2026 Freight Outlook: Suez, China+1 and the Big Shipping Decisions Ahead

Описание: It’s the Freight Buyers’ Club Holiday Special — a festive wrap-up of a year that delivered more plot twists than a Christmas soap marathon. From tariff shocks to China+1 shifts, Red Sea detours, booming Vietnam factories and air cargo refusing to behave “normally”… 2025 kept shippers on their toes.
To make sense of it all, Mike King is joined by a top-tier panel of industry heavyweights:
• Kathy Liu, VP Global Sales & Marketing, Dimerco Express Group
• Nils Roche, Founder, Solvens Advisory (ex PIL-Maersk, CMA CGM)
• Peter Sand, Chief Analyst, Xeneta
Together they break down the winners, losers and big surprises of 2025 — and offer a straight-talking look at what freight buyers must prepare for in 2026. Expect sharp insights, a bit of humour, and just enough holiday spirit to take the edge off another volatile year in global logistics.
In this special we cover:
• Tariffs, Trump and the year’s biggest policy whiplash
• China+1 shifts: what moved, what didn’t and why Vietnam won big
• Air cargo’s strange but spectacular 2025
• Suez, Red Sea and the looming capacity reset
• Carrier behaviour: orderly alliances, chaotic markets
• Contracting for 2026: reliability, risk and when to go short vs long
• Why “Should I Stay or Should I Go?” might be the perfect theme for freight next year
If you're planning your 2026 strategy, pour yourself a holiday drink and plug in — this is your end-of-year sanity check.
Special thanks to Dimerco Express Group [https://dimerco.com/] for supporting this holiday edition of The Freight Buyers’ Club.
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