GMS Podcasts

Pankaj Khanna, CEO of Heidmar Shipping, speaks about how the company is preparing for the future of maritime. Pankaj shares his insights on the challenges the industry faces and what Heidmar is doing to address them.

Three ship recycling experts offer a frank assessment of working practices in Alang, the pace of progress and the scale of the challenge ahead.

Guests:

• Dr. Anand Hiremath, Chief Sustainability Officer, GMS
• Vishaal Raj Soni, CEO, Leela Group Ship Recycling Yards
• Vikram Purohit, Marine Surveyor & Senior Ship-recycling Specialist at Lloyd's Register

As the debate over fuel transition heats up, we speak to veteran ship finance lawyer Harry Theochari about financing shipping’s journey towards net zero.

A quick round-up of the main recycling markets with our senior trader in Seoul Gyungbae Gill, looking at currency developments and buying sentiment across the sub continent.

A quick round-up of the main recycling markets with our senior trader in Singapore Jamie Dalzell, looking at currency developments and buying sentiment across the sub-continent.

A comprehensive post-Posidonia round-up of the demo market explaining recent falls sustained across all subcontinent recycling markets, reasons for the price corrections and outlook for the coming weeks and months. 

Senior GMS Trader Simos Dimitriou reveals how the ongoing sub-continent collapse in prices fully materialized this week during a frank conversation with Jon Chaplin on the GMS Podcast.  He talks about the havoc being caused by a handful of Pakistan recyclers refusing to play ball and urges owners with fresh tonnage for the demo market to sit back and wait for the dust to settle before committing to any new deals.

After another challenging trading week for the ship recycling markets, we talk to GMS Trader Chenjie Zhu about the impact of a widening price expectation gap between owners and recyclers, and the long term implications for some Pakistan yards stemming from their decision to walk away from buying commitments.

Subcontinent markets have taken a turn for the worse this week as collapsing steel prices in India and Eid holidays in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Turkey have led to weaker sentiment and virtually no new offers on any available tonnage.  Are the fundamentals changing or will normal record-high service be resumed when Bangladeshi breakers are back from their break?  

A fresh look at the use of AI data to help avoid sanction headaches, counterparty due diligence, establishing an appropriate level of evidence, ESG (moral sanctions – self-regulation) and the role of human intuition and experience in interpreting data.

Demo prices and analysis from the key ship recycling locations of India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Turkey. This week we hear from GMS Trader Kiran Thorat on what is driving prices up in India, what to expect from Bangladesh recyclers between now and Monsoon and what happened to the US$700/ton being discussed in recent weeks.

Container market analyst Peter Sand on what’s driving the box ship market, the impact of China’s Shanghai lockdown, how shippers are now adapting to a sustained period of inflated freight rates, and how owners weigh up the options to recycle vs further trading.