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 ...
Predicting the future is difficult. So difficult, in fact, that Flexport’s hipster founder Ryan Petersen says if he was any good at it, he’d work on Wall Street rather than in freight.
That hasn’t, however, stopped Flexport – which recently announced 50 redundancies, or about 3% of its global workforce – from engaging in an online webinar series, the latest of which aims to, umm, predict what’s going to happen in 2020.
It’s actually worth a listen, but in our continuing spirit ...
'Disastrous' DSV-Schenker merger would 'disrupt European haulage market'
New senior management for DSV as it readies for DB Schenker takeover
Volumes set to 'fall off a cliff' as US firms hit the brakes on sourcing and bookings
Asian exporters scramble for ships and boxes to beat 90-day tariff pause
Amazon pushes into LTL for small package fulfilment and UPS does a u-turn
Temporary tariff relief brings on early transpacific peak season
Pre-tariff rush of goods from US to China sees air rates soar, but not for long
Forwarders 'allowing the fox into the chicken run' by supporting 'hungry' carriers
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