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 Podcast Spotify More 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 Podcast Spotify More 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 Podcast Spotify More 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 Podcast Spotify More 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 Podcast Spotify More 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 Podcast Spotify More 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 Podcast Spotify More 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 Podcast Spotify More 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 Podcast Spotify More 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 Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the years to come, what will container shipping look like? Will vessel ownership be even more consolidated? Will ships remain the current size and ply the same trade lanes, or will shippers bring their sourcing closer to home? Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

FreightTech is hot. But where venture capital will be putting money is another question. Brian Laung Aoaeh of REFASHIOND Ventures talks to FreightWaves Chief Strategy Officer John “JT” Engstrom about the opportunities for venture capital in the supply chain. Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When COVID first struck, international freight forwarders pared staff and froze hiring. Now, with ocean shipping booming, these same freight forwarders are in major need of talent, from agents to executives. Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A look at how U.S. importers are dealing with record shipping delays and a lack of supply. Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 Podcast Spotify More 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 Podcast Spotify More 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 Podcast Spotify More 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 Podcast Spotify More 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 Podcast Spotify More 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 Podcast Spotify More 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 Podcast Spotify More 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 Podcast Spotify More 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 Podcast Spotify More 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 Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Former U.S. Senator Bob Corker chats with FreightWaves Founder and CEO Craig Fuller about America’s global status as China ascends on the world stage with an autocratic government that moves decisively as the United States plays “shirts and skins” in a democratic system designed for bipartisan deliberation. Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lauren Roman and Patrick Duffy discuss the importance of recycling electric vehicle batteries and how blockchain technology can help make data more visible as batteries move through the supply chain. Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Zach Strickland, a FreightWaves market analyst, discusses the future of the bulk market post-COVID-19 pandemic and what to look for in 2021 with Jared Flinn of Bulkloads.com. Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rana Basu, whose company Ondiflo has been one of the leaders in bringing commercial blockchain applications to the oil patch, talks about the progress distributed-ledger technology has made in gaining wider acceptance. Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

COVID-19 impacted the energy industry in ways from cutting demands to reducing uses for petrochemicals. American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers kept an eye on supply and demand trends during the pandemic and how downstream companies were utilizing petrochemicals differently thanks to the virus. Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Allen Trevett and Lauren Mayher discuss what a logistics control tower is, when it can be helpful and benefits of this solution. The nervous system in your body controls everything you do. A 4PL control tower is the nervous system of your global supply chain. Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This fireside chat between FreightWaves' John Kingston, Tim Sensenig, CEO for TMSforce and TMSfirst, and Rick Gonzalez, SVP, Global Operation at TMSforce, focuses on how 4PLs are different from 3PLs, and how customers can benefit with a 4PL. Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

International supply chains can be opaque specifically to hide unethical behavior at the source. Justin Goldston, a professor of project and supply chain management at Penn State University explains how Blockchain can be used to ensure that supply chains do not incorporate unethical labor practices. Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Benjamin Shattuck, a leading analyst of the U.S. upstream oil and gas industry reviews the wild ride that the market took in 2020 and into 2021, with prices plunging, drilling activity falling with it and then a late-year revival that took a lot of people by surprise. Companies are drilling again, but will it last? Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Along with the pandemic came a drop in oil prices. Since the U.S. oil patch has long been heavily dependent on debt to keep operating, it meant that there was going to be a significant squeeze on companies, especially trucking companies that haul oil, equipment, frac sand and other products needed to service oil fields around Texas. Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rani Puranik, co-owner and CFO of Worldwide Oilfield Machine talks about the importance of margins in supply chains, and how to gain the winning margins with the 5 C's of influence. Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mark Duchesne brought diverse manufacturing experience to Nikola Corp., having helped build a plant for Toyota in China and make startup car building decisions at Tesla Inc. He is applying the best of both to Nikola as it builds its electric truck plant in the Arizona desert. Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Choosing a mode of transportation for freight is often difficult. John Godfrey and FreightWaves’ Kevin Hill explore how to choose a shipping mode in different situations, including cross-border transportation. Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One of the companies leading the development of autonomous technology, and the first in the use of it for platooning, discusses the pace of adoption of that technology on the open roads. Locomation comes out of the robotics research efforts at Carnegie Mellon and is based in Pittsburgh. Its first target is to allow a company to use its technology for a convoy of vehicles, starting with a second vehicle working off the driver’s control of the lead truck. In this interview, CEO Cetin Mericli is frank about the exciting prospects for the technology as well as the fact that some of its more revolutionary promises remain a ways off. Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The rush to get more electric trucks to market sooner creates supply chain challenges in two areas: battery components and charging infrastructure. Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Daimler Trucks North America relies on e-commerce, its dealerships, parts distribution centers and analytics to get truck parts to the right place as quickly as possible. Richard Simons oversees all of it, and he talks with Alan Adler about the lessons learned in moving truck parts in the middle of a global pandemic. Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Providing vehicles with a secure ID via blockchain opens up enormous potential as market participants come together under shared standards. MOBI has created “digital twins” for vehicles, incorporating all of the information on the vehicles as they leave the factory, as well as everything in vehicles’ lives after they leave the factory. Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This fireside chat focuses on how the automotive supply chain utilizing the internal combustion engine is now changing with electric and autonomous vehicles. Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

FreightWaves Executive Publisher Kevin Hill and Daniel Burrows look at fuel efficiency in trucking, changes in the automotive supply chain in a post-COVID world and the need for in-person collaboration to properly construct supply chains. Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Going beyond buzzwords, Rak-Joon Choi, an American Tire Distributors vice president, talks with FreightWaves’ Clay Katzman about how blockchain technology can bring more efficiency and transparency to supply chains through data sharing. Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hyzon Motors, a carveout of Singapore-based Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies, took over General Motors’ former fuel cell labs near Rochester, New York, to help North American and European markets catch up with China and other Asian nations in the use of hydrogen fuel cells for commercial vehicles. Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Romeo Power Technology recently completed a business combination with RMG Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company. Romeo is now a public company with $545 million in contracts for heavy-duty truck battery packs. Investors include Republic Services and Tier 1 supplier BorgWarner. Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The American automotive industry will benefit from an extraordinary conference of technological advancements that will elevate customer relationships and revenue streams to levels that would have been unimaginable five years ago, says Ken Washington, CTO at Ford Motor Company. Listen in as Craig Fuller discusses with Washington about technology's impact, and what the future hold for the automotive industry. Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Greg Tuthill, chief commercial officer of SeaCube Containers, sits down with FreightWaves Executive Publisher Kevin Hill. The market for refrigerated shipping containers has held up during the pandemic. Beyond COVID, Tuthill explains what will drive demand for reefer containers going forward, including the need for year-round fresh produce and fish, and cold storage for vaccines. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Over the next 25 years, the world’s population will grow at a much faster rate than the arable land that’s needed to help feed it. Utilizing technology to optimize the value of global grain harvests will be crucial to eliminating $71 billion of annual global grain waste and ensuring the world has enough to eat. A combination of the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence and predictive analytics can monitor each step in a product’s journey, alerting growers, brokers, importers, logisticians and transporters to opportunities and potential problems. Naeem Zafar, co-founder and CEO of TeleSense, discusses ways to leverage data so the agriculture supply chain can make every grain harvest count. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The COVID-19 pandemic may have provided the much-needed impetus for retailers, executives and brokers to engage in more collaboration and ensure products get to end consumers efficiently. The many benefits that come from collaborating through technological platforms should encourage stakeholders to keep those tools in place even after the pandemic ends. FourKites’ Glenn Koepke discusses how and why collaboration among retailers, transportation providers and brokers enhances supply chain visibility. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices