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Managing volatility in container shipping: Jim Newsome (former President and CEO of the South Carolina Ports Authority; former President of Hapag-Lloyd Americas) and Gary Adams (30+ years at Walmart, former global freight leader) join Gnosis Freight CRO Michael Rentz for a conversation on ocean freight volatility, container visibility, and what supply chain teams are doing now to protect margin.
Topics covered:
- Where ocean freight volatility is hitting logistics teams in 2026
- How BCOs use container event data to hold ocean carriers and 3PLs accountable to negotiated SLAs
- Why 80% of a logistics P&L is ocean freight rates and 20% is demurrage, detention, and accessorials, and why a 1 to 2% rate improvement returns more than aggressive accessorial reduction
- What changes when Container Lifecycle Management replaces VLOOKUPs across carrier reports, terminal websites, and emailed booking spreadsheets
- The container volume threshold where Gnosis pays back: a few hundred containers a year, diversified across multiple carriers
- How importers run procurement, operations, and finance off the same container dataset
- Where a container system of record fits in a modern logistics tech stack alongside TMS, ERP, and visibility tools