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Join Rolf Habben Jansen, CEO of Hapag-Lloyd, for direct and insightful conversations on the key developments shaping container shipping, global trade, and maritime logistics. Together with maritime journalist Janet Porter, each episode explores current industry challenges, market trends, supply chain disruptions, sustainability, innovation, and the people behind global shipping. A podcast for everyone who wants clear perspectives on the forces moving world trade.

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The container ship order boom: growth or overcapacity?

2026/11/04

In the fifth episode of Straight Talk with Rolf Habben Jansen, maritime journalist Janet Porter speaks with Hapag-Lloyd's CEO about the record container ship order book. They discuss what is driving the ordering boom, whether overcapacity is ahead, why demand keeps surprising the industry, why scrapping must rise, and which fuels will power the next generation of ships, from LNG and methanol to nuclear propulsion, which Rolf sees as a real alternative around 2040.

Africa: container shipping's biggest opportunity

2026/10/28

In the fourth episode of Straight Talk with Rolf Habben Jansen, maritime journalist Janet Porter speaks with Hapag-Lloyd's CEO and container shipping analyst Lars Jensen, who is travelling through 41 African countries. Marking 20 years of Hapag-Lloyd in South Africa, they discuss why Africa is the industry's biggest growth opportunity, the infrastructure gap, trade imbalances, where growth will come first, and what the market could look like in 20 years.

The hidden strength of mergers & acquisitions

2026/08/12

In the third episode of Straight Talk with Rolf Habben Jansen, maritime journalist Janet Porter speaks with Hapag-Lloyd's CEO about two decades of consolidation in container shipping: lessons from the CP Ships, CSAV and UASC mergers, why people, systems and customers decide success or failure, how cultures blend, where synergies really come from, and how much further consolidation the industry could see.

How globalization is reshaping world trade

2026/06/15

In the second episode of Straight Talk with Rolf Habben Jansen, maritime journalist Janet Porter speaks with Hapag-Lloyd’s CEO about 70 years of containerization, changing trade patterns, nearshoring, tariffs, emerging markets, vessel sizes, EVs in containers, and why he remains cautiously optimistic about the future of global trade.

The Strait of Hormuz and its impact on global supply chains

2026/05/08

In the first episode of Straight Talk with Rolf Habben Jansen, maritime journalist Janet Porter speaks with Hapag-Lloyd’s CEO about the Strait of Hormuz crisis, stranded crews and cargo, rising costs, customer impacts, network resilience, and the outlook for a return to normal trade flows through the Gulf and Suez.