Green Seas: A podcast by TradeWinds: Recent Episodes
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Green Seas is the podcast on the environment and the business of the ocean. Join TradeWinds shipping reporter Eric Priante Martin as he explores topics of sustainability in the maritime sector as ocean industries face pressure to clean up their act.
Shipping could face more legal risks as it gears up to comply with FuelEU Maritime, the latest round of carbon rules that Brussels has foisted on the industry. We talk to Watson Farley & Williams regulatory lawyers Nick Walker and Valentina Keys about the minefield ahead for the industry.
Di Gilpin has been on a 20-year journey to prove modern wind propulsion can work in shipping. She finally got to see testing of a prototype wingsail by her company Smart Green Shipping on a vessel in the UK this month.She talks to TradeWinds technology editor Craig Eason about her motivation, how she collaborates with others and, importantly, how she now plans to commercialise her dream.
FuelEU Maritime, which will impose gradually tightening carbon-intensity limits on shipping, is nearly upon us. As Brussels’ newest carbon regulation looms, we check in with two digital technology companies that are helping their customers prepare. We talk to Geir Olafsen, chief digital officer at Siglar Carbon, and Bobby Morse, associate director of products at Veson Nautical. Is shipping ready, and what does it need to do to get there?
The podcast travels to the TradeWinds Shipowners Forum Japan, where Julian Bray led a live panel discussion to explore shipping’s path toward lower-carbon fuels. We hear from Michihiko “Mike” Nakano of Asahi Tanker and e5 Lab, Oystein Kalleklev of Flex LNG and Avance Gas, Andrew Hoare of Fortescue Marine Systems and Green Shipping and Hiroyoshi Kubo of Mitsui OSK Lines.
With backers that include shipowner Navigator Gas, Ten08 Energy is working to line up commercial contracts to build its planned ammonia plant, and shipping looks to be a big part of the customer base. The company wants to make green ammonia, but it is mostly focused on the blue version of the fuel, which is produced from fossil fuels with carbon capture. We spoke to chief executive Jean Perarnaud in Houston.
We travel to Houston to find out why projects that want to provide low-carbon fuels to shipping and other industries are in the slow lane two years after the Inflation Reduction Act promised to inject optimism, and cash, into the sector. We interviewed Jeff Pollack of the Port of Corpus Christi, Gregory Dolan of the Methanol Institute, Rebecca Boudreaux of Oberon Fuels, Jean Perarnaud of Ten08 Energy and Mark Brownstein of the Environmental Defense Fund.Photo: Scanpix
Decisions by crew members can have an impact on a ship’s greenhouse gas footprint, but how do motivate seafarers to make the right choices? Tech start-up Signol believes it has the answer: using the tools of behavioural science,We talk to the company’s Michael Fanning, Divya Sukumar and Harriett Hunnisett-Johnson.
Container ship operators have taken a variety of paths to tackle emissions, but they are united on one thing: a proposed regulation called the green balance mechanism. We talk to Simon Bergulf of AP Moller-Maersk and Bryan Wood-Thomas of the World Shipping Council.Photo: Vincent Clerc/Maersk
TradeWinds technology editor Craig Eason speaks to MAN Energy Solutions head of two-stroke business Bjarne Foldager about meeting increased demand for dual-fuel engines, getting licensees to ramp up production, the growing interest in ammonia as a fuel and how long an engine conversion takes.
In his first year on the job, International Maritime Organization secretary general Arsenio Dominguez has confronted two major sustainability challenges facing shipping: decarbonisation and the violence in the Red Sea, which threatens an oil spill and endangers mariners. He spoke to TradeWinds editor-in-chief Julian Bray at the Shipowners’ Forum Germany.
Trading giant Trafigura is looking to biofuels and ammonia as ways to tackle its greenhouse gas footprint, and head of wet freight Andrea Olivi says FuelEU Maritime is a major reason. We talk to him about how the new European Union law is set to boost green fuel uptake.
After snapping up e1 Marine from joint venture partners Ardmore Shipping and Element 1, New Orleans-based Maritime Partners is positioned to take hydrogen generators to wider applications. We talk to Element 1 chief executive Dave Edlund about the tech that combines the advantages of methanol and hydrogen as fuels. Photo: Elliot Bay Design Group.
TradeWinds technology editor Craig Eason talks to Sebjorn Dahl, COO at Hoegh Autoliners during the naming ceremony of Hoegh Aurora, about the decision to go for ammonia with 12 newbuildings and how they are training the crews to use both LNG and ammonia fuel.
