All Episodes

Risky business — are we going back to square one in Hormuz?

Faking a Norwegian

Deal no deal, the on/off situation in the Gulf

Peace at last? Shipping cautiously resumes as Hormuz re-opens

War! Huh, what is it good for? Shipping!

Energy transition, Greece v IMO and the shadow of 2008

Hafnia offloads and a P&I first as Britannia promotes first female lead underwriter

Ship ID theft

Trump and Xi talk Strait and Intertanko puts pressure on action not words

Not shooting Strait, confusion in the Gulf

Tanker market insights as Gulf conflict continues and UAE leaves OPEC

Shipping figures talk carbon cuts in Singapore

Who's ordering all these giant crude oil carriers?

Ceasefire or confusion in the Middle East

What to do with the floating wreck of the gas carrier Arctic Metagaz

One week, two landmark deals for crude tankers

The impacts of war

War, global trade and risk

The story behind US shipbuilding being great again

Zim and the golden share

The VLCC mega orderbook, and why Scorpio Tankers is bucking the trend

The VLCC aggregator unnerving analysts, and sentencing the manslaughter master

Conflict and risk as US forces gather off Iran

Greenland, Davos and identity theft at sea

Crude delights?

Venezuela

TradeWinds person of the year 2025

Venezuela is on Trump's mind

Attacking the dark fleet

David and Goliath. The Diana and Genco takeover that's the talk of New York

Singapore who? Hong Kong steps up the fight to stay competitive

Has Iran captured an innocent tanker? And why 2026 will be a bleak year for shipping

Is piracy rising again off Somalia

Pairing US and South Korea’s shipbuilding industries

Another TACO?

Carbon talk delay response

John Fredriksen’s game plan amid rumours of LR2 fleet sell off

Looming chaos?

The 800 pound US gorilla

Introducing Wavelength Plus

Timeout! ABS and others call for IMO to pause decarbonisation talks at 11th hour

DNV boss slams IMO approach to LNG, anti-LNG lobby slams DNV

Is a tanker industry mega merger on the cards?

Getting marine fuel makers to up their game

Profiling a suspected Iranian shadow shipping kingpin

Lloyd’s Register and Anemoi: The innovations of wind propulsion technology

Tracking the man linked to a ship registry on an uninhabited island

Tanker markets, India and Trump

Trump targets Russia's trading partners, tanker market reaction

New Russia sanctions examined and LNG shipbuilding returns to US

Big-bucks boxship deals show big is still beautiful — but small is sublime

Risk special: Ships are under attack as militants and saboteurs take aim

Trump's big beautiful bill vs shipping

Tanker rates in the aftermath of Iran attacks and why seafarers keep dying

So, what happened in the Gulf this week?

A cut in the Russia oil price cap and US car carrier fees back down

Barstad, Marinakis, Kerry, tariffs, clean fuel rules and Nottingham Forest

Ammonia v LNG

Turning shipping's latest sanction screws

On women, and men

Product tankers, bulkers, and are the seafarers on them happy?

Shareholder disgruntlement at Clarksons

Swallowing Golden Ocean

Easter special: have events of the past two weeks changed shipping forever?

Trump's attack on shipping and the climate battles at the IMO

Are Trump's tariffs terrifying shipping?

Trump policies spark concern and criticism in Washington and Singapore

Fredriksen’s savvy play and Hing Chao’s warning that ‘global trade is under threat’

What really happened onboard the ships that collided in the North Sea? Update on US fees on Chinese ships and changing of the guard at CTM

Reaction to Fredriksen selling Golden Ocean, Trump says US will build ships again, and at the ball with Wista UK

Trump targets shipping, and this time its not with tariffs, nuclear shipping and results season round up

The case of the ammonia-less ammonia carriers, the latest climate talks at the IMO, and is shipping being sabotaged?

Iran, closed door GHG talks to change shipping for ever, P&I transfers and Gas bloodbath

Can a tariff war disrupt global trade and shipping? plus Europe pushes on with green rules as US dithers and dry bulk operators get an appetite for project cargo

The need for a big CO2 levy, tanker market scratches its head and the scourge of seafarer abandonment

Trump's orders, busting carbon budgets and huge clean fuel liabilities

Trump, Putin and a ceasefire — what a start to 2025

Sabotage ship highlights Baltic risks with old, poor quality tonnage, plusCOSCO gets blacklisted by the US

The free Baltic Exchange FuelEU calculator, UECC’s bet on biomethane and FUMES 2 chasing fugitive methane

More naval vessels to the Red Sea please. MAN's MEGA issue. Hagen's Viking Holding bonanza

What does bellwether Frontline say about prospects for the markets and what links Mark Zuckerberg's Meta and Norden?

