Visibility and flexibility are becoming increasingly important for supply chains for both shippers and capacity providers. The growth in machine learning and artificial intelligence is helping to optimize shipments and rates as well as take out costs and increase productivity at freight forwarders. In this episode of Bloomberg Intelligence’s Talking Transports podcast, Ryan Petersen, Flexport’s CEO, joins Lee Klaskow, BI’s senior transportation & logistics analyst, to discuss the company Petersen founded in 2013 and its role in the technology revolution changing the freight-transportation and logistics markets. Petersen talks about the state of the ocean and air-freight markets, recent acquisitions into adjacent businesses and how Flexport was born out of the frustrations he faced as an importer.

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Crude and product tanker operators look well positioned given the positive rate backdrop created by increased consumption and low orderbook, dislocations from Russia’s war in Ukraine and the crisis in the Red Sea, which have soaked up additional capacity from longer voyages. In this Talking Transports podcast, Lois Zabrocky, International Seaways president and CEO, joins Lee Klaskow, Bloomberg Intelligence senior transportation and logistics analyst, to share her insights into the tanker markets. Zabrocky also talks about how Seaways is navigating new emission regulators facing the global shipping industry. In addition, she discusses Seaways’ fleet, demand trends, the company’s use of cash and leaving Iowa for a career on the high seas.

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Shippers with time-sensitive, perishable or high-value freight look to expedited transportation markets to ensure on-time delivery of critical shipments. In this Talking Transports podcast, Nicole Glenn, Candor Expedite’s founder and CEO, joins Lee Klaskow, Bloomberg Intelligence senior transportation and logistics analyst, to share her insights into this growing and often overlooked part of the freight market. She also talks about the growth in recurring business and Candor’s new food-chain division, which uses reusable cold packaging and provides constant temperature monitoring. Glenn also shares the challenges she faces as an entrepreneur, what motivates her to expand the businesses and how a chance meeting changed her career trajectory.

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