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
TIACA’s Glyn Hughes: Why Air Cargo Is Winning the Volatility Game
TIACA Director General Glyn Hughes joins Mike King in Miami on the sidelines of transport logistic Americas for an after-hours beer and a straight-talking look at the state of global air cargo. Fresh from TIACA’s first Air Cargo Forum in Abu Dhabi, Hughes breaks down why the sector keeps...
How to Negotiate 2026 Transpacific Freight Contracts
Freight buyers are entering 2026 with a rare advantage — a genuine buyer’s market. In this clip from Container Shipping 2026: Strategies Every Freight Buyer Needs Now, host Mike King speaks with Mark Chadwick (President, Global Shippers’ Association) and Chantal McRoberts (Director, Drewry Supply Chain Advisors) about how shippers...
The Good, The Bad, and the ANC: South Africa’s Logistics on the Brink
South Africa’s logistics system is fighting for its life — corruption, collapse, and political paralysis have left ports and railways in chaos. But could a real turnaround finally be underway? Host Mike King has just returned from a fact-finding tour of South Africa to uncover the good, the bad, and...
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Latest Videos
Air Cargo vs Global Chaos: TIACA's Glyn Hughes on What’s Really Driving Growth
How To Negotiate 2026 Container Shipping Contracts
The Good, The Bad, and the ANC: South Africa’s Logistics on the Brink
IF THE SUEZ CANAL FULLY REOPENS, RATES COULD COLLAPSE
Quick Fire Ocean Freight Forecast 2026
US Trade Lanes are STAGNATING: What's Happening to Global Freight
Container Shipping Surcharges Make No Sense
Container Shipping 2026: Strategies Every Freight Buyer Needs Now
Global Trade is BOOMING! What's Driving the Surge?
Tech, Trade, and the Future of European Supply Chains: DHL’s Rainer Haag
AI Meets Logistics: Inside DHL’s New European Innovation Center (EPIC)
Beyond the Transpacific: Exporters Discover New Markets in Africa & Europe, with Lars Jensen
Explained: US Port Fees, Carrier Strategy & Why Ship Orders Won’t Shift From China with Lars Jensen
How DP World Is Cutting Supply Chain Emissions
🚢 2026 Container Shipping Forecast with Lars Jensen – what shippers need to know
Container Shipping Rates: No Early Peak Season Before Chinese New Year 2025?”
Robotics, AI & the Future of Logistics | Exclusive with DHL’s Katja Busch at the New EPIC Hub
Lars Jensen on US Port Fees, IMO Rules & 2026 Container Shipping Outlook #54
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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