As the freight and shipping industry waits for China to unshackle its people and global trade from Covid-19, creator and editor Mike King looks not only at what might happen on key trades lanes in the next weeks and months, he also explores whether global supply chains as we’ve known them are now finished? Is a fundamental reset on the way? And who will be driving it if so?

We also have the build-up to the peak shipping season, air cargo freight rate updates, a look at the preparedness of US surface transport, and the latest regulations covering the vast business that is the global illegal wildlife trade.

Credits: created, produced and hosted by Mike King

Guests

Peyton Burnett, Managing Director of TAC INDEX.

Craig Fuller, Founder & CEO at FreightWaves and CEO at FLYING

Philippa Dyson, TRAFFIC's coordinator of transport sector engagement 

Dennis Grady, Vice President for Ocean Product at Ascent.

Episode in more detail

The end of globalisation? (3.37)

Will China remain a reliable partner? (7.26)

The air cargo market (12.00)

Who is paying for spiking jet fuel prices? (16.56)

The re-regionalisation of supply chains (21.00)

A pre-peak season surge? (27.31)

Freight and WFH  (37.33)

The winners from a trading reset (41.00)

Complicity and the illegal wildlife trade (45.00)

New IMO rules (52.49)

Air cargo steps forward on smuggling (57.02)