TradeWinds Wavelength - a weekly shipping news show

In this week's Wavelength episode:

Hafnia offloads vessels and kills two of its tanker pools
Read more: Hafnia to wind down two tanker pools in strategy shift
Read more: Hafnia up another $118m on Torm investment with M&A still on the table

Brittania Club, the world’s oldest protection and indemnity club has appointed a woman as chief underwriting officer for the first time in the industry’s 171-year history.
Read more: Britannia appoints first female chief underwriter in industry’s 171-year history

Capsize rates rise as bauxite, coal and iron ore volumes increase
Read more: Capesize bulker rates soar to highest level since 2023 as futures curve also rises

India Register Shipping boss wants class to re-engage with sanctioned tonnage to help keep them safe
Read more: Indian Register boss wants dark fleet ships allowed into class

And from the Wavelength plus podcast, how Anglo-Eastern has responded to crews and ships being stuck on the Gulf
Read and listen: Podcast: Hormuz crisis reshaping ship management, Anglo-Eastern warns

Producer and host: Craig Eason
Additional reporting: Gary Dixon, Paul Peachey, Huaqing Ma and Yannick Guerry

A TradeWinds/DN Media podcast

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In this episode:

How two ships ended up having their IDs stolen, including fake websites for insurance and class certification.
Read more: UAE seizes tankers after phantom insurance network revealed

How suppliers and tech firms are collaborating to make hydrogen more enticing and available for shipping.
Read more: Tech firms come together to unify hydrogen supply for shipping

And why maritime needs women more than ever.
Read more: Shipping firms must plan for when women at sea have children

Producer and host: Craig Eason
Additional editorial input from: Holly Birkett, Paul Peachey and Yannick Guerry
A TradeWinds/DN Media podcast

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week's episode of Wavelength:

Donald Trump and ChIna's Xi Jinping meet and talk trade and Iran. Is there any impact for shipping?
Read more: China presses for Strait of Hormuz reopening as Trump and Xi meet
Read more: China opposes toll and ‘militarised’ Strait of Hormuz, US officials say
Read more: Xi-Trump summit heralds tariff easing plan

Danish Ship Finance warns shipping not to under estimate CHina's ambitions to wean itself off global commodity imports
Read more: Chinese energy plans to shake up shipping, warns Danish Ship Finance
Read more: Beijing elevates shipping, ports and maritime logistics in new five-year plan

Wallenius Line and Alfa Laval joint venture is soon to get wings and fly to China. It also wants to see wind become the ne engine of the ship
Read more: How new Oceanbird boss wants to see wind become shipping’s primary power source
Read more: Wallenius and Alfa Laval’s windtech solution Oceanbird rises

Production and host: Craig Eason
Additional editorial reporting: Yannick Guerry, Huaqing Ma, Paul Peachey
A TradWinds/DN Media podcast
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week’s Wavelength:

Paul Peachey, TradeWinds risk correspondent, joins Craig Eason to assess the latest events in the Gulf as US and Iranian blockades continue, as do attacks and talks of a ceasefire.
Read more: ‘Just a love tap’: US hits Iranian ports after destroyers face sustained Hormuz attack
Read more: Consensus building that Strait of Hormuz reopening impact will trickle down to shipping
Read more: US Strait of Hormuz insurance scheme still closed for business

In the US, experts continue to support proposals to back up a national shipbuilding programme, but where is the demand?
Read more: Trump administration looks to nuclear propulsion to revitalise US maritime sector
Read more: ‘We can act’: Trump’s FMC chair threatens to create penalties for Net-Zero Framework tax

And why the new chair of the US Federal Maritime Commission went to the IMO to push against the net-zero fund.
Read more: ‘We can act’: Trump’s FMC chair threatens to create penalties for Net-Zero Framework tax
Listen to the whole interview on Wavelength Plus.

Production and host: Craig Eason
Additional editorial input: Paul Peachey, Eric Priante Martin, Yannick Guerry
A TradeWinds/ DN Media Podcast
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode:

As the Iran and US/Israeli ceasefire tentatively holds, so do the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. Angelica Kemene, head of market and climate strategy at Optima Shipping Services joins Wavelength host Craig Eason to discuss the ongoing impact on the tanker market rates and how the UAE leaving OPEC could impact trades once the Strait of Hormuz opens.

Read more: Tanker market finds delicate balance as oil prices surge to multi-year highs
Read more: Oil surges as blockades set to cause months of disruption

Industry climate talks. have been continuing in London for the last two weeks with the sides seemingly well entrenched in their positions not putting talk of compromise into action. Can the net zero framework be saved? Or is it back to the drawing board. Craig talks to UCL professor Tristan Smith about the outcome of the two weeks and TradeWinds risk correspondent Paul Peachey is int he studio having been canvassing opinions in the corridors of the IMO over the last week

Read more: IMO chief urges nations to bridge gaps and clinch shipping decarbonisation deal
Read more: Don’t expect too much out of the IMO this week

And Holly is back with another episode of Granular, this time from Geneva Dry


Producer and host: Craig Eason
Additional reporting: Paul Peachey, Yannick Guerry and Holly Birkett
A TradeWinds/DN Media podcast
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.