Sophisticated cyber attacks are no longer the work of well funded state actors. Thanks to artificial intelligence they can be carried out by almost anyone.

The increased tie up between a ship owner's IT system and a vessel's onboard operational technology, coupled with powerful AI models, is worrying experts.

Hackers no longer just seek to phish for data and then hold systems to ransom, they may soon be using their AI enabled hacking capabilities to control vessels.

Wavelength producer and host Craig Eason talks to:

Patric Desanti-Fettkenheuer,, head of cyber security, BW Group (during the TradeWinds Singapore Shipowner Forum, April 2026)

Professor John McDermid at York University's Centre for Assured Autonomy

Dr Avanthika Harish, Pentester and AI system expert, Plymouth University's CyberShip Lab

Karan Sajnani, founder, Rudra Security

Yarden Gross, founder and chief executive, Orca AI (during the TradeWinds Singapore Shipowner Forum, April 2026)

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Each month until October, TradeWinds will publish a profile of a finalist in our Guiding Stars series, a project highlighting the people making change in shipping.

Our fourth Guiding Stars finalist is Kuet Ee Yoon, a former Singapore Navy officer who has spent decades across naval operations, offshore shipping, maritime heritage and safety advocacy in Singapore.

The 67-year-old maritime veteran discusses why Singaporeans must better understand the sea, the risks of losing maritime awareness in a global port city, and why stronger transparency around safety incidents matters.

He also reflects on growing up Chinese-educated in 1970s Singapore, his transition from the Navy to the private sector, and the “never say die” mindset he believes will determine Singapore’s future as a maritime nation.

TradeWinds' 10 Guiding Stars finalists have been nominated by our readers and editorial team. These are people who are innovating and creating real, tangible change in shipping and tackling some of its biggest issues. Later this year, we will ask you to vote on who will receive our TradeWinds Guiding Star award for 2026, which will be announced in November

Host: Huaqing Ma, TradeWinds Asia Correspondent

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Laura DiBella became the chairman of the Federal Maritime Commission, the US agency that regulates international shipping, in January.

She has already taken steps in her new role that are fairly new for FMC leaders, such as rejecting container operators' requests to raise rates amid the Strait of Hormuz crisis and playing a visible role in the US delegation at the International Maritime Organization in recent meetings to discuss the proposed Net Zero Framework.

TradeWinds' Eric Priante Martin spoke with her on the stage at the recent TradeWinds Shipowners Forum USA in Houston.

Read more: ‘We can act’: Trump’s FMC chair threatens to create penalties for Net-Zero Framework tax

Host and interviewer: Eric Priante Martin, TradeWinds US Bureau Chief

Guest: Laura DiBella, chair, Federal Maritime Commission

Recorded at TradeWinds US Shipowner Forum, Houston, May 5th 2026

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The Poseidon Principles are a set of requirements for signatories, all financial institutions engaged in shipping, to collect and report climate risks of their portfolios and investments.

While it does not have any regulatory teeth it has undoubtedly become a motivation for banks to look at their books.

Paul Taylor, head of maritime industries at French financial giant Societe Generale, took up the post of chair of the Principles at the start of 2026, a year where maritime decarbonisation is a burning topic.

In this one-to-one conversation during the TradeWinds Shipowner Forum Singapore, Paul talks to Julian Bray, TradeWinds editor-in-chief about the future of the principles, the link between them and the decarbonisation talks at the International Maritime Organization and how they could have more teeth in the near future.

Read more: ‘We have to have teeth’: Poseidon Principles boss signals strategic shift

In conversation: Paul Taylor, Head of Maritime Industries, Societe General and Julian Bray, Editor-in-chief, TradeWinds

Recorded live: SIngapore April 21st 2026

Producer: Craig Eason

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In this episode of Wavelength Plus, TradeWInds editor in chief Julian Bray talks leadership strategies with Cyril Ducau, chief executive of Eastern Pacific Shipping

The recording is form the TradeWinds Shipowners Forum in Singapore on April 21st 2026 in front of a live audience of shipowners and other leading industry executives

More details about TradeWinds leading events portfolio can be found on www.tradewinds.events

Producer and introduction: Craig Eason

With Cyril Ducau, chief executive, Eastern Pacific Shipping and Julian Bray, editor in chief, TradeWinds

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Greek/British shipowner Lomar Shipping has a fleet of about 30 ships. In 2022 it decided it wanted to look at new technologies that offer environmental or crew welfare improvements while making economic sense.

