Box tracking popularity soars – but the big debate is, who owns the data?
With the rapid rise in the use of container tracking devices, the cargo insurance industry ...
On the carrier’s 175th anniversary, The Loadstar Podcast editor and producer Mike King asks Hapag-Lloyd, the world’s fifth-largest container line, how the carrier is managing the chaos of the here and now? What is being done to help shipper customers? Where will the windfalls of the last two years be spent? And what does the future hold for container shipping over the next 175 years?
Mike interviews newly appointed executive board member for Hapag-Lloyd Donya Amer and Dr Ralf Belusa, MD digital business & transformation.
Episode in more detail:
175 years of challenges (2.22)
Un-kinking container shipping now (6.21)
A reset for supply chains (9.40)
Any slots for an SME? (12.40)
Spending a treasure chest (14.45)
Scramble for Africa and investing in clean fuels (16.52)
Digitalisation and Covid-19 (22.35)
The next 175 years (25.10)
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Created, edited and produced by Mike King
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