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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Maritime technology becomes an operating decision, tested against regulation, cost, safety and the practical limits of ships and shipyards.
Setting Course, an ABS Podcast puts Brad Cox in conversation with shipowners, engineers, technology developers and regulatory specialists, then keeps the discussion tied to decisions that can move a maritime project forward.
From methanol penalties to shipyard humanoids, your curiosity gets a hard hat.
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A practical look at FPSO scale, offshore risk, and lower-carbon startup work.
Recorded at OTC in Houston, the piece frames FPSOs as a key part of offshore production's future. Jean-Charles Rinaldi says SBM Offshore expects about 650,000 barrels a day of additional production to its fleet in 2025, and the discussion keeps circling back to the scale of…
Hydrogen is treated as logistics, approval, and scale, not a slogan.
Setting Course treats hydrogen as a practical maritime problem rather than an abstract energy promise. Martin Karolin of Proveris Energy, ABS Director of Global Sustainability Sturgios Dimopoulos, and ABS Senior Sustainability Engineer and Global Hydrogen Lead Ibrahim Muratala…
Machine learning is presented as a path to making 3D-printed parts easier to trust.
Setting Course treats additive manufacturing as a trust problem, and this episode keeps its attention on the machinery around that question: data analysis, machine learning, validation, certification, and the effort to make 3D-printed components easier to accept in marine and…
A maritime look at 3D-printed spares, certification, and the work of getting parts where they are needed.
Brad Cox treats additive manufacturing as a maritime logistics problem, not a novelty. The core point is simple: if a shipyard or vessel cannot get a replacement part, the disruption lands immediately. Daniel Tan of Pelagos 3D and Dr.
A grounded look at methanol where supply, policy, and fleet adoption all have to line up.
This episode treats methanol as a shipping problem that has to work end to end: supply, policy, and fleet adoption all have to line up for the fuel to matter.
A grounded look at autonomous surface vessels moving from concept to classed reality.
Setting Course presents autonomous surface vehicles as a working maritime capability, not a distant idea, with ABS classification as the clearest anchor.
A practical look at floating wind's path from deeper water to commercial viability.
Floating offshore wind is treated here as an infrastructure problem before it is anything else. The pressure points are familiar: deeper water, fewer easy sites, harder deployment, and a commercial case that has to hold up before anyone talks about scale.
A grounded look at how efficiency tech moves from compliance talk to shipboard decisions.
Setting Course frames maritime decarbonization as a practical operating issue rather than a slogan, and air lubrication is the clearest example of efficiency technology under the current regulatory climate.
Manufacturing signals, translated into business consequences.
Machine shops, ownership, and industrial purpose.
Setting Course episode exploring hydrogen's role in maritime energy transition.
Setting Course, an ABS Podcast records at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, where host Brad Cox speaks with Professor Siva Rathnam and ABS Senior Technology Engineer Denny Raymond about maritime autonomous navigation.
Brad Cox opens by framing methanol as both a marine fuel and a supply question.
Setting Course, an ABS podcast, focuses on energy efficiency technologies and Silverstream’s air lubrication system, with Brad Cox, Oliver Woodard, and Jessi Wilson explaining why shipping is looking beyond fuel choice alone.
FLNG has moved past the pure "can this work?" stage.
Setting Course, an ABS Podcast previews MEPC 83 with Sana Henriksen of AP Moller Maersk, Filippos Filiš of Limus Solar Group, and Stamatis Ferdelis of ABS.
Brad Cox hosts ABS vice president of technology Dr.
Setting Course, an ABS Podcast, focuses on The Power of Electrification in Shipping with ABB, with Brad Cox hosting Ali Tunainan of ABB Marine and Ports and Yontao Chen of ABS in Singapore.
Brad Cox shifts the conversation from fuels to ship structure.
Brad Cox opens with the basic problem.
Host Brad Cox interviews Jean-Charles Rinaldi of SBM Offshore and Miguel Hernandez of ABS at the Offshore Technology Conference, discussing trends in FPSOs, digitalization, and sustainability.
Brad Cox opens on unmanned surface vehicles and the work they are already doing.
Brad Cox records from the ION in downtown Houston at Persona AI’s headquarters with Nick Radford and Patrick Ryan.
Setting Course turns additive manufacturing into a trust question, asking how data analysis and machine learning might help make 3D-printed components more acceptable in marine and offshore work.
This episode explores how technology, specifically the ice detection system Ice Sight, is improving ship navigation in Arctic waters.
A podcast discussing the rapid changes in the maritime industry, including alternative fuels, new technologies, and regulatory impacts.
Host Brad Cox discusses the first U.S.
A panel discussion on the Fuel EU regulation and its impact on the maritime industry's decarbonization efforts.
An interview discussing the current state and future of autonomous technology in the maritime industry.