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

Latest Episodes

July 23, 2026 • 00:43:08
Rates, tariffs, ZIM and what happens next, with Hapag-Lloyd and US retailers

Rates, tariffs, ZIM and what happens next, with Hapag-Lloyd and US retailers

US container imports are heading for a record month, and then four months of decline. Mike King puts that to both sides of the...

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July 13, 2026 • 00:14:56
Lufthansa Cargo's Carolin Gerstenmaier on Semiconductors, Pharma and Ten Flights Per Chip

Lufthansa Cargo's Carolin Gerstenmaier on Semiconductors, Pharma and Ten Flights Per Chip

Carolin Gerstenmaier, Head of Industry Development at Lufthansa Cargo, joins the Freight Buyers Club at Air Cargo China in Shanghai to talk through the...

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July 06, 2026 • 00:23:14
CargoTech's President on Consolidating Air Cargo's Software | Exclusive

CargoTech's President on Consolidating Air Cargo's Software | Exclusive

Recorded at Air Cargo China in Shanghai, Mike sits down with Cédric Millet, President of CargoTech, for an exclusive look at how one company...

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July 02, 2026 • 00:18:53
Straight From Shanghai: China's Shipping and Air Cargo Read

Straight From Shanghai: China's Shipping and Air Cargo Read

Mike King is in Shanghai for Air Cargo China, and he sat down with Kathy Liu, VP global sales and marketing at Dimerco Express...

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June 29, 2026 • 00:36:24
How Companies Win Trade Wars: Chad Bown, Petersen Institute (Ex-State Dept)

How Companies Win Trade Wars: Chad Bown, Petersen Institute (Ex-State Dept)

Trade wars used to be something economists told you to avoid. Nobody wins one, so you don't fight. That argument is over. In this...

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June 17, 2026 • 00:45:29
Air Cargo Unpacked | Rates Soaring, Volumes Flat and Atlas Air's Big Fleet Bet — with Richard Broekman

Air Cargo Unpacked | Rates Soaring, Volumes Flat and Atlas Air's Big Fleet Bet — with Richard Broekman

Richard Broekman, Chief Commercial Officer and Head of Sustainability at Atlas Air, joins Mike King and Neel Jones Shah for the June episode of...

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