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

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Not shooting Strait, confusion in the Gulf

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Tanker market insights as Gulf conflict continues and UAE leaves OPEC

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Shipping figures talk carbon cuts in Singapore

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Who's ordering all these giant crude oil carriers?

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Ceasefire or confusion in the Middle East

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

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One week, two landmark deals for crude tankers

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The impacts of war

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War, global trade and risk

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The story behind US shipbuilding being great again

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Zim and the golden share

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

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The VLCC aggregator unnerving analysts, and sentencing the manslaughter master

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Conflict and risk as US forces gather off Iran

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Greenland, Davos and identity theft at sea

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Crude delights?

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Venezuela

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TradeWinds person of the year 2025

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Venezuela is on Trump's mind

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Attacking the dark fleet

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

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

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

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Is piracy rising again off Somalia

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Pairing US and South Korea’s shipbuilding industries

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Another TACO?

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Carbon talk delay response

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

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Looming chaos?

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The 800 pound US gorilla

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Introducing Wavelength Plus

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

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

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Is a tanker industry mega merger on the cards?

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Getting marine fuel makers to up their game

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Profiling a suspected Iranian shadow shipping kingpin

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

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

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Tanker markets, India and Trump

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Trump targets Russia's trading partners, tanker market reaction

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New Russia sanctions examined and LNG shipbuilding returns to US

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

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

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Trump's big beautiful bill vs shipping

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

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So, what happened in the Gulf this week?

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

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

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Ammonia v LNG

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Turning shipping's latest sanction screws

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On women, and men

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

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Shareholder disgruntlement at Clarksons

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Swallowing Golden Ocean

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

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

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Are Trump's tariffs terrifying shipping?

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Trump policies spark concern and criticism in Washington and Singapore

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

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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

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

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

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

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

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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An anniversary no one wants, the Bahri barometer and recycling

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

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

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

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

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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

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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

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

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Supersizing, slow fuels, risk profiling and drybulk games

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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

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Bans, bonds, barometers and promises

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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?

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

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

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Red Sea escalation: Death, insurance and charter rates

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Hello

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