{"podcast":{"title":"The Freight Buyers' Club","slug":"the-freight-buyers-club-5997309","podcast_index_feed_id":5997309,"rss_url":"https://feeds.castos.com/2n9kq","website_url":"https://thefreightbuyersclub.com/","image_url":"https://episodes.castos.com/63bfb95e422709-98786477/images/0857-006-3000x3000.jpg","author":"Mike King","episode_count":148,"summary":"The Freight Buyers’ Club podcast is a new home for anyone with a professional interest in international trade, container shipping, procurement, logistics and air cargo. Each episode your host, award-winning journalist Mike King, will be speaking to leading decision-makers, analysts, journalists, operators and shippers to get their take on current freight and logistics markets and the challenges and opportunities ahead. You can subscribe to receive each episode direct to your inbox at: thefreightbuyersclub.com","last_synced_at":"2026-07-14T02:18:08.829520+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-freight-buyers-club-5997309"},"episode":{"title":"Exclusive: Hapag-Lloyd CEO Rolf Habben Jansen on Iran, Suez & Zim","slug":"exclusive-hapag-lloyd-ceo-rolf-habben-jansen-on-iran-suez-zim","published_at":"2026-03-04T23:21:42+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-freight-buyers-club-5997309/exclusive-hapag-lloyd-ceo-rolf-habben-jansen-on-iran-suez-zim","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-freight-buyers-club-5997309","url":"https://the-freight-buyers-club.castos.com/episodes/exclusive-hapag-lloyd-ceo-rolf-habben-jansen-on-iran-suez-zim","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/episodes.castos.com/63bfb95e422709-98786477/2383162/c1e-z31d9t38djjsokrkw-6z9xk3rxb5d6-cmulkl.mp3","summary":"In this exclusive interview at TPM26 in Long Beach, Mike King is talking to Rolf Habben Jansen, CEO of Hapag-Lloyd, to discuss three of the biggest stories shaping container shipping right now. Rolf gives his take on the proposed Zim acquisition and what it means for freight buyers, the impact of US and Israeli strikes on Iran and what that means for ships currently stuck in the Persian Gulf, and whether a return to the Suez Canal is now further away than ever. He also shares his view on the container shipping supply and demand balance, why he sees underlying demand as still strong, and how shippers should think about US inventory levels and the transpacific market heading into the rest of 2026. This content is supported by Dimerco, a global freight forwarding and logistics network that believes in the value of independent journalism in the freight industry. Find out more at https://dimerco.com/ #TPM26 #ZimDeal #SuezCanal #IranStrikes #ContainerShipping #FreightMarket #HapagLloyd #LogisticsNews #SupplyChain #FreightBuyers","meta_description":"In this exclusive interview at TPM26 in Long Beach, Mike King is talking to Rolf Habben Jansen, CEO of Hapag-Lloyd, to discuss three of the biggest storie…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":366,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-freight-buyers-club-5997309/episodes/exclusive-hapag-lloyd-ceo-rolf-habben-jansen-on-iran-suez-zim/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-freight-buyers-club-5997309/exclusive-hapag-lloyd-ceo-rolf-habben-jansen-on-iran-suez-zim.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}