2021 Winners and Losers and the challenges ahead

December 16, 2021 01:05:06
2021 Winners and Losers and the challenges ahead
The Loadstar
2021 Winners and Losers and the challenges ahead

Dec 16 2021 | 01:05:06

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Show Notes

Credits: Created, Produced and Hosted by Mike King

Our end-of-year special examines the biggest stories of 2021 and the narratives that have found traction in media far beyond the confines of logistics and shipping.

We pick out the winners and losers of pandemic supply chains. We analyse labour shortages, industry consolidation, the latest acquisitions, who has money to burn, and the biggest challenges facing forwarders and shippers.

And we look at rates and forecasts for 2022, what Covid means for the future of supply chain planning, and whether shippers and carriers can ever find common ground.

EP10 in more detail:

The Ever Given blockage of the Suez Canal (4.17)

Why it wasn’t a black swan event (6.36)

Why airlines are now taking air cargo seriously (7.46)

Air cargo peak season pricing – the last five years in perspective (9.00)

Greedy airlines? (10.00)

The winners from Covid supply chains (11.35)

High rates pull in new air freight entrants (15.40)

War chests for 2022 – who will buy what? (17.26)

Labour shortages cast shadow (19.36)

Loadstar journalists discuss their favourite stories of 2021 (21.14)

Coined here: Pure Play Contract Logistics Operators (23.52)

Regulators eye container shipping (25.57)

The biggest challenges in 2022 for forwarders and shippers (26.46)

John Pearson. DHL Express CEO – supply chain resilience (29.34)

Lars Jensen, CEO of Vespucci Maritime – why near shoring doesn’t work (32.15)

Air and ocean rate forecasts for 2022 (36.36)

Bjorn Vang Jensen, VP of Advisory Services at Sea-Intelligence – what Covid has taught carriers (39.23)

Can lines and shippers make peace? (42.50)

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: The world according to Michael Wax, Co-Founder and CEO of Forto (46.10)

 

Appearing in this episode:

Alex Lennane, Loadstar Publisher

Gavin Van Marle, Loadstar MD

Mike Wackett, Loadstar sea freight correspondent

Michael Wax, Co-Founder and CEO of Forto

John Pearson. DHL Express CEO

Bjorn Vang Jensen, VP of Advisory Services at Sea-Intelligence

Lars Jensen, CEO of Vespucci Maritime

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