The International Union of Marine Insurance conference is an annual health check for the shipping industry’s risk cover and as such offers an important, if not at time impenetrably complicated view of the sector as a whole. This week’s podcast offers up a clear explanation of everything you need to know about marine insurance from the people who understand it best. Consider this week’s edition your best, and perhaps only opportunity to learn the marine insurance sector in under 25 minutes

Moin Ahmed is now the special envoy to the minister for shipping for the government of Bangladesh after ending an eight-year stint as director general of the International Mobile Satellite Organisation in the past April

After a long and distinguished international legal career, Doumbia-Henry was appointed as president of the World Maritime University in 2015

Ramping up the production of clean fuels is one thing, but joining the dots between ports, shipping and the logistics sectors while aligning the public and private sector support required to catalyse a global clean energy transition, is not something that just happens. This week’s edition of the podcast reports from inside a global meeting of energy ministers trying to turn aspiration into action

Shipping’s zero carbon transition has made progress, but in key areas, it is stalling. The magnitude of action and investment needs to be stepped up and, for that to happen, regulatory clarity and climate financing must be agreed. In this extended edition of the podcast, Maersk, Shell, CMB, Lloyd’s Register and the World Bank contribute insights to a special progress report on maritime decarbonisation

A sanctions crackdown targeting shipping looms large in both the US and European Union this week as regulators prepare to tighten the screws on those who are trying to circumvent measures. As the EU prepares to ban ships with a history of Automatic Identification System gaps and suspicious ship-to-ship transfers, the Lloyd’s List Podcast this week examines what the coming crackdown could mean and why senior industry sources are so nervous about the details yet to be agreed

Regulators appear to be gearing up for an enforcement campaign, following an unprecedented influx of sanctions targeting Russia, but the expert guests speaking on this week’s edition of the Lloyd’s List Podcast believe that the industry is still nowhere near ready for what is about to follow

Chapter 5: Quite apart from the extraordinary creation of the grain corridor, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has had a profound impact on trade in the Black Sea. One year on, Lloyd’s List examines the lasting implications for shipping activity and looks at how Ukraine’s limited export channels are holding up

The renowned economist, author and historian Marc Levinson is back on the podcast this week talking about the next phase of globalisation. Talking to Lloyd’s List editor Richard Meade the conversation covers slower growth in demand for manufactured goods, the disintegration of the WTO, friend shoring, nearshoring, economies of scale and supply chain resilience — all in under 25 minutes

It was a record-breaking year for the Lloyd’s List Podcast with more people around the world than ever before listening to top interviews with industry leaders, in-depth insight and expert analysis on the key topics shaping the maritime industry. This is the Top 10 for the past 12 months

What has the Apollo astronaut programme got to do with ageing Japanese seafarers and funding for autonomous shipping? Listen to this week’s edition of the Lloyd’s List Podcast to find out

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

Technology changes slowly at first and then very, very rapidly and there is a small window of opportunity before artificial intelligence becomes normalised in shipping. This week on the Lloyd’s List Podcast we are exploring whether the AI revolution really is changing shipping and why the answer to that question is less a story about technology and more about an industry that is rapidly evolving into a tiered structure of haves and have nots

The International Union of Marine Insurance conference is an annual health check for the shipping industry’s risk cover and as such offers an important, if not at time impenetrably complicated view of the sector as a whole. This week’s podcast offers up a clear explanation of everything you need to know about marine insurance from the people who understand it best. Consider this week’s edition your best, and perhaps only opportunity to learn the marine insurance sector in under 25 minutes

Navigator Gas chief executive Mads Peter Zacho is fully aware of shipping’s shortcomings when it comes to gender diversity, but he wants to do something about it and has taken the bold first step of linking a $200m loan facility to ambitious targets to up the level of senior women in management. So can diversity-linked loans help close the maritime gender gap?

Chapter 4: The macroeconomic and geopolitical risk factors that determine long-term strategic thinking in shipping are becoming more complicated and the conflict in Ukraine has left businesses reassessing their options

Piracy attacks are at a 30-year low according to the latest figures, but have the pirates really hung up their Kalashnikovs, or is this a statistical anomaly, rebranding or just more opaque reporting? This week’s podcast investigates what really lies behind the lack of piracy headlines and the real security risks still out there for shipping

The Black Sea Grain Initiative is inherently flawed and it doesn't take a stretch of the imagination to think it could fall apart at a moment's notice. But even with its limitations and drawbacks it is a success diplomatically and economically. This week’s podcast examines whether that will be enough to sustain it through the turmoil that lies ahead

Despite its reputation for opaque business practice, the shipping industry has, over the past decade, been going through a quietly effective anti-corruption revolution. The Maritime Anti-Corruption Network now represents over 50% of the global fleet and commands serious leverage when tackling systemic corruption wherever it finds it. Joining the podcast this week is MACN’s chief executive Cecilia Müller Torbrand