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TradeWinds Wavelength - a weekly shipping news show — 126 episodes
Mutiny and fear in the Gulf
Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd bosses disagree on structural change
Chokepoint tolls - The spread of a bad idea
The Adnoc L&S raid on the secondhand VLCC market
The expanding theatres of war
Should the mariner be the fall guy when shadow vessels break sanctions?
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