Global Trade Deciphered
Global Trade Deciphered is your essential guide to navigating the complex world of Global Trade and its intersection with Geopolitical Global Trends and Current Affairs.
Hosted by Justin Hayden Miller, a Global Trade lawyer - formerly at the Big 4 and now a partner at one of Europe’s largest commercial law firms - he interviews leading world experts and provides insightful alternative perspectives.
With a focus on breaking news, developments, and alternative perspectives, 'Global Trade Deciphered' equips business leaders, policy makers and those eager to make sense of Global Trade, with the knowledge to stay ahead in the field.
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Global Trade Deciphered
SIMON WARD (expert) | Shipping. And is Chinese Shipping a Risk to Global Trade?
Privileged Discussions is now Global Trade Deciphered, a sharper reflection of our focus on global trade and business. Same expert insights, new name. Global Trade Deciphered is a Privileged Discussions Productions podcast. Thanks for joining us!
Episode Description
Justin Hayden Miller (Global Trade & Customs lawyer) invites Simon Ward (shipping expert, broker and Professor of Shipping). They discuss global shipping and whether Chinese shipping represents a risk to the United States and world trade, as well as issues such as the Panama Canal.
In particular, the episode addresses:
- Why shipping is important.
- How the shipping industry operates.
- The decline of British and US shipbuilding. Port of Liverpool, LFC, The Titanic, White Star Line; liner trades
- Present shipbuilding. China, South Korea and Japan
- Whether the Chinese practice unfair competition in shipbuilding against the United States
- The US' potential to industrialize using shipbuilding; Japanese shipbuilding, demographic pressures
- Global Shipping Disruptions. Disruption created by Covid; Putin; Ukraine; Suez Canal closure because of Houthi rebels and the Panama Canal: the effects
- Chinese shipping dominance and influence
- The Panama Canal Its significance; global shipping routes
- TBaltimore and the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse; US infrastructure concerns, and re the Panama Canal
- Globalisation and protectionism
- Suez Crisis 1956
- Shipping and inflation, container pricing
- Tariffs and the consequences for the shipping industry
- Predictions concerning China; Taiwan; demographic considerations
Artistic references: Titanic (1997 film) Directed by James Cameron and starring Leonardo DiCaprio & Kate Winslet. Paramount Pictures, 20th Century Fox
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Email: PrivilegedDiscussions@gmail.com
Simon Ward’s contact information:
- Blog : https://ursashipbrokers.gr/
- LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/simon-ward-ursa/
- email: smw@ursa.gr
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