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Wavelength Plus: A podcast by TradeWinds
TradeWinds’ Wavelength Plus explores and takes a deep dive into stories on shipping markets, the regulations and the people shaping the shipping industry. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
- Wavelength Plus: A podcast by TradeWinds
As Washington celebrates law offering climate dollars, shipping has yet to apply
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…
- Wavelength Plus: A podcast by TradeWinds
Will EU carbon prices fall before they rise as shipping gears up for emissions trading?
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…
- Wavelength Plus: A podcast by TradeWinds
The cost and impact of the EU’s upcoming carbon rules for shipping
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…
- Wavelength Plus: A podcast by TradeWinds
Where is shipping’s decarbonisation drive headed after historic IMO decision?
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…
- Wavelength Plus: A podcast by TradeWinds
Bonus episode: Protecting biodiversity in the oceans beyond national borders
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…
- Wavelength Plus: A podcast by TradeWinds
How IMO’s decision on shipping’s carbon still leaves Paris Agreement goals within reach
Many were disappointed when the International Maritime Organization approved new greenhouse gas targets that fall short of alignment with the goal to stop…
- Wavelength Plus: A podcast by TradeWinds
Hopes and fears for a crucial meeting on shipping emissions
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…
- Wavelength Plus: A podcast by TradeWinds
What a merger deal says about the tightening wind turbine installation vessel market
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…
- Wavelength Plus: A podcast by TradeWinds
Navigating the ups and downs of carbon pricing
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…
- Wavelength Plus: A podcast by TradeWinds
Bonus episode: Are contracts the key to unlocking emissions cuts in shipping now?
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…
- Wavelength Plus: A podcast by TradeWinds
The burgeoning CCS opportunity: shipping carbon and pumping it back below the sea
A fast-growing cadre of companies in the ocean industries is looking to capitalise on a new trade: shipping carbon and pumping it back below the seabed whence…
- Wavelength Plus: A podcast by TradeWinds
Who’s going to pay to decarbonise 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…
- Wavelength Plus: A podcast by TradeWinds
Container shipping follows the leaders on a variety of alternative fuel pathways
Major container liner operators are charting a variety of pathways to adopting alternative fuels. In this week’s Green Seas podcast, TradeWinds’ container…
- Wavelength Plus: A podcast by TradeWinds
Risks in the ‘dark’: When tankers transfer oil at sea to skirt sanctions
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…
- Wavelength Plus: A podcast by TradeWinds
What’s all the stink about stink bugs in shipping?
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…
- Wavelength Plus: A podcast by TradeWinds
How can companies help close the ocean data gap?
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…
- Wavelength Plus: A podcast by TradeWinds
Time for shipping to get ready for the EU’s new carbon tax
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…
- Wavelength Plus: A podcast by TradeWinds
Should shipping stick to liquefied natural gas as a fuel?
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…
- Wavelength Plus: A podcast by TradeWinds
Inside the effort to defuse the ‘time bomb’ tanker
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…
- Wavelength Plus: A podcast by TradeWinds
The power of the swap in drive for electric shipping
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…
- Wavelength Plus: A podcast by TradeWinds
Cruise sector says ‘we need new fuels’ as carbon takes centre stage
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…
- Wavelength Plus: A podcast by TradeWinds
Should shipping even consider nuclear propulsion to slash carbon?
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…
- Wavelength Plus: A podcast by TradeWinds
Methanol’s first movers in shipping strive for greener fuel
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…
- Wavelength Plus: A podcast by TradeWinds
Why a leading shipping group wants a global carbon price ‘as soon as possible’
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…
- Wavelength Plus: A podcast by TradeWinds
As industries move to capture carbon, shipping prepares to ship it
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…
- Wavelength Plus: A podcast by TradeWinds
E-fuels: The long and winding road to shipping’s green fuels revolution
If made with renewable electricity, e-fuels offer the prospect of zero-carbon shipping fuels, including green hydrogen, ammonia and methanol. But right now…
- Wavelength Plus: A podcast by TradeWinds
Stars align for ammonia fuelling by 2026, but that’s just the beginning
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…
- Wavelength Plus: A podcast by TradeWinds
Biofuels work for shipping, but they’re expensive
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…
- Wavelength Plus: A podcast by TradeWinds
Will carbon capture be a ‘game changer’ for tackling shipping emissions?
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…
- Wavelength Plus: A podcast by TradeWinds
Have sulphur regulations made shipping’s carbon footprint worse?
As shipping grapples with its greenhouse gas emissions, industry stakeholders often point to the higher carbon content of low-sulphur fuels brought in to…
- Wavelength Plus: A podcast by TradeWinds
Scrubbers vs the Law of the Sea
While the International Maritime Organization debated carbon cuts last week, a lower-profile discussions saw environmentalist groups ask for a ban on devices…
- Wavelength Plus: A podcast by TradeWinds
Why some nations are saying no to a zero-carbon target for shipping
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…
- Wavelength Plus: A podcast by TradeWinds
Focus of deliberations on shipping’s carbon shifts to IMO in London
In just a few weeks, the deliberations over how to tackle shipping’s carbon moved from the COP27 climate gathering in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, to closed-door…
- Wavelength Plus: A podcast by TradeWinds
Pig manure: the secret ingredient in one shipowner’s net-zero recipe
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…
- Wavelength Plus: A podcast by TradeWinds
At COP27, a bid to lift shipping’s black carbon emissions higher on the climate agenda
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…
- Wavelength Plus: A podcast by TradeWinds
This decarbonisation tech is bubbling up into the mainstream
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…
- Wavelength Plus: A podcast by TradeWinds
‘Huge opportunity’: California is no longer just dreaming of offshore wind
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. Hosted…