If we have learned anything over the last three years, it’s that what worked yesterday may not serve us tomorrow. Change is guaranteed.
Achieving — and enhancing — supply chain integrity requires partnership and innovation at every step. Our industry must continue to pursue ways of getting the job done that are reliable, more efficient, and better for the planet and generations to come. And we must do it by developing and supporting a mariner workforce that embraces and advances this change.
Unlike any time before, we can bring advanced technologies and analytics to meet a growing demand for fast, transparent movement of cargoes. The digital transformation under way is augmenting our ability to manage supply chains for the better, and it requires new ways of partnering and better use of technology to see the world for how it will be, not how it was. This is resulting in changing supply chains, such as nearshoring by producers in Central America that requires dynamic rethinking of supply chains.
In the same vein, our global climate crisis requires long-term, science-based solutions and commitment versus quick fixes. To innovate responsibly, there is an urgent and intensifying need for the private and public sectors to collaborate, share ideas, and jointly commit to a clean energy future with a unified goal. That is why we are working to reduce the environmental footprint of value chains involving ocean transport, the greenest way to transport goods.
Amid the change, we can rely on a few constants. Communities, customers, and government still depend on us for supplies that help them thrive. They count on us to invest in new tools and systems to avoid and bounce back from threats to business disruption, as demonstrated by this year’s active hurricane season. And they deserve transparency through whatever challenges or successes are facing the industry.