In this sponsor episode, the Ocean Climate Impact Series’ first guest, MariApps CEO Sankar Ragavan, returns alongside Bureau Veritas’ director of strategy, M&A and sustainability, Suba Sivandran, to explore all the ways the marine industry has evolved in 2024. As we move into the new year, we create the actions of tomorrow from the lessons of today as our speakers discuss market trends, the future of the industry, collaboration, cost management and growth.

In this sponsor episode of the TradeWinds Content Studio’s Ocean Climate Impact Series, Bureau Veritas Marine and Offshore’s Suba Sivandran explores the most pressing challenges of the maritime industry. From managing decarbonisation and driving innovation to promoting growth in a rapidly evolving sector, Suba dives intohow sustainability can realistically be achieved. Sivandran is director of strategy, M&A, and sustainability at Bureau Veritas.

How can industries harness the unceasing power of the ocean to meet their green energy needs? Two companies are working together to answer that question by developing a vessel that will use electricity made from wave power to produce green ammonia. We talk to SwitcH2 and CorPower Ocean about their unique plan.

United European Car Carriers has signed up with fuel producer Titan to deliver liquefied biomethane, or bio-LNG, to its ships through 2025. And energy and sustainability manager Daniel Gent says the operator wants to do more.

The UK’s original plans to follow Brussels in requiring shipping companies to buy carbon credits for their carbon emissions was originally limited to domestic voyages. Now, officials in London are considering whether to take a step further. We talk to Transport & Environment’s Jon Hood about the implications.

The Safer Choice programme of the US Environmental Protection Agency may be best known for certifying household cleaning products, but it recently gave the green label to an organic chemical product used to clean components on ships. Hendry Marine president Kelly Hendry and organic chemist Patrick Baymont discuss how Seascour won the EPA nod.

Societe Generale’s Paul Taylor is a leading banker for ship lending, and he is also a leader in bringing decarbonisation to ship finance decisions as vice president and co-founder of the Poseidon Principles. As the initiative gears up for its next annual report, Taylor expects his bank to show improvement in the greenhouse gas emissions of the fleet it finances. He explains why the Poseidon Principles transparency initiative is changing lending behaviour.

Shipping could face more legal risks as it gears up to comply with FuelEU Maritime, the latest round of carbon rules that Brussels has foisted on the industry. We talk to Watson Farley & Williams regulatory lawyers Nick Walker and Valentina Keys about the minefield ahead for the industry.

Di Gilpin has been on a 20-year journey to prove modern wind propulsion can work in shipping. She finally got to see testing of a prototype wingsail by her company Smart Green Shipping on a vessel in the UK this month. She talks to TradeWinds technology editor Craig Eason about her motivation, how she collaborates with others and, importantly, how she now plans to commercialise her dream.

FuelEU Maritime, which will impose gradually tightening carbon-intensity limits on shipping, is nearly upon us. As Brussels’ newest carbon regulation looms, we check in with two digital technology companies that are helping their customers prepare. We talk to Geir Olafsen, chief digital officer at Siglar Carbon, and Bobby Morse, associate director of products at Veson Nautical. Is shipping ready, and what does it need to do to get there?

The podcast travels to the TradeWinds Shipowners Forum Japan, where Julian Bray led a live panel discussion to explore shipping’s path toward lower-carbon fuels. We hear from Michihiko “Mike” Nakano of Asahi Tanker and e5 Lab, Oystein Kalleklev of Flex LNG and Avance Gas, Andrew Hoare of Fortescue Marine Systems and Green Shipping and Hiroyoshi Kubo of Mitsui OSK Lines.