LNG has returned as the main alternative fuel for new ships, and that means to be truly green, these vessels will need to turn to renewable forms of the fuel. With e-LNG produced from green hydrogen still far more expensive, bio-LNG is the key option on the menu. We speak to SEA-LNG chief operating officer Steve Esau, and we hear from Alexandra Veroude, an analyst at environmental commodities trader STX Group, who spoke on a NorthStandard webinar. Photo: Titan Clean Fuels and STX Group
This sponsor episode is part of TradeWinds Content Studio’s Ocean Climate Impact Series. The CEO of ABS Wavesight, Staci Satterwhite, joins the podcast to discuss how accurate data is driving cost efficiencies, impacting decarbonisation strategies and helping companies weather the digital transformation sweeping the shipping industry. She provides insights into the challenges shipowners are facing as the future continues towards greener, cleaner targets.
Chris Kruger is a maritime battery guru and pioneer. He has worked with some of the biggest battery makers in shipping and with his company AYK Energy is promoting LFP technology which he says is safer and cheaper. He is also looking at the potential of new solid-state technology.
This sponsor episode is part of TradeWinds Content Studio’s Ocean Climate Impact Series. Data has always played a key role in the shipping industry, but Miros Mocean believes that clients should not be satisfied by the current status quo of unreliable data. That quality, commercial data can help drive decarbonisation and reduce operational costs, are but a few reasons the sector should embrace accuracy. Miros Mocean’s Christian Bonfils joined the podcast to discuss green financing, decarbonisation and the need for accurate data to pave a new future for the shipping industry.
When European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen stood before EU lawmakers and successfully made the case for a second term, she struck a different tone on the Green Deal, her signature climate initiative that included regulations on shipping. The shift means the effort is still alive but moves into an investment and implementation phase. We talk to Sotiris Raptis of the European Community Shipowners Associations and Sian Prior of Seas at Risk.
An episode of TradeWinds Content Studio’s Ocean Climate Impact Series. Biofouling solutions have always been an important part of what Jotun does. As one of the leading manufacturers of paints and coatings, the company continues to dedicate time and effort into research and innovations that will power the next generation of biofouling solutions. Jotun’s Jessica Doyle, Global Sales Director of Shipping, and Petter Korslund, Regulatory Affairs Manager of Performance Coatings, sat down with host Jade du Preez to talk about the future of biofouling and how Jotun plans to tackle the problem as regulations increase and change.This podcast episode is sponsor content, with no involvement of TradeWinds journalists.
Shipping could rack up $1.46bn of penalties in 2025 under the incoming FuelEU Maritime regulations, with a potential new market emerging for the sale and purchase of surplus energy volumes according to experts.TradeWinds technology editor Craig Eason explains
Data from shipbroking giant Clarksons shows that orders for vessels powered by alternative fuels have shifted to see LNG dominate methanol, as price and availability impact decision-making. We hear from C2X chief financial officer Alastair Maxwell, who spoke in an Evercore fireside chat, and Princess Cruises’ Bob Alton, who spoke on a webinar by the Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping and Port of Seattle.
This episode is part of the Ocean Climate Impact Series, a sponsor content podcast by the TradeWinds Content Studio.With increasing decarbonisation regulations, the need for more efficient vessel optimisation whilst also keeping ahead of moving targets has never been more important. Sankar Ragavan, CEO of MariApps, walks host Jade du Preez through the intricate details of the vessel optimisation software options that could revolutionise decarbonisation efforts. Take the stress out of navigating ever-changing regulations, safe in the knowledge that MariApps’ fully integrated vessel solutions are doing the leg work for you.
Sacramento has done it before — regulating the environmental footprint of ships at sea rather than waiting for action by the International Maritime Organization. And now officials in the California capital are considering doing it again — this time for greenhouse gas emissions. We talk to University of California Berkeley’s David Wooley, Pacific Environment’s Teresa Bui and Chamber of Shipping of America’s Kathy Metcalf.
In San Francisco, the first hydrogen-fuelled ferry in the US is gearing up for operations. We talk to Switch Maritime chief executive Pace Ralli and Zero Emission Industries chief executive Joe Pratt about what it means for the future.
Tomoaki Ichida is a rare shipping executive in Palo Alto, where he’s leading Mitsui OSK Lines’ MOL Switch as it looks to spend $100m on start-ups and venture capital firms that are rethinking energy. The podcast caught up with him at his Silicon Valley office.
UK-based shipowner Union Maritime says it will fit 34 ships on order with wind propulsion systems. This is the biggest single wind propulsion order. “Our big ticket play,” according to Union Maritime. In this episode, TradeWinds Technology editor Craig Eason spoke to Union Maritime boss Laurent Cadji, and John Cooper, from BAR Technologies about the order and its implications.
