Full Ahead : the podcast about ships and shipping

We're back in the UK after our trip to the Ferry Shipping Summit in Sweden, where we recorded five special episodes of Full Ahead.This time, we're looking at two very different UK ports — Portsmouth I...

17 Dec 202524min

At this year’s Ferry Shipping Summit in Malmo the theme was ‘Cutting-Edge Ferries Future Ready Ports' and in this final, bumper episode recorded in Sweden we look to the future.One of the recurring th...

21 Nov 202556min

This year’s Ferry Shipping Summit in Malmo brought together a diverse range of ferry and port operators from across Europe.Eight executives responsible for some of the biggest ferry companies around g...

20 Nov 202523min

Although the Ferry Shipping Summit took place in Malmo we were delighted to be able to see another Swedish port at work.Ystad is the country's southernmost port with links to the Danish island of Born...

19 Nov 202537min

In the second of our series recorded in Sweden Alistair Eagles and Nigel Thompson look at an issue that affects the whole shipping industry - recruitment.It’s still the case that the image of the indu...

18 Nov 202518min

Welcome to the first in a series of podcasts recorded at the Ferry Shipping Summit 2025 in Malmo, Sweden.The event brought together several big hitters from the world of ships and shipping and your ho...

17 Nov 202534min

Can you really arrest a ship? And what happens if the ship simply sails away?The maritime world is full of surprising stories — and this month, Full Ahead explores one of the most unexpected: maritime...

6 Nov 202534min

A brand-new ferry arrives in Lancashire — while a captain who went to sea as a teenager looks back on an extraordinary career spanning half a century.It's a busy edition of Full Ahead, beginning on a ...

18 Sep 202542min