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My co-host Ken Suzan and I are welcoming you the episode 176 of the IP Fridays Podcast. Today's interview guest is returning guest Franklin Graves, who is a senior counsel at Linkedin and teaching IP law at Emerson College. With my co-host Ken Suzan he is discussing how the law for creators has dramatically changed in the past years. Franklin Graves is expressing his personal views and not the views of Linkedin or Microsoft. He is talking about the paper “Upload Complete” before he joined Linkedin. Bio: https://www.linkedin.com/in/franklingraves/ Paper: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5271442 Website: https://creatoreconomylaw.com/ But before we jump into this interview, I have news for you! Richard Meade, a judge on the UK High Court and one of the most prominent figures in European patent law, was appointed Lord Justice of Appeal at the British Court of Appeal on June 12, 2026. Meade played a key role in numerous landmark British patent decisions, particularly in the area of standard-essential patents (SEPs) and FRAND licenses. In Insulet Corp. v. EOFlow Co., No. 2025-1807, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit completely overturned the original $452 million judgment (which had already been reduced by the District Court to $59.4 million) in favor of Insulet. In its decision of June 2, 2026, in the case of Fujifilm v. Kodak, the UPC Board of Appeal provided comprehensive clarifications regarding so-called “long-arm jurisdiction”—that is, the question of whether the UPC can also rule on national patent claims outside the UPC territory (such as in the United Kingdom). In 14 guiding principles, the judges established specific procedural rules for various categories of cases. There is no automatic UPC jurisdiction over national patent claims outside the UPC territory. The Munich Regional Court has issued an arrest warrant against the managing director of Polytech Health & Aesthetics GmbH because he is alleged to have continued to exploit the Brazilian company Silimed's patent for breast implants despite a preliminary injunction. A number of IT and automotive industry associations—which are among the most frequent users of Inter Partes Reviews (IPR) at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office—have filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court, urging the Court to grant Google's certiorari petition. An attorney for a Las Vegas performer has asked a California federal judge to temporarily prohibit Taylor Swift from using “The Life of a Showgirl” as a trademark while the trademark lawsuit is pending. Swift's attorney called the lawsuit baseless. And now let's hear Ken discuss creator law with Franklin! AI, Platform Law, and the Creator Economy: What Businesses Need to Know Now Franklin Graves has spent his entire career watching digital content move through systems that most people never see. He started in marketing at a major music label right out of law school, then represented individual creators on YouTube in a pro bono capacity, then moved to the platform side at Eventbrite, and today works as Senior Product Counsel at LinkedIn, where he focuses on AI, data, and the regulatory questions that come with both. His recently published law review article, Upload Complete: An Introduction to Creator Economy Law, is the first academic paper to address the creator economy as a distinct legal field. In a recent episode of the IP Fridays podcast, he spoke with host Kenneth Suzan about responsible AI development, platform regulation, and what it actually means to own your audience in a world where the rules keep changing overnight. From Content Creator to Platform Lawyer The through-line in Graves’ career is a genuine understanding of how content moves from an idea in someone’s head to an audience on a screen. That experience, he argues, is precisely what in-house counsel needs right now. Lawyers working on AI and product development cannot afford to sit at a distance from the technology they are advising on. They need to use the tools, experience them as a creator or end user would, and understand the nuances of how a product actually operates before it reaches the public. Understanding the product first is the precondition for everything else. That philosophy translates directly into how he approaches responsible AI implementation. The landscape of AI standards is crowded: NIST frameworks, the EU AI Act, sector-specific guidance, and a growing body of industry-adopted best practices. The challenge for in-house counsel is not knowing that these standards exist. It is making them actionable for the engineering and product teams they support. Abstract principles need to become concrete controls and workflows. Graves offers one practical shortcut: most companies already have open source software review processes that involve the right stakeholders, the right sign-off levels, and the right security checks. Layering the specifics of generative AI or large language models onto those existing processes is far more efficient than building something new from scratch. A Fragmented Regulatory World The geopolitical dimension of AI regulation is something Graves thinks about constantly in his role at LinkedIn. The EU AI Act, shifting US executive orders, and country-specific approaches to data privacy have created a regulatory environment that can change the rules of the game without warning. His analogy is instructive: creators have long understood what it means to build a community on a platform they do not own. An algorithm change, a policy update, or a government ban can wipe out years of audience-building overnight. Businesses deploying AI tools globally now face a structurally similar problem. The response, for creators and for platforms alike, is to build resilience rather than rely on stability that may not last. TikTok is the clearest recent example. When the platform faced the prospect of being shut down in the United States on national security grounds, it triggered a broader conversation about platform dependence that had been building for years. Creators who had invested their entire business in one platform suddenly confronted the possibility that their audience could simply disappear. The lesson is not that platforms are bad. It is that concentration of any kind, whether it is your audience, your data pipeline, or your regulatory compliance strategy, creates fragility. What Is a Creator, Legally Speaking? One of the central contributions of Graves’ law review article is definitional. The terminology matters more than it might seem. When courts and regulators talk about creators without a shared understanding of what that word means, the resulting legal analysis tends to miss the mark. Graves draws a distinction between users who post content, creators who post with the intent to build an audience and eventually monetize it, and influencers, a subset of creators who are actively running a small business through their content. The difference is intent. A parent posting family photos on Facebook is a user. Someone building a subscription community around their professional expertise is running a business, and the legal framework that applies to them should reflect that. That distinction matters practically when it comes to liability. As more creators build their own platforms, whether through custom membership sites, open source tools like Ghost, or federated social networks, they take on obligations that previously fell to large platforms: content moderation policies, privacy notices, terms of service, and compliance with data regulations across multiple jurisdictions. A creator in Tennessee running a membership platform with subscribers in Germany is operating a global business, whether they think of themselves that way or not. Protecting Children Online: A Question Without a Clean Answer The tension between age verification and privacy is one of the more difficult problems in platform law right now. Australia, several European countries, and a growing number of US states have introduced or passed minimum age requirements for social media accounts. The technical challenge is real: verifying age online requires collecting identifying information, and collecting identifying information creates privacy risk, particularly for the young people the laws are designed to protect. Who should bear the responsibility for that verification is also unresolved. Is it the platform? The app store? The mobile operating system? Graves does not pretend there is a clean answer, but he points to the mobile layer as an underexplored option. The Apple App Store and Google Play Store already have significant leverage over which apps reach users on their devices. Whether that leverage should extend to age verification is a question that deserves more attention than it currently receives. The Right of Publicity in the Age of AI Voice cloning, digital replicas, and AI-generated synthetic media have pushed the right of publicity into territory that traditional IP law was not designed to cover. Trademark law, copyright law, and existing publicity rights each capture part of the problem but none of them covers it completely. The result, as Graves describes it, is a period of experimentation: lawyers filing trademarks on vocal sounds and phrases, states updating their publicity statutes to explicitly mention artificial intelligence, and entertainment unions negotiating over who controls a performance and any AI-generated iterations of it. Tennessee’s Elvis Act is a concrete example of the legislative response: the state updated its right of publicity law to include voice and to reference AI directly. Similar efforts are underway elsewhere. The underlying challenge is calibrating protection so that it gives creators and performers meaningful control over their likeness and voice without foreclosing the development of generative AI systems that depend on broad rights to process and learn from content. Somewhere between those two interests, a workable legal framework needs to emerge. The brand deal context may be where the issue becomes most immediately practical. When a brand partners with an influencer and the campaign involves generative AI in any form, the contract needs to address control explicitly. Who has final approval over how the influencer’s likeness or voice is used in AI-generated deliverables? What happens to those assets after the campaign ends? These are not hypothetical questions. They are contract drafting problems that any brand counsel or creator attorney should be addressing today. What Comes Next Graves is cautious about predictions, but his sense of direction is clear. The regulatory environment will continue to fragment before it converges. The right of publicity will be updated, imperfectly, in more jurisdictions. Creators will continue to move toward owning more of their infrastructure. And the lawyers who do this work best will be the ones who understand the technology well enough to translate it into practical, defensible decisions for the people they advise. Full Transcript: Ken Suzan: Thank you, Rolf. Our returning guest today is Franklin Graves. Franklin is the founder and editor of Creator Economy Law, a website and newsletter that educates creator economy professionals on the intersection of law and policy with the world of creators, brands, and platforms. Franklin also published the first law review article focused on the creator economy, Upload Complete, an introduction to creator economy law. He regularly appears across news and media outlets as a commentator and contributor with a focus on educating creators and raising awareness of all legal aspects of the creator economy. Franklin is based in Nashville, Tennessee. Ken Suzan: Franklin was invited to participate as one of the creators and creator economy professionals in the first ever White House creator economy conference. Franklin works full time as a product counsel at LinkedIn Corporation. As a member of the product and data team, he focuses on emerging issues in AI and data. Franklin previously held roles on the technology law group at HCA Healthcare, the commercial legal team at Eventbrite, and the business and legal affairs team at Naxos Music Group. Welcome back Franklin to the IP Fridays podcast. Franklin Graves: Thank you so much for having me. It is exciting to be back and reflecting over the last decade since I last joined and also the paper that I wrote that dives into this in more detail. So I really appreciate it. And yes, full disclosure, I currently work for LinkedIn, which is a subsidiary of Microsoft. I’m here in my personal capacity to talk about this, the paper I wrote before joining LinkedIn and all of that. So thank you so much for having me back. Ken Suzan: Excellent. So Franklin, since your last appearance on IP Fridays in 2017, your career has evolved significantly. You are now senior product counsel at LinkedIn focusing on AI and data. How has working inside a major tech platform changed your perspective on the legal frameworks governing digital content compared to when you were viewing it purely from the creator side? Franklin Graves: I appreciate that question because when I wrote the article, I did not work for LinkedIn. And I had been coming from a history in my career where I, right out of law school, worked for a record label like we talked about almost 10 years ago. And I was on the content creation side. I’ve represented a major distributor of classical music digitally at the time. And that was my first exposure to understanding how content was taken from the initial inception stage from creators and routed through all the various digital platforms that were at the time still evolving and even arguably still today continue to evolve. The early days of YouTube Music launching and then Apple Music launching, and then going through all the phases of high-res audio and everything that came after that. So that was an interesting perspective to start my career with. And then I went to Eventbrite, which is a ticketing platform, but was also focused on elevating event creators. They kind of took on that moniker of “Hey, we are event creators that we support.” And that was arguably my first exposure to the platform side, the tech platform side of it, because Eventbrite is a platform. And so then I evolved from there in my personal capacity, in a pro bono capacity representing individual creators across the YouTube space. And that’s what we talked about a little bit back when I first came on the podcast. Franklin Graves: Over the last decade, it’s been a chance to grow my own understanding of the creator economy. The terminology “creator economy” came around. And then now on the other side of it, having written the article and all that, and now being fully in-house at LinkedIn, I truly am experiencing a social media platform. LinkedIn is of course arguably way more than just the platform itself. There are so many different avenues to it, but it is a chance for me to understand what it is like working for a company that is operating the platform that people are distributing content on. There’s a user journey to content and all of that. So it’s definitely enhanced and given me a different perspective from a major tech platform side. And part of my role at LinkedIn is really heavily focused on understanding regulation and how that from an AI and data perspective impacts the company. And so I’ve been really leveling up my game over the last year and a half that I’ve been here, understanding mostly EU regulations, but also US regulations that are still in their infancy when it comes to AI. But really when it comes to privacy and data, those are pretty well established across the board. It’s been kind of a combination of what I learned at Eventbrite, because I went to Eventbrite when GDPR was going into effect. And so that was an eyes-wide-open moment of getting in the weeds with negotiating data processing agreements, understanding data transfers and cross-border data transfers and the like. So it’s been kind of an evolution as the laws and regulations have evolved. So has my career, so has my own understanding, so have the platforms’ responses to those laws and regulations. And I’m sure that probably resonates with a lot of your listeners who have also been growing their practice and their understanding as the laws and regulations in this realm have been evolving too. Ken Suzan: Yes, indeed. Now let’s switch gears and talk about AI. You advise on AI and data daily. As platforms integrate generative AI tools into their tech stacks, what are the most critical best practices in-house counsel should be adopting right now to embed responsible AI principles into product development? Franklin Graves: So as an attorney, one of my key roles is to understand the technology. Even representing creators and working for creator platforms, that’s something I’m constantly trying to do: put myself in the shoes of being a creator. And I think I talked about this last time I was on, but I come from a background where I was working for a major label doing marketing, video editing, social media work. And I was creating content. I understood the whole life cycle from the inception point of an idea to execution and then to the final delivery and distribution of that content to an audience within a major music label. And so part of that is the same thing that I think attorneys, especially in-house, should be doing: using the tools that the product and engineering teams are either developing in-house or partnering with third parties to develop, or a combination of the two. Using