FreightWaves LIVE: An Events Podcast

Terminal49 co-founder and CEO Akshay Dodeja describes the problem of data silos within global trade and how they negatively impact intermodal carriers. Dodeja explains how international shipping companies can open up this data to provide true visibility and better planning for shippers and carriers who haul those goods once they reach their port of discharge. He is joined by FreightWaves Staff Writer, Grace Sharkey.Follow FreightWaves on Apple PodcastsFollow FreightWaves on SpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How has precision scheduling precision scheduled railroading (PSR) affected service levels over the past decade? Matt Parker, Chairman of the Nevada State Board for the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLETNVSLB), joins FreightWaves Executive Publisher, Kevin Hill, to discuss the current state of competition and service levels in the rail industry, along with an outlook for any new regulations for the industry.Follow FreightWaves on Apple PodcastsFollow FreightWaves on SpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Class I railroad's perspective: Alan Shaw, Norfolk Southern's Chief Marketing Officer discusses the current intermodal operational challenges and outlook amid the boom in U.S. imports, constrained ocean capacity and congestion at many points in the North American intermodal network. He is joined by FreightWaves Market Expert in Rail, Intermodal, and Equipment, Mike Baudendistel.Follow FreightWaves on Apple PodcastsFollow FreightWaves on SpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A group of U.S. manufacturers of chassis had been suffering from large imports from China for years. It isn't always easy to successfully use federal procedures for combating imports. But in this case, the manufacturers won their case earlier this year. In this interview as part of the intermodal summit, Robert DeFrancesco, a trade attorney who led the ad hoc group which put together the trade complaint, talks about why this effort succeeded. He is joined by FreightWaves Executive Editor and Oil Market Expert, John Kingston.Follow FreightWaves on Apple PodcastsFollow FreightWaves on SpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Elise Gosch, assistant VP of intermodal sales at Union Pacific, discusses how customer needs have changed over the last year and a half and how Union Pacific is investing in its network and technologies to deliver a superior customer experience to its intermodal shippers. She is joined by FreightWaves Director of Passport Research, JP Hampstead.Follow FreightWaves on Apple PodcastsFollow FreightWaves on SpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Learn about the recent record-breaking fiscal year and how the Port of Virginia is investing in its infrastructure to facilitate and continue its massive growth. Additionally, explore the creative ways the port is looking to make its intermodal services even more efficient to service major inland markets in the Midwest and Southeast. Join Stephen Edwards, CEO & Executive Director of the Virginia Port Authority, and Henry Byers, FreightWaves Market Expert on International Freight Forwarding & Maritime, in this fireside chat.Follow FreightWaves on Apple PodcastsFollow FreightWaves on SpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Danny Christner, CEO of John Christner Trucking, describes changes in food habits and how carriers can stay agile to meet customer expectations. Christner explains the difficulties of modifying food supply chains and his thoughts on if these habitual changes are here to stay. He speaks with FreightWaves Staff Writer Grace Sharkey.Follow FreightWaves on Apple PodcastsFollow FreightWaves on SpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Maintaining the integrity of temperature-sensitive products, especially pharmaceuticals, during distribution requires refrigerated warehouses and trucks. Extending the cold chain to air adds another layer of complexity. Envirotainer was one of the early companies that years ago began providing insulated containers with cooling properties. Since then the technology has evolved. Envirotainer's Donald Harrison joins Air Cargo Editor Eric Kulisch to discuss the latest advances in refrigeration of air cargo containers and tracking in-transit temperature deviations, the COVID vaccines distribution and the logistics of leasing and repositioning containers around the world.Follow FreightWaves on Apple PodcastsFollow FreightWaves on SpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John Brewer of CKE Restaurants reviews the changes and the pressures that e-commerce and the pandemic have put on the cold chain for restaurant operators. He speaks with FrieghtWaves Executive Editor and Oil Market Expert John Kingston.Follow FreightWaves on Apple PodcastsFollow FreightWaves on SpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The pandemic's influence on home delivery accelerated a permanent change that Wabash National Corp. saw years before COVID changed the way we eat, meet and work. The company began working on low-carbon solutions like equipping trailers with solar-power refrigeration units and is expanding use of its thermally efficient molded structural composite across all its trailer and last-mile body lines. Brent Yeagy, President and CEO of Wabash National, is joined by FreightWaves Detroit Bureau Chief Alan Adler in this fireside chat.Follow FreightWaves on Apple PodcastsFollow FreightWaves on SpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices