Port of Huntsville on the power of inland ports; navigating a trade war | WHAT THE TRUCK?!?

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On Episode 827 of WHAT THE TRUCK?!?, Dooner is talking about the shockwaves that have been reverberating throughout the trade community due to the trade war. The Maritime Professor Lauren Beagan drops in to talk about the massive collapse in container bookings that has happened over the past month. How soon will we feel the pain in volumes on the trucking side?

Beagan also breaks down recent maritime policy regarding new port fees as well as the Panama and Suez canals.

Port of Huntsville CEO Butch Roberts believes we’re in for an inland port renaissance. We’ll find out how the port works, whom it serves and why big investments in air and intermodal will be a boon for shippers.

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    Timothy Dooner

    Dooner is an award-winning podcaster who hosts and produces FreightWaves' WHAT THE TRUCK?!? In under a year he helped build FreightCasts, the world’s largest logistics and supply chain podcast network in media. WTT is ranked in Apple Podcasts top-20 Business News podcasts. He also writes a newsletter of the same title with over 15k subscribers in the supply chain and trucking niche. Dooner has been in freight since 2005 and has held directors positions in operations, sales, consulting, and marketing. He has worked with FedEx, Reebok, Adidas, L.L. Bean, Hasbro, Louis Vuitton, and many more high level clients across the full spectrum of the supply chain. He was a featured speaker at TEDx Chattanooga.