It launched Lomar Labs as a project in 2022 and formalised it as a business in 2023. Lomar Shipping technical director Stylianos Papageorgiou was brought in to run the startup investor as its managing director.

Lomar Labs has now invested in 12 startup companies and is offering the Lomar ships as floating test beds, with Stylianos saying more companies will soon be announced.

In this episode of Wavelength Plus, Stylianos talks to TradeWinds senior editor and podcast host Craig Eason about the ethos the company has, why it does what it does, and how it assesses startups to get involved with

The full story is also available on TradeWindsnews.com

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As Carl-Antoine Saverys, chief executive of Belgium gas carrier owner Exmar headed off to South Korea to name two new ammonia-fuelled gas carriers he spoke to TradeWInds Lucy Hine about the vessels, plans for deployment, and his belief in green ammonia as a maritime fuel

He also outlines the work to make sure regulation for future fuels needs to be simple to apply and not overly complicated, and how commercial interests will shape fuel choice as much as regulations

Host: Lucy Hine

Producer: Craig Eason

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Each month until October, TradeWinds will publish a profile of a finalist in our Guiding Stars series, a project highlighting the people making change in shipping.

Our third Guiding Stars finalist is Dola Oluteye, a senior research fellow in energy and transport policy at University College London’s Energy Institute.

She helped represent African nations at the IMO during the 2023 deliberations to revise its greenhouse gas strategy and now leads the Leading Effective Afrocentric Participation (LEAP) project there.

TradeWinds' 10 Guiding Stars finalists have been nominated by our readers and editorial team. These are people who are innovating and creating real, tangible change in shipping and tackling some of its biggest issues. Later this year, we will ask you to vote on who will receive our TradeWinds Guiding Star award for 2026, which will be announced in November.

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The dark fleet of sanctioned vessels which transport Russian, Venezuelan and Iranian crude above a given price cap are largely old and pooröy maintained.

They are due for scrapping but no cash buyer operating in US dollars wants to touch these vessels, and the reputabe yards will not either.

Many yards in India have spent a lot of money in recent years to be come compliant with the standards of the Hong Kong Ship Recycling Convention

which is now in place, but a good shipping market has meant very little tonnage has been scrapped (owners want to keep their vessels while the sun is shipping

and they can make hay). So these shadow fleet tankers are a tempting option in lean times.

In this deep-dive episode of Wavelength Plus,TradeWinds' Craig Eason talks to Anil Sharma, Founder and CEO at GMS, one of the shipping industry's cash buyers of old tonnage destined for recycling. For 30 years he has been buying old ships and selling them direct to the ship recycling facilities in Alang in India and other places.

Dr Sharma talks to Craig about the need to make it possible to legally sell these vessels and scrap them before they become a disaster and to prevent the shadow recycling yards taking them without doing all the safety and environmental checks expected under the HKSRC.

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Each month until October, TradeWinds will publish a profile of a finalist in our Guiding Stars series, a project highlighting the people making change in shipping. Our second Guiding Stars finalist is Scarlett Barnett-Smith, working deck officer and founder of The Scarlett Box. Her company has developed boxes with emergency period products for women working onboard ships, but The Scarlett Box has a wider mission to make shipping more inclusive of women to help attract and retain female talent.

TradeWinds' 10 Guiding Stars finalists have been nominated by our readers and editorial team. These are people who are innovating and creating real, tangible change in shipping and tackling some of its biggest issues.

Later this year, we will ask you to vote on who will receive our TradeWinds Guiding Star award for 2026, which will be announced in November.

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