Canceled sailings. Slow steaming. Dropped ports. The ocean freight playbook has quietly rewritten itself, and most small and mid-sized operators are still running on the old one. In this episode of Execution at Scale, Vikrant sits down with Lori Ann LaRocco (CNBC’s Senior Editor of Guests and Global Supply Chain Reporter, FreightWaves maritime columnist, and author of six books including Trade War: Containers Don’t Lie and Dynasties of the Sea) for a no-fluff conversation on what’s actually breaking in sea freight, what the headlines miss, and why the operators who survive the next disruption are the ones who built their backup relationships before they needed them. If you move freight, plan freight, or pay for freight, this one’s for you.