Credits: Created, Produced and Hosted by Mike King
EP8 of The Loadstar Podcast reports direct from Glasgow where world leaders are congregating for COP26, a meeting many believe is the last chance saloon for meaningful progress on climate change and one that could shape supply chain planning and investment for years to come.
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Credits: Created, Produced and Hosted by Mike King In this inaugural episode of the Loadstar Podcast Big Interview editor Mike King talks to AP Moller Maersk’s Morten Bo Christiansen, shipping’s Renaissance Man. Over the last Morten decade has been tasked with finding solutions to some of the critical challenges facing both his company and the shipping and freight industry. In his previous position as Head of Strategy he worked closely with CEO Soren Skou as Maersk ditched its energy business and started its bold ‘transformation’. This was designed to turn Big Blue from being a provider of commoditized port-to-port services into a fully-fledged container logistics integrator. A strategy which has not been without controversy, as this podcast explores. If that wasn’t challenge enough, Morten has now stepped up once more to take on arguably an even greater undertaking. As Head of Decarbonization at AP Moller Maersk, his task is multi-faceted. While many shipping lines need to understand decarbonization in relation primarily to vessel design, new fuels and operations, Maersk now need to apply its decarbonization strategy to its extended global supply chains as it spends recent windfalls on everything from more warehouses to more freighters. Maersk’ transformation rationale (1.53) Parcels industry as inspiration (6.27) Does Maersk still value smaller forwarders as customers? (8.15) Why Maersk is taking decarbonisation seriously (10.21) Regulators must step up (15.17) Betting on methanol (17.48) Maersk green pledge (23.53) Why shipping needs a carbon tax (27.01) Absolute zero vs net zero carbon emissions (29.15) ...
Credits: Created, Produced and Hosted by Mike King Episode 6 of The Loadstar Podcast turns its focus on the chaos currently affecting global container trades. Mike King is joined by a ‘who’s who’ of shipping and forwarding CEOs and analysts as they explore: When the container shipping pricing madness might end? What needs to change to unblock global trade? And, with regulators now turning their gaze on box shipping, do carriers truly appreciate the terrible optics of reporting record profits while customers are suffering woeful service levels and breath-taking surcharges? Participants in this episode: John Butler, World Shipping Council (WSC) president and CEO Sarah Banks, Global Lead, Freight and Logistics at Accenture Kelvin Leung, Asia Pacific CEO, DHL Global Forwarding Soren Toft, CEO of Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) Nick Saviddes, Loadstar News Editor Jon Gold, Vice President, Supply Chain and Customs Policy at the National Retail Federation Paul Page, Editor of the WSJ Logistics Report Daniel Maffei, Federal Maritime Commission Chairman Lars Jensen, Vespucci Maritime CEO ...
In part one of this bumper summer episode, Mike King and guests from around the world explore the current state of play in global logistics, shipping and air cargo. This section analyses the biggest news stories of the summer including industrial unrest at European ports, the latest from China and why US West Coast port congestion has shifted East. It also includes a full briefing on air and ocean freight rates. In part 2, Mike deep dives on the macroeconomic environment buffeting the freight industry. How are soaring logistics and shipping costs feeding global inflation? And what does inflation, recession and slowing global growth mean for the logistics industry? Guests: John McCown, container shipping veteran and Founder of Blue Alpha Capital Kathy Liu, Director Global Sales & Marketing of Dimerco Express Group Rob Subbaraman, Nomura Head of Global Macro Research and Co-Head of Global Markets Research Jason Haith, Manager at Transpacific forwarding specialist OEC Group Peyton Burnett, Managing Director of TAC INDEX. Mike Wackett, Loadstar, sea freight correspondent Credits: Created, produced and hosted by Mike King Comments or thoughts on this podcast can be sent to Mike King: [email protected] Episode in more detail Part 1 – Summer Catch-up Shipping freight rates take a summer plunge (3.30) Carriers step up blanks (5.00) China military exercises hits air freight (9.00) Alternative sourcing to China (9.39) Slowing Asian exports, but autumn launch boost expected (12.05) TAC Index: Air Cargo catch-up (14.20) Shippers “rubbing hands” as power swings away from airlines (17.25) Felixstowe/Liverpool dockworker strikes (18.16) Sizzling temperatures hit European barge logistics (20.14) German port strike threat (22.30) EC regulators turn gaze on container lines (23.10) How the US peak season is playing out (25.10) US port congestion shifts to the East (26.31) Retailers juggle inventory (30.40) Container lines post bumper Q2 profits (37.24) Part ...
