The featured guests in this episode are Silvia Gerard and Jeff Ward, both of whom work at Phillips Exeter Academy. I'm also joined by my friend and colleague, Dr. Szu-Hui Lee, a Licensed Clinical Psychologist, who shares her thoughts on my conversation with Silvia and Jeff about introversion and extroversion.…

The featured guest in this episode is Dr. Lauren Barthold, who is the Executive Director of the Heathmere Center for Cultural Engagement. She joins me to discuss her journey with understanding her own white identity along with race and racism. We also spend some time discussing her role with the Heathmere Center for Cultural Engagement and the miss…

The featured guest in this episode is Chloe Cataldo who identifies as a black woman, among many other identities. She joins me on the podcast to discuss her relationship with black culture as a result of being adopted and raised by a white family.

The featured guest in this episode is Isiah Tucker, who is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and President of Inner Voice Outer Change (IVOC). IVOC, which is in Worcester, Massachusetts, provides therapeutic services for teens that foster personal empowerment through the creation of music and multimedia projects.…

The featured guest in this episode is New England Basketball Hall of Fame inductee, Bill Raynor. He joins me on the podcast to discuss his recently released memoir that's titled, "Why Black Men Nod at Each Other," which chronicles his upbringing in the inner-city of Boston, his educational journey through Dartmouth College in the 1970s, and his tra…

Strict but fair. That’s the description of the Australian Maritime Safety Authority from retiring chief executive Mick Kinley. Some of the world's biggest shipping companies have been named and shamed by the regulator in recent years and their vessels banned from entering ports over sub-standard conditions or not paying crew.Speaking with character…

The featured guest in this episode is New England Basketball Hall of Famer, Bill Raynor, who joins me to talk about his recently released memoir that's titled, "Why Black Men Nod at Each Other." Our conversation addresses aspects of what he covers in his book along with our shared experiences of growing up in the inner-city.…

Concerns around security and geopolitics intensified at the end of last year as the Houthis began targeting vessels in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden under the cover of a show of support for Hamas. Adding to the deteriorating situation was the resurgence in Somali piracy as some actors sought to take advantage of the chaos.Since November we’ve seen n…

The featured guest in this episode is Chloe Cataldo, also known as DJ Mam. This is Chloe's second time on the podcast. Her last appearance is titled Black Culture-n-Me (episode 84). She joins me on the podcast to discuss how she has experienced interracial marriages, and talks briefly about raising a biracial child.…

A few hours after the containership Dali (IMO: 9697428) destroyed the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, there were media reports suggesting investigators would look into ‘bad bunkers’ as a potential cause of the accident.The National Transportation Safety Board ruled out that possibility after its initial investigation. But this incident alone…

In a market where unpredictability has become predictably common, the whole concept of accurate earnings guidance from the lines fell overboard several quarterly reports ago. Forecasts are couched in ever more provisional language as volatility and black swans continue to demand near constant expectation management amid yo-yoing sentiment. While US…

THE prospect of a dominant Trump presidency is significantly more like than it was only a week ago. But what does that mean for shipping?Will the anticipated “Trump trade” really result in more inflation, higher interest rates and sweeping tariffs? Will the inevitable bonfire of Biden’s environmental rules put the brakes on shipping’s already hesit…

The explosion of sanctions have demanded a compliance sea change from the marine insurance sector. But despite the rapid pace of investment to keep up, P&I Clubs have found themselves struggling to enforce an increasingly unenforceable regime.The flawed nature of the oil price cap regime is hardly news. But while the rest of the industry get to cri…

The threat posed by Houthi missiles and uncrewed surface vessels sits at the lower end of the risk spectrum for shipping. Things could be worse. A lot worse. That was the rather worrying assessment this week from the latest in a series of Geopolitical risk webinars we’ve been running here at Lloyd’s List and for this week’s podcast we are bringing …

As unpalatable as it may be to say out loud, global turmoil is pretty good for business. Shipping CEOs are as happy as shipping CEOs generally get to be.[Sidebar#LL1149672]They are after all a pretty philosophical bunch at heart and they understand that all this has been seen before and will be seen again.They know that unexpected good fortune tend…

When we talk about green shipping, are we always talking about actions that have a net benefit in terms of reduction of greenhouse gases? Are the commercial choices we make today about reducing absolute emissions, or just the most pragmatic financial options on the table? And are the regulations we are negotiating genuinely addressing the problem o…

There is a growing body of opinion across shipping that is routinely referring to nuclear, alongside carbon capture technology, as the only real options on the table that will allow shipping to fully decarbonise by 2050. Has the previously fringe option of nuclear powered ships now become sufficiently mainstream for the industry to genuinely consid…

