Greece & Cyprus 2021: The new temple of maritime tech?
The Greek capital has a number of advantages that are fuelling its emergence as a hub for companies at the cutting edge of digital technology solutions for shipping
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Top 100: Leading by example
Lloyd’s List’s annual rundown of shipping’s most influential players is fronted by those demonstrating the scale, will and desire to bring wholesale changes to an industry requiring leadership in a period of profound disruption
Daily Briefing November 26 2021
Supply chains need fundamental rethinking following systemic shocks | Maersk sees slowdown in 2022 demand growth | IMO mulls voluntary switch to cleaner fuels in the Arctic
A new reality is evolving in maritime tech, says Wärstilä Voyage chief
Marine is at the bottom of the digitalisation curve, warns Wärtsilä Voyage president Sean Fernback
Fuelling a low-carbon future with methanol as a marine fuel
Using methanol produced from natural gas offers a proven reduction of NOx and SOx emissions. Research is striving to rapidly scale up methanol availability in terms of infrastructure and onboard applications and installations
As part of our Future of Shipping programme industry leaders and sector experts map the path to a sustainable and profitable future.
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Expert Focus: How emissions accounting can help decarbonisation
In this Expert Focus video, produced as part of Lloyd’s List’s Future of Shipping programme, RightShip chief executive Steen Lund, talks about how transparency and accounting can play a key role in shipping's sustainability push
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Expert Focus: Overcoming the barriers to digitalisation
In this Expert Focus video, produced as part of Lloyd’s List’s Future of Shipping programme, Bjørn-Johan Vartdal, Digital Director and head of Maritime Incubator at DNV, discusses the current state of digital transformation and innovation in the maritime industry
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Expert Focus: The business model in a zero-carbon future
In this Expert Focus video, produced as part of Lloyd’s List’s Future of Shipping programme, OrbitMI chief executive officer Ali Riaz discusses how business models can play a role in shipping’s decarbonisation.
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Expert Focus: Shipping's dual-fuel transition
In this Expert Focus video, produced as part of Lloyd’s List’s Future of Shipping programme, Wärtsilä director of R&D and engineering Juha Kytölä talks about the potential of a dual-fuel transition for shipping
The Lloyd’s List Podcast: Yet another missed opportunity to decarbonise shipping
The pre-COP26 optimism that climate politics may finally being starting to move at pace has ended in a depressingly predictable cop-out inside the IMO this week. This week’s podcast looks at what happened, what didn’t happen and why multilateral negotiations are necessarily slow to deliver results, even amid a climate emergency
Belgian port marriage will not be all chocolates and roses
Both ports have ambitious plans for future growth, yet they depend heavily on fossil fuels for their success. Attracting the next generation of talent will mean getting the transition to cleaner fuels right
Top 100: Leading by example
Lloyd’s List’s annual rundown of shipping’s most influential players is fronted by those demonstrating the scale, will and desire to bring wholesale changes to an industry requiring leadership in a period of profound disruption
The ‘usual speed of IMO co-operation’ is not fast enough
Anyone hoping for a wind of change to sweep in from Glasgow and spur the IMO to dispense with 71 years of history and procedure, sweep aside national differences and pull a neat solution to climate change out of its hat obviously doesn’t understand how the IMO works
Top 10 shipbrokers 2021
Earlier concerns that electronic trading would reduce the need for traditional shipbrokers have diminished over the years, with the leading firms evolving into diversified businesses offering a wide range of maritime services, while still recognising the need for personal contact with their customers
Electronic bills of lading are disrupting the traditional supply chain
Digital documents allow counterparties to receive their cargo faster. Moves towards interoperability should be supported to foster further efficiencies
The key factors shaping shipping in 2022 and beyond
Short-term disruption has defined shipping’s fortunes this year, but the mid-term outlook is riddled with uncertainty and risk. The pace of change promised by accelerating decarbonisation timelines will fundamentally alter the competitive landscape of shipping and spells significant risk for businesses currently assessing strategic investments
Lloyd’s List special reports take a deep dive into the issues that matter. With in-depth reporting from our team of experts from across the globe offering an insight into the opportunities and threats driving the industry agenda. Subscribers can access and download the latest report by clicking here.
Greece & Cyprus 2021: Shipping and independence celebrate their kinship
The 200-year anniversary of the outbreak of the war of independence provides yet another reminder that Greek shipping’s adaptability has been baked into it historically
Greece & Cyprus 2021: Prime movers answer the call
Exclusive Lloyd’s List Intelligence data underlines that, despite the coronavirus shock, Greek shipping’s contribution to serving the needs of global seaborne trade was undiminished in 2020 as it answered a surge in demand in Asia
Greece & Cyprus 2021: Making leadership look easy
Greek shipping remains as ready and resilient as ever in adapting to whatever the markets throw at it, but appears to have put political turbulence in its homeland well behind it
Spotlight
Top 10 technology leaders 2021
Maritime technology leaders range from a 40-year veteran who continues to think with a start-up mentality, to established entrepreneurs rebuilding their businesses, to innovators from outside shipping who have brought in ideas from the communications and energy sectors
Top 10 shipmanagers 2021
Sustainability, seafarers and software sum up the year for shipmanagers. While the crew change crisis has been ongoing, the drive to meet clients’ environmental obligations has become a shipmanager’s own corporate duty, and exploring new tech has risen up the agenda
Special Reports
The Shipping Podcast
The Lloyd’s List Podcast: Yet another missed opportunity to decarbonise shipping
The pre-COP26 optimism that climate politics may finally being starting to move at pace has ended in a depressingly predictable cop-out inside the IMO this week. This week’s podcast looks at what happened, what didn’t happen and why multilateral negotiations are necessarily slow to deliver results, even amid a climate emergency
The Lloyd’s List Podcast: Freight futures are having a moment. Here’s why
The industry has been missing a comprehensive and easy-to-understand overview of the dry bulk FFA, but no more! John Banaszkiewicz, one of the founding fathers of freight futures in shipping, joins the podcast this week to explain why the risk management tool had its best year ever in 2021
The Lloyd’s List Podcast: A fair COP? Where climate talks leave shipping
Those representing shipping at the COP26 climate talks have left broadly optimistic about some progress amid the hot air and greenwashing, but the litmus test will be what happens when the IMO begins its discussions on climate once the circus has moved on from Glasgow. Dissecting what COP26 has meant for shipping and what this means for IMO talks, we have shipping’s Climate Champion within the COP26 talks Katharine Palmer and chief executive of the Global Maritime Forum Johannah Christensen joining the podcast this week
The Lloyd’s List Podcast: The case for LNG
With major cargo interests rejecting LNG tonnage and the World Bank taking its case to stop building additional LNG bunkering infrastructure to the IMO, the decarbonising credentials of liquefied natural gas have taken something of a battering of late. This week’s edition offers the counterpoint to that criticism via Peter Keller, chairman of the pro-LNG lobby group SEA-LNG
Webinars
Smart tech set to divide shipping like never before
A Lloyd’s List webinar hears how digital technology has shone a bright light on traditional ways of working. Silo mentality and an obsession with cost rather than value must be countered quickly
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