them, understanding them, using them as a creator would, using them as an end user or a client or customer would. And making sure that if you understand the product and understand the nuances of how it operates, and being a part of the iterations of that internally before it fully ramps, that really gives you a chance to understand: okay, we have a lot of responsible AI principles and standards and protocols that are in existence right now, whether it’s NIST, whether it’s based on the EU AI Act or anything and everything in between. It’s understanding how to apply those and bring those into a product and an engineering environment in a way that is practical and actionable for the people that you’re supporting, the stakeholders you’re supporting. So I think one of the critical best practices is, number one, understand the product or features that you’re supporting. Franklin Graves: And then understand how you as an attorney can use your expertise and understanding of responsible AI practices, whether it’s a regulatory standard or an industry-adopted standard or a hybrid of the two, to leverage those and implement those, break those down and make them into actionable controls and processes and flows that work within your existing infrastructure. That’s a lot of high-level talk, but that’s the general idea. One concrete example we talk about frequently is with open source AI. If you’re working with a product team or an engineering team that is taking an off-the-shelf open source model and bringing that in-house, a lot of times companies have pre-existing open source processes that cover the use of open source software or code. Piggyback on that. That’s the easiest quick win for attorneys: leveraging your existing open source processes to just build on top of that the AI flavor and layering. It’s not very much that you have to do, but the underlying process of the key stakeholders that need to be involved in the review, whether it’s security, whether it’s executive sign-off if it gets to that point, even export control considerations should already be part of your existing open source software process. So layering in on those existing processes the specifics of generative AI or large language models that you’re trying to bring in is a great way to put this into practice. Ken Suzan: Now looking at the geopolitical landscape that we currently have, we have the EU AI Act setting strict standards and shifting US executive orders. How should platforms and brands prepare for this fragmented regulatory environment when deploying AI tools to a global user base? Franklin Graves: It’s a great question. It’s something that is still evolving, I think is fair to say. I would equate it, as I do in the paper that I wrote, to how creators and arguably brands don’t own the platforms that they’re building their communities on. That spawned this concept of de-platforming or going into building your own platform, a decentralized platform of sorts, and owning your community. That gives you that control and takes away the level of instability that can come for creators trying to build a business on a platform they don’t own, they don’t control when certain updates happen, when algorithms change, when tools and functionalities either become available or go away completely. So it’s very similar to what we’ve been experiencing in a regulatory environment where we have geopolitical complexities, for lack of a better term, that can overnight seemingly disrupt the way in which a platform or even a multinational brand is able to connect and reach an audience or continue to leverage the user base that they’ve built. I think TikTok is a great example of that, where it became a national security concern and suddenly it was facing an executive order that required it to be effectively disabled in the US or completely owned and operated by a US entity. All the mechanics and technicalities of whether it’s actually possible and still have a global platform with a global user base is a whole different discussion. But that’s an example of very similar considerations that are now not just a discussion point at the creator level or the individual brand level, but also in a much broader context at a platform level as well. Ken Suzan: Franklin, let’s now shift gears and talk about your article. In your recently published journal article, Upload Complete, which we will have linked in our show notes, you advocate for a shift in terminology from internet creator law, a term used during our first podcast almost a decade ago, to creator economy law. Why is this distinction important and how does it change the way legal practitioners should view the ecosystem of creators, brands, and platforms? Franklin Graves: Oh yes, this is part of the reason why I wanted to write the article: to lay this foundation of understanding. Because at the time I’d written the article, the term creator economy and creator had really not appeared but for maybe once in an actual court decision. And it was kind of focused on influencers and this concept, and it was just not getting it right. And so it was also, as you mentioned, when we first spoke I was even using the term internet creators. And I think that was something that was common at the time. The “internet” portion as a qualifier has since dropped off. And now for purposes of the creator economy, the term creators refers to individuals, it can be small businesses, which is what we’ve seen from a regulatory standpoint, how these small businesses are being impacted by regulations. But essentially creators in the article I pin in the context of intent. What is the intent behind the person or the small business that is posting content, trying to build a community and form a community in a virtual environment? And then that can even spill over into real physical world environments. And so the intent is kind of what I look at. Franklin Graves: And I have a chart in the article that has a diagram showcasing the overlap of what I refer to as “users generating content.” It’s a play on the concept of user-generated content, UGC. Users generating content is that large bucket of anyone posting on a platform of some kind. And within that large bucket, that large circle, are smaller subsets. You have creators, you have brands. Those are really the two buckets you can put people into. Otherwise it’s like your grandmother or your parents posting content on Facebook or Instagram, and those are everyday users of a platform. The distinction to get into that subcategory of being a creator more so has been analyzing the intent behind the posting. Are you posting content to build an audience, to build a community, to eventually have a chance to monetize the following that you’re bringing in or sell services or something like that? Brands are posting for that reason. Creators are maybe posting for that same reason. But even within the creator category, there’s a subcategory of influencers that are trying to sell something, that are trying to build more than just an awareness of who they are, their influence. They are trying to do brand deals, partnership deals, upsells and all that, and start an actual small business aside from just the content itself that they’re creating. So that’s kind of the distinctions that I make in the paper. And that’s why it’s important to understand and lay that foundation, that anyone can post content online, but the intent, the why behind their posting that content, really does ultimately matter, especially when you’re looking at it from a court case or from a regulatory standpoint. Ken Suzan: Now, Franklin, we’re seeing unprecedented geopolitical activity around platform ownership. For example, the US legislation targeting TikTok and Brazil’s recent temporary ban of X. How do these macro-level battles impact the day-to-day livelihood of creators? And how can they legally and operationally protect themselves? Franklin Graves: So the shift that we’re seeing, and I alluded to this earlier in our conversation, is this concept of Web 3. And that term may or may not be really popular anymore, but that’s essentially what we’re looking at: a shift into a federated, decentralized operation of a platform. So instead of one owner, one company, one entity owning and operating the platform, it’s decentralized. Anyone can start up a server, and it’s interoperable, meaning anyone can plug and play and connect to that larger network. And it creates this unified social network experience. Within each operating node of that network, there can be your own decisions around content moderation, your own decisions around the hosting providers you use, where you’re operating out of, the terms and conditions that apply to that. But the flip side is that instead of creators posting and sharing in a closed environment run and controlled by a singular entity, you’re now experiencing a peer-to-peer type operation where your experience can change based on which server, which node, which user you’re engaging with. You might have content that’s acceptable in one area but not acceptable in another, and maybe it just doesn’t even show up in that other area. Franklin Graves: But from a liability standpoint, as creators start to build their own networks and communities, even outside of a concept like the fediverse, it’s even down to creators building their own communities through online courses, subscription membership-based platforms that they run on their own website. There’s open source software out there, even something called Ghost, where you have memberships. And that is a creator or a small business in the creator economy that is now taking on the obligations that would typically fall upon a platform. They need to take into consideration terms and conditions, privacy policies, legal aspects, and regulatory considerations for running a platform, especially in a global world. So it’s a lot of liability that then shifts over to those small businesses and even brands sometimes that are doing the same thing. Whether it is something as simple or complex as content moderation or all the way up to monetizing an audience, this new world where creators can spin up and run a platform all dovetails back to the concept of creators not feeling like they have control in reaching the audience and the community that they’re building on an individual platform. And so this really became more mainstream conversation with TikTok and the issues around it potentially being shut down in the US. That was kind of the mindset shift and eyes opening for many creators, especially within the influencer subset, of realizing: we need to make sure that we have a way to reach the audience we’ve built if the individual platform that we’ve committed to over the last year or three years or so is no longer available. We need a way to continue that relationship outside of that one platform controlling it. Ken Suzan: Franklin, we have a few minutes left and a number of topics. So I’m going to switch gears and talk about a few issues. First, a major emerging topic in your paper is the evolution of protecting kids online. With state-level age-gating laws like the CAADCA and the recent FTC updates to COPPA, how should platforms navigate the significant tension between strict age verification mandates and the privacy and First Amendment rights of their users? Franklin Graves: Man, that is a whole discussion to unravel. It is a consideration that we’re seeing happen again, going back to the geopolitical nature of everything. Countries like Australia and certain countries in Europe and now even individual states in the US are trying to look at ways, and some of them have already put into place minimum age requirements before you can even sign up for an account with a social media platform. One of the things I’d just highlight quickly here is that one of the tensions is around how you verify someone’s age online and still maintain the ability to be at least pseudonymous. How do you still have a level of privacy, autonomy, and protection when it comes to having to provide something like a driver’s license or have parental consent tied and connected to an account managed by a parent in a situation where maybe it’s not appropriate or not beneficial to the child in that manner? But then maybe there are counterbalancing factors that outweigh that. All of that comes down to the technicalities of how it’s actually implemented and maintaining the sense of openness and freedom that we’ve had on the internet to date. And then the other element there is, since a lot of the internet that we think of today is more so through mobile applications, is it something that the mobile operating system providers and app store providers should be thinking about? So whether that’s the Google Play Store or the Apple App Store, where does that initial age verification need to fall? Is it at the platform level? Is it the app store or mobile device management level or something else? Yeah, there’s a lot to discuss there. And a lot of the issues we’re seeing with how the internet is changing in terms of being able to browse a website without disclosing personal information that might not have been required before is largely stemming from a focus on protecting children online. Ken Suzan: It sounds like, Franklin, we could have another episode covering lots of issues connected with that one topic alone. Franklin Graves: I would absolutely agree with that. There’s a lot going on there. And again, it’s different across the world. And so I know you all have a global listener base. And so there’s a lot of nuances to that whole discussion too, that are worth exploring. Ken Suzan: Last question for today’s episode is regarding the right of publicity. With the explosion of AI-generated synthetic media, digital replicas, and voice cloning, the right of publicity is taking center stage. What are the biggest legal risks for brands partnering with influencers right now? And how can creators protect their most valuable asset, their likeness? Franklin Graves: That’s a great question. I think we’re seeing kind of a throwing-spaghetti-against-the-wall-to-see-what-sticks approach right now by a lot of different parties, whether it’s trademark attorneys, whether it’s general entertainment attorneys or whoever. For example, we’ve seen Taylor Swift filing trademarks to protect certain sounds of her voice and phrasing that she uses. It’s a difficult area because in the realm of generative AI with deep fakes and virtual avatars, that is where it gets tricky, because traditional IP laws are just not able to fully cover that spectrum. It’s a piecemeal approach, but even then it doesn’t fully cover it. So for example, I’m based in Tennessee and a couple of years ago we had the Elvis Act that updated our right of publicity law to add voice and to explicitly reference artificial intelligence. And so that’s the kind of effort we’re probably going to continue to see: efforts to develop some framework around protecting what is essentially a privacy right, in a manner that doesn’t restrict generative AI systems from continuing to develop and operate the way they’re operating now, while layering in those protections so that in the US at least a First Amendment right doesn’t necessarily get squashed, and those traditional well-recognized efforts to not overregulate a technology in its early stages are respected. Franklin Graves: And so I think a lot of what we’re seeing is just a need to update laws. The SAG-AFTRA debate and the strikes that happened around maintaining control of your performance and any iterations of that, or building upon that by a media company that might come later, it’s all on the table right now and still being discussed, still being worked out. I think in the short run, a lot of times if it’s in a brand deal, the key question is: if you are using generative AI to enhance in some way the final deliverable for the campaign, who has control over that? Who has final say and sign-off on how that likeness or that digital replica or that person’s voice is represented? And even outside of the brand space, we’ve seen actors like James Earl Jones signing over certain aspects like their voice and allowing it to continue to be used in these manners powered by generative AI as Darth Vader. And I think I saw something that Boy George was even starting up an AI company that allows musicians, the original recording artist, to rerecord new versions of their masters so that they don’t miss out on that revenue. It’s powered by generative AI, by taking their voice now, which is significantly different than it was back in the 80s, and using generative AI to make it sound closer to the original, but all based on their current performance. So I think it’s still an evolving area. And what’s interesting too is on the platform side, we’re seeing the early stages of platforms like Google starting to acknowledge and rely on the license grant contained in their terms of service for YouTube, which grants them broad rights to use the content to run their platform. So all that to be said, it’s still early stages. I’m very interested to see where we go from here in the future, especially from a global perspective as well. Ken Suzan: Franklin, I could spend hours talking to you about this. You’re such a knowledgeable person on these topics. Maybe in a few years, will we connect again and talk further on AI and all the things that are yet to be developed? Franklin Graves: Thank you. Yeah, it doesn’t have to be another decade. Maybe we can cut it to half a decade, given the pace at which technology is going now. Ken Suzan: Sounds good, Franklin. Thanks again for being on the IP Fridays podcast.

