In our first episode, Green Seas newsletter visits the Golden State, virtually at least, to find out whether the new gold rush can be found out at sea.

‘Huge opportunity’: California is no longer just dreaming of offshore wind

We explore how the world’s largest cruise company has joined a growing list of big-name shipowners adopting air lubrication, which uses a ‘magic carpet’ of microbubbles to tackle greenhouse gas emissions.

This decarbonisation tech is bubbling up into the mainstream

In just a few weeks, the deliberations over how to tackle shipping’s carbon moved from the COP27 climate gathering in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, to closed-door negotiations in Brussels. Green Seas traces the journey as it arrives at the International Maritime Organization for key talks on the future of global rules on shipping’s greenhouse gas footprint.

We talk to David Cummins of the Blue Sky Maritime Coalition, Lars Robert Pedersen of Bimco and Lucy Gilliam of Seas at Risk.

Focus of deliberations on shipping’s carbon shifts to IMO in London

With shipping gearing up to join the European Union’s Emissions Trading System at the start of next year, TradeWinds took to the stage at Nor-Shipping to discuss how the industry will have to navigate carbon markets. 

Our panel of experts is made up of Trafigura head of wet freight Andrea Olivi; Klaveness Combination Carriers chief executive Engebret Dahm; Frederic Bouthillier, head of shipping at Vertis Environmental Finance; Antonello Zanfardino, senior carbon analyst at BRS Group; and Sofia Furstenberg Stott, partner at Furstenberg Maritime Advisory.

Navigating the ups and downs of carbon pricing

In Copenhagen, shipping giant AP Moller-Maersk has christened the first container vessel fuelled by methanol, which will be followed by more than 100 more by the Danish company and others. Will there be more in the near term, and will they find green methanol to meet decarbonisation goals? 

We talk to Richard Wetzki of TCT Shipbrokers and Ahmed El-Hoshy of OCI Global.

Looking ahead in at the dawn of methanol-fuelled container shipping

When a fire strikes a car carrier, the first question asked is often whether it was started by an electric vehicle. But while the growth of electric car shipping and the hazards of lithium-ion batteries do require special measures, a growing body of evidence suggests they may not be more dangerous than conventional vehicles.

We talk to Andreas Enger of Hoegh Autoliners, and Bingbing Song and Heike Deggim of the International Maritime Organization about the measures under way to make vehicle shipping safer.

Are electric cars getting a bad rap in ship fires?

Green Seas is the podcast on the environment and the business of the ocean. Join TradeWinds reporters Eric Priante Martin and Craig Eason as they explore topics of sustainability in the maritime sector as ocean industries face pressure to clean up their act.

Looking ahead in at the dawn of methanol-fuelled container shipping

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