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News and analysis focused on what the industry expects in the coming year for container shipping, ports, trucking, air cargo, logistics, supply chain, and commentaries from industry leaders
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Alan Baer, President, OL-USA
JOC Team |
Innovation is a constant across the technology spectrum, and logistics is no different. We continue to see improvements in the use of OCR capability in reading, processing documents, and creating more sophisticated workflow solutions.
Gordon Downes, CEO, New York Shipping Exchange (NYSHEX)
JOC Team |
In preparation for 2023, we know that supply chain professionals are contemplating new procurement strategies as they evaluate the tradeoffs between cutting costs and managing their supply chain risks.
Robert Garrison, CEO, Mercado Labs
JOC Team |
The biggest opportunity for improvement in the import supply chain is the first mile, defined as order placed to product received and includes purchasing and logistics.
Asaf Fridenson, Senior VP and Group COO, Fridenson Group
JOC Team |
Digital transformation is changing the way we live and work. For the supply chain ecosystem, this change brings increased connectivity and technology that enable innovative operations and, ultimately, saves time and money.
Chrissy Geibel, Chief Operating Officer, Dunavant
JOC Team |
Our employees are the force behind our resilience and flexibility in this volatile industry. Given that business must evolve at a rapid pace — and the pressure to remain competitive is at an all-time high — having the best people is the key to success.
Blaine Kelley, Executive Vice President, CBRE
JOC Team |
Despite softening economic conditions, the US industrial warehouse market continues to perform well, posting record high rents, a robust development pipeline, and a continued strong demand.
Pervinder Johar, CEO, Blume Global
JOC Team |
Organizations should be embracing automation, and many already have. However, there are many supply chain leaders who still look to antiquated, industrial processes when evaluating their own productivity, hindering their profit margin without even realizing it.
Abe Eshkenazi, CEO, Association for Supply Chain Management
JOC Team |
With a keen eye fixated on emerging trends, it's clear that many organizations are starting to prioritize and pursue supply chain visibility through a number of different (yet often connected) avenues.
William F. Aldridge, President, Allport Cargo
JOC Team |
The answer to long-term supply chain sustainability is the ability to pivot from one strategy to the other.
Dennis Monts, Chief Operating Officer, Advent eModal
JOC Team |
Each supply chain participant works independently to optimize capacity with a shared goal of speeding profitable container movement. However, an optimal process for one party often suboptimizes the other, creating inefficient manual exception handling as the norm.
Tom Barnes, CEO, 319 Capital Partners
JOC Team |
Whether managed in-house or outsourced, one must maintain an ongoing, constant effort to ensure data integrity if they expect to extract full benefit from their supply chain visibility platform.
Glyn Hughes, Global Head of Cargo, International Air Transport Association (IATA)
JOC Team |
Demand will clearly be a challenge, but conversely, the supply side of the equation — which has been below pre-COVID-19 levels throughout the past two years — is likely to eclipse pre-COVID levels as passenger traffic returns.
Curtis Spencer, President, IMS Worldwide
JOC Team |
What happens on the ground is what directly affects the success and predictability of an air cargo supply chain.
Brandon Fried, Executive Director, Airforwarders Association
JOC Team |
While freight volumes have descended from the lofty highs of the last few years, most forwarders agree that cargo shipments are normalizing.
John Butler, President & CEO, World Shipping Council
JOC Team |
Regulators need to focus on the wider US ocean transportation system and what it needs to be productive for the long term.
Dr. Kunio Mikuriya, Secretary General, World Customs Organization (WCO)
JOC Team |
Coming together to forge strong customs-business partnerships, as evidenced during the pandemic, will be critical in ensuring mutually beneficial outcomes.
Tracy Zea, President & CEO, Waterways Council, Inc.
JOC Team |
The Inland waterways are crucial to the nation’s supply chain and offer a great benefit to American farmers who help to feed the world, shippers, manufacturers, steel and energy producers, agribusinesses, constructors, towboat operators, and consumers.
Brian Lowry, Senior VP - Innovation, Regulation and Trade, US Council for International Business
JOC Team |
It is imperative that as program expansions are considered, these new requirements are implemented in a way that protects the US economy without undermining customs and business operational efficiency.
William Conroy, Executive Director, Tyler Search Consultants
JOC Team |
The biggest tsunami of this generation has commenced and is paralyzing businesses — wage inflation. The single-largest cost for companies is compensation.
Joe Saggese, Executive Managing Director, North Atlantic Alliance Association
JOC Team |
Enhancements that can support and improve supply chain solutions are sorely needed and have not been considered for many years.
Jeanette Gioia, President, New York New Jersey Foreign Freight Forwarders & Broker Association
JOC Team |
The success of OSRA-22 will depend on US maritime regulators’ understanding of the real-world logistics challenges and systems through which cargo moves as it writes implementing regulations.
JD Gonzalez, Board President, National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America (NCBFAA)
JOC Team |
Never before has trade been more of a front-page issue in the media and never has it been more exciting to be at the forefront of what comes next. While 2020 saw panic and trade volumes initially plummet, and 2021 witnessed an absolute explosion in trade volumes, 2022 has been a year of finding a new equilibrium.
Stéphane Graber, Director General, International Association of Freight Forwarders Associations (FIATA)
JOC Team |
The supply chain and market structure has experienced profound shifts over the past few years, requiring governments to look at policy and regulatory responses through new eyes.
Daniel Maffei, Chairman, Federal Maritime Commission
JOC Team |
The COVID-19 pandemic and the intense shifts in demand for ocean shipping revealed weaknesses in our ocean cargo system, and the FMC is doing its part to shore up the supply chain system and ensure fair treatment of US importers and exporters.
Nicolette van der Jagt, Director General, European Association for Forwarding, Transport, Logistics and Customs Services (CLECAT)
JOC Team |
There is no doubt that today we are living not a new normal but a new reality, in which we need to seek to mitigate for risks and ongoing disruptions.
Anil Vitarana, Principal, Cranford Consulting LLC
JOC Team |
Although the supply chain chaos that lasted for two years has eased due to reduced US imports, the quest to avoid a repetition should not.
Paula Connelly, Board President, Coalition of New England Companies for Trade (CONECT)
JOC Team |
Companies should evaluate their imported products for potential forced labor risk factors and work closely with Tier One suppliers to assist with a deeper dive into the lower-tier suppliers.
Chris Connor, President & CEO, American Association of Port Authorities
JOC Team |
Allowing for extended hours of operations and improved data exchange between transport modes and users will assist in strengthening maritime operations.
Beth C. Ring, Esq., Senior Member, Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg, P.A.
JOC Team |
Writing this before the 2022 midterm elections presents even more of a “crystal ball” challenge than a post-election perspective might offer.
Patrik Berglund, Co-founder and CEO, Xeneta
JOC Team |
The essential need to stay on top of market developments and have crucial insights and data readily available has become crystal-clear — from being a nice-to-have to becoming a must-have.
P.T. Chen, Chairman, Wan Hai Lines, Ltd.
JOC Team |
We can hardly deny that the supply chain has become a miniature version of the global economy, faithfully reflecting its ups and downs rather than simply delivering goods.
Stephen Edwards, CEO and Executive Director, Virginia Port Authority
JOC Team |
The pandemic and its results fueled a supply chain strengths-and-weaknesses assessment, and one of the most important points to arise is the importance of having strong, well-managed, and long term investors as your supply chain partners.
Diana Davila, Project Director and Houston Branch Manager, UTC Overseas
JOC Team |
Lack of labor is a persistent problem throughout all modes and stages of the supply chain. With many union negotiations stalled or at an impasse, ongoing global labor movements have deeply influenced transportation as shippers shift cargo routes to avoid delays.
Christian Sur, Executive Vice President, Unique Logistics International
JOC Team |
Despite historically high logistics costs for provided services that deteriorated to also be the most historically unreliable, as volume demand slowed in 2022, the industry is swiftly returning to pre-pandemic habits.
Yorck Niclas Prehm, Head of Research, Toepfer Transport
JOC Team |
In 2023, the key task for the industry will be to discuss and to establish solutions to reduce potential geographical cluster risks and to deal with the challenges of a volatile geopolitical environment.
Carol Notias Lambos, Partner, The Lambos Firm, LLP
JOC Team |
The record cargo volumes handled at ports in the United States during the past year vividly demonstrate the cascading effect on the supply chain when competing interests seek access to the same limited marine terminal space.
Michael Alfultis, President, SUNY Maritime College
JOC Team |
We need a national marketing campaign to attract people to the mariner profession. The US Maritime Administration should lead this effort as it is central to its mission to foster, promote, and develop the US maritime industry.
Barbara Melvin, President & CEO, South Carolina Ports
JOC Team |
Supply chain challenges reinforce the importance of investing in infrastructure — both within port terminals and beyond — to remain competitive. The US needs more near-port and near–inland port distribution centers to handle record imports, as well as more port capacity and supporting road and rail infrastructure.
Susan Shey Dvonch, Managing Partner, Shey-Harding Executive Search
JOC Team |
With US unemployment hovering at about 3.5 percent, finding qualified talent is one of the biggest challenges currently facing the transportation industry. In today’s environment, management must employ creative thinking and a proactive approach in addressing the critical shortfall of workforce.
Rev. Mark S. Nestlehutt, President and Executive Director, Seamen’s Church Institute
JOC Team |
While the pace of change and innovation can be exciting, advancement and efficiency should never come at the expense of the men and women who crew these vessels for months at a time.
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