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It's become the crux of the US-Iran peace deal: is the Strait of Hormuz open or closed, free or with tolls? Roland Oliphant speaks to Richard Meade, editor in chief of Lloyd's List, explains the lingering uncertainties left from Donald Trump's Middle East war keeping shipping executives up at night and placing ordinary sailors in danger. Plus: as JD Vance insists the deal is “good for the American people”, Roland looks at the latest news, including the UK and France saying they are ready to help protect freedom of navigation in Hormuz and the politicisation of shipping from Iran to Russia. HighlightsWhy Trump's peace deal hinges on the Strait of HormuzMini exodus' of ships as Vance insists peace deal is ‘good for US'Producer: Peter ShevlinExecutive Producers: Venetia Rainey & Louisa Wells► Sign up to our most popular newsletter, From the Editor. Look forward to receiving free-thinking comment and the day's biggest stories, every morning. telegraph.co.uk/fromtheeditor► EMAIL US: Contact the team on battlelines@telegraph.co.uk► GET THE LATEST HEADLINES: Find all our latest Iran coverage here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/iran-war/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

AS the conflict in the Middle East continues, the full effects on global shipping markets are beginning to become clearer. This week's episode of the Lloyd's List Podcast once again come to you from our weekly briefing on the Middle East crisis, featuring our journalists and analysts. There's a focus on the container market and shadow fleet impact, as well as an update on the volume of traffic and operability of ports in the region. Featuring in this week's episode are: Richard Meade, editor-in-chief, Lloyd's Lis Bridget Diakun, senior risk and compliance analyst, Lloyd's List Cichen Shen, APAC editor, Lloyd's List Neil Dekker, senior analyst, Infospectrum Watch the full briefing here: https://event.on24.com/wcc/r/5273976/D81639300040BBFB6B5988BC9F28135E

EPISODE 106 -  “FROM THE BAD SEED TO THE WONDER YEARS: PATTY MCCORMACK AND DAN LAURIA IN CONVERSATION” - 9/22/25 This week, we are thrilled to welcome two celebrated actors —  PATTY McCORMACK, who made an indelible mark on cinema as the unforgettable child star of “The Bad Seed,” and Dan Lauria, beloved for his role as the father on “The Wonder Years” and his extensive work on stage and screen. Patty and Dan share personal stories from their careers, reflect on the craft of acting, and talk about what continues to inspire their love of performance. It's a lively, heartfelt conversation that blends Hollywood history with the enduring passion of two artists who've spent their lives in the spotlight.  Patty and Dan are currently starring in Dan's play “Just Another Day,” a beautiful look at aging, love, memories and the power of a good classic movie.   SHOW NOTES:  To purchase tickets to JUST ANOTHER DAY starring Patty McCormack and Dan Lauria, visit https://odysseytheatre.com/whats-on/just-another-day/ through September 28, 2025. Sources: Wikipedia.com; TCM.com; IBDB.com; IMDBPro.com Movies Mentioned: The Bad Seed (1956), starring Nancy Kelly, Patty McCormack, and William Hopper; Frost/Nixon (2008), starring Frank Langella, Michael Sheen, & Kevin Bacon; The Master (2012), staring Philip Seymour Hoffman & Joaquin Phoenix; Reagan (2924), starring Dennis Quaid, Penelope Ann Miller, & Jon Voight; All Mine To Give (1957) starring Glynis Johns & Cameron Mitchell; Kathy O (1958), starring Dan Duryea, Patty McCormack, Jan Sterling, & Sam Levene: Jacktown (1962), starring Patty McCormack & Richard Meade; Mary Jane (1968), starring Fabian & Diane McBain; The Young Runaways (1968), starring Kevin Coughlin & Patty McCormack; Don Quixote (1972), starring Akim Tamiroff; 9 1/2 Weeks (1986); starring Mickey Rourke & Kim Basinger; --------------------------------- http://www.airwavemedia.com Please contact sales@advertisecast.com if you would like to advertise on our podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why is the shadow fleet growing? Why do Chinese owners continue to sail their vessels through the Red Sea? And what happens if the International Maritime Organization does not adopt the Net-Zero Framework next month? In an age where uncertainty is simply part of doing business, Lloyd's List gathered some of its expert analysts and journalists to brief selected guests on the key issues of the day during London International Shipping Week. Listen to the highlights of the event in this edition of the Lloyd's List podcast. If you want to learn more, you can download the slides produced by our expert panel, featuring Lloyd's List Intelligence data and figures. Featuring on this episode are: Richard Meade, editor-in-chief, Lloyd's List Bridget Diakun, senior maritime risk analyst, Lloyd's List Cichen Shen, APAC editor, Lloyd's List Declan Bush, senior reporter, Lloyd's List

