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
Agentic AI and Supply Chain Resilience, with e2open’s Pawan Joshi, Northeastern’s Nada Sanders and Andre Simha (ex-MSC)
Disruption is now the baseline for global trade, not the exception. This episode looks at what real resilience takes on the ground, how technology fits in as decision infrastructure, and covers agentic AI, including who's accountable when it gets the call wrong. Mike King speaks with three guests who...
Who’s Really to Blame for Port Congestion? Drewry’s Eleanor Hadland on Capacity, Carriers and the Hormuz Scramble
Maersk CEO Vincent Clerc says ports are to blame for the congestion hitting shippers this year. But ocean carriers now control nearly half the world's marine terminals, so how much of this is really down to a lack of port investment, and how much comes back to the carriers...
Air Cargo Unpacked: EU De Minimis, Cargo Theft, Tariffs, and Brandon Fried on Leaving the Airforwarders Association
Mike King and Neel Jones Shah are joined for the whole episode by Brandon Fried, Executive Director of the Airforwarders Association, who has announced his retirement after two decades leading the organisation. This month: how the AI data centre build-out is reshaping air cargo demand, and the fallout from the...
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Air Cargo Used to Race to $2. Not Anymore.
Who's Accountable When AI Gets the Supply Chain Call Wrong?
The Crash That Changed Air Cargo Security Forever
Why Would Container Lines Ever Fix Port Congestion?
Why Maersk's CEO Was Wrong About Port Investment
A Major Freight Buyer Calls Out Profiteering in Shipping
Shipping Leaders vs The Future: What to Watch for 2027
Carriers Will Never Lose Money Again, According to This Ex-Liner Exec
Low Water, Big Storms: Why This Peak Season Has a Weather Problem
Air Freight Rates: Asia-Europe Slumps, Asia-US Holds Strong | TAC Index
Air Cargo Unpacked: EU De Minimis, Cargo Theft and the Air Waybill Fight, with Brandon Fried
Carrier Reliability, By the Numbers: What Xeneta's Data Shows
Why more freighters would be bad news for air cargo
Inside DHL's Air Fleet Growth — 777 Freighters, Net Zero & What's Next
Container Lines Are Pulling Ships, Missing Targets, and Still Making Money
The AI boom is fuelling air cargo. But will there be a peak season?
The Critical Window: Why Aerion is Moving Now
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The Freight Buyers' Club in the News
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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