TradeWinds Wavelength - a weekly shipping news show
Jul 31, 2026 · 24 min · 9 segments
In this week’s episode: Adnoc Logistics & Services has been buying VLCCs as it seeks to control its supply chain out of the Middle East Gulf. **Read more:**…
Luke WickendenGuest
Craig EasonHost
Matt Coyne
Yannick Wary
Hello and welcome to this week's Wavelength podcast from your favourite maritime and shipping news outlet, Tradewinds.
I'm Craig Eason and in this week's episode I talk to our tanker correspondent and expert Matt Coyne about the reports that the shipping and logistics arm of the Emirati oil giant Adnog has been buying up very large crude carriers to help it get its crude out of the Gulf.
So why, how much and what else are they after? But first, I invited Luke Wickenden.
He's from the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air into our virtual studio to assess how Europe's approach to stopping and detaining flag-hopping sanctioned tankers is going.
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Hello and welcome to this week's Wavelength podcast from your favourite maritime and shipping news outlet, Tradewinds.
I'm Craig Eason and in this week's episode I talk to our tanker correspondent and expert Matt Coyne about the reports that the shipping and logistics arm of the Emirati oil giant Adnog has been buying up very large crude carriers to help it get its crude out of the Gulf.
So why, how much and what else are they after? But first, I invited Luke Wickenden.
He's from the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air into our virtual studio to assess how Europe's approach to stopping and detaining flag-hopping sanctioned tankers is going.