In a milestone moment for the sport, Harry Meade joins Nicole and Diarm to reflect on becoming FEI World Number One for the first time in his career.  From Midnight Dazzler to his six recent clear inside-the-time rounds across Burghley, Kentucky and Badminton, Harry takes us deep into the mindset, resilience, and team effort that have defined his extraordinary rise. Episode Highlights: Charlie's Calculations: Harry's son Charlie explains when he knew world number one was in reach - and why he kept it secret. Burghley to the Top: Diarm shares how the narrative of Harry's climb to number one began at Burghley, including a special moment in the riders' tent. A Purist's Philosophy: Harry explains why he ignores scoreboards, doesn't chase rankings, and treats each horse as an individual project built for the long game. Resilience & Recovery: A moving recount of Harry's near-career-ending injury and the tragic loss of Wild Lone. Inside the System: From note-taking and team dynamics to psychological models, we get a look at the engine room of the Meade yard. Legacy & Longevity: Reflections on growing up as Richard Meade's son, building his own path, and passing the torch to the next generation—perhaps even to Charlie. Guest Info: Harry Meade – The new FEI World Number One, British event rider, five-star podium finisher, and known for his methodical training approach and deep horsemanship. Charlie Meade – Eleven-year-old analyst in the making and unofficial EquiRatings recruit. Hosts: Nicole Brown Diarmuid Byrne

WITH geopolitical risk changing seemingly by the day and policy from the world's biggest economy updated on a weekly (and sometimes hourly) basis, it might seem impossible for the shipping industry to plan long-term. While this is a sector which thrives on volatility, when assets have 20-year lifespans, some degree of certainty is essential to make prudent long-term decisions. So how can shipowners decide where to put their money when the ground they shift on is always moving? Richard Meade led an assembled panel of some of the brightest minds in the industry at Singapore Maritime Week for the latest Lloyd's List Outlook forum, and in this week's episode of the podcast we're bringing you the best bits. Joining Richard in Singapore were: Janeyndu Krishna, head of maritime advisors at Drewry Nick Brown, chief executive at Lloyd's Register Eman Abdallah, global operations director at Cargill Ocean Transportation Mikel Skov, chief executive at Hafnia Captain Rajesh Unni, founder and chief executive of Synergy Group

Decarbonisation is one of the most written-about topics in Lloyd's List. Read our daily briefing on any given day and it will more than likely contain at least one story dedicated to the industry's journey towards net zero. And there's good reason for that too. It dominates shipping headlines and touches every corner of our industry and 2025 could be a pivotal year in shipping's long history. Not only are there major changes to the European Union's FuelEU and Emissions Trading System about to come into force, but many believe the world's first international carbon levy could be agreed at the International Maritime Organization during meetings of its Marine Environment Protection Committee later this year. So, how likely is it that shipping gets a firm agreement from the IMO that carries some weight? And, if nothing is agreed, then what does the future of the regulator look like? To talk you through what could be a momentous year in securing shipping's future, here's multimedia editor and former sustainability editor Declan Bush, and Lloyd's List editor-in-chief, Richard Meade.

Shipping is getting increasingly more complex and more expensive. On balance, that could be a good thing in that it forces the hand of an industry that has been too cheap for too long and the direction of regulatory travel now at least favours the progressives over the laggards. But we don't know the detail. We don't know what fuel availability or costs looks like. We don't know the detail of what market based mechanism or fuel standard will emerge – or even if it will. We don't know when ships ordered today are realistically going to be filling their duel-fuelled tanks with which fuels at what price. And that makes decisions today about newbuildings difficult. Difficult, but not impossible. It is possible to make the least worst decisions and factor in sufficient flexibility to be reasonably sure that the order you place today is not going to be a stranded asset in the next decade. And yet large swathes of the industry seem to be using the energy transition as an excuse for inaction. So this week's edition of the podcast offers all the hesitant fence sitters out there a much needed dose of persuasive expertise advocating for fully risk-assessed progressive change. James Frew is a Business Consultancy Director at Lloyd's Register who has spent a lot of time advising clients on how to make the decision that comes with least regrets when it comes to newbuilding and optimisation. In this week's edition Frew sits down with Lloyd's List editor Richard Meade to discuss: • How newbuilding and retrofit decisions can be optimised with sufficient flexibility to sail through regulatory and fuel uncertainties while avoiding the risk of stranded assets • Why increasing complexities around fuel procurement will not favour the smaller tramp owners • Why e-fuels are an inevitable part of shipping's transition and many ships will have to factor in multiple fuel choices over the coming years

THE world economy is slowing down. Last month China reported that its economy grew by a mere 0.8% in the second quarter compared with the prior three months. The much anticipated post Covid pick up has seen the Middle Kingdom return with a whimper rather than the hoped for roar after the government finally abandoned its “zero-covid” policy in December. Global manufacturing has suffered as consumers came out of lockdowns and began eating out more and buying less home-office equipment. And, although America grew strongly in the first half of the year, most forecasters expect the economy soon to slow. But if recent history has taught us anything it is that nothing in geopolitics or macro economics for that matter, is forever—and trends which look inexorable come to an end. So before the Lloyd's List Podcast takes a short summer vacation we thought we would leave you with a little long term perspective to mull over on the beach. The renowned economist, author and historian Marc Levinson has been on the podcast before talking about the next phase of globalisation, but that was nearly two years ago and a lot has happened since then, so we asked him if he wouldn't mind coming back for a catch up. Trade wars, de-coupling, military conflicts, recessions, and warnings of global trade collapse are not in short supply these days, so I wanted to get a view on the long-term perspective Speaking to Lloyd's List Editor Richard Meade, Marc talks about: • The reality of near-shoring and friend-shoring – both are in the news but both seem to be misrepresented. • How the long-term trend that trade in manufactured goods is likely to grow more slowly than the world economy in the years ahead, and what that ultimately means for shipping which has based business models around growth expectations. • The need for regional trade pacts, partly as a result of the disintegration of the WTO rules-based order and why the future looks more fragmented and regionalized as a result. As ever, if you want to get in touch with your ideas and feedback on the podcast we love to hear from listeners, especially the nice ones. You can find Richard on Twitter via @Lloydslisted, on LinkedIn – just search Richard Meade, but the easiest route is the direct one: Richard.meade@lloydslistintelligence.com

Decarbonisation dominated the debate at this year's NorShipping, but in between hot air and emissions there was time to take the temperature of an industry in flux. The Lloyd's List team out in Oslo reflect on their key takeaways from four days of conversations and canapes Talking on today's edition: • Richard Meade, Editor-in-Chief • Linton Nightingale, Deputy Editor • Bridget Diakun, Lloyd's List Data Analyst • Enes Tunagur, Sustainability Editor

It is day three of Norshipping out in Oslo and the Lloyd's List team are finally penetrating the pre-prepared headline pushes and have started to find a more nuanced debate about the real progress being made in shipping amongst the front runners, the followers and the laggards. Today's chat is with Cargill's head of ocean transportation and the president of the Global Maritime Forum, Jan Dieleman. xx THE Lloyd's List team out n Nor-Shipping have been getting a bit heat this week for calling out the gap between the industry's front runners who are pushing a progressive agenda and their followers and then the laggards. The good the bad and the ugly if you will. But as we touched on in yesterday's edition of this daily podcast live from Norshipping, that's quite a reductive view of what is realistically not a linear shift across a single industry, but a messy and difficult series of transitions across a supply chain that is still very fragmented. So, in search of a more balanced view from the frontrunners Lloyd's List editor Richard Meade hopped on an e-scooter to visit podcast regular Jan Dieleman. Most listeners will know Jan from previous editions, but for those who are not familiar he is the head of the shipping division at commodities giant Cargill. He is also the chairman of the Global Maritime Forum – the non-profit aimed at bringing voices from across the industry to chart a sustainable future. He is therefore well versed in both what the best of the industry are not just capable of and all too familiar with the gaps between the rhetoric on show and the reality of chartering decisions in an industry that needs to closely monitor the bottom line. Jan talks about why the industry can't move in unison and why we do need regulation to close the gap between the front runner and the laggards. He also discusses collaboration and the need for a more holistic conversation across sectors and government. And we even talked a little about carbon capture. But the conversations starts by tackling what Jan sees as the elephant in the room – the fact that shipping may not be able to get what it wants when it come to a sustainable future of fuels, because shipping may not be the most important industry out there.

