The U.S. Supreme Court just struck down Trump's IEEPA tariff programme — the largest American trade tax increase in thirty years, ruled unlawful in a 6-3 decision. Within hours, it was replaced with a new 15% global tariff under Section 122. Different legal authority. Hard 150-day expiry. Same freight reality.

In this episode, Pauline Van Ostaeyen and Michiel Gabriëls break down what actually changed for European freight forwarders — and what didn't. The effective tariff rate is down from its peak. It's still four times what it was before any of this started. The port fees on Chinese-built vessels are still escalating. And on approximately the 24th of July 2026, we do this again.

They look at what a year of trade policy chaos has done to container flows through Hamburg, Antwerp-Bruges, and Rotterdam, why Kuehne+Nagel's 34% EBIT drop buried a signal that every mid-size forwarder should be paying attention to, and why Drewry is now calling the container shipping outlook more uncertain than it was at the onset of COVID.

Plus three concrete moves: updating your contract language before the clock runs out, building customs advisory as a service line, and why lane diversification is no longer optional.

The legal foundation changed. The uncertainty didn't.