News in Brief Podcast | Week 8 2026 | TMS transition, takeovers, and tariff ruling

The Loadstar team unpacks a busy week in supply chain and logistics, in less than 20 minutes!

This episode, Alex Lennane discusses her exclusive on DSV’s reported switch from CargoWise that sparked industry-wide debate last week. She and Charlotte Goldstone raise fresh questions about TMS loyalty, and divulge the hot topics at Manifest. Is this the beginning of a systems shake-up across forwarding?

Meanwhile, Gavin van Marle speaks on Hapag-Lloyd’s reported $4.2bn bid for Zim and details how it could reshape alliance dynamics and redraw the competitive map in container shipping.

Add a long-awaited decision on tariff legality from the US Supreme Court, soaring numbers of blanked sailings from CNY capacity cuts, warnings of a looming transpacific rate war, shifts in air cargo capacity, and much much more.

If you need a refresher of the news ahead of a new week, plus a reminder of what could be still to come, this is the podcast for you.