The Freight Buyers' Club

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 ...more

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March 04, 2026 00:06:06
Exclusive: Hapag-Lloyd CEO Rolf Habben Jansen on Iran, Suez & Zim

Exclusive: Hapag-Lloyd CEO Rolf Habben Jansen on Iran, Suez & Zim

In this exclusive interview at TPM26 in Long Beach, Mike King is talking to Rolf Habben Jansen, CEO of Hapag-Lloyd, to discuss three of...

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March 03, 2026 00:14:26
The Rules Just Changed: Tariffs, Iran & What Freight Buyers Do Next | Paul Bingham, S&P Global

The Rules Just Changed: Tariffs, Iran & What Freight Buyers Do Next | Paul Bingham, S&P Global

The US and Israel have struck Iran. The Supreme Court has struck down the IEEPA tariffs. And every freight buyer is asking the same...

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February 23, 2026 00:25:01
Carrier Consolidation, AI & Freight Fraud: Gebrüder Weiss North America CEO Mark McCullough

Carrier Consolidation, AI & Freight Fraud: Gebrüder Weiss North America CEO Mark McCullough

Freight buying strategy is being tested like never before. Tariff whiplash, carrier consolidation, AI adoption and nobody quite knows what comes next. Mark McCullough,...

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February 18, 2026 00:16:56
Hapag-Lloyd Buys ZIM Explained: Why Freight Buyers Should Care

Hapag-Lloyd Buys ZIM Explained: Why Freight Buyers Should Care

Hapag-Lloyd has agreed to acquire ZIM for $4.2 billion, creating a combined fleet of 400+ vessels. In this mini Freight Buyers' Club, Nils Roche...

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February 16, 2026 00:28:13
Air Cargo Unpacked | MD-11 Retirement, Capacity Crunch, E-Commerce & TAC Rates

Air Cargo Unpacked | MD-11 Retirement, Capacity Crunch, E-Commerce & TAC Rates

The freighter capacity crunch is real. In this episode of Air Cargo Unpacked, Mike King and Neel Jones Shah break down UPS retiring its...

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February 11, 2026 00:19:33
EXCLUSIVE: FMC Chair Laura DiBella on Trump's Maritime Dominance & Global Enforcement Powers

EXCLUSIVE: FMC Chair Laura DiBella on Trump's Maritime Dominance & Global Enforcement Powers

In this exclusive interview, Laura DiBella, the newly confirmed Chair of the Federal Maritime Commission, outlines the agency's aggressive new approach to protecting U.S....

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