News in Brief Podcast | Week 11 | Ocean rates down, uncertainty up
In this episode of The Loadstar’s News in Brief Podcast, host and news reporter Charlotte Goldstone ...
There are many eyes on Flexport: in fact, there always have been, but with new executives, a corporate restructure and exposure to a dampening retail market and soft transpacific trade, rivals are watching with interest – and possibly optimism.
The ‘digital’ forwarder has famously brought in Dave Clark, Amazon’s former consumer CEO, who helped the e-commerce company build its network of warehousing and logistics capacity (something Flexport, an asset-light forwarder, is unlikely to want to do).
He is currently co-CEO with Ryan ...
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Macron calls for ‘suspension’ – CMA CGM's $20bn US investment in doubt
De minimis exemption on shipments from China to the US will end in May
Forwarders stay cool as US 'liberation day' tariffs threaten 'global trade war'
Mixed response in US to 'Liberation Day', while China leads wave of retaliation
Tariffs and de minimis set air freight rates on a volatile course
Transpacific contract rates rise on Trump’s fickle policies
Trump tariffs see hundreds of cancelled container bookings a day from Asia
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