The Freight Buyers' Club

By Mike King

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The Freight Buyers’ Club podcast is a new home for anyone with a professional interest in international trade, container 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. You can subscribe to receive each episode direct to your inbox at: thefreightbuyersclub.com

Episode Date
Explainer: Understanding De Minimis Reform and Its Impact on Air Cargo (Video)
Jun 25, 2025
From War Zones to Warehouses: DHL’s CEO Talks Strategy in the Gulf
Jun 20, 2025
Exclusive: DHL Express CEO John Pearson
Jun 17, 2025
JAS Worldwide: Freight Strategies for Uncertain Times
Jun 12, 2025
Rates, Robots & Rising Risk: Post-Munich Freight Outlook (video)
Jun 10, 2025
Lars Karlsson (Maersk, ex-WCO) on Trade Risk, Tariffs & Customs Strategy
Jun 06, 2025
Too Many Ships? Jan Tiedemann (Alphaliner) on Container Fleet Growth & Market Impact
Jun 05, 2025
Exclusive: IAG Cargo CEO David Shepherd on new 'Joint Business' with Qatar & MASkargo
Jun 03, 2025
Why Great Freight Forwarders Thrive in Chaos | Oliver Gritz, CEO of Ontegos Cloud
May 28, 2025
Dimerco CEO Jeffrey Shih: A Freight Leader’s Take on China+1, Tariffs & Global Diversification
May 22, 2025
Shipping in a Tariff Truce: A Shipper’s Guide to Container Strategy (Video Explainer)
May 19, 2025
A Container Tidal Wave? With Mark Chadwick, Global Shippers Association
May 15, 2025
90 Days China-US Window: Can LA/Long Beach Handle the Surge?
May 14, 2025
Early Container Shipping Peak Season? Freightos CEO on the US-China Tariff Truce
May 13, 2025
US-China Tariff Truce: What Happens Next? With ex-Cargill VP John McCauley
May 12, 2025
EXCLUSIVE: World Shipping Council CEO on Trade War, Port Fees & the Future of Container Shipping
Apr 30, 2025
Can America Rebuild Its Maritime Power? McCown & Mercogliano
Apr 29, 2025
The Great American Shipping Reset: Tariffs, Port Fees & Policy Fallout
Apr 24, 2025
The White House Kid: Tariff On, Tariff Off
Apr 17, 2025
Robots, resilience and rerouting freight: DHL China's CEO on 2025
Apr 09, 2025
Tariff Day is coming: Breaking down the new trade war
Mar 31, 2025
'Tariff Day’ April 2, CBP insights, de minimis timelines, and Robert van de Weg’s new CEO role
Mar 26, 2025
SMEs in the freight squeeze: Insider survival tactics from 30-year ocean veteran Stephanie Loomis
Mar 20, 2025
EXPLAINED: U.S. tariffs escalating tensions with China, Canada, and Mexico - Paul Bingham
Mar 05, 2025
BREAKING: MSC, BlackRock, Hutchison, and Container Shipping Trade Wars with Lars Jensen
Mar 05, 2025
Port of Long Beach exclusive: Can West Coast ports keep winning?
Mar 04, 2025
Exclusive: Hapag-Lloyd CEO Rolf Habben Jansen
Mar 03, 2025
Trade wars & Trump's new rules: A container shipping legend's survival guide
Feb 20, 2025
5 FMC moves to watch in 2025, with 'The Maritime Professor'
Feb 17, 2025
TPM25 preview: Tariffs, reshoring, and the art of contract negotiations
Feb 12, 2025
Scan Global’s Mads Drejer talks ‘permacrisis’, trade wars and supply chain resilience
Feb 10, 2025
Trump’s tariffs, what Flexport got wrong, and the air cargo shake-up ahead, with Neel Jones Shah
Feb 04, 2025
Drewry’s Philip Damas on 2025 Ocean Freight & Market Trends
Jan 29, 2025
What shippers want (and how they get it) with TTI's Mctaggart and Drewry's Damas
Jan 22, 2025
Freight playbook 2025: Robbert van Trooijen talks leadership and strategy
Jan 08, 2025
Is a US port strike in January good for container lines? Lars Jensen & Peter Tirschwell
Jan 07, 2025
Lars Jensen and Peter Tirschwell unpack trade wars, labour strikes, and container shipping challenges
Dec 11, 2024
Trump 2.0, DHL tragedy, and freight markets: Geopolitical risks and outlook for 2025
Nov 27, 2024
Explained: How Trump and Harris view tariffs
Oct 31, 2024
Trump v Harris: Why it matters for global trade and logistics
Oct 17, 2024
Why is air cargo so 'slow'?
Oct 07, 2024
Strikes ahead: Preparing your supply chain for U.S. port shutdowns
Sep 25, 2024
Air-mageddon? What freight buyers need to know ahead of peak season
Sep 16, 2024
What US shippers can expect from the Gemini Cooperation between Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd
Sep 13, 2024
Explained: The downturn in the global sports apparel trade
Sep 12, 2024
U.S. Election: Trump, Harris, and the Importance of U.S. Tariffs
Sep 11, 2024
Hapag-Lloyd’s Gemini Ambitions, North American Union Threats, and the Future of Sports Supply Chains
Sep 04, 2024
Lars Jensen: What the 2025 liner alliance restructure means for shippers
Aug 22, 2024
Why strike action by ILA dockworkers at US East and Gulf Coast ports will have global ramifications
Aug 15, 2024
Lars Jensen: Geopolitics, Looming Port Strikes and the Future of Container Shipping
Aug 07, 2024
Are US legislators targeting the Shanghai Shipping Exchange? FMC Chairman Daniel Maffei
Jul 23, 2024
New FMC Detention & Demurrage Rules Explained: Are Dispute Mechanisms Open to SMEs?
Jul 15, 2024
What would an escalation of the US-China trade war mean for the US economy. Is decoupling feasible?
Jul 09, 2024
Tariffs, Trade Wars and Freight Market Volatility
Jun 25, 2024
Supply Chain Shake-Ups and Exclusive Insights from FMC Chairman Daniel Maffei
Jun 11, 2024
Maersk/Hapag-Lloyd's Gemini Cooperation; implications for alliance system and service reliability
May 29, 2024
Trans-Pacific Trends and Challenges: Insights from Freight Industry Experts
May 14, 2024
Container shipping: Navigating turbulence in 2024
Apr 25, 2024
Navigating the Future of Global Trade and Supply Chains
Apr 09, 2024
Freight markets, politics, the threat of tariffs and the future of global trade – with Brandon Fried & Jon Monroe
Mar 20, 2024
US West Coast ports hope for a cargo bonanza in 2024 – but are they prepared?
Mar 01, 2024
US West Coast truckers ready for box import surge (but less keen on buying non-diesel trucks)
Feb 27, 2024
Is the Port of Long Beach ready to receive a new wave of container imports?
Feb 22, 2024
The 2024 trade and economic growth outlook as geopolitical headwinds intensify
Feb 06, 2024
A shipper’s view: Maersk/Hapag, the Red Sea crisis, CNY and freight rate strategy
Jan 23, 2024
Why the threat of strikes at US east coast ports is pushing retailer cargo back to the west coast
Jan 17, 2024
IATA: Geopolitical turmoil and air cargo markets in 2024
Jan 15, 2024
As a perfect storm hits global trade, will shippers be the biggest losers of 2024?
Jan 12, 2024
Suez, Panama, geopolitics and union disputes: A shipper’s guide to risk in 2024
Jan 08, 2024
The Suez Canal container shipping crisis – shipper options, expected rollovers and revised transit times
Jan 03, 2024
A year in review, 2024 forecasts and ocean freight tendering advice
Dec 13, 2023
What next for container shipping - former Evergreen and Yang Ming chairman exclusive
Nov 29, 2023
Wherefore art thou (air cargo) peak season?
Oct 10, 2023
Explained: AI and the future of supply chains
Oct 05, 2023
Global freight market outlook, US inventories, and why India’s share of global manufacturing and exports is on the rise
Sep 25, 2023
Geopolitical and economic headwinds batter freight markets; 'ally-shoring' and the allure of Mexico
Jul 19, 2023
Retailer inventory levels, container line peak season strategy and a tentative end to USWC docker impasse
Jun 28, 2023
Why a US recession might not kill peak season; how the FMC's new powers could reshape container shipping
May 31, 2023
The Big Air Cargo Debate; west coast docker negotiations; Flexport/Shopify analysis
May 10, 2023
US 'freight recession'; trans-Pac vs trans-Atlantic demand; pros and cons of non-China options.
Apr 10, 2023
Exclusive: [Part 2] Container shipping titan Bronson Hsieh, former chairman of both Evergreen Shipping and Yang Ming Shipping
Mar 15, 2023
Exclusive: Container shipping titan Bronson Hsieh, former chairman of both Evergreen Shipping and Yang Ming Shipping (part 1)
Mar 06, 2023
"Listen to Bjorn." Freight buying tips and where next for box shipping with Bjorn Vang Jensen
Feb 14, 2023
The Big Debate with WSJ's Paul Page and the National Retail Federation's Jon Gold
Feb 08, 2023
Trailer: Welcome to The Freight Buyers' Club
Jan 27, 2023