we recap and explore some of the elements threatening the security of vessels and crew right now.

Craig Eason is away.

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In this week's Wavelength newscast:

Donald Trump's big beautiful bill has got through the house of representatives after being passed, just, by the US senate. But what does it mean for shipping. US bureau chief Eric Priante Martin has the details.

Trump’s grand maritime agenda remains mostly intact after tax-and-spending bill clears Senate

A report from a group of green lawyers says that the vast money that could be raised by shipping's decarbonisation needs to have an equitable and just focus. UK -based opportunity green has argued that while shipping needs the rewards to help with its decarbonisation, there is a risk that a poor set of regulations from the International ternaitonal Maritime Organisation would damage least developed nations who are at risk of being impacted worse by climate change.

Money raised by IMO carbon rules needs to go to developing countries, green group argues

A Norwegian firefighter has argued that ships crews need mandatory training on lithium ion fires. A number of fires on car carriers believed to have been caused by electric vehicles and indicents where marine battery systems have caught fire and exploded suggest more needs to be done to make crwws aware and avoid making the wrong decisions.

How to tackle an explosive battery fire, according to man who battled Norwegian ferry blaze

Allianz issued statistics this week showing that cargo theft numbers have been rising. TradeWinds Paul Peachey talks to Allianz's Justus Heinrich.

Criminal gangs target ships as cargo theft cases spike globally

Host and producer: Craig Eason

Additional news: Yannick Guerry

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In this episode of the wavelength podcast:

Matt Coyne examines the ongoing impact of Middle East tension on tanker rates.

In the week of the Day of the Seafarer, insurance and risk reporter Paul Peachey looks at why seafarer deaths remain so high.

And the ship recycling convention is now in force. What's good, what's bad about it?

The father of the convention Nikos Mikelis comments on the challenges it faces from the Basel Convention, especially as it was Basel that asked the International Maritime Organization to handle shipping.

Producer and host: Craig Eason

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In this episode:

TradeWinds’ Gary Dixon looks at what has happened in the Gulf after two tankers collided and caught fire. 

We also look at the developments in satellite spoofing and jamming and how the Israel-Iran conflict could affect shipping in and outside the region.

We hear the story of a Chinese master who refused to frame his crew when drugs were found on his ship, and how he spent two years in prison without being properly charged.

And Lucy Hine gives listeners a round-up of recent developments in the CO2 shipping market after we reported on vessel deliveries and new partnerships for transportation for the nascent carbon capture and sequestration market.

Producer and host: Craig Eason

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In this episode:

TradeWinds Paul Peachey talks to former chair of International Group's sanctions committee Malin Hogberg about Europe's plans to slash the Russian oil price cap.

Eric Priante Martin examines the US plans to review the fees for car carriers enetering the country

Also we dig into the latest data from the signatories of the Sea Cargo Charter and the concerns researchers have about it and similar private initiatives seeking to stimulate shippings decarbonisation journey.

And we get Granular, a new regular feature in Wavelength lifting the lid on the dry bulk markets with Holly Birkett.

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