What is Chinese New Year and how does it impact shipping?

· Thursday, January 09, 2020

On today’s episode, the seagang are covering all of the latest headlines including Trump’s plan for Iran, container line consolidation and rates, what’s going on with blank sailings, and more.

Then they’ll get into what Chinese New Year is, what the year of the Metal Rat means, and how it impacts your supply chain.

Lastly, a look at how the pre-Chinese New Year box dump turned out.

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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.