FLEET DEPLOYMENT – INVESTMENT & EMISSION STRATEGIES MODERATOR: Mr. Richard Meade, Editor-in-Chief – Lloyd’s List PANELISTS: Mrs. Ingvild Sæther, President & CEO – Altera Mr. Khalid Yousef Alhammad, President – Bahri Ship Management Mr. Christian Bonfils, CEO & Partner – Copenhagen Commercial Platform (CPP) Mr. Bud Darr, EVP, Maritime Policy and Government Affairs - MSC Group Mr. Lasse Kristoffersen, CEO - Wallenius Wilhelmsen Maritime Leader's Summit Hosted by Capital Link & DNV In conjunction with Nor-Shipping 2023. Monday, June 5th 2023, in Oslo, Norway. For more information on the conference, visit here: https://forums.capitallink.com/shipping/2023norway/

SANCTIONS against Russia are about to be tightened once again and this time shipping is very much the focus from regulators both in the US and EU. US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has been in Japan this week ahead of forthcoming G7 talks, where she is talking up Washington's intention to crack down on Russia's ability to skirt sanctions. Meanwhile, over in Kyiv, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has been ramping up the rhetoric and promising that the forthcoming 11th package of sanctions measures will also target those companies and countries circumventing measures. Of course much of this has been on the cards for some time. Lloyd's List subscribers knew about the Commission's plans to target ships repeatedly turning off AIS signals and engaging in ship-to-ship transfers as part of a programme of sanctions skirting a full two weeks before the mainstream press started reporting it this week. But the Lloyd's List Podcast is focusing on this latest regulator crack down this week because the details of what both the EU and US are about to agree is likely to have significant impact on shipping. Lloyd's List understands that the draft plan is to use the existing EU port ban wording as the mechanism, which effectively means enforcement would fall to the ports. But the detailed wording and guidance is going to be crucial. Senior industry sources are very concerned about how this is going play out because there are so many ways this could get very complicated for the industry (particularly for the ports). To help host Richard Meade interpret the political signals and explain the practical consequences of what this all means for shipping, Lloyd's list's resident queen of sanctions and uncoverer in chief of deceptive and dodgy shipping practices, Michelle Wiese Bockmann joins the podcast this week.

EUROPE launched its much anticipated response to the US Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) this week and while it is not a shipping specific move there are significant implications for shipping. The Net Zero Industry Act essentially sets out plans to turbocharge the production of clean energy technologies across the EU, while enticing more green investment to the bloc, and reducing member states' reliance on imports from China and other nations. The Act sets out measures to speed up the permits process and boost power grid infrastructure and it includes domestic production targets for eight industries, including solar, wind, batteries and electrolysers. But not shipping. However there are important considerations for shipping, not least the fact that it aims to accelerate the use of CO2 capture and storage and improve conditions for investment in net-zero technologies. The headline target of the proposed regulation is a goal for 40 per cent of the bloc's demand for a raft of "strategic" clean technologies to be met with products, services, and materials sourced within the region by 2030. So this is about Europe competing with the US and China. Brussels' response to the IRA has involved loosening subsidy rules to keep companies in the region. It also wants to curb its dependence on China for much of its green industry supply chain and create jobs domestically. On the podcast this week, Sotiris Raptis, the secretary general of the European Community Shipowners' Association joins Lloyd's List editor Richard Meade to discuss what all this means for shipping and why we should care about how the final details are worded.

Every study and every ounce of common sense points to the fact that for any organisation that relies on its people, it should be a strategic priority to broaden your talent pool, enlist a diverse range of skills and perspectives, and make the most of their potential. Just as Countries with more gender equality have better economic growth. Companies with more women leaders perform better. Shipping has a global talent shortage. We know that. The structural long-term challenges in the maritime industry requires much better collaboration, it requires new talent and at the heart of that lies an immediate need to make improvements on diversity, equity, and inclusion. So why is DEI not at the top of the ESG agenda? And why in 2023 is it still the case that women represent only 1.2% percent of the global seafarer workforce. That's the figure from the last BIMCO/ICS Seafarer Workforce Report by the way, which depressingly enough was actually a 45.8% increase compared with the 2015 report figure. In shipping's boardrooms, the picture is perhaps less pronounced, but no less concerning. Women account for just 29% of the overall industry workforce and the last edition of the Diversity Study Group's annual report showed clear evidence that there is still a significant lack of ethnic diversity and female representation in senior roles, although representation at lower-level roles was improving. But we are still not getting even some of basics right. According to the Diversity Study Group's last survey which covered a good global sample of shipping companies across the sector, 35.8% of women responded that they do not feel that they can raise discrimination concerns at work or declared they would “prefer not to say”. That suggests there is still reluctance among women to ‘rock the boat' if they face discrimination. At sea the issue is even more extreme. The "shocking" extent of discrimination on board vessels was revealed in a study last year that saw 60% of all female seafarers reporting instances of sexual harassment and bullying. So this week, ahead of International Women's Day on March 8th, Lloyd's List editor Richard Meade spoke to two experts in the field of DEI to look at some of progress made but also ask why the industry is still not taking DEI issues seriously enough. Joining Richard this week are Elpi Petraki who was elected president of the Women's International Shipping & Trading Association in October last year. And Heidi Heseltine, Founder of the Diversity Study Group, which was formed in 2018 and is the first organisation dedicated to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in the workplace across the global shipping and maritime sectors. The DSG are the knowledge partners of the Global Maritime Forum's All Aboard alliance.

The lack of transparency and substance being attached to ESG announcements in shipping has become a pretty consistent theme of the Lloyd's List Podcast over the last few years. We have paraded a long queue of earnest environmentalists and eager executives in front of you, all saying the same thing - that change is afoot. But what does that actually look like in terms of boardroom decisions, and are decision really being made or just talked about? There's no shortage of press releases touting ESG credentials, but as one of the more honest shipowners we spoke to this week explained frankly: “we don't have the balance sheet to save the world”. The reality is that many, if not most climate policies triumphantly announced by companies (and arguably governments) lack depth, detail and credible intermediate targets if you are measuring them against strict science-based targets aligned to the Paris 1.5 degree goals. Creating credible ESG strategies is difficult. Quite apart from the lack of regulatory or pricing certainty, the corporate overhauls required to genuinely change processes and future-proof company initiatives for tomorrow is a step above what most small companies struggling to keep up with today's compliance challenges can deliver right now. And that's a problem, because while the large corporates are racing ahead with sustainability initiatives chasing a competitive advantage today, tomorrow that same sustainability requirement becomes more about having a licence to operate. What is voluntary right now, will become mandatory requirements for companies and will be important when they seek to raise capital. Shipping has fallen behind other industries on ESG commitment. Those that have made progress are mainly large, global companies, representing only part of the world fleet. Thousands of vessels, millions of seafarers and gigatonnes of CO2 are currently not covered by ESG ambitions. This is not about deliberate greenwashing, this is about the sheer scale of change required from companies over the next few years and the fact the reality that many shipping companies are struggling. Joining regular podcast host Richard Meade this week to discuss these issues are: Tanja Dalgaard is Chief Strategy & Operations Officer and part of the Leadership Team at the Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Peter Jameson is the global topic lead for sustainability and climate within Boston Consulting Group's Infrastructure, Cities & Transport team. Dr Jean-Marc Bonello is a principal consultant at UMAS International, a lead author of the Sea Cargo Charter and co-author of the Fourth IMO GHG Study.

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It's a tough gig making predictions, especially about the future – but it's that time of year where bold editorials types like to breathe deep the festive spirits, polish their crystal balls, embrace their inner Pythian oracle to offer their predictions for the year ahead. As is now traditional, the Lloyd's List editorial team have gathered around the microphone this week for their annual forecasting session, guided by regular Lloyd's List Podcast host and editor, Richard Meade. This year's outlook edition features predictions on the swing factors in tankers, the pivotal role of China and Ukraine, the state of the orderbook, union battles and of course the ever sexy world of marine insurance. This year's edition features the dulcet tones of: • Michelle Wiese Bockmann, our markets editor • Richard Clayton, our chief correspondent • Nigel Lowry, our Greece correspondent • Rob Wilmington, our data and fleet specialist • Tomer Raanan, our man in the US • Cichen Shen, our Asia editor in Hong Kong • Bridget Diakun, our data Queen and Ukraine expert • And David Osler, our law and insurance editor

This week's edition of the podcast features a very special guest - Soren Toft - the CEO of world's largest liner operator, MSC. He talks to Lloyd's List editor Richard Meade about of the challenges facing shipping and where he sees the industry heading. Before you listen to this week's episode though, please register for this year's Outlook Webinar on December 8 at 9am UK time. You can go to Lloydslist.com and follow the banner at the top of the home page, or go direct to: https://lloydslist.maritimeintelligence.informa.com/LL1143038/Register-now-for-the-Lloyds-List-Outlook-Forum-2023-and-beyond

UNSAFE shipping is not the clarion call of the environmental pirate, gleefully operating leaky ships with impunity risking the lives of crew for the hell of it. Safety is the problem that happens when nobody is paying attention. Which is why is perhaps concerning that safety has until relatively recently not figured as a particularly high profile part of the decarbonisation discussions. It's mentioned, of course it is, but we are collectively willing to enter into detailed debates and consider highly technical studies examining the energy density of every shade of zero carbon fuel alternatives, and yet the safety risks are too often mentioned as an engineering afterthought. And this is not just a concern about the toxicity of ammonia or the flammability of hydrogen. The industry is effectively planning a project that sees the entire infrastructure, fuel type, and systems in place that we have established hard won standards and protocol around over many decades, effectively being reinvented within the space of a few years. Moving to a multi-fuel future with multiple fuel infrastructures and supply chains is going to require a wholesale reappraisal of risk and safety standards across multiple industries, and that's before we even start thinking about the training implications at sea and on land. The question for this week's edition of the podcast is whether this has been foremost in our minds during the unending discussions about the politics, pricing and availability of a zero carbon future. Two people who have been thinking about this at the top of their agenda are Nick Brown, Chief Executive of Lloyd's Register Group and Dr. Ruth Boumphrey, Chief Executive of Lloyd's Register Foundation, who join the conversation with Lloyd's List editor Richard Meade this week to get some much needed perspective on this issue.