UK-based shipowner Union Maritime says it will fit 34 ships on order with wind propulsion systems. This is the biggest single winder."Our big ticket play," according to Union Maritime.In this episode TradeWinds Technology editor Craig Eason spoke to Union Maritime boss Laurent Cadji, and John Cooper, from BAR Technologies about the order and its implications.
At a time when Houthi attacks on shipping are highlighting risks facing the industry, another is looming in the background. A recent report by insurance giant Allianz highlighted decarbonisation as a key challenge. We speak to Allianz Commercial’s Rahul Khanna and Ocean Arena’s Gina Panayiotou.
Two major US offshore wind projects began construction as the former president vying to win the White House back threatens to put a stop to the sector’s growth. We talk to Recharge’s Tim Ferry about the intersection of politics and renewable energy.
As the shipping industry changes as new fuels, new technologies and digitalisation make their mark, so it will need people from all walks of life to be part of it too.This calls for diversity and a sense of belonging.Craig Eason spoke to Heidi Heseltine, founder of the shipping focused Diversity Study Group, about a new initiative with shipping companies, to find out how we as an industry can make sure seafarers, whatever their background, can feel they belong and can play a role in our industry’s transition.
Green Seas boards the Carnival Celebration to talk to key company executives about climate action and circular economy. We hear from Carnival Corp’s William Burke and Tom Strang, Carnival Cruise Lines’ Richard Pruitt and more.
TradeWinds technology editor Craig Eason talks to Hing Chao, executive chairman of Wah Kwong the dry bulk owner about the company's strategy and which technologies he thinks will work for his fleet. Also why he is such a keen supporter of ZESTAs the zero emissions ship technology association.
Danielle Southcott’s Veer Group is working to make zero-emission container shipping a reality. Her company has just signed a letter of intent to build vessels powered by wind, with hydrogen fuel cells in port. She spoke to Eric Priante Martin live at the TradeWinds Shipowners Forum USA.
The European Union’s Emissions Trading System can be daunting for shipowners, so the shipping’s third-party technical managers are aiming to help them navigate it by adding emissions management to their services catalogue.We talk to Carl Schou of Wilhelmsen Ship Management, Mathavan Subbiah of Synergy Marine and Frederic Bouthillier of Vertis Environmental Finance.
The carbon credits that shipping companies have to buy for European voyages have regained some ground after crashing to unexpectedly low levels. Where are they headed next? We speak to Mattia Ferracchiato of BRS Shipbrokers and Frederic Bouthillier of Vertis Environmental Finance.
Shipowners need to order vessels with new fuel capabilities and new cleantech solutions, but this ups the price, complexity and slot times that shipyards offer. Shipyards seek clarity, certainty. How can they work together?
Eric Priante Martin sits down with Alexander Saverys, the chief executive who is working to turn Euronav, soon to be rebranded CMB.Tech, into a multi-sector play on ammonia and hydrogen-fuelled shipping. He explains why he’s forging ahead with ammonia even though there are not enough green molecules of the fuel to fill his planned ships.We also speak to DNV Maritime chief executive Knut orbeck-Nilssen about the role he sees ammonia playing in shipping’s energy landscape.
Norwegian shipowner Hoegh Autoliners has ordered 12 very large car carriers to be built in China. The first eight will be built between 2024 and 2027 to be fuelled with LNG and then later retrofitted to use ammonia as a fuel. The last four, starting in 2027, will be built with engines that can use ammonia even though engine makers have not yet finished developing ammonia engines and fuel makers have not yet ramped up production. Hoegh Autoliners head of strategy Lise Duetoft talks to TradeWinds technology editor Craig Eason about the strategy and the hopes that all its ducks will be in a row in time.
In a bonus episode, TradeWinds technology editor Craig Eason interviews a second officer from the Philippines about her experience in a shipping industry with too few females at sea.
The case of imprisoned seafarer Denys Korotkiy has rekindled a debate over US prosections of oil dumping in international waters by ships at sea. Are these cases overreach? Or are they an essential tool for fighting pollution?We speak to Edward MacColl of Thompson, MacColl & Bass; Gregory Linsin of Blank Rome; George Chalos of Chalos & Co and John Amos of SkyTruth.
In 2025, shipping will have to comply with FuelEU Maritime, a law limiting the industry’s carbon intensity, but companies will have to have a plan in place well before then. We talk to Benjamin Lechaptois of Bureau Veritas and Inesa Ulichina of Transport & Environment about the impact of the new law, and we hear from the European Commission’s Ricardo Batista.
TradeWinds technology editor Craig Eason reports from onboard a chemical tanker having wind propulsion systems installed, talking to Chemship chief executive Niels Grotz and Econowind CEO Frank Nieuwenhuis, and gets the thoughts of Norsepower CEO Tuomas Riski as the company ramps up its production in China after winning an order for 16 rotor sails for three newbuildings.
Danish shipping giant AP Moller-Maersk has become the first shipping company to have its carbon goals validated by the Science Based Targets initiative. Pacific Environment’s Grace Healy and Stand.earth’s Jim Ace explain why they applauded the achievement and what more they’d like to see from the container ship company.We also talk to a company that has a unique approach to capturing carbon from shipping.
An oil sheen off the coast of Brazil made headlines when an environmental group said it believed a tanker was to blame and asked authorities to investigate. SkyTruth chief executive John Amos explains why the suspected oil discharge is a daily occurrence.
Guy Platten of the International Chamber of Shipping; Oistein Jensen of Odfjell, Reflow’s Rasmus Elsborg-Jensen and Pia Meling of Grieg Green join TradeWinds’ Craig Eason in this week’s Green Seas podcast.
Hosted by Craig Eason, this edition of the TradeWinds Green Seas podcast dives into the environmental impact the Red Sea attacks on shipping are having as shipping reroutes. TradeWinds’ Eric Priante Martin gets the details from CargoMetrics chief Jeff Scully.And we explore how environmental lobby groups hope a legal challenge of the European Union sustainability taxonomy will overturn its decision to enable LNG to be labelled as sustainable, while opponents point to the climbing list of regulations able to have just as much impact. Craig Eason talks to Carly Hicks at Opportunity Green and Oystein Kalleklev, CEO of shipowner Flex LNG.
Euronav is a major owner of oil tankers, but chief executive Alexander Saverys is working to move it in a much greener direction. Is there an appetite on Wall Street for a company that reinvests tanker profits into a more sustainable future?This week’s episode includes Saverys’ recent presentation to investors, and we talk to TradeWinds reporter Gary Dixon and Webber Research & Advisory’s Michael Webber.
There is enough oil in the world’s shipwrecks for some 500 Exxon Valdez-size spills, and the clock is ticking to deal with the problem before an environmental catastrophe. A project led by the Lloyd’s Register Foundation is on the case.We speak to the foundation’s Benjamin Ferrari and Louise Sanger, and the Ocean Foundation’s Ole Varmer.
In 2023, the International Maritime Organization adopted a new strategy for shipping’s greenhouse gas emissions, targeting net zero emissions by around 2050. In the year ahead, it will carry out important work to turn its ambition into action. We interviewed UCL Energy Institute’s Tristan Smith, and hear from IMO secretary general-elect Arsenio Dominguez and Union of Greek Shipowners president Melina Travlos.
The COP28 climate conference has concluded with a new global goal: “transitioning away” from fossil fuels. It’s an outcome that was disappointing for those calling for the agreement to include a phase-out, but for others it was historic for even oil producing nations to sign up to the commitment.It’s a goal that shipping has already been grappling with. In today’s episode, industry stakeholders speak at the climate gathering to discuss the challenges of reaching net zero.We hear from Hoegh Autoliners’ Andreas Enger, Lynn Loo of the Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation, Rajalingam Subramaniam of MISC, the ITF’s Steve Cotton, Ingrid Irigoyen of the Zero Emission Maritime Buyers Alliance and the City of Los Angeles’ Christine Peterson.
Shipping stakeholders are out in force at the COP28 climate conference in Dubai, with some seeing more attention to the industry than ever before. But what do they want to see happen in the global climate discussions?We talk to Jesper Kristensen of DP World and Unifeeder and David Cummins of the Blue Sky Maritime Coalition, and we hear parts of a COP28 presentation by the International Council on Clean Transportation’s Liudmila Osipova
There has been a standoff in the Pacific Ocean between Greenpeace activists and The Metals Company, which is carrying out an expedition on the Coco to collect data for its plans to begin mining the ocean floor for what are called polymetallic nodules. Is deepsea mining a threat to untouched underwater wilderness? Or is it a way to obtain the metals needed to make batteries to electrify industries with a lower impact than mining on land?We talk to Gerard Barron of The Metals Company, Louisa Casson of Greenpeace and Birgit Liodden of The Ocean Opportunity Lab.
The Panama Canal is facing a water crisis that fuelled restrictions on the number of ships transiting the waterway, and climate change experts predict more droughts are in the future. We talk to Panama Canal Authority water department head Erick Cordoba and pilots union president Gabriel Aleman about the short-term solutions to today’s crisis and the long-term solutions aimed at preventing another one.
Ship recycling in Bangladesh has already made leaps and bounds since Norwegian officials began working to make the industry greener and safer in 2015. Now, the project is entering a new phase as new global rules loom.We speak to Espen Rikter-Svendsen, the Norwegian ambassador in Dhaka.
