News in Brief Podcast | Week 36 2026 | Geopolitics, Port congestion & Rising air freight rates

Hello and welcome to the Lodestar podcast News in Brief and after a short summer break for the News in Brief podcast we are back as usual and ready to recap this week's supply chain news.

Now coming up on this episode we are going to be looking at what the latest conflict escalation in the Middle East and Russia means for supply chains, recent impacts of port congestion, recent rates in both air and sea and details of an interview between WiseTech and the Lodestar.

Let's get into the episode.

My first guest for this episode is Nils Roche, Chief Strategy Officer at Bettersea and founder of Solven's Advisory, also an ex-exec at PIL, Maersk and CMA.

So you're a great person to chat to about all things container shipping.

Nils, it's great to have you on the podcast.