The debate about how we build a generation of green ships is ubiquitous and everyone wants in on it. The question of how we get rid of the current fleet is less popular. Whichever way you look at it global recycling volumes are going to grow significantly, doubling by 2028 to 14 million light displacement tonnes and near quadrupling by 2033. That means more, bigger recycling facilities set up to deal with more and bigger ships. Now that may seem odd given that ship recycling levels are at a 10 year low right now unlikely to recover in the short term But as discussed a few weeks ago on the podcast, the concept of the circular economy is a long term planning process where we need to build in sustainability to every stage of the shipping lifecycle. So now is exactly the time we should be talking about the impact of decarbonisation regulation and how it will be dealt with in terms of ship recycling. With that in mind, the Lloyd's List Podcast drafted in Anil Sharma this week – he's the president and chief executive of Global Marketing Systems, GMS to most of us. They are the ‘world's largest buyer of ships and offshore assets for recycling and Anil has spearheaded a number of key initiatives aimed at making ship recycling cleaner, greener and more sustainable over the years. He has also got a very pragmatic, business based view on what that means in reality so Podcast host Richard Meade talks to Anil about the regulatory pressures coming down the line for recycling, the consequences of EEXI, CII and the raft of costly acronyms headed everyone's way. They also talk about the circular economy and how the industry can move towards a more collaborative approach to shipping lifecycles. But first of all they talk about what's not happening in ship recycling yards. Why is nobody scrapping right now?

Greece is accusing Iran of piracy after the seizure of two Greek-flagged ships in the Gulf. It follows the seizure of a Russian-flagged ship, carrying 700 thousand tonnes of oil, off the Greek coast. Richard Meade, editor of shipping journal Lloyds List, gives us all the latest news. The World Economic Forum in Davos has drawn to a close, but some economists think more questions have been raised than answered - we learn more from Chris Low from FHN Financial. Also, NPR's Kai Ryssdal talks all about corn prices; and Justin Timberlake has earned himself a cool $100 million as he becomes the latest to sell his entire back catalogue of recordings. Entertainment journalist KJ Matthews has the scoop.

Cryptocurrency markets are being rocked after a popular token lost 99% of its value. We get the latest analysis from Anita Ramaswamy of the TechCrunch website. Oil giant Saudi Aramco has overtaken Apple to become the world's most valuable company. Indrajit Sen of the Middle East Economic Digest in Dubai discusses the significance of the shift. Russian shipping company Sovcomflot is reportedly selling off a third of its fleet to pay off some European debts before an EU sanctions deadline expires. It's one of the world's biggest transporters of oil and gas. We ask Richard Meade of the shipping journal Lloyd's List what this will mean for international shipping. An investigation in the US has revealed that the state of Louisiana is suing some families for making unlawful repairs to their homes - with government grants given out following Hurricane Katrina. We speak to David Hammer of WWL-TV, the investigative reporter following the story. And we have an extended report from the BBC's Russell Padmore exploring the problem of ships colliding with whales. Fergus Nicoll is joined throughout the programme by Kimberly Adams of our US partner station Marketplace in Washington DC, and by independent economist Andy Xie from Shanghai. (Photo: A cryptocurrency ATM. Credit: Getty Images)

New Zealand's transport system relies on fossil fuels. The technologies that heat our homes and businesses aren't much better. What will it take to transition them towards zero-carbon alternatives? Dr. Richard Meade from https://www.cognitus.co.nz/ (Cognitus Economic Insight) has tackled the question of https://www.cognitus.co.nz/_files/ugd/022795_c359bb9cae594ae68a1f1f0dd3c2aa2f.pdf (Achieving a Timely, Efficient, Equitable and Orderly Transition to Net-Zero Emissions for Transport and Heating in New Zealand), a discussion document commissioned by Vector, Powerco, and First Gas. A teaser: There are roles in this transition for fossil fuel incumbents and for infrastructure monopolies. Dr. Meade speaks with Ross Inglis on ThisClimate Business.

EARLIER this month Lloyd's List conducted an industry survey to reveal the true extent of cyber-attacks across the maritime sector and how companies are dealing with the growing risk. The results will be published next week. But ahead of these being revealed we brought in a trio of cyber experts to discuss some of the key takeaways and headline figures. In short, the industry is still not doing enough to spread awareness of the cyber-security according to survey respondents. But just as alarming is how a significant number of individuals are unaware of company process in light of an attack and are concerned around a lack of preparedness. These sentiments are shared by this week's podcast guests, warning against complacency of an issue that must be high on shipping's agenda. The issue too is even more poignant with at the time of recording an escalation of the Ukraine crisis, with Russia beginning its invasion of its southern neighbour in the early hours of Thursday morning. With the west announcing a new tranche of sanctions in response, there is a myriad of possible scenarios of Russian retaliation one of which could be a cyber-attack in which shipping could find itself in the crossfire either directly or indirectly. This week's podcast also discusses the ramifications of cyber warfare as a consequence of the conflict. Joining Lloyd's List editor Richard Meade for this edition are: Bill Egerton, Chief Cyber Officer at Astaara Daniel Ng, Chief Executive at CyberOwl Lars Jensen, Chief Executive at Vespucci Maritime

The economic shock of the world pandemic provoked an unprecedented collapse in world trade and output, but much of the ground lost has been recovered. The major economic impact may come from the condition known as Long Covid, with very substantial numbers of people debilitated, physically and mentally, over the long term. Two top economists from two sides of the planet, Dr. Richard Meade from Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand, and Professor Danny Blanchflower of Dartmouth College in the United States, assess this very human cost of the pandemic.

The idea of a student loan-type scheme is expected to be a win-win for businesses and the Government. Treasury's being asked to introduce it to help companies get through the economic impact of Covid-19. The idea's come from Cognitus Economic Insight principal economist, Richard Meade. He told Kate Hawkesby the Government would have about 14 percent less debt, if the scheme was put in place. "But the level of support offered is about two and a half times higher than wage subsidies, because you're ensuring businesses revenue lines, not just one of the cost lines."LISTEN ABOVE

New York is to become the first city in the US to mandate proof of vaccination to allow people to enter indoor venues such as theatres, restaurants and gyms. We hear from Andrew Rigie, executive director of the New York City Hospitality Alliance. A Panama-flagged ship has been hijacked by armed men in the Gulf of Oman and ordered to sail to Iran. We get the latest from Richard Meade is the editor of of Lloyd's List, the shipping intelligence service, who confirmed the incident. Also in the programme, as voters in Zambia prepare to head to the polls next week, we take stock of the country's economy. Musician Fumba Chamo discusses the challenges ordinary Zambians are facing as a consequence of high inflation. Zambian economist Twivwe Siwale explores the root causes of that inflation, following depreciation in the value of Zambia's currency, the kwacha. And we hear from Bupe Mulapesi, who runs a strawberry farm near Lusaka, how the pandemic has impacted business. Plus,after Chinese state media likened gaming to drugs, shares in the tech giants Tencent and NetEase fell. Josh Ye, technology and media journalist at the South China Morning Post explains the background. All this and more discussed with our two guests on opposite sides of the world: Dante Disparte chief strategy officer at Circle, a leading digital financial services firm and Racheal Cartland from Cartland Consulting, in Hong Kong. (Picture: a mobile pharmacy advertises the COVID-19 vaccine in New York City. Credit: Getty Images.)

A Panama-flagged ship has been hijacked by armed men in the Gulf of Oman and ordered to sail to Iran. We get the latest from Richard Meade is the editor of of Lloyds List, the shipping intelligence service, who confirmed the incident. New York is to become the first city in the US to mandate proof of vaccination to allow people to enter indoor venues such as theatres, restaurants and gyms. We hear from Andrew Rigie is the executive director of the New York City Hospitality Alliance. Plus, the latest on Wall Street from Joe Saluzzi of Themis Trading in New Jersey.