Mitsui OSK Lines is one of the biggest shipowners and operators in Japan and the world, and it wants to set a clear and achievable pathway toward its goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Chief executive Takeshi Hashimoto spoke to TradeWinds editor-in-chief Julian Bray at a forum in Tokyo.
Ships tend to speed up to get to their destination and then wait in port queues, wasting fuel and leading to unnecessary emissions. Two interrelated words that start with “O” offer a solution: optimisation and operational efficiency. But while both can reduce shipping’s carbon footprint with today’s technology, shipping’s complexities create barriers to change.After recent developments on both fronts, the Green Seas podcast explored the “two Os” with Cargill Ocean Transportation global operations director Eman Abdalla and Alpha Ori Technologies’ co-chief executive Rajesh Unni.
Wasted time spent in ports means unnecessary carbon emissions, but there are companies that are trying to do something about it. Digital technology firms focused on port time optimisation are working to save time, greenhouse gas footprints and, importantly, money.We talk to Leon Gommans of Teqplay and Abhishek Nair of PortXchange.
We travel to Singapore to discuss the demolition sector after new global rules on recycling ships safely and in an environmentally friendly manner became law. Mohammed Zahirul Islam of PHP Ship Breaking and Recycling Industries, Anil Sharma of GMS, Wolfram Guntermann of Hapag-Lloyd, Kumiko Iwasa of the Japanese Shipowners’ Association, Anette Ronnov of Wallenius Wilhelmsen, Jesselynn Lai of AP Moller-Maersk and Sotiris Raptis of the European Community Shipowners’ Associations spoke at the TradeWinds Ship Recycling Forum.
More ships and a wider variety ships, including older vessels not built for ice, are transiting the Arctic as Russia looks to up use of the Northern Sea Route. But while this may be an opportunity for shipping, it also has significant environmental risks. We take them one by one with Clean Arctic Alliance’s Sian Prior and Margaret Williams of Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
Almost 90% of pure car and truck carriers under construction at shipyards around the world are being built to run on alternative fuels. We interview Hoegh Autoliners chief executive Andreas Enger as his company looks to add ammonia to the mix, and we talk to MAN Energy Solutions’ Thomas Hansen about how shipowners in this sector are looking at alternative fuels.
When a fire strikes a car carrier, the first question asked is often whether it was started by an electric vehicle. But while the growth of electric car shipping and the hazards of lithium-ion batteries do require special measures, a growing body of evidence suggests they may not be more dangerous than conventional vehicles.We talk to Andreas Enger of Hoegh Autoliners, and Bingbing Song and Heike Deggim of the International Maritime Organization about the measures under way to make vehicle shipping safer.
In Copenhagen, shipping giant AP Moller-Maersk has christened the first container vessel fuelled by methanol, which will be followed by more than 100 more by the Danish company and others. Will there be more in the near term, and will they find green methanol to meet decarbonisation goals? We talk to Richard Wetzki of TCT Shipbrokers and Ahmed El-Hoshy of OCI Global.
In Nairobi, leaders agree at the Africa Climate Summit that shipping’s carbon should be taxed, adding to calls for the International Maritime Organization to adopt a levy on the industry’s emissions. And in London, new research shows the IMO targets agreed in July may have been more aligned with the Paris Agreement than we at first thought.We talk to Opportunity Green’s Ana Laranjeira and Nishatabbas Rehmatulla of UMAS and University College London’s UCL Energy Institute.
The European Union is adding new regulations to the alphabet soup of sustainability disclosures. The Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive, or CSRD, and the European Sustainability Reporting Standards, or ESRS, will require a daunting list of data points on environmental, social and governance topics. We talk to Position Green’s Joachim Nahem and DNV’s Carl Erik Hoy-Petersen.
Carbon offsets have faced criticism in shipping for not tackling emissions within the sector. Enter carbon insets, tokens that allow a company to pay for greenhouse gas reductions within the maritime supply chain.We talk to Jeroen van Heiningen of 123Carbon, Tom de Ruyter of Titan and Guillaume de Roys of Verifavia.
Shipping companies are exploring an array of technologies to reduce fuel by adding wind propulsion to their vessels, including a ship chartered by commodities giant Cargill that’s using wingsails designed by a company that has its roots in the America’s Cup sailing race. How quickly can this new but old technology make a different on maritime greenhouse gas emissions?
We talk to Cargill Ocean Transportation president Jan Dieleman, BAR Technologies chief executive John Cooper and International Windship Association secretary general Gavin Allwright.
The Biden Administration is celebrating the one-year anniversary of the Inflation Reduction Act and its spending on green energy and climate change. But while the US government has pushed to decarbonise shipping, its climate funds have yet to make their way to the industry.
