Chinese Shipping Risks? Global Trade Threats with Expert Simon Ward

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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

CONTACT DETAILS:

Justin Hayden Miller’s contact details:

Twitter: @JustinHaydenM

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-hayden-miller-7b2a695/

Email: [email protected]

Simon Ward’s contact information:

- Blog : https://ursashipbrokers.gr/

- LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/simon-ward-ursa/

- email: [email protected]

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פרקים

1. Intro (00:00:00)

2. Importance of Shipping / How the Industry Operates (00:02:03)

3. The Decline of British and US shipbuilding (00:09:08)

4. Present shipbuilding (00:14:55)

5. China and Geopolitical Shipping Disruptions (00:19:41)

6. Perfect Competition in Shipping (00:26:09)

7. The Panama Canal (00:28:36)

8. Shipping and Inflation (00:34:19)

9. China and Predictions for the Future (00:36:40)