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Surviving Your 2026 Ocean Freight Procurement: Special Interview with Stephanie Loomis, Noatum Logistics
This is an episode from Freightos' Unfiltered Freight series, shared here too.
Welcome to a special edition of Container Bytes, featuring 30-year ocean veteran Stephanie Loomis, who's navigated everything from Hanjin's collapse to pandemic-era chaos. Her market predictions are legendary, and she's not sugarcoating what's ahead for your freight procurement in 2026.
Carriers have finally learned capitalism. The days of $500 China-LA rates are buried, and today's shipping giants won't touch freight that doesn't make money. "There are rates that will move freight and rates that will not." Smart shippers are securing space, not just chasing pennies.
Annual tenders? Dead. With the pave of change, quarterly procurement is the new minimum.
Industry boundaries are blurring fast. BCOs working with forwarders, everyone building tech stacks, and carriers potentially timing their Suez return to create just enough chaos to boost rates.
Share this episode or your next shipment might mysteriously end up on the blank sailing list.
CHAPTERS:
00:00:00 — Reality Check: Why your cheap rate won't move jack
00:00:52 — This Ain't 2008: When carriers discovered profit margins
00:03:20 — New Procurement: Space security trumps rate chasing
00:06:34 — Tender Evolution: Why annual contracts are obsolete
00:07:34 — Industry Convergence: BCOs, forwarders and carriers blur lines
00:09:23 — Human Element: Why relationships still beat algorithms
00:12:39 — Suez Strategy: Calculating when carriers create profitable chaos
This podcast is a little experiment from Freightos—and may not be around forever—so if you dig quick bites of freight wisdom, let us know.
For more detailed weekly freight updates delivered straight to your inbox, check out our weekly freight email. Want the freshest freight data on demand? Hit up terminal.freightos.com.
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By FreightosThis is an episode from Freightos' Unfiltered Freight series, shared here too.
Welcome to a special edition of Container Bytes, featuring 30-year ocean veteran Stephanie Loomis, who's navigated everything from Hanjin's collapse to pandemic-era chaos. Her market predictions are legendary, and she's not sugarcoating what's ahead for your freight procurement in 2026.
Carriers have finally learned capitalism. The days of $500 China-LA rates are buried, and today's shipping giants won't touch freight that doesn't make money. "There are rates that will move freight and rates that will not." Smart shippers are securing space, not just chasing pennies.
Annual tenders? Dead. With the pave of change, quarterly procurement is the new minimum.
Industry boundaries are blurring fast. BCOs working with forwarders, everyone building tech stacks, and carriers potentially timing their Suez return to create just enough chaos to boost rates.
Share this episode or your next shipment might mysteriously end up on the blank sailing list.
CHAPTERS:
00:00:00 — Reality Check: Why your cheap rate won't move jack
00:00:52 — This Ain't 2008: When carriers discovered profit margins
00:03:20 — New Procurement: Space security trumps rate chasing
00:06:34 — Tender Evolution: Why annual contracts are obsolete
00:07:34 — Industry Convergence: BCOs, forwarders and carriers blur lines
00:09:23 — Human Element: Why relationships still beat algorithms
00:12:39 — Suez Strategy: Calculating when carriers create profitable chaos
This podcast is a little experiment from Freightos—and may not be around forever—so if you dig quick bites of freight wisdom, let us know.
For more detailed weekly freight updates delivered straight to your inbox, check out our weekly freight email. Want the freshest freight data on demand? Hit up terminal.freightos.com.