An anniversary no one wants, the Bahri barometer and recycling

Benchmarking vessels on similar routes, cyber risk taking and commodities bull run

A shipbuilding boom dominated by China, the impact of Trump and the election day shuttle tanker deal reveal by Angelicoussis

Halloween is over so what’s spooking investors in car carriers? Plus Scorpio Tankers invests in VLCC company and FuelEU edges closer

Is ABS liable for a lethal capsize? 6 years of the Poseidon Principles and DNB's new climate transition loans

Sanctions. US and UK up the sanctions ante against Iran and Russia. NYK boss Soga talks investment and competition. And the era of noble-isation is here

Examining the US and UK funding plans for shipping’s transition, RightShip's age drop for ship inspections and supply chain chaos if Houthi attacks stop

One year to regulatory certainty as IMO carbon talks reach final lap, LNG bunker vessel demand rockets and the US ESG shipping scorecard

Supersizing, slow fuels, risk profiling and drybulk games

How a faulty wire can save Dali's owner millions, US port fees for Chinese built ships, the ‘accident waiting to happen’ in the icey Baltic, and how shipowners fail on ESG reporting

Bans, bonds, barometers and promises

From SMM: bottlenecks in the yards, future fuel prices will not drop

Sounion's insurance questions, DNV says its more than shipping that needs a kick, and a shipping fund manager gives us tips

Navios’ big debt, UK shipping’s missing decarbonisation plan, Youngship’s Shipcon

Growth of the dark LNG fleet, VLCC sunshine and dry-bulk detention risks

Leif Hoegh and Norden on investments and Maersk’s methanol pivot

LNG fuelled collision, Scorpio sets the pace, West P&I heads East

Dark fleet tanker fears, cruise investors spoil the party and behind the scenes at Ardmore

Update on VLCC and LR1 tanker disaster, refuting Houthi Med attack claims, strike risks in US and WISTA at 50

Crowley settles, Ultra Galaxy lists and grounds, and Houthis go for swarm attacks

A billion-dollar offshore deal, the boxship bonanza and concerning seafarer safety stats

Cyber resilience rules kick in, pushing newbuilding orders forward, Arctic fuel oil ban has gaping exemptions and meeting the Essbergers

More deaths in the Red Sea, V.Group sold again, the growing influence of the Sea Cargo Charter

Altera Infrastructure v police prosecutor over scrapping tankers in India, behind the scenes at Stolt Nielsen and the dark fleet from Ukraine's perspective

Dark fleet dominates Posidonia discussions, Panama Canal seeks more water and the biggest ever wind propulsion order

Greek owners open wallets for second hand and newbuilding vessels, the Houthi attack on Laax, and is general average the answer to slow steaming

Are flag states influencing port state inspections? Shippings safety barometer published by Allianz, and what's behind broker houses getting fined

What caused the Dali to crash into the bridge, inside the shipbrokers: a woman's view

Tanker markets rocketing, dark fleet gets darker, ‘green corridors’ questions and seismic Baltic tweeks

Marine insurers' upset with Russia price cap regime, hundreds of gas carriers on order, are we still decarbonising. Carnival's big gas bet

Laissez-faire about climate, focused on profit? containers and car carriers. The threats to whistleblowers

Genco boardroom brawl, cargo owners sign on the line to pay extra to get clean ocean supply chain

NYSE gets excited over new tanker shipping stock, Copenhagen's musical executive chairs, and Asia's new building slot gamble

Is bad fuel to blame for the Dali accident? How are the crew on the ship? And can the Baltic Exchange get more investors interested in shipping?

Steps closer to decarbonisation, Norway's shipowners get taxed, drybulk buyers hit by bubble and the unknown Jones Act

Rerouting benefits for container lines hang in the balance, diving into impacts of the IMO market based measure proposals

Red Sea escalation: Death, insurance and charter rates

Hello

Introduction to the new TradeWinds Wavelength podcast with host Craig Eason and editor in chief Julian Bray