TradeWinds Wavelength - a weekly shipping news show

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 [https://nhst.drpublish.aptoma.no/#] 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 [https://nhst.drpublish.aptoma.no/#] 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 [https://nhst.drpublish.aptoma.no/#] 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 [https://nhst.drpublish.aptoma.no/#] Host and producer: Craig Eason Additional news: Yannick Guerry ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

In this episode of the wavelength podcast: Matt Coyne examines the ongoing impact of Middle East tension on tanker rates [https://www.tradewindsnews.com/tankers/vlcc-rates-crater-as-fragile-israel-iran-ceasefire-holds/2-1-1838650]. In the week of the Day of the Seafarer, insurance and risk reporter Paul Peachey looks at why seafarer deaths remain so high. [https://www.tradewindsnews.com/insurance/worrying-rise-in-seafarer-deaths-as-stress-takes-a-toll-says-gard/2-1-1838147] And the ship recycling convention is now in force [https://www.tradewindsnews.com/regulation/hong-kong-vs-basel-why-shipping-is-caught-in-the-recycling-cross-hairs/2-1-1837770]. 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 ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

In this episode: TradeWinds’ Gary Dixon looks at what has happened in the Gulf after two tankers collided and caught fire.  [https://www.tradewindsnews.com/tankers/frontline-vlcc-caught-in-huge-satellite-jamming-incident-before-fiery-collision-experts-say/2-1-1834608] 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 [https://www.tradewindsnews.com/law/cocaine-case-sees-ship-captain-endure-jail-ordeal-after-refusing-to-frame-crewmates/2-1-1833654] 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 [https://www.tradewindsnews.com/gas/k-line-teams-with-provaris-to-bring-first-compressed-hydrogen-carriers-nearer-to-fruition/2-1-1835654]after we reported on vessel deliveries and new partnerships for transportation for the nascent carbon capture and sequestration market. Producer and host: Craig Eason ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

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. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

This week’s rundown of what is happening comes from the TradeWinds Shipowners Forum where editor-in-chief Julian Bray gets into details with Evangelos Marinakis owner of Capital Maritime & Trading, and Lars Barstad of Frontline.  We also hear from Norway’s leading climate negotiator, Sveinung Oftedal, as well as Marie-Caroline Laurent of MSC Group and Andrian Dacy of JP Morgan Asset Management’s Global Transport Group. There’s also former US secretary of state John Kerry and Andrew Forest, owner and executive chair of mining giant, talking to Craig Eason on the Nor-Shipping Blue Talks stage. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.