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Drilling Deep: The sharp competition in the visibility sector

Needing to know where your freight is spawns incredibly competitive market

John Kingston
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Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves

With capital pouring in and acquisitions underway, the fight to become the dominant player in the visibility space is in full swing.

JP Hampstead, the director of Passport Research at FreightWaves, has been closely following the developments in that sector. He joins host John Kingston on the Drilling Deep podcast to talk about the biggest players in the market, gives a definition of visibility and reviews just how competitive the field is.

Also on Drilling Deep, Kingston talks about the blessed sounds of silence coming from the diesel and oil markets these days.


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John Kingston

John has an almost 40-year career covering commodities, most of the time at S&P Global Platts. He created the Dated Brent benchmark, now the world’s most important crude oil marker. He was Director of Oil, Director of News, the editor in chief of Platts Oilgram News and the “talking head” for Platts on numerous media outlets, including CNBC, Fox Business and Canada’s BNN. He covered metals before joining Platts and then spent a year running Platts’ metals business as well. He was awarded the International Association of Energy Economics Award for Excellence in Written Journalism in 2015. In 2010, he won two Corporate Achievement Awards from McGraw-Hill, an extremely rare accomplishment, one for steering coverage of the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster and the other for the launch of a public affairs television show, Platts Energy Week.