We talk to Holland & Knight’s Sean Pribyl and Chamber of Shipping of America’s Kathy Metcalf.
As shipping gears up to enter the EU’s Emissions Trading System at the start of the year, companies will have to pay for the right to pollute, but the price will vary with market whims. Where are those prices headed?
BRS Shipbrokers head of carbon markets Mattia Ferracchiato and Vertis Environmental Finance shipping head Frederic Bouthillier provide insight.
The European Union is gearing up to fold shipping into its Emissions Trading System starting next year. How much will it cost, and what will be the impact of the EU’s new regulation on shipping’s greenhouse gas emissions?
We talk to Mattia Ferracchiato of BRS Shipbrokers and Jacob Armstrong of Transport & Environment. We also hear from Ingrid Kylstad of Torvald Klaveness.
After the International Maritime Organization decided to target net-zero emissions by “around” 2050, the UN body will now have to turn ambition into regulation that will push shipping toward that goal. Green Seas explores the mechanisms under discussion with Carnival Corp chief maritime officer William Burke and Global Maritime Forum chief executive Johannah Christensen.
Experts hope that, within the next few years, enough nations will ratify the High Seas Treaty for this convention to become law and protect biodiversity in the areas of the ocean that are unprotected by national legislation.
We talk to World Ocean Council chief executive Paul Holthus, Wikborg Rein partner Oddbjørn Slinning and The Ocean Opportunity Lab’s Birgit Liodden.
Many were disappointed when the International Maritime Organization approved new greenhouse gas targets that fall short of alignment with the goal to stop global temperature rises at 1.5C. But Tristan Smith, an associate professor of shipping and energy at University College London’s UCL Energy Institute, tells the podcast that by adopting a goal for at least 20% carbon cuts in 2030 and 70% ten years later, accomplishing the goals of the Parish Agreement on climate change is still within reach.
Next week, the International Maritime Organization is expected to make what could be a historic decision on shipping’s greenhouse gas emissions. We speak to experts on efforts to cut shipping emissions about what they hope the final deal will contain and what outcome they worry about.
We speak to Bryan Comer of the International Council on Clean Transportation, Sofia and Conor Furstenberg Stott of Furstenberg Maritime Advisory, FuelTrust chief executive Jonathan Arneault and EDF’s Sam Yarrow-Wright.
Eneti and Cadeler have agreed to merge in a deal that will create the biggest owner of wind turbine installation vessels. This week’s episode explores how this deal highlights the growing tightness in the market for these vessels that make the buildout of the offshore wind industry possible.
We hear from Cadeler chief executive Mikkel Gleerup, Rystad Energy senior analyst Martin Lysne and Nicola Troup, a renewables shipbroker at Braemar.
With shipping gearing up to join the European Union’s Emissions Trading System at the start of next year, TradeWinds took to the stage at Nor-Shipping to discuss how the industry will have to navigate carbon markets.
Our panel of experts is made up of Trafigura head of wet freight Andrea Olivi; Klaveness Combination Carriers chief executive Engebret Dahm; Frederic Bouthillier, head of shipping at Vertis Environmental Finance; Antonello Zanfardino, senior carbon analyst at BRS Group; and Sofia Furstenberg Stott, partner at Furstenberg Maritime Advisory.
We explore how long-held commercial structures like voyage charter and time charter contracts contain features that can get in the way of reducing fuel consumption and emissions in shipping.
We hear from Nautilus Labs chief executive Matt Heider, Altera Infrastructure chief executive Ingvild Saether, Wallenius Wilhelmsen chief executive Lasse Kristoffersen and Copenhagen Commercial Platform chief executive Christian Bonfils.
A fast-growing cadre of companies in the ocean industries are looking to capitalise on a new trade: shipping carbon and pumping it back below the seabed whence it came. This week’s episode brings you a conversation on the Ocean Stage at Nor-Shipping with Knutsen NUK Carbon Carriers chief executive Anders Lepsoe, Altera Infrastructure government relations advisor Anders Melhus and Panos Koutsourakis, vice president of global sustainability at American Bureau of Shipping.
As shipping faces pressure to tackle its greenhouse gas emissions, will it be shipowners, charterers or another stakeholder who’s going to pay the cost of going green? For an answer, we listen in to the TradeWinds Shipowners Forum Singapore. TradeWinds editor-in-chief Julian Bray moderates a discussion with NYK Line’s Masahiro Takahashi, Mitsui OSK Lines’ Nobuo Shiotsu, Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation’s Sanjay Kuttan, Sing Fuels’ Sionnich Thomsen and Fortescue Future Industries’ Andrew Hoare.
