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Mike King

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As seen in: The Freight Buyers' Club, Business Insider, FreightWaves, Lloyd's List, World Grain, Riviera Maritime Media, WYGB-FM (Franklin, IN), The Loadstar (Podcast)
Covers:  Shipping, Logistics, Air Cargo, Global Trade, Freight, Environment
Presenter/Producer - The Freight Buyers' Club Podcast www.youtube.com/@thefreightbuyersclub2866 linkedin.com/in/michael-kin…

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Mike King’s Biography

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Mike is an award-winning business journalist with recognition spanning all major freight, logistics and shipping sectors: Seahorse Maritime Journalist of the Year (2024, 2023), Seahorse Supply Chain Journalist of the Year (2025, 2016), Seahorse News Journalist of the Year (2017, 2013), Seahorse Air Cargo Journalist of the Year (2012), twice runner-up for Seahorse Multimedia Journalist of the Year (2024, 2023), and 2018 International Road Transport Union Journalist of the Year.
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Geopolitics vs Global Trade | The 2026 Reckoning | The Freight Buyers' Club

Geopolitics vs Global Trade | The 2026 Reckoning | The Freight Buyers' Club

Global trade isn't ending. It's fracturing along geopolitical lines. And it's reshaping supply chains, techno…

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Commodities giant Cargill is using high-tech sails to cut its ocean tankers' fuel costs by 30% - ...

Commodities giant Cargill is using high-tech sails to cut its ocean tankers' fuel costs by 30% - ...

The commodities giant Cargill will launch the first ocean-going tankers fitted with BAR Technologies' "wing s…

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12 airlines, retailers, and freight operators poised to win big in a historic holiday season ship...

12 airlines, retailers, and freight operators poised to win big in a historic holiday season ship...

A fundamental shift in consumption patterns this year has ramped up the pressure on the US's logistics networ…

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How this Brit turned his failing auditing business into a startup that sells no-clog toilet paper...

How this Brit turned his failing auditing business into a startup that sells no-clog toilet paper...

After overcoming illness at the start of this year, 37-year old Matt O'Crowley was then unable to restart his…

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Coronavirus: Supply chain disruption looms

Coronavirus: Supply chain disruption looms

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Shipping markets in flux amid COVID-19 chaos

Shipping markets in flux amid COVID-19 chaos

In time, it is likely we will divide the past into two periods: before coronavirus and after coronavirus. At …

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Why a US recession might not kill peak season; how the FMC's new powers could reshape container shipping -

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By Mike King Verified
| The Freight Buyers' Club
In part 1 of this episode, produced with the support of Dimerco Express Group, host and producer Mike King speaks to Lee Klaskow, Senior Freight and Transportation Logistics Analyst, Bloomberg Intelligence. He hears that while the US is likely heading in to a recession, this does not automatically mean the death of peak season. They also discuss M&A activity, restocking and destocking, and what falling Panama Canal water levels mean for trade.
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The Big Air Cargo Debate; west coast docker negotiations; Flexport/Shopify analysis

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By Mike King Verified
| The Freight Buyers' Club
In Part 1 of this episode, host and editor Mike King speaks to two of the world’s most renowned air freight experts: Cathy Roberson, President, Logistics Trends & Insights LLC, and Brandon Fried, Executive Director, Airforwarders Association. Among other topics, they discuss: what next for air freight; the challenges facing integrators’; security regime alignment; US infrastructure; and labour disruptions.
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Why the US ‘freight recession’ is impacting the trans-Pacific container trade far more than the trans-Atlantic

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| The Freight Buyers' Club
The post-Covid US trade slowdown is impacting household goods demand far more seriously than industrial freight demand, according to analysts appearing on the latest episode of The Freight Buyers’ Club podcast, produced with the support of the Dimerco Express Group.
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