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.
How to Listen to Aronnax
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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 responses. One winner Last week I was judge on a competition
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
Aronnax: Noisy ships and AI translation of whales
How to translate whale speak? The plan to reduce ship noise and a few strange noises from the oceans
Aronnax: Air bubbles and nuclear hydrogen for shipping
IN this episode I look at the proposal that suggests hydrogen and ammonia fuels for shipping could be readily made using
Aronnax: Let’s meet in Glasgow
ZESTAs wants COP 26 to hear that shipping can decarbonise to absolute zero emissions, not just net zero. It has it’s work cut out for itself.
Aronnax:CII/EEXI the devil is in the detail
Carbon capture and storage, the process of catching industrial CO2 emissions and then storing them (sequestering them underground is seen..
Aronnax: CO2 as a growth cargo
Carbon capture and storage, the process of catching industrial CO2 emissions and then storing them (sequestering them underground is seen by the IEA as..
Aronnax: Capturing ship made CO2
Show transcript Kazuki Saiki It’s like a scrubber, a SOx scrubber and you create a shower of the amine solution through
Aronnax: Sailcargo and the Ceiba
In this episode of Aronnax, host Craig Eason talks with Danielle Doggett, CEO of Sailcargo which is building a wooden cargo
Aronnax: Pressure and propulsion
As the world looks to UNFCCC meeting in Glasgow the political pressure is mounting for more action from shipping, and the economic case for using wind propulsion is made
Aronnax: training for autonomy/electronic lookouts on ships
Can training for autonomous shipping make the industry a career choice? Can an electronic lookout function help today’s watcheepers with their onboard challenges?
Aronnax: Shipping’s ammonia engine
Shipping needs companies like MAN ES to give them solutions: such as an engine that can be fuelled by ammonia
Aronnax Show: Ardmore Shipping
Shipowner Ardmore takes commercial leap into methanol reformers. Here’s why
Aronnax: Stena’s electric dream, the ammonia report
In the first episode of 2021 we hear about the TransZero Partnership between the Port of Göteborg, Stena Line, Scania and
Aronnax: The rebirth of seamanship and working with fatigue
This particular podcast episode looks at two stories that have been in the news. One deals with changing definition of seamanship
Aronnax: Talking dirty – stop the greenwashing
While the GHG debate at the IMO Committees gets the headlines, the work behind the scenes at Albert Embankment to help decarbonise shipping speeds up
Aronnax: IMO and the other race to sustainable shipping
While the GHG debate at the IMO Committees gets the headlines, the work behind the scenes at Albert Embankment to help decarbonise shipping speeds up
Aronnax: Allure
Can the new age of decarbonisation, new fuels, and wind powered shipping make the maritime sector more alluring to the millennials?
Aronnax: Under pressure
Ep 2:3. Remote surveys questioned, Angela’s story as a woman at sea and how bullying damages shipping’s image
Aronnax: Shipping, the EU ETS & the IMO GHG study.
The Aronnax show, (season 2, episode 2). Craig Eason talks to ECSA’s secretary general Martin Dorsman to see how ship owners may respond to having to trade carbon credits. He also talks to one of the authors of the 4th GHG study for shipping, Jasper Faber, about how that data is going to make a difference
Aronnax: The ETS, mandatory reductions & the EU carbon border tax?
The Aronnax show, (season 2, episode 1) looks at the development of regional measures to impact shipping’s GHG footprint
Aronnax: Autonomous ships – the startups
Aronnax podcast, (season 1, episode 14) looking at the innovation and startup markets for autonomous vessel systems
Aronnax: Autonomous ships – the human in the machine
This is the second of our short series of Aronnax episodes looking at the evolution of autonomous ships and surface vessels
Aronnax: I see no autonomous ships!
There’s a lot of talk about autonomous and unmanned planes, trains, cars and rockets, and in the marine sphere a lot
Aronnax: LNG to H2 transition pt2
Knut Ørbeck Nilssen, head of DNV GL Maritime and Madadh MacLaine, secretary general of the Zero Emission Ship Technology Association talk
Aronnax: A Hydrogen journey
The EU announced its funding to get the bloc out of the Covid-19 induced recession, and it includes speeding the hydrogen
Aronnax: Is finance getting interested in maritime decarbonisation
A report was issued this year estimating the investment needed to decarbonise shipping at about $1.2tr between 2030 and 2050. The
Aronnax: How to nudge a seafarer
Behavioural economics, the understanding of what makes people tick, and getting them to make the right decisions, is not exactly new,
Aronnax: Wind Part 3 – It’s not as easy as you think
While a return to the days of sailing vessels taking cargo around the world sounds romantic, it is also unrealistic. The
Aronnax: A new role for the IMO?
The global effort to significantly lower the amount of man-made carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases has seen a lot of
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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.
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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.
