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
A Container Tidal Wave? With Mark Chadwick, Global Shippers Association
In this episode of The Freight Buyers Club, Mike King is joined by Mark Chadwick, President of the Global Shippers Association, representing some of the world’s largest cargo owners. With the highest US and China tariffs now temporarily paused, shippers are rushing to move backlogged cargo — creating a...
90 Days China-US Window: Can LA/Long Beach Handle the Surge?
In this episode of The Freight Buyers' Club, host Mike King speaks with Dr. Noel Hacegaba, Chief Operating Officer at the Port of Long Beach, about a potential game-changer in global trade: a 90-day pause in US-China tariffs. With blank sailings still biting and cargo volumes recently in freefall, Dr....
Early Container Shipping Peak Season? Freightos CEO on the US-China Tariff Truce
In this episode of The Freight Buyers Club, Mike King speaks with Zvi Schreiber, CEO of Freightos, about the sudden and dramatic tariff truce between the U.S. and China. With duties dropping for 90 days, Zvi breaks down the implications for container shipping, forecasting a potential early peak season...
Latest Videos
A Container Tidal Wave? With Mark Chadwick, Global Shippers Association
90 Days China-US Window: Can LA/Long Beach Handle the Surge?
Early Container Shipping Peak Season? Freightos CEO on the US-China Tariff Truce
US-China Tariff Truce: What Happens Next? | The Freight Buyers' Club Podcast
How to Make American Shipping Great Again |World Shipping Council CEO Joe Kramek
US Container Volumes Drop, but Bullwhip Effect a Risk – Joe Kramek, World Shipping Council President
#EP41 EXCLUSIVE: World Shipping Council CEO on Trade War, Port Fees & the Container Shipping Futures
Can America Rebuild Its Maritime Power? What It Means for Freight Buyers | McCown & Mercogliano
Real Businesses. Real Pain. Tariffs & Customs Chaos Are Crippling U.S. SMEs.
Tariffs hit US business: Cindy Allen, ex-CBP
Rob Jervis, Transaid: https://www.justgiving.com/page/robert-jervis-4
Xeneta’s Peter Sand: Blank Sailings Surge, Transpacific Contract Update & Shipper Panic
#40 The Great American Shipping Reset: Tariffs, Port Fees & Policy Fallout
Trade Disruptions: Best & Worst Case Scenarios | Gold & Fried
Tariffs On, Tariffs Off? Jon Gold (NRF) Explains Retail Supply Chain Chaos | Freight Buyers’ Club
#39 The White House Kid: Tariff On, Tariff Off
New IMO GHG Emissions Deal = Higher Shipping Costs? | Freight Buyers’ Club Explainer
FBC at the IMO – new emissions rules
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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
A Container Tidal Wave? With Mark Chadwick, Global Shippers Association