This week Johannah Christensen of the Global Maritime Forum gives us insight into how one of the industry's leading actors in the decarbonisation space sees the efforts made elsewhere in the business, and what it hopes to tackle during its most important meeting of the year next month

The shipping industry is once again urging governments to live up to their moral and legal obligations as the political stand-off that has seen a Maersk tanker carrying 27 rescued migrants, unable to call in any port, moves into its sixth week. On the podcast this week we talk to Danish Shipping’s Maria Skipper Schwenn about the growing frustration within the industry and review the latest developments with two of Lloyd’s List’s journalists following the story, Janet Porter and David Osler

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The Panama Canal has certainly taken a hit from the coronavirus backdrop. But the consequences have not been as severe as many probably assume, and the canal authority even expects to make its budget this fiscal year, according to deputy administrator Ilya Espino de Marotta

James Marshall is the chief executive of Berge Bulk and he has a plan to get its 75 vessels to become a net zero-carbon fleet by 2025. In this week’s podcast, he talks to Lloyd’s List Editor Richard Meade about how he plans to get there, why existing technology can get you nearer than you think and why nuclear reactors on board vessels should be back on the table as an industry option

On the podcast this week David Osler talks to two of shipping’s recent intake of leaders setting out their stalls as chair and president of industry associations. Lindsay Malen-Habib is the new president of the American Salvage Association and Susan Oatway is the first woman chair of the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers — they talk us through their roles and their priorities

In this week’s podcast, we reveal the full story of the Moldovan-flag bulk carrier, the Rhosus, which in 2013 arrived in Lebanon carrying 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate. The story of a botched loading, crew abandonment that followed left a time bomb inside the heart of Beirut and the Rhosus rusting under the breakwater of the port. We explore what happened and ask whether the devastating explosion will be a wake-up call to the rest of the supply chain to take dangerous goods handling more seriously.

The Lloyd’s List Podcast is back after a summer break and this week we are talking exclusively to Nobu Su, the former billionaire shipowner jailed in London over a long-running dispute about money owed in failed freight futures deals. He tells Markets Editor Michelle Wiese Bockmann about how the experience changed his life and why he is still determined to reveal the truth in order to clear his name

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Governments have this week pledged to speed up efforts to get hundreds of thousands of stranded merchant sailors home, but this comes after months of similar rhetoric and limited action. So can we expect things to change? International Maritime Organization secretary-general Kitack Lim — our guest on this week’s podcast — says yes. We are, he argues, in a wartime situation with the pandemic. Government responses have required time to heat up, but they are have now reached boiling point and the recent pledges are more than just promises

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Italian shipowner Emanuele Grimaldi is our return guest on the podcast this week. He talks candidly about waiting for the world to restart in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, why he has launched antitrust complaints against the governments he feels are distorting the marketplace and the persistently troubling subject of roro safety in the wake of yet another care deck fire, this time aboard Grimaldi’s ro-Pax vessel Cruise Bonaria.