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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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John W. Murray, CEO, Port Canaveral
JOC Team |
Infrastructure investments in our seaports, both on land and in the water, bolster our economy, provide job opportunities and enhance competitiveness. