Aronnax: The Podcast
This regular podcast is powered by Fathom World and hosted by Craig Eason – a former sailor, broadcast journalist and now maritime journalist, editor and event host. Aronnax delves into the transformation of the ocean and maritime industries as they face some of their greatest sustainability challenges to date. It focuses on technology, the environment and the digital enablers that help drive our quest for sustainable and equitable ocean use. Find out more on this fascinating topic by visiting the site, signing up to our weekly newsletter and following us on Twitter and LinkedIn.
Why call it Aronnax?
Pierre Aronnax is a man of science and of the seas. He is a main protagonist in Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Vingt mille lieues sous les mers). Set in the first person from the point of view of Aronnax, the tale tells about the fantastic technology of a environmentally friendly, but none-the-less destructive, vessel (The Nautilus), the ocean environment the story sends its heroes through, and the lives of Captain Nemo and his crew. Like the eponymous Aronnax, the podcast also focuses on telling the news and stories around the ocean industries, the technologies, the environment and the people who work in them.
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Aronnax: July 7th – From the IMO the day history was made
Podcast time: From the IMO the day it set a new strategy for shipping’s decarbonisation
Aronnax: July 3rd
Podcast time: Carly Hicks (Opportunity Green) on developing countries seeking legal teeth in climate battles, Nikos Mikelis on ship recycling policy and the issue with Basel and EU rules now the Hong Kong Convention is coming into force, Prof. Aykut Olcer (WMU) on new seafarer/Transport tech report shining light on key challenges.
Aronnax: June 29th – Ships and their steel: Turning it green
Podcast time: Examining the move to take a lifecycle approach to sustainable steel in shipping.
Aronnax: June 19th
Podcast time: CIMAC. the pulse of the engine makers and Blue Talks. the advancements of carbon capture onboard
Aronnax: June 4th
Podcast time! A maritime college network launched, Winds of change gets shipowner onboard, transparency reporting could be a challenge, and Kongsberg Digital readies for its own change with capital injection
Aronnax: Lessons learned from autonomous ships. Looking for new engine technology in Busan
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Aronnax: Brim Tech, Klaveness’ sustainability, & MAN ES engine bonanza
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Investing in maritime cleantech with Sea/Switch, Value Maritime’s onboard carbon capture and Smart Green Shipping wants to rent out its wind propulsion system
Aronnax: cleantech investing, CCS onboard & how SGS will rent out the wind
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Investing in maritime cleantech with Sea/Switch, Value Maritime’s onboard carbon capture and Smart Green Shipping wants to rent out its wind propulsion system
Aronnax: Baltic Sea Insights 2 (onboard Finnlady)
Podcast time! Carbon capture and storage, the process of catching industrial CO2 emissions and then storing them (sequestering them underground is seen..
Aronnax: Future fuel training, Oceanbirds and avoiding greenwashing with verified claims
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Aronnax: Dirty bottoms and more
Podcast: What does the denial of entry into port for 5 cruise ships mean for shippings image as a biodiversity risk? Is Starlink making a success of its move into shipping? A look at HD Hyundai’s message to the world about its shipping ambitions via the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show and a €9.2m project to integrate wind and solar technologies on ships
Aronnax: Shipping is in the European ETS. What next?
More Aronnax podcast episodes Related News
Aronnax: Finalising an underwater space station
The $200m underwater home for science and the need to keep the logos clean
Aronnax: Veering Windward
Danielle Doggett again
This is the women that is building a wooden cargo ship in the Costa Rican jungle (listen to her first appearance on the Aronnax Podcast here) has just bought a second vessel in Europe and about to put it on trade shipping Colombian coffee to American coffee lovers, and is now doing the rounds to secure financing for a fleet of wind powered (steel) container ships.
Where on the wind does she get the energy?
Aronnax: Slime and emissions
Biofouling is an invasive species risk, and a huge contributor to fuel inefficiencies and GHG emission increases, which means a big hit on a ship’s CII rating. The recent IMO Glofouling R&D Forum helped raise the profile of these risks and helped in the debate about how to perform in water hull cleaning and the need for ports to get their act together..
Aronnax (with ReFlow): Life Cycle Thinking (Episode 6) The future with Christopher Rex
LCA Podcast E6: Craig Eason and Rasmus Elsborg-Jensen look into the future in this sixth and final episode of the Aronnax podcast miniseries that explains how life cycle assessments are a growing aspect of shipping. Here they talk to Christopher Rex at Danish Ship Finance a often vocal proponent of significant structural change in the shipping industry
Aronnax (in conjunction with LR): Torghatten Nord’s hydrogen AiP and the move away from LNG
AiP for compressed hydrogen and a fuel cell system for a vessel set for service on a hefty 100km route out to the exposed North Norway Lofoten Islands, and back again up to three times a day.
Aronnax (with ReFlow): Life Cycle Thinking (Episode 5) Shipbuilding and the ship
Podcast E5: Craig Eason and Rasmus Elsborg-Jensen get input from Dewi Wesselman, a sustainability expert at Damen Shipyards as they look at the complexities of getting a life cycle assessment of a vessel through its life.
Aronnax (with ReFlow): Life Cycle Thinking (Episode 4) marine fuels
Podcast E3: Craig Eason and Rasmus Elsborg-Jensen continue their journey into LCA’s by looking at shipping companies.
Aronnax (with ReFlow): Life Cycle Thinking (Episode 3)
E3: Craig Eason and Rasmus Elsborg-Jensen continue their journey into LCA’s by looing at shipping companies.
They get to hear from Odfjell Tankers in Norway to understand the journey ahead of shipping companies as pressure mounts to have the right data.
Aronnax (with ReFlow): Life Cycle Thinking (Episode 2)
Craig Eason and Rasmus Elsborg-Jensen start their journey into life cycle assessments by talking to a sustainable finance expert to hear how pressure is mounting on companies to give clear emissions data, but to do so they need better information from their suppliers, such as shipping companies.
Aronnax (with ReFlow): Life Cycle Thinking (Episode 1)
Craig Eason and Rasmus Elsborg-Jensen start their journey into life cycle assessments by talking to two companies (one a maker of consumer goods, the other a maritime supply company) that have begun to do what they believe many will soon find they have to do.
Aronnax (with ReFlow): Life Cycle thinking – episode 0
A post MEPC 78 review of progress so far
Aronnax: Details of how shipping is in the European emissions trading scheme
The details of the amendments from the European Parliament on shipping joining the emissions trading scheme, and the methane slip concerns
Aronnax: Understanding the Maersk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping
Bo Cerup Simonsen, head of the Maersk McKinney Moller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping talks to Craig Eason about independence and influence
Aronnax: Technology and the future of shipping with WISTA
How the man with the speed sailing record is winning his title back and created software to help shipping with its transformation
Aronnax: From Mistral to Syroco
How the man with the speed sailing record is winning his title back and created software to help shipping with its transformation
Aronnax: Demonstrating change through collaboration
HeidelbergCement and Felleskøpet (A Norwegian farm co-operative) have joined forces to get a ship built that will meet some of their..
Aronnax: Intelligence hunting
Seven teams of graduates, seven sponosr companies setting challenges, seven
Aronnax: A Northern Explorer and hydrogen fuelled cruising
Northen Xplorer, a company launched by Rolf Sandvik, who brought Vision of the Fjords to reality, plans to build a fleet of hydrogen and battery powered cruise ships.
Aronnax: Overcoming the valley of death: The story of Bound4Blue
In this episode of the Aronnax Podcast Craig Eason caught up with Diane Gilpin one of shipping’s greatest champions for a resurgence of wind-powered solutions as the industry seeks energy efficiencies and decarbonisation.
Aronnax: eMethanol for shipping – the story of Liquid Wind
In this episode of the Aronnax Podcast Craig Eason caught up with Diane Gilpin one of shipping’s greatest champions for a resurgence of wind-powered solutions as the industry seeks energy efficiencies and decarbonisation.
Aronnax: with Diane Gilpin on wind, life and financing
In this episode of the Aronnax Podcast Craig Eason caught up with Diane Gilpin one of shipping’s greatest champions for a resurgence of wind-powered solutions as the industry seeks energy efficiencies and decarbonisation.
Aronnax: Digging into UCL’s latest shipping transition thinking
University College London is playing a key role in finding the big picture strategy for shipping’s decarbonisation. Ahead of COP 26 a new major report has been issued firming up the need for action.
Aronnax: Meet shipping’s high level climate champion
Katharine Palmer has been seconded from Lloyd’s Register to be shipping’s high level climate champion. She talks to Craig Eason about her role in Glasgow and what comes after COP 26 and the next round of IMO meetings
Want your own podcast?
Get yourself heard. Having the ability to deliver a story in today’s multimedia, multi-channel world is important. Not only do individuals with these messages, but companies and organisations, need to build the right feeling, the right voice around this.
As a radio producer and journalist with experience in professional broadcasting, Craig Eason can help you with your message. Not only help with shaping a story, but with honing it and finding the best way for it to be delivered and listened to.
Want your own podcast?
Get yourself heard. Having the ability to deliver a story in today’s multimedia, multi-channel world is important. Not only do individuals with these messages, but companies and organisations, need to build the right feeling, the right voice around this.
As a radio producer and journalist with experience in professional broadcasting, Craig Eason can help you with your message. Not only help with shaping a story, but with honing it and finding the best way for it to be delivered and listened to.
Meet Craig Eason
Craig is owner and editorial director of Fathom World, a niche but highly regarded provider of news and information relating to the changes in the maritime sector. He is one of the leading and mostly highly respected journalists in the global maritime and shipping industries and has achieved exceptional engagement with his breadth and depth of understanding of the people and the industry. His career also spans a formal education as a broadcast journalist and work within the BBC in the UK as a producer and newsreader, hence his continued interest in podcasts- the new radio.
He tends to get carried away with conversations that revolve around science, the sea and rugby.
