EPISODE · Oct 10, 2025 · 21 MIN
John Fredriksen’s game plan amid rumours of LR2 fleet sell off
from TradeWinds Wavelength - a weekly shipping news show
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 againShipping billionaire John Fredriksen is accelerating his long-planned succession strategyFredriksen stocking up private VLCC fleet as Frontline linked to $1bn-plus product tanker saleDetails 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 AfricaGuards high on drugs and alcohol spark $60m court claim over crew held hostage on VLCCand the Maritime history professor who has become shipping's YouTube influencerWhy millions of people are watching this maritime history professor’s YouTube shipping channelEditorial: Andy Pierce, Paul Peachey, Eric Priante MartinHost and Producer: Craig EasonA TradeWinds podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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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 againShipping billionaire John Fredriksen is accelerating his long-planned succession strategyFredriksen stocking up private VLCC fleet as Frontline linked to $1bn-plus product tanker saleDetails 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 AfricaGuards high on drugs and alcohol spark $60m court claim over crew held hostage on VLCCand the Maritime history professor who has become shipping's YouTube influencerWhy millions of people are watching this maritime history professor’s YouTube shipping channelEditorial: Andy Pierce, Paul Peachey, Eric Priante MartinHost and Producer: Craig EasonA TradeWinds podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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