Maritime in Minutes - August 2021

Seatrade Maritime Podcast

In this episode of the Maritime in Minutes series we’ll be taking the listener on a look back through some of the most important stories in shipping and maritime over the month of August.

Stories featured in this episode:

- Allianz warns on crew change crisis and ship safety

- Western Australia Covid plans ‘dangerous’ and ‘immoral’

- Esben Poulsson on 50 years in shipping

- OSRA 2021 – US lawmakers seek minimum service standards for shipping lines

- WSC hits out at ‘flawed’ and ‘unworkable’ OSRA2021

- Ningbo terminal closure – what if Covid breaks out in more Chinese ports

- No relief yet for tanker owners as rates stay down

- Asian container lines report massive surges in H1 profits

- Maersk bets big on methanol