Major container liner operators are charting a variety of pathways to adopting alternative fuels. In this week’s Green Seas podcast, TradeWinds’ container shipping correspondent Ian Lewis explains how LNG and methanol have each had a liner giant that served as a leader before others followed. We also hear from Lloyd’s Register chief executive Nick Brown and Pacific Environment climate campaign director Madeline Rose.
A group of nations at the International Maritime Organization have warned of the risk of an spill from tankers transferring oil at sea while masking their location to avoid sanctions. To explore the environmental dangers, Green Seas talks to United Against Nuclear Iran’s Claire Jungman, Windward’s Ami Daniel and NorthStandard’s Mike Salthouse.
Car carrier operators are enjoying a strong market, but in first quarter earnings reports, they pointed to one problem: efforts in Australia to prevent stink bugs from entering the country. This week’s episode explains why stringent biosecurity measure are trying to stop invasive species from entering the country on ships.In this episode, we hear from Wallenius Wilhelmsen chief executive Lasse Kristoffersen, Hoegh Autoliners chief executive Andreas Enger and Flinders University professor Corey Bradshaw.
The amount of data that we collect about the ocean and the climate above the 70% of the earth that it covers is small piece of the trillion gigabytes of data humans collect every year. Some companies in the ocean industries are taking action, but more are needed.We talk to Tim Janssen of Sofar Ocean, Paul Holthus and Bill Staby of the World Ocean Council and Simon Bennett of Swire Shipping.Your company can play a role by contacting Staby at bill.staby@oceancouncil.org or +1 (917) 626-6790.
After last week’s parliamentary approval of a law that will include shipping in the EU Emissions Trading System, we look at what is effectively a carbon tax. In this episode, we hear from European Parliament president Roberta Metsola, Transport & Environment’s Faig Abbasov, SSY’s James Ash and Watson Farley & Williams’ Nick Walker.Also, Opportunity Green’s Aoife O’Leary explains why the International Maritime Organization should look at the full life cycle of shipping fuels.
Environmentalists are increasingly calling for shipping to abandon LNG as a marine fuel as the industry looks to decarbonise, arguing that methane is to great a contributor to climate change. But LNG proponents argue that the fuel is an alternative fuel that is available and that efforts to reduce methane emissions are under way. We dig into the debate with Peter Keller and Steve Esau of SEA-LNG,8 Elissama Menezes of Say No to LNG and Panos Mitrou of Lloyd’s Register.We also report on the European Parliament’s approval of legislation to add shipping to the Emissions Trading System, and we talk to Jeroen van Heiningen of 123Carbon about carbon insetting.
The United Nations is mounting an effort to prevent a catastrophic oil spill from a tanker in the Red Sea. We talk to David Gressly, the resident humanitarian coordinator for the UN in Yemen, and IR Concilium chief executive Ian Ralby.
Tech companies are developing batteries that can be exchanged each time they need a charge as a way to make electric shipping more viable. We talk to Shift Clean Energy’s Brent Perry and Seas at Risk’s Lucy Gilliam.
Green Seas visits the Seatrade Cruise Global conference, where emissions were a major topic. But while the cruise sector touts its efforts to tackle greenhouse gas emissions and seeks access to new fuels, questions remain over its use of LNG as an alternative fuel.We hear from MSC Cruises’ Pierfrancesco Vago, CLIA’s Kelly Craighead, Carnival’s Josh Weinstein and William Burke, International Council on Clean Transportation’s Bryan Comer and Bureau Veritas’ Matthieu de Tugny.
At our Green Seas Fuels Forum, an audience question about nuclear power sparked a debate over whether it is a safe and effective way to tackle the industry’s greenhouse gas emissions. We hear from Core Power’s Mikal Boe, Carnival Corp’s William Burke, Cargill’s Eman Abdalla, Star Bulk Carriers’ Hamish Norton, Webber Research & Advisory’s Michael Webber, Tufton’s Nikos Petrakakos,Macquarie’s Morten Arntzen, Citi’s Michael Parker, ABS’s John McDonald and Stand.earth’s Kendra Ulrich.Also, Zero Emission Ships Technology Association’s Madadh MacLaine and Crowley’s Matthew Yacavone talk about decarbonising small vessels.
At Green Seas’ first live event, we talked to shipowners, charterers and operators who are among the first movers in using methanol as a maritime fuel. Cargill’s Eman Abdalla, Waterfront Shipping’s Paul Hexter and Vale’s Rodrigo Bermelho talk about prospects for sourcing greener versions of the alternative fuel.We also hear from Kendra Ulrich of Stand.earth about how she believes retail brands that are among container shipping’s biggest customers can commit to zero-carbon shipping by 2030.
The International Chamber of Shipping wants the industry’s global regulator to adopt a levy on carbon as early as next year. We talk to deputy secretary general Simon Bennett about why the group wants to go so fast. We also hear from University of Oslo’s professor Erik Rosaeg and Zero Emissions Ship Technology Association secretary general Madadh MacLaine.
Carbon capture and storage is becoming an increasingly important solution for industries to tackle greenhouse gas emissions, but it will take a new class of vessels to ship it around the world. We talk to two companies that are preparing to move CO2 by sea.We hear from Baris Dolek of Northern Lights and Jasper Heikens of EcoLog.
If made with renewable electricity, e-fuels offer the prospect of zero-carbon shipping fuels, including green hydrogen, ammonia and methanol. But right now, they are in short supply and very expensive. We hear from Dorothe Gortz of HPC Hamburg Port Consulting, Andreas Kopf and Matteo Craglia of the International Transport Forum, and r David Dupont-Mouritzen of HOST PtX Esbjerg.
Ammonia is tantalising as a shipping fuel because it has no carbon, but the first vessels planned for 2026 are just one step in a longer journey. We talk to Robert Tustin of Lloyd’s Register, Brian Ostergaard Sorensen of MAN Energy Solutions and Christos Chryssakis of DNV.
Biofuels are proving an easy way to cut the well-to-wake greenhouse gas footprint of existing ships, but demand for them is limited amid high costs. We speak to Cargill’s Olivier Josse, Eagle Bulk Shipping’s Jonathan Dowsett and Quadrise Fuels International’s Jason Miles to understand the role biofuels will play in shipping’s decarbonisation journey.
When a global sulphur cap was imposed on shipping in 2020, technology stepped in to allow companies to take the pollutant out of vessels’ ship exhaust. Will carbon capture play the same role as the industry grapples with greenhouse gas emissions? We hear from Sigurd Jenssen, director of exhaust gas cleaning systems at Wartsila, and Georgios Plevrakis, vice president of global sustainability at American Bureau of Shipping.
As shipping grapples with its greenhouse gas emissions, industry stakeholders often point to the higher carbon content of low-sulphur fuels brought in to comply with the global IMO 2020 regulation three years ago. Green Seas talks to International Council on Clean Transportation researcher Bryan Comer about why the regulation didn’t hike shipping’s carbon emissions.
While the International Maritime Organization debated carbon cuts last week, a lower-profile discussions saw environmentalist groups ask for a ban on devices aimed at tackling sulphur And they argued that the exception that allowed scrubbers to serve as a way to keep using heavy fuel oil after the 2020 global sulphur cap conflicts with another international convention: the UN Law of the Sea. We hear from Lucy Gilliam of Seas at Risk, Sam Davin of World Wildlife Fund Canada, Ida-Maja Hassellov of Chalmers University and Donald Gregory of the Exhaust Gas Cleaning Systems Association.
If most countries at the International Maritime Organization are in favour of a zero-carbon target for shipping, why was the UN shipping regulator unable to agree to that this week? This week’s podcasts explores the positions of some of the 10 nations that are holding back.
In just a few weeks, the deliberations over how to tackle shipping’s carbon moved from the COP27 climate gathering in Sharm El-Shiekh, Egypt, to closed-door negotiations in Brussels. Green Seas traces the journey as it arrives at the International Maritime Organization for key talks on the future of global rules on shipping’s greenhouse gas footprint.We talk to David Cummins of the Blue Sky Maritime Coalition, Lars Robert Pedersen of Bimco and Lucy Gilliam of Seas at Risk.
Harvey Gulf International Marine has tried a variety of strategies to tackle its carbon emissions. But for one vessel, the final piece of the net-zero puzzle was bio-LNG produced from swine waste. Will bio-LNG play a role in solving shipping’s greenhouse gas riddle?
We talk to Harvey Gulf’s Dain Detellier, International Council on Clean Transportation’s Liudmila Osipova and Blue Sky Maritime Coalition’s David Cummins.
The podcast takes a virtual visit to the COP27 climate conference in Egypt, where environmental groups are seeking to highlight how climate change is enticing more ships to the sensitive region, which is contributing to more climate change because of black carbon emissions. We hear from University College London climate scientist Robbie Mallett, the Clean Arctic Alliance’s Sian Prior and Liudmila Osipova of the International Council on Clean Transportation.
We explore how the world’s largest cruise company has joined a growing list of big-name shipowners adopting air lubrication, which uses a ‘magic carpet’ of microbubbles to tackle greenhouse gas emissions.
In our first episode, Green Seas newsletter visits the Golden State, virtually at least, to find out whether the new gold rush can be found out at sea.