This podcast is a new home for anyone with a professional interest in international trade, shipping, procurement, logistics and air cargo. Each episode your host, award-winning journalist Mike King, will be speaking to leading decision-makers, analysts, journalists, operators and shippers to get their take on current freight and logistics markets and the challenges and opportunities ahead.
Latest Episodes
Container shipping: Navigating turbulence in 2024
The current global container shipping landscape, viewed through the lens of freight buyers, rivals the complexity seen during the Covid era. Threats of new US tariffs, shipping and geopolitical risks spanning the Middle East and beyond, and substantial shifts in the liner shipping alliance system are casting significant shadows. In...
Navigating the Future of Global Trade and Supply Chains
In this episode of The Freight Buyers’ Club, host Mike King delves into the current state of global trade amidst geopolitical tensions and disruptions with renowned economist, historian, and journalist, Marc Levinson. They explore the long-term implications for importers, exporters, carriers, and the entire transport ecosystem. From the impact of...
Freight markets, politics, the threat of tariffs and the future of global trade – with Brandon Fried & Jon Monroe
Uncertainty and risk haunt supply chains right now, just as they shadow global politics and economics. Indeed, the future of trade and the musical chairs of international relations have possibly not been tethered so tightly since at least the Cold War, and perhaps even the Second World War. From Guyana...
Latest Videos
#19 Container shipping: Navigating turbulence in 2024
Why the attack on MSC Aries is unlikely to have a major impact on shipping risk in the Persian Gulf
Why an end to the Red Sea crisis will see container shipping freight rates and liner profits plummet
The future of technology and whether the largest container ships and freighters are fit for purpose.
Navigating the Future of Global Trade and Supply Chains
Why the rise of protectionism means SMEs need reliable transport partners Host Mike King in
Why trade growth is slowing. Host Mike King in discussion with author and historian Marc Levinson
Why traded goods are getting smaller and what this means for logistics
Why US elections and threat of new import tariffs are already influencing 2024 shipping strategies
March 2024 air freight outlook and geopolitical disruption – Brandon Fried, AfA Executive Director
Why many BCOs are shipping early in 2024 – Jon Monroe, President, Jon Monroe Consulting
#17 Freight markets, politics, the threat of tariffs and the future of global trade
Why the trans-Pacific contracting season will decide freight volumes switched to US West Coast ports
West Coast truckers are ready to handle a cargo bonanza in 2024 – CEO, Harbor Trucking Association
US West Coast ports hope for a cargo bonanza in 2024 – but are they prepared?
US West Coast truckers ready for box import surge (but less keen on buying non-diesel trucks)
Is the Port of Long Beach ready to receive a new wave of container imports?
The 2024 trade and economic growth outlook as geopolitical headwinds intensify
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Container shipping now ‘maxed out’, claims leading shipping analyst | The Loadstar
Why the US ‘freight recession’ impact is heavier fortrans-Pacific container trade than trans-Atlantic | Riviera Maritime Media
Flexport rolling out last-mile e-commerce offering globallyafter Shopify deal | American Journal of Transportation
Plot a (positive) course for air freight rates…if you dare | The Loadstar
Air cargo operators still feel ‘hangover from the 2021 party’ | FreightWaves
‘Whipsaw effect’ on demand and investment will result in consolidation and bankruptcies across freight markets | American Journal of Transportation
India, Vietnam has potential for sourcing: The Freight Buyers’ Club | Stat Times
Container shipping turning the corner in time for peak season, says Rolf Habben Jansen | TradeWinds
Container shipping: Navigating turbulence in 2024