FreightWaves LIVE: An Events Podcast

The mismatch timing of payments is always a challenge for freight forwarders and brokers. Trying to explain the process to outside auditors and financing firms is often even more difficult. There is a right way to handle this process though. Amna Shah uses her expertise in freight financing and financial analytics to break down the ways to properly manage cash flow.Apple PodcastSpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lori Ann interviews ImportGenius analyst William George on how the volumes moving along the maritime super highway, and the bills of lading and customs offer us key forward looking information.Apple PodcastSpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Steve Ferreira, CEO at Ocean Audit, and Jon Monroe discuss how COVID-19 impacted shipping at the beginning of the pandemic, how current demand for freight is causing port congestion and when they expect things to go back to “normal.”Apple PodcastSpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Every corner of the transportation industry has seen some level of digitization, but it doesn’t happen overnight. Christian Piller, vice president of value engineering at project44, and Dolly Wagner-Wilkins of Worldwide Express discuss the biggest areas of opportunity for supply chain digitization and what challenges organizations may face when implementing digital technologies to handle today’s disruptions and help them meet their long-term goals.Apple PodcastSpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2020 was a record year for weather disasters in the United States and shipping activity was impacted by those disasters. How do shippers navigate extreme weather events, especially as a changing climate moves to make disasters a more regular occurrence?Apple PodcastSpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Following a year in which the oceangoing freight market first collapsed and then was followed by backups in the key Los Angeles/Long Beach port that can only be described as historic, Sanne Manders, a key executive at digital freight forwarder Flexport, sees an industry that already was changing and now needs to change some more.Apple PodcastSpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Marc Levinson wrote the definitive book on the history of containerization: “The Box.” It’s about disruption, global trade and how a seemingly simple invention can revolutionize the world. Fifteen years after the book was first published, he talks about what he sees for the future of global trade.Apple PodcastSpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As the U.K. leaves the European Union, there are a number of questions to be answered. As the processes of trade flow changes between the two, there are a number of unanswered questions. Changes in customs will require talent along with new opportunities to create software and technology to assist and automate the navigation of a surge in red tape and paperwork.Apple PodcastSpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Steve Ferreira, CEO at Ocean Audit, and Duncan Wright discuss challenges that shippers are facing, including how to navigate congestion, container and capacity issues.Apple PodcastSpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Geographic information systems (GIS) already have transformed how global supply chains function. GIS pioneer Jack Dangermond discusses how GIS – and spatial data – will bring a new level of visibility and efficiency during a fireside chat with Jonathan Rosenthal, CEO of Saybrook Management.Apple PodcastSpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices