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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October 23, 2026 • 00:05:47
Suez Traffic Is Back, So Why Are War Risk Premiums Still High? With David McKie, Preston Turnbull

Suez Traffic Is Back, So Why Are War Risk Premiums Still High? With David McKie, Preston Turnbull

More container ships are heading back through the Red Sea and the Suez Canal, but does that mean the waters are any safer? Not...

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October 20, 2026 • 00:37:03
Air Cargo Unpacked: Peak Season, Wartime Costs

Air Cargo Unpacked: Peak Season, Wartime Costs

Peak season has arrived with wartime costs attached. In this month’s Air Cargo Unpacked, Mike King and Neel Jones Shah ask whether there is...

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October 15, 2026 • 00:58:17
Is Global Trade Fragmenting for Good? Customs, Tariffs and the New Rules of Importing: What Freight Buyers Need To Know

Is Global Trade Fragmenting for Good? Customs, Tariffs and the New Rules of Importing: What Freight Buyers Need To Know

A year ago, we asked whether global trade was entering an era of chaos. A year on, it looks less like chaos and more...

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October 13, 2026 • 00:59:17
Advantage Carrier: John McCown, Nick Bailey and Jimmy Suroto on $6bn Carrier Profits, 49.9% Reliability and a 2027 Overcapacity Warning

Advantage Carrier: John McCown, Nick Bailey and Jimmy Suroto on $6bn Carrier Profits, 49.9% Reliability and a 2027 Overcapacity Warning

Container shipping has become "advantage carrier", according to John McCown of The McCown Report. US demand on the transpacific has been flat for a...

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October 08, 2026 • 00:05:24
Brandon Fried: 45 Years in Air Cargo, the Pan Am 103 Legacy, and Retiring as 'VP of Lunch'

Brandon Fried: 45 Years in Air Cargo, the Pan Am 103 Legacy, and Retiring as 'VP of Lunch'

In this extended interview from Air Cargo Unpacked, retiring Airforwarders Association Executive Director Brandon Fried looks back on a career that started almost by...

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October 06, 2026 • 00:15:24
Intra-Asia Container Trades, Port Congestion and Rising Rates, with Elaine Low, Area Managing Director, Southeast Asia, Maersk

Intra-Asia Container Trades, Port Congestion and Rising Rates, with Elaine Low, Area Managing Director, Southeast Asia, Maersk

Mike King travels to Maersk's Southeast Asia head office in Singapore to talk with Elaine Low, Area Managing Director for Southeast Asia at A.P....

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