In this special midweek edition of the Lloyd's List Shipping podcast, editor Richard Meade discusses the new ICS/BIMCO Seafarer Workforce Report with International Chamber of Shipping secretary-general Guy Platten. Every five years, the report measures the supply and demand of officers and crew and provides an opportunity for the industry, at least in theory, to adapt it's training and recruitment policies to fit. Subscribe to Lloyd's List: https://bit.ly/372TqSi

Don't mistake the anticipated lifting of Iranian sanctions for an easing of compliance risk. For those banks and insurers seeking to apply transparency to the opaquest end of seaborne trade, many are only just realising how far they still need to go in order to mitigate the risk that the Trump era in some way helped expose. For shipping that means more investment in due diligence and surveillance. Talking to Lloyd's List editor Richard Meade on this week's edition about how shipping can navigate the murky waters of sanctions risk and compliance are: Amalie Korning Wedege, head of sanctions compliance at Danske Bank and Leigh Hannson, a partner at the law firm Reed Smith specializing in sanctions compliance for shipping Access the new standard in sanctions compliance risk analysis. Seasearcher Advanced Risk & Compliance gives you insight previously unattainable, enabling you to save time and effort completing sanctions compliance checks, investigations and monitoring vessels for illicit activity. https://www.lloydslistintelligence.com/services/data-and-analytics/advanced-risk-and-compliance?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=productsite_lloydslist

Sri Lanka faces an environmental crisis after a ship that caught fire off the coastline sinks – Lloyd’s List editor Richard Meade tells us the economic and financial implications. Online retailer Etsy has bought second-hand shopping app Depop for $1.6 billion. We get the reaction of Elizabeth Paton, consumer business correspondent at the New York Times. Huawei has launched its own mobile operating system in a bid to break away from reliance on Google's Android. We hear more from Ian Sherr of CNET News, in Washington DC. The rise of electric vehicles could see traditional service stations closing across the planet over the next two decades, and replacing pumps with fast chargers is unlikely to save them. The BBC’s Justin Rowlatt has an extended report on what this means for garage owners, and the landscape of our countries, if electric charging stations become the norm. Plus, sales of books have been booming during lockdown; we speak with the founder of Bloomsbury publishers, Nigel Newton. All this and more discussed with our two guests on opposite side of the world. Lori Ann LaRocco, senior editor of guests for CNBC, in New Jese. And Jyoti Malhotra,editor, National & Strategic Affairs, The Print website, in Dehli. (Image: Smoke billows from the Singapore-registered container ship MV X-Press Pearl as it's towed away from the coast of Colombo. Credit: Getty Images)

Sri Lanka faces an environmental crisis after a ship that caught fire off the coastline sinks – the BBC’s Ranga Sirilal gives us an update on what is one of the country’s worst marine disasters, and Lloyd’s List editor Richard Meade tells us the economic and financial implications. Sales of books have been booming during lockdown; we speak with the founder of Bloomsbury publishers, Nigel Newton, and ask how sustainable such a bumper year for books is. The rise of electric vehicles could see traditional service stations closing across the planet over the next two decades, and replacing pumps with fast chargers is unlikely to save them. The BBC’s Justin Rowlatt has an extended report on what this means for garage owners, and the landscape of our countries, if electric charging stations become the norm. And finally, the International Festival in Edinburgh is back on – famous for comedy, the festival was cancelled for the fist time in 73 years due to the coronavirus pandemic. Executive director Francesca Hegyi tells us about the logistics and challenges of moving the festival outdoors this year.

Dozens of people are dead following an attack by Islamist militants on a town in northern Mozambique, according to officials. Newshour speaks to Lionel Dyck, who runs the Dyck Advisory Group, taken on by the government of Mozambique to fight the militants. The Ever Given container ship that's been blocking the Suez canal for six days is finally freed. Richard Meade, Managing Editor of Lloyd's List, a news service for the maritime industry explains it will take months to clear the backlog. Also on the programme, on day one of the high profile trial of Derek Chauvin, the former police officer accused of murdering George Floyd last May, the BBC's North America Correspondent Aleem Maqbool reports from Atlanta on the lasting impact the killing has had across America. And, on the 150th anniversary of the Royal Albert Hall, Newshour hears about some of the most famous and quirkiest events that have taken place at the iconic venue. (Photo: militants seen around Palma, Mozambique Credit: BBC)

In a podcast moderated by Lloyd's List managing editor Richard Meade, the Sustainable Shipping Initiative (SSI) and Lloyd's Register bring together industry experts to talk about why the sustainability of marine fuels needs to be taken into account alongside price, availability and technical feasibility considerations. SSI recently published the white paper Defining sustainability criteria for zero and low carbon marine fuels which sets out sustainability issues and principles surrounding marine fuels under consideration for shipping's decarbonisation. SSI member representatives will talk about how sustainability criteria can contribute to the development of industry standards and certification schemes to assure and facilitate the selection of – and demand for – sustainable marine fuels. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

With the help of Bimco’s chief shipping analyst Peter Sand we’re taking a quick run through the key tipping points that will shape the shipping markets in 2021 on this podcast this week. Peter and Lloyd’s List editor Richard Meade cast their eyes over box market buoyancy, tanker troubles and the bulk market’s optimistic expectations for the year that inevitably all hinge on China. The next 12 months of shipping markets - all in under 25 minutes!

THE global health crisis has exposed known flaws within shipping. The fragmented response to the crewing crisis is only the latest fault line in an industry that has struggled to speak with unity on fundamental issues of safety, decarbonisation and digitalisation. One of the key voices to emerge from the current crisis is that of Synergy Group founder and chief executive Rajesh Unni, who joins Lloyd’s List editor Richard Meade for an in-depth discussion covering everything from collaboration and coronavirus to the twin tectonic shifts of digitalisation and decarbonisation. Shipping needs to find a political voice that travels beyond the ports and the high seas, one that reaches the decision makers who are currently determining our collective fates, argues Mr Unni in this wide-ranging interview. It is time to reform, he suggests, and find ways to create a more transparent industry where collaboration across the supply chain is embraced, sustainability is baked into new business models and technology is used to catalyse innovation and find efficiencies.

In this exclusive interview eventer Harry Meade talks frankly about his career, his family and the love of his sport. Harry is one of Britain’s leading event riders. He was a member of the silver medal-winning team at the 2014 World Championships and earlier that year came third at Badminton Horse Trials. He has completed a total of 16 four star events and came sixth at Burghley in 2018. Eventing is in Harry’s blood as his late father, Richard Meade, won a number of medals includes three Olympic golds, two golds at the World championships and three European golds. He also claimed Badminton twice and Burghley once. Harry was the National Pony Club eventing champion and the following year a member of the British Junior team. While at Bristol University Harry was stable jockey to William Fox-Pitt, where he took on the ride on Midnight Dazzler, a notoriously difficult horse. The 20-year-old Harry put everything into overcoming the challenges and developed a partnership, which saw the pair become one of the most consistent four-star combinations on the international circuit. Harry credits his time with William as shaping him as a rider, learning to give his horses time and focussing on their long-term development. For three consecutive years he won the prize for the best placed rider under the age of 25 at Burghley, he also remains the youngest rider to have ever received an Armada dish for five Badminton completions. In August 2013 Harry suffered a rotational fall, that nearly ended his career. In this exclusive interview he talks about how he made it back into the saddle and recovered both physically and mentally, to come third at Badminton, just a few months later. Harry also talks about: · Following in his father’s footsteps and why his success has made him push himself to reach the very top of his sport. · Passing down his father’s legacy to his children – and the importance of letting children learn to ride and find their own balance through self- exploration. · Delivering his son at home, with his broken arms still in braces, when his wife clearly wasn’t going to make it to hospital! And why he needed a ruler… · Tragically losing his top horse, and best friend, Wild Lone at the World Championships. · His ‘deep sense of satisfaction’ from bringing on young horses – and the importance of having patience and taking things slowly. · His five top tips on being an amazing rider! We hope you enjoy listening to this podcast as much as we enjoyed making it. To find out more about the helmets Harry loves – visit https://www.charlesowen.com/.

Podcast: Nine To NoonEpisode: Could Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles ever overtake battery EVs?Pub date: 2019-10-21Electric Vehicles have seen a dramatic rise in popularity in this country, and would seem to be light years ahead of hydrogen vehicles which are yet to hit the road because of a lack of refueling infrastructure. However, some industry leaders, like Hyundai and Toyota believe hydrogen has a significant role to play in decarbonising the transport fleet. Meanwhile, in September the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment put out a green paper on the vision for hydrogen in this country. Dr Richard Meade joins Kathryn Ryan to discuss the relative merits of rechargeable electric vehicles and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. Dr Meade is Principal Economist at Cognitus Economic Insight, a Senior Research Fellow in Economics at Auckland University of Technology, and Vice President Auckland of the Law & Economics Association of New Zealand.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from RNZ, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

The Trump administration released long-awaited global industry guidance last week that detailed best practices to detect deceptive shipping. What is not being said is almost as important as what is, but the takeaway here is that the international maritime industry will remain in the crosshairs of US sanctions enforcement no matter who wins the presidential election in November. On the podcast this week to dissect the implications for shipping are: Lloyd’s List editor Richard Meade, our markets editor Michelle Wiese Bockmann and our resident tiger at the throat of the insurance industry - David Osler. Don’t forget to sign up to Lloyd’s List Ask the Analysts webinar on May 28. In the second of our monthly Ask the Analyst webinar series, the focus turns to the outlook for markets in Asia and our view on mounting credit risk. Following on from last month’s webinar where we offered the shipping industry the opportunity to ask our experts any questions on any aspect of the industry’s currently turbulent agenda, the team will be back on Thursday 28 May at 16:00 Singapore time / 9am UK to answer more of your questions. Register for free and submit your questions in advance here: https://pages.maritimeintelligence.informa.com/LL-AMA-May

Could student loan style lending for households, as well as businesses, help our ailing economy and work better than wage subsidies? Richard Meade is Principal Economist at Cognitus Economic Insight, and Senior Research Fellow at AUT University. He says his plan recognises that neither businesses nor households can weather the COVID19 economic storm unless the other does too.

Next month Doha will play host to the Qatar Maritime and Logistics Summit, an event that promises to be one not to miss on the maritime calendar. Previewing the Summit we have even chair Richard Clayton, Mwani Qatar head of marketing Shammi Mohan, and Lloyd’s List’s Intelligence head of consulting Chris Pålsson. Linton Nightingale takes over from Richard Meade in the hot seat Registration details for the Summit can be found at: 2020.theQatarSummit.com

How do the Greek shipowners feel this year has gone and what’s keeping them up at night when they look to 2020? The podcast lands in Athens this week for the annual sequined festival of camp showbiz excess and shipping excellence that is the Greek Shipping Awards. Joining Lloyd’s List editor Richard Meade to dissect for the fortunes of shipping’s most vibrant of markets are our two resident Greeks, Athens correspondent Nigel Lowry and London-based reporter Anastassios Adamopoulos

This week we’re crunching the numbers and offering up a market forecast with Lloyd’s List Intelligence’s analytical oracle Christopher Pålsson and our own Editor and regular Podcast host Richard Meade. The pair talk through everything from growth trends to regulatory risk in their consideration of the dynamic trends that will be shaping shipping markets in 2020.

