Imagine pulling up to the petrol pump in your car and being confronted with 20 pumps, each offering various blends of different fuels. Now imagine a scenario where at each petrol station you visit next, that choice of different fuels is going to be entirely different. Welcome to the future of shipping

The deal to allow the safe transport of grain out of the Ukraine by sea is an unprecedented agreement between enemy combatants, but it is still a work in progress and the list of potential risks that could yet scupper it are long. This week we talk to war risk expert and head of marine and aviation at the Lloyd’s Market Association Neil Roberts about the insurance hurdles yet to be overcome. And we talk to Anna Biliuga, an agent for Eurogal Services, which acts as Lloyd’s agents inside Odesa, for a personal take on how the grain deal will play out on the dockside

Ship demolition rates may be at a 10-year low, but that is exactly the right time to look at the future of recycling. GMS chief Anil Sharma joins the podcast this week to talk about current market conditions, the impact of regulatory pressure and how shipping can create a more circular economy

Shipping’s darker episodes often read like true crime, but the case of the Brilliante Virtusoso raises important questions about the opaque underbelly of the shipping industry as well as the insurance and legal markets that support it. Kit Chellel, one of the writers who pieced together the astounding truth behind one of the most brazen financial frauds in history, joins the podcast this week to discuss his remarkable book that everyone should be taking away to the beach this summer — Dead in the Water.

Decarbonisation commitments, demand signals and pledges are great, but the true test of progress will be within shipping companies themselves and right now the vast majority are not clear what their strategy is. Shipowners exist in a grey area and it’s an uncomfortable place to be. This week’s edition of the podcast looks at the difficult balancing act that shipowners must perform as they weigh up their climate ambition against strategic uncertainty

Shipping has focused on fuels as the one factor it can control in the push to decarbonise, but the creation of a truly sustainable industry will require a more holistic ‘lifecycle’ approach. The concept of a circular economy requiring us to reduce, reuse, refurbish and recycle should be a sustainability slam dunk, but it requires cross-sectoral collaboration, global regulation and business model innovation — all challenges this industry has traditionally struggled to overcome. So how do we close the loop on the circular economy for shipping?

‘The world is changing, and shipping must change with it,’ says Emanuele Grimaldi, managing director of the Grimaldi Group, who took over as chair of the International Chamber of Shipping this week. He joins the podcast to discuss his agenda, seafarers, decarbonisation and why he is confident that shipping will remain a force for good on the international stage

US president claims to be ‘viscerally angry’ about the container linesthat he blames for inflation, soaring freight rates, supply chain congestion and much in between. The political theatre of the Ocean Shipping Reform Act was on show in the US this week, but to help explain what it really means for shipping this week’s Lloyd’s List Podcast features two people who really know what’s going on: Federal Maritime Commissioner chairman Daniel Maffei and World Shipping Council chief executive John Butler

The Lloyd’s List team have been out and about in Athens this week selflessly digesting canapés, gossip and debate to bring you the comprehensive view of a week at Posidonia in under 23 minutes

Carbon pricing is back on the agenda at the International Maritime Organization next week, and countries are set to tackle fundamental questions that will shape the industry's decarbonisation path. We ask the IMO watchers what will happen, why it matters, and what steps shipping companies can take now to prepare

The landscape of sanctions and political risk has made the business of shipping significantly more complex, but not everyone is set up to deal with that complexity. This week’s podcast pulls in the sanctions experts to discuss how shipping is navigating the new world order of Russian sanctions and what the industry needs to understand about regulatory enforcement appetites and increasingly forensic surveillance of subterfuge shipping practices

For this week’s edition of the podcast our markets editor Michelle Wiese Bockmann has been out and about in shipping’s financial capital, getting the New York view on shipping capital, banking, raising finance and investor attitudes