New trade regulations are moving faster than supply chains can adapt.

In this live conversation from Transport Logistic Munich 2025, Flexport’s VP of Customs, Bernie Hart, joins Sanne Manders, President at Flexport, to unpack the regulatory shocks global shippers are facing - and share three actions businesses should take now to stay compliant and cost-effective.

In this episode, recorded live at Transport Logistic Munich 2025, Mathijs Slangen, Vice President Sales Europe at Flexport, welcomes Sebastian Reimann, Editor in Chief at DVZ - Deutsche Verkehrszeitung, to reflect this year’s fair.

What’s the real mood on the show floor? Are companies ready to embrace uncertainty as the new normal? And what challenges - from tariffs to bureaucracy - are topping industry leaders’ list for the coming year?

In this episode, Sanne Manders, President at Flexport, sits down with Niall van de Wouw, Chief Airfreight Officer at Xeneta and one of the most respected analysts in the industry, for a brutally honest conversation about the state of air cargo. With tariffs rising, e-commerce models under pressure, and macro uncertainty at an all-time high, this is a moment of reckoning for global air freight.

When Hapag-Lloyd and Maersk launched Gemini, it promised a new era of reliability and efficiency in ocean freight. Now, four months in, we’re asking: How is it going? In this episode Flexport’s Sanne Manders sits down with Danny Smolders, Managing Director Global Sales at Hapag-Lloyd to explore: Is 90% schedule reliability still within reach?

Recorded live at Transport Logistic Munich, this episode of Freight Expectations features Sanne Manders, President at Flexport, and Alex Nederlof, Senior Director of Engineering at Flexport, unpacking how AI is already reshaping supply chains from customs to planning.
In this episode:
– Real AI agents at work in logistics
– How emails are becoming APIs
– A behind-the-scenes look at Flexport’s new Tariff Simulator

In the kickoff episode of the Flexport Freight Expectations Podcast, recorded live at Transport Logistic Munich, Sanne Manders, President at Flexport sits down with Chris Rogers, Head of Supply Chain Research at S&P Global, to unpack the return of tariffs - and what they mean for global trade in the second half of 2025.