Paddy Rodgers, the former Euronav CEO and current director of Royal Museums Greenwich looks ahead to the London International Shipping Week agenda with Lloyd’s List editor Richard Meade, considering everything from the domestic focus on Brexit to the global challenges that face the whole industry. xxxxxx London International Shipping Week is upon us, and while that inevitably means a heavy UK agenda with Brexit topping the domestic programme there is a sufficiently international focus to the week’s events to warrant attention from the entire industry. On Thursday, former Euronav chief Paddy Rodgers will lead the debate at the centre piece of the LISW agenda, so he is perfectly positioned to join the podcast this week and deliver an exclusive insider’s guide to week. And get ready for a series of London International Shipping Week special editions. The Lloyd’s List team will be out and about armed with microphones next week and we will be producing a daily edition of the Lloyds List podcast from the sidelines of the events, starting on Monday with our own Transparency in Shipping Forum (register via Lloydslist.com). You can listen to all our podcasts for free on Lloydslist.com, or better still, subscribe to the Lloyd’s List Podcast via iTunes and Spotify, as well as most other podcast providers. And while you’re there make sure you are registered for a free account on Lloydslist.com so you can receive our Daily Briefing e-mail. Lloydslist.com/LISW

CMB’s chief executive Alexander Saverys believes that hydrogen offers shipping’s best bet to reach a zero carbon future and he is investing heavily to that end. But even he concedes that things are moving too slowly, and greater collaboration and partnerships will be required before the technological challenges can be overcome. He joins Lloyd’s List editor Richard Meade on this week’s podcast to discuss the industry’s green investment conundrum and why a collective effort is going to be required to hit the industry’s 2050 emissions goals.

In our first episode, our Senior Policy Lead Jenny Bloomfield chats to Richard Meade from Marie Curie and Susan Webster from MND Scotland about social security and their joint campaign which featured in 'Charities, Scotland and Holyrood: Twenty Years Delivering Change' - SCVO's limited edition book which celebrates two decades of the voluntary sector working with the Scottish Parliament.

In the second of our daily updates live from Singapore Maritime Week, our Asia team reflect on another busy day of digital deliberations, report back on the Lloyd’s List Smart Ports Forum and offer their thoughts on what needs to happen next. The technology discussion may finally be morphing into a pragmatic conversation about the realities of the industry as it is, rather than what the tech providers would like it to be xxxx THE Lloyd’s List team are out in force in Singapore this week covering the Maritime Week events, hosting a Lloyd’s List Forum and generally unearthing the stories shaping the industry right now. Each evening they will be gathering their thoughts on the events of the past 24 hours and offering a quick view of the big themes of the day. In today’s edition, Lloyd’s List editor Richard Meade is joined by China editor Cichen Shen and Asia news editor Vincent Wee to discuss yet more digitalisation initiatives. In between the marketing puff the team think they might have found the first signs of something a little more substantive. Picking up on the discussions from the Lloyd’s list Smart Ports forum the team also discuss why technology should be looked at as something that unlocks potential, turning a caterpillar into a butterfly, rather than just creating a faster caterpillar

We’re talking Smart Ports on the podcast this week in advance of the Lloyd’s list Singapore Maritime Week Forum where we will be examining why ports are the critical interface in the overall digitalisation of shipping. Joining editor Richard Meade, Capt. Rajesh Unni, Founder & Group CEO of Synergy Marine Group and Lloyd’s List’s own king of containers James Baker explore why data alone will not get us anywhere near smart ports or indeed smart shipping – data needs context, it needs to be standardised and most of all it needs smart people to use it. If you’re not already signed up to attend the Lloyd's List Forum, you might just about be able to secure a place by registering here: http://bit.ly/SGLL2019 We kick off at 2:30 pm in the Marina Bay Sands, Orchard Junior Ballroom on April 10 and it would be lovely to meet a few podcast listeners while we are there, so do come along.

This week Lloyd’s List editor Richard Meade is joined by the other Richard, Lloyd’s List’s Chief Correspondent, Richard Clayton to discuss the stories they think are shaping the shipping markets this week. On the table for discussion: container consolidation, fuel costs, yet more digitalisation and the urgent need to focus on the human element.

Joining the Lloyd’s List Podcast this week is the International Energy Agency’s head of oil markets, Neil Atkinson. While 2020 still looks challenging, he thinks the situation is far more manageable for shipping and refineries than previous forecasts suggested. Looking ahead to the IP Week debates starting Monday, Neil talks to Lloyd’s list editor Richard Meade about the OPEC outlooks, oil price and why US exports could be the defining factor in future oil trade patterns.

This week’s podcast offers a short taster of our live 2019 Outlook Business Briefing that we held in London on December 11th. Lloyd’s List editor Richard Meade is joined on stage by six of the sharpest shipping minds in the business to discuss the key challenges and opportunities that shipping will face over the next 18 months. ---- The maritime industry faces a year of uncertainty in 2019, underpinned by political, technological and regulatory disruption. But despite the risks, there are opportunities to be had, according to the experts we gathered to discuss the 2019 outlook for shipping at our Business Briefing earlier this week in London. Joining Editor Richard Meade on stage were: • Michael Parker, Global Industry Head for the Shipping, Logistics and Offshore Industries, Citigroup • Despina Panayiotou Theodosiou, Chief Executive Officer, Tototheo Maritime President of WISTA International • Roger Strevens, VP, Global Sustainability, Wallenius Wilhelmsen • Capt. Rahul Khanna, Global Head of Marine Risk Consulting, Allianz • Mark Williams, Managing Director, Shipping Strategy • Jörgen Strandberg, General Manager Advanced Technology, Wärtsilä Voyage Solutions The podcast chat is only a short snippet of the full debate which included discussions around what the best investment opportunity for shipping will be next year, what is the greatest challenge to efficiency and what’s the biggest risk to shipping over the next five years. We also got into whether shipping has taken its eye off the ball when it comes to safety; whether shipping will ever recover its cost of capital; and, aside from fuel efficiency technology, what will be the most significant driver of change over the next five years? It was a genuinely fascinating debate and Lloyd’s List subscribers are going to be able to listen to the full hour half recording or watch the video next week. Subscribers can also dive a little deeper with the series of market Outlooks and the full Lloyd’s List 2019 Outlook report is now available to buy via our e-commerce store. Consider it a perfect stocking filler that relatively who always cherishes an authoritative forecast on the key drivers shaping the shipping markets over the next 18 months. Don’t forget, you can now subscribe to the Lloyd’s List Podcast via iTunes and Spotify, as well as most other podcast providers. And make sure you are registered for a free account on Lloydslist.com so you can receive our Daily Briefing e-mail.

The annual convention of the International Bunkering Industry Association is perhaps not traditionally the highest profile event in the industry’s calendar, but with the sulphur cap on everyone’s horizon this year’s shindig has attracted a bit more interest, so we sent our chief correspondent Richard Clayton and our man with 2020 vision Anastassios Adamopoulos to Copenhagen this week to find out what all the fuss was about. Meanwhile, over in the US it’s the LNG sector that is keeping everyone excited right now. With freight rates heading to potentially unprecedented peaks, it will be no surprise if a rash of contracting gives the shipyards something to celebrate come Lunar New Year 2019. But on the demand-side the US is increasingly interesting when it comes to gas. Our US editorial team, Eric Watkins in Los Angeles and Mark Fuechec in Boston, join Lloyd’s List editor and podcast host, Richard Meade, to discuss the view of the market from a US perspective. Don’t forget, you can now subscribe to the Lloyd’s List Podcast via iTunes and most other podcast providers. And make sure you are registered for a free account on Lloydslist.com so you can receive our Daily Briefing e-mail.

This week David Osler stands in for Richard Meade and talks to CEO and co-founder Michel Löwy of SC Lowy about Italian shipping debt transaction and speaks with Menelaus Kouzoupis of Stephenson Harwood on cyber security, ransoms and making a ship one kilometre in diameter

On this week’s podcast HFW legal eagle Anthony Woolich joins Lloyd’s List editor Richard Meade to discuss how shipping should mitigate risk from Iranian sanctions. We also look at what’s happened to shipping’s toxic debt and get the inside track on the agenda for Hamburg’s box bonanza this week – the global liner shipping conference

Listen to the first edition of Lloyd’s List’s new weekly podcast — your weekly briefing on the stories shaping shipping in the week ahead. Richard Meade presents: Next steps in cutting carbon | Plugging shipping’s gender pay gap | Container line’s digital ambitions vs shipper’s reality

As we learn of the passing of Britain’s most successful equestrian Olympian, Richard Meade, OBE, we look back at his life and career in my exclusive interview with him that was recorded in 2012.

Richard Meade OBE was a British event rider who won individual and team gold medals in the1972 Munich Olympic Games on Laurieston and team gold medal in the 1968 Mexico Olympics on Cornishman V. He also finished 4th on Jacob Jones in the 1976 Montreal Olympics and 8th at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics riding Barbery. His international record also includes two gold and two silver World Championship medals and three gold European Championship titles. Listen in to the story of a fascinating life... Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=87421)