FreightWaves LIVE: An Events Podcast

Steve Ferreira, CEO at Ocean Audit, chats with Tom Augenthaler about using social media to build a niche influence in business. They discuss consistency, understanding goals and where the magic happens in niche marketing.Apple PodcastSpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A company like Forward Air has been whipsawed during the pandemic. Air freight, which serves as the backbone of many Forward Air operations, saw new customers looking to take advantage of airlines that were trying to fill planes with something instead of passengers. The company then got hit with a cyberattack late in the year that served as a cautionary tale for companies not just in the supply chain everywhere. He’ll sit down with editor at large John Kingston for a fireside chat.Apple PodcastSpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

FreightWaves Founder and CEO Craig Fuller talks with HSBC Bank Global Economist James Pomeroy about what the global supply chains might look like post-COVID.Apple PodcastSpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There’s more funding available to startups focused on maritime. Some startups are seeking to create operational efficiencies, saving costs and reducing ships’ greenhouse gas emissions. Others are seeking to provide more visibility on cargoes and vessels.Apple PodcastSpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Contract negotiations between importers and beneficial cargo owners (BCOs) on one side and ocean carriers on the other are poised to take a different flavor this year because of limited vessel availability and port congestion. Steve Ferreira and Stephanie Loomis discuss the current contracting environment and how importers and BCOs should prepare for any upcoming contract negotiations.Apple PodcastSpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

While our everyday lives have been changed by the widespread adoption of technology and e-commerce in 2020, the ocean-going container hasn't changed much since its first introduction in the 1970s. That may be changing. Rebecca Fenneman interviews MG (Ret.) Charlie Fletcher about the development of a global secure container and its potential impact on container shipping.Apple PodcastSpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Deep Cognition is a lead provider in Artificial Intelligence development and deployment platforms and solutions. In this Fireside chat, Travis Rhyan, chief product officer at FreightWaves, and Kate Curtin discuss artificial intelligence (AI) in logistics, common misconceptions about AI, and trends in AI and automation.Apple PodcastSpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Booming imports and the effects of COVID-19 are straining container supply chains while causing transportation rates to surge and port congestion get worse. U.S. exporters, meanwhile, contend there’s more to the picture than just the economy: container line operators should be held to account for declining service and management decisions that are hurting customers’ bottom line. This fireside chat features Federal Maritime Commissioner Carl Bentzel in a discussion about the U.S. Federal Maritime Commission's role in this unprecedented confluence of events and the options the agency has to deal with it.Apple PodcastSpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The U.S. Coast Guard has special ships capable of breaking ice in polar regions, clearing lanes for container ships. Their missions also include strategic national security objectives and scientific research. FreightWaves Meteorologist Nick Austin chats with Capt. William Woityra about these missions and the logistics behind them.Apple PodcastSpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Steve Ferreira, CEO of Ocean Audit, and Gordon Downes, CEO of the New York Shipping Exchange (NYSHEX) take a look at recent changes in the fundamentals of ocean container shipping, some of which may be more structural in nature than many believe.Apple PodcastSpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices