AS LONDON International Shipping Week begins with a frantic start, Lloyd’s List editor-in-chief Richard Meade and senior reporter Joshua Minchin bring you their highlights from the first two days of the event.

Richard assesses London’s role in the shipping industry as the week kicks off, and asks what the UK needs to do to stay relevant in an industry that has moved away from it as the centre of gravity it was for centuries.

Joshua reflects on a fascinating session on data sharing with a star-studded panel held on Tuesday and comes to the conclusion that actually shipping might not want to share its toys. Can regulators find a big enough stick to make them?

And then there were the nukes. Long-heralded as the potential silver bullet, and dismissed as too expensive and too dangerous, Richard explains why he is optimistic about nuclear power in shipping, but not in the manner you may expect.

Stay tuned for our daily roundup every day of London International Shipping week — but don’t forget you can listen to every episode ever of the Lloyd’s List podcast on Soundcloud, Spotify, or wherever you source your podcasts, as well as the Lloyd’s List app via Apple App Store or Google Play Store.