Wavelength Plus: A podcast by TradeWinds

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TradeWinds’ Wavelength Plus explores and takes a deep dive into stories on shipping markets, the regulations and the people shaping the shipping industry.

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July 07, 2025 Meet TOWT, Neoline, Veer — companies showing the way to use wind as a primary fuel for shipping
In this episode of the TradeWinds Green Seas podcast, technology editor Craig Eason reports on the efforts by three hard headed entrepreneurs who have refused to take no for an answer and are on their way to building fleets of sail powered vessels for cargo owners that want to walk-the-walk rather than just talk about the need to decarbonise their logistics chains.

The main shipping companies are tackling decarbonisation by staring at a future of alternative fuels and possibly wind assist solutions to help cut fuel bills and possibly reduce emissions. These are the individuals thinking the other way round, they want their fleets to be primarily powered by the wind, and have an engine as a back up. But will cargo owners and their banks buy into the dream?

We meet Guillame Le Grand, founder and chief executive of Trans Oceanic Wind transport (TOWT); Jen Zanuttini, co-founder and president of Neoline; and Danielle Southcott, founder and chief executive of Veer Group.
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July 01, 2025 How to recycle a ship: three ways
In this episode, TradeWinds technology editor Craig Eason talks with Nikos Mikelis.
Mikelis worked at the IMO developing the Hong Kong Ship Recycling Convention which has now come into force. He explains why the Basel Convention secretariat asked IMO to write rules specific for ship recycling and how it then became a thorn in shipowners' side when it did not allow the resulting convention it to be equivalent.
Then there is the EU ship recycling regulation, well meaning but ultimately offering more complexity to what should really be a smooth end of life process.
Mikelis also looks at the demand for recycling facilities and whether the main recycling countries can handle volumes.

Producer and host: Craig Eason

TradeWinds articles related to this podcast:
Hong Kong vs Basel: Why shipping is caught in the recycling cross hairsRecycling confusion must be resolved before demo rushIs the sun rising on a cleaner recycling industry?

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May 06, 2025 How adding 91 fossil fuel-burning bulkers fits into CMB.Tech’s green shipping strategy
TradeWinds US bureau chief Eric Priante Martin interviews CMB.Tech chief executive Alexander Saverys about his company’s plans for ammonia and hydrogen-fuelled shipping as it works to take over Golden Ocean Group.
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April 28, 2025 The (near) clean voyage of the Bow Olympus
The 49,120 dwt Bow Olympus has just sailed from Houston to North Europe using suction sails on its deck, and 100% biofuel in its engine.
For the company it demonstrates what they, and inte industry can do, as part of their transition.
In the second interview with a shipowner daring to transition, TradeWInds technology editor Craig Eason talks to Odfjell's Erik Hjortland and Veine Huth about the voyage, how it helps the company with Fuel EU maritime compliance and why it chose four sails for its vessel
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April 23, 2025 Why is Union Maritime's Laurent Cadji so positive about cleantech?
In this episode of the Green Seas podcast, TradeWinds technology editor Craig Eason talks to Union Maritime chief executive Laurent Cadji about his company's bullish approach to wind tech and other cleantech solutions.Union Maritime has almost 50 vessels on order and more than half will be built with a wind propulsion system as well as other technologies onboard.Laurent and Craig also discuss the impact geopilitics has on cleantech investment in shipping.
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April 17, 2025 ‘Confidence level very high’ as WinGD hurtles towards first ammonia engine delivery
Ammonia is a zero-carbon fuel, but there are lingering concerns about the safety of using it to power ships because of its toxicity. But WinGD chief executive Dominik Schneiter, whose company is gearing up to deliver the first ammonia-fuelled engine, says the lessons from companies that operate vessels that haul the commodity and the crew members who work on them have contributed to ensuring a safety level equivalent to the gas carriers of today.
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March 23, 2025 Is seafarer fatigue a killer?
When the feeder container ship Solong ploughed into the anchored tanker Stena Immaculate off England, the issue of seafarer fatigue was quickly identified as one possible cause of the accident.Fatigue is not a new problem in shipping, despite efforts to deal with it.TradeWinds technology editor and former navigating officer Craig Eason looks at why the advent of the Maritime Labour Convention has failed to solve the problem. He talks to accident experts Captain Jim Staples and Nippin Anand on the causes, what needs to be done, and whether technology developments have been a help, or an additional problem.
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March 18, 2025 A call for a human-centric approach to ammonia-fuelled shipping
TradeWinds’ Sandra Boga interviews professor Rafet Emek Kurt, director of the Maritime Human Factors Centre at the University of Strathclyde, who warns that accidents could happen in ammonia-fuelled shipping and suggests more needs to be done consider seafarers’ cognitive load.Photo: WiseStella
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February 17, 2025 Is the IMO on the decarbonisation homestraight?
This week (17th to 21st February) is the last full week of dedicated talks by regulators about the way shipping will be forced to decarbonise. After this there’s a couple of additional days planned in March, and then the MEPC meeting itself where a decision has to be agreed.So what to expect and how have we got to where we are now?In this special Green Seas episode, TradeWinds technology editor Craig Eason offers a short recap of the journey so far and talks to University College London’s maritime decarbonisation policy expert Tristan Smith about what to expect from this week and what comes next.
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February 06, 2025 Reducing pollution from ships in port: a new idea
Ships in California, and soon in Europe, need to connect to shore power when alongside. It is for health reasons due to nitrous oxides and small harmful particulates that damage the health of people in nearby communities. The problem comes when there is no shore connection.There is an alternative, and this is what STAX Engineering is beginning to offer. Collect and treat the emissions from barges. The company is growing in California and has its eyes on Europe and UK, as well as expending to collect other shipping emissions too.In this week's Green Seas, TradeWinds technology editor Craig Eason looks at port emission regulations and talks to STAX chief executive MIke Walker about their idea to suck up exhaust and treat it.
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