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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February 17, 2025 • 00:28:35
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5 FMC moves to watch in 2025, with 'The Maritime Professor'

  In this standalone interview from EP34 of the The Freight Buyers' Club (https://www.thefreightbuyersclub.com/), produced with the support of Dimerco Express Group, host Mike King...

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February 12, 2025 • 01:15:20
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TPM25 preview: Tariffs, reshoring, and the art of contract negotiations

In episode 34 of The Freight Buyers' Club (https://www.thefreightbuyersclub.com/), produced with the support of Dimerco Express Group (https://dimerco.com/), we dive into the critical factors...

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February 10, 2025 • 00:46:27
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Scan Global’s Mads Drejer talks ‘permacrisis’, trade wars and supply chain resilience

In this illuminating episode of The Freight Buyers Club Insight series, produced with the support of Ontegos Cloud (https://www.ontegos.cloud/), host Mike King sits down...

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February 04, 2025 • 00:38:15
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Trump’s tariffs, what Flexport got wrong, and the air cargo shake-up ahead, with Neel Jones Shah

In this episode of The Freight Buyers’ Club Insight series (https://www.thefreightbuyersclub.com), host Mike King sits down with Neel Jones Shah—former senior executive at Flexport,...

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January 29, 2025 • 00:24:04
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Drewry’s Philip Damas on 2025 Ocean Freight & Market Trends

Philip Damas, Managing Director at Drewry Shipping Consultants and head of Drewry Supply Chain Advisors, delivers an in-depth analysis of container shipping markets, current...

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January 22, 2025 • 01:16:30
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What shippers want (and how they get it) with TTI's Mctaggart and Drewry's Damas

In episode 31 of The Freight Buyers' Club, produced with the support of Dimerco Express Group, we explore the strategies and insights shippers need...

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