Pragmatism seems to be the new buzzword sweeping through the shipping executive lexicon. What that means though requires a bit of decoding. Those of you who have been schlepping round the conference circuit at Posidonia in Athens this week will have no doubt noticed that it comes up quite a lot when talking about decisions that have not been made. …

This episode of the Lloyd's List Podcast was brought to you by Wirana - visit https://www.wirana.com/ for more information Shipowners are not having to woo bankers right now. They don’t need to. If anything it’s the bankers’ turn to buy the drinks at Posidonia this year and start talking up ways to deploy capital, because shipowners are paying down…

This episode of the Lloyd’s List podcast was brought to you by Lloyd’s Register — visit www.lr.org/en for more information.THE US refrained from imposing new sanctions on Iran’s shipping sector for most of last year and was said to be lax in its enforcement of existing sanctions as it was eyeing a prisoner exchange deal with Tehran that took place …

This episode of the Lloyd's List podcast was brought to you by Lloyd's Register - visit https://www.lr.org/en/ for more information. “You have to be a cold bitch or an easy lay”. Those words of advice were given nearly 50 years ago by the boss of a London-based shipping company to a young woman starting out her maritime career.That young woman went…

This episode of the Lloyd's List podcast was brought to you by Lloyd's Register - visit https://www.lr.org/en/ for more information. BATTING centres are an iconic part of Japan's baseball-loving culture and found everywhere in the country as entertainment facilities.For Takaya Soga, the president and chief executive of NYK Line, the past year has f…

This episode of the Lloyd's List podcast was brought to you by Lloyd's Register - visit https://www.lr.org/en/ for more information. The dry cargo market had a strong start to the year as more bulk carriers rerouted away from the Suez Canal, port congestion in China increased and higher than expected Brazilian iron ore exports all pushed up tonne-m…

This episode of the Lloyd's List podcast was brought to you by Lloyd's Register - visit https://www.lr.org/en/ for more information. The Container lines have begun reporting their first-quarter results, and there are strong improvements on the previous quarter. But that ground has been gained on the back of disruptions to sailings through the Red S…

This episode of the Lloyd's List podcast was brought to you by Lloyd's Register - visit https://www.lr.org/en/ for more information. Geopolitical disruptions, wars, sanctions, OPEC+ production cuts and even the weather have all added tonne-mile demand at a point when fleet growth is at a record low. We are living through something of a golden age o…

This podcast is brought to you in association with LISCR, the Liberian International Ship and Corporate RegistryPORT state control (PSC) has reduced accidents and improved safety on board ships, but there is a lot of room for improvement in how PSC inspections are carried out and their outcomes reported, believes Alfonso Castillero, CEO of the Libe…

In this pivotal year of global elections where the power blocs are squaring up to each other over trade, macroeconomic circumstance has thrust shipping into the limelight.Shipping has a window of opportunity to insert itself at the heart of the big political discussions by reminding politicians of the central role that national fleets and maritime …

Shipping is getting increasingly more complex and more expensive. On balance, that could be a good thing in that it forces the hand of an industry that has been too cheap for too long and the direction of regulatory travel now at least favours the progressives over the laggards. But we don’t know the detail. We don’t know what fuel availability or …

LAST July Ukraine’s deep sea maritime trade dried up with the collapse of the Black Sea Initiative.Within days Ukraine put forward a proposal to the UN detailing a route that would see ships sailing through Romanian waters to reach the greater Odesa ports. In August Ukraine announced the opening of a “humanitarian” corridor, pitching the route as a…

On International Women’s Day, Stephanie Zank tells Lloyd’s List her story about being a trailblazer in the world of shippingAs a girl growing up in Australian in the 1980s Stephanie Zank hated office jobs and loved taking things apart and putting them back together.When she first stepped on board a ship, she knew that this was the career she wanted…

TUESDAY this week marked P&I renewal day. That’s the name given to the annual hard deadline for the 90% of the world fleet by tonnage entered with International Group P&I clubs to renew their liability insurance for the following year. Historically, the date was considered the first on which Baltic ports were sufficiently ice free to be navigable. …

THE shipping industry has a problem that it doesn’t like to talk about. A dark secret.Safety standards, by and large, have been steadily improving over recent decades. Ship casualties and incidents reached an all-time low, in spite of a global pandemic and a steady tightening of regulatory standards have raised the bar across the board. But there i…

Why has the marine insurance industry forgotten about Cynthia Mockett? That is the question at the heart of this week’s edition of the Lloyd’s List Podcast. The widow of a UK marine surveyor and consultant murdered in Yemen 13 years ago in one of the biggest marine insurance frauds in Lloyd’s of London history is still fighting for compensation, as…

Between Black Sea disruption and two key canals choking under the pressure of climate and war, a triple whammy of blocked arteries threatens world trade. The impacts on the wider global economy could be profound. So what happened to all that talk of supply chain resilience?We have drafted in a couple experts this week to help me make sense of it al…

A tipping point has been reached in the Red Sea. The industry is now divided between those who have called the Middle East security risk as a mid-term diversion to be managed, and those who are prepared to run the gauntlet of near daily attacks on the basis that the Houthis will only target ships with an Israeli, US or UK nexus.While containerships…

It seems that 27 was the magic number in the end. That was how many attacks the Houthi’s landed on international shipping before the inevitable military response was triggered. On January 12th America and Britain responded with more than 60 sea and air attacks on Houthi targets in Yemen in an attempt to restore open passage, expanding the scope of …

This sponsored edition of the podcast is produced in association with ExxonMobilIn July, MEPC 80 agreed a new GHG strategy with a destination of net-zero GHG emissions by, or around, 2050. But will the fuels be ready and what does ‘net-zero’ actually mean?In this podcast, Christophe Pouts and Ken Kar of ExxonMobil address the challenge of reaching …

The new International Maritime Organization secretary general Arsenio Dominguez joins the Lloyd’s List Podcast this week to discuss the challenges ahead, his leadership style and just how much influence the 'SG' really has in setting the industry’s agenda.Happy new year to all Lloyd's List Podcast listeners…

I’m joined in this episode by Isiah Tucker who is the President and Cofounder of IVOC and a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker. In this conversation, I get to learn about this cool non-profit organization in Worcester and some important work Isiah and his team are doing to help young people of color adopt language to talk about their feeli…

The featured guest in this episode is Echo Louissaint who joins me to discuss how she has experienced being a biracial woman growing up and living in Central MA.

Each year, Lloyd’s List likes to gather a group of industry leaders, lock them in a room and not let them leave until they have divined the fate and fortunes of the shipping industry for the year to come. And that’s what we did this week in London at the annual Lloyd’s List Outlook Forum. Having gathered a baseline of crowdsourced knowledge from th…

Three of the five International Group affiliates that have announced strategies for the 2024 renewal have included sweeteners totalling more than $80m. But are the payouts as generous as they look? This week’s edition of the podcast offers a deep dive into the P&I landscape at the halfway point in renewal season. Lloyd's list Insurance Editor David…

This episode is brought to you by ERI Design, a boutique marketing agency with offices in Worcester, MA and Portland, Maine. My guest for this episode is Jeffrey Wong, who is a college counselor at Phillips Exeter Academy. He joins me to discuss what it was like for him growing up biracial in the northeast.…

Two of the shipping industry’s leading academics, Professor Siri Pettersen Strandenes and Dr Martin Stopford join the podcast this week to discuss everything from the shifting nature of shipping economics to the digital and logistic solutions they would urge the industry consider in response. To hear more about the topics discussed in this week’s e…

On pretty much every metric you care to think about right now, the industry does not have sufficient pace behind the transitions required. But you knew that already, so we are exploring the reasons why in a little more depth in this week’s edition of the podcast. Like last week’s edition these conversations all stem from around the recent Global Ma…

The zero emission capable ships may be coming, but they are not coming quickly enough. But even if we squint and avoid the question of how environmentally friendly a theoretically environmentally friendly ship really is, the ships aren’t really the biggest problem right now.It’s the lack of zero carbon fuels coming down the pipeline that’s keeping …

The featured guest in this episode is Chloe Cataldo, also known as DJ Mam, who will talk about growing up in Boston during the 80s and 90s as a black girl who was adopted by a white family.

The featured guest in this episode is Russell Weatherspoon, who is the Dean of Students at Phillips Exeter Academy. Our conversation is about his upbringing in a racially and ethnically diverse city during the height of the Civil Rights Movement and how that shaped his propensity towards intercultural exchange.…

In a world rife with cascading crises – macro-economic fragmentation, retreating development, multilateralism under attack and of course the defining challenge of the age - climate change – maritime trade serves as a stabilizing anchor, holding fast against the turbulent currents of disruption.But it is changing. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine shifte…

TWO years ago Federal Maritime Commission chairman Daniel Maffei sat in front of the Lloyd’s List microphone and bluntly told the container carriers to buck up their public relations.They needed to do a better job of explaining the economics of container shipping and the industry’s essential role in supporting commerce, was his basic beef. Well, a …