29 min
Shipping: Covid Charts a New Course For Maritime Transport Trading Places
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- Entrepreneurship
Last year, the Los Angeles long beach port complex became famous as dozens of enormous cargo ships lined up offshore, waiting to unload cargo. The reason was that COVID caused a shortage of both trucks and drivers to take goods to their final destination.
The scenes of row upon row of cued vessels at the only ports on the US West Coast that can handle the new breed of mega-ships encapsulates both the challenges and the vulnerability that 150 years of trade growth has wrought on global shipping.
In this 8th episode of the Trading Places podcast, we explore these challenges.
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Host: Rachel Williamson
Guests:
1. Dr. César Ducruet — geographer and Research Director for the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) at the research laboratory EconomiX.
2. Mike Grill — eCommerce and Digital Marketing Director at Boost Oxygen LLC.
3. Erica Crawford — Owner, Loveblock Wines.
4. Richard Tegoni — Executive Chairman SECOS Group Ltd.
5. V Subramanian — Vice President, Asia at The Rice Trader.
6. Cristina Aleixendri Muñoz — COO & Co-founder at bound4blue | Shipping | Wind propulsion for sustainable maritime transport.
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Producer: Sonny Sanjay Vadgama
Showrunner: Sergey Faldin
Tips, advice, and insights on running your exporting business smarter: www.blog.silverbird.com
Get a global business account designed for international trade at: www.silverbird.com
Last year, the Los Angeles long beach port complex became famous as dozens of enormous cargo ships lined up offshore, waiting to unload cargo. The reason was that COVID caused a shortage of both trucks and drivers to take goods to their final destination.
The scenes of row upon row of cued vessels at the only ports on the US West Coast that can handle the new breed of mega-ships encapsulates both the challenges and the vulnerability that 150 years of trade growth has wrought on global shipping.
In this 8th episode of the Trading Places podcast, we explore these challenges.
***
Host: Rachel Williamson
Guests:
1. Dr. César Ducruet — geographer and Research Director for the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) at the research laboratory EconomiX.
2. Mike Grill — eCommerce and Digital Marketing Director at Boost Oxygen LLC.
3. Erica Crawford — Owner, Loveblock Wines.
4. Richard Tegoni — Executive Chairman SECOS Group Ltd.
5. V Subramanian — Vice President, Asia at The Rice Trader.
6. Cristina Aleixendri Muñoz — COO & Co-founder at bound4blue | Shipping | Wind propulsion for sustainable maritime transport.
***
Producer: Sonny Sanjay Vadgama
Showrunner: Sergey Faldin
Tips, advice, and insights on running your exporting business smarter: www.blog.silverbird.com
Get a global business account designed for international trade at: www.silverbird.com
29 min