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’s Nash Endgame: The Equilibrium That Won’t Last
The first episode of FBC Opinion, a new series from The Freight Buyers' Club. One expert, one argument, straight to camera, no host. In 2019, Akhil Nair wrote that container shipping would consolidate from 22 carriers to 12 within four years. Not through mergers. Through game theory. Seven years...
Where Container Shipping Is Heading Next, With Nigel Pusey, CTS
Forget Trump's tariffs. The biggest story in container shipping isn't what's happening at America's ports. It's what's happening everywhere else. In the first quarter of 2026, the global container market grew 4.4% despite the Strait of Hormuz being shut, fresh war in the Middle East, and Cape of Good Hope...
Platforms, Ecosystems or Agents: Who Wins in Freight Tech?
In this clip from The Freight Buyers' Club, three of the sharpest minds in logistics technology give three very different answers to the same question: in three years, which type of company wins? Zubin Appoo, CEO of WiseTech Global, says integrated platforms with AI at the core displace everything else....
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Suez Won't Reopen This Year. Here's Why Nobody's Panicking.
How the Asia-Europe Trade Gap Nearly Doubled in 3 Years
"No Peak Season This Year" Says Container Data Chief
WiseTech CEO: Nobody Should Care How AI Works
Airlines Never Announce Bad News. Here Is What They Do Instead | Air Cargo Unpacked
Forget Trump's Tariffs: The Trades That Will Define Container Shipping Next
Air Freight Is Booming. But Inflation Is the Dark Cloud | Air Cargo Unpacked
The Amazon Threat to Air Cargo: What the Industry Is Not Saying | Air Cargo Unpacked
If the Strait of Hormuz Stays Closed, Air Cargo Goes Here Instead | Air Cargo Unpacked
Air Freight in Asia: Demand Holds, Fuel Bites and What Happens Next | Air Cargo Unpacked
WiseTech CEO: How AI Manages Sanctions, Tariffs and Trade Disruption in Real Time
Is Amazon Replacing the 3PL? Air Cargo Unpacked May 2026 Highlights
Cargo Theft, Double-Brokering and Chameleon Carriers: Nancy O'Liddy on the Fraud Hitting US Freight
80% Tariff on a Tin Can. Karen Kenney Explains How US Tariff Stacking Actually Works
The Fraud Crisis Inside the US Tariff System | Karen Kenney & Nancy O'Liddy
Freight tech experts debate the next three years
$1,000 to $91 Million Back in Refunds. But a Third of Claims Have Errors
More Is Coming. Karen Kenney on Why US Tariffs Are About To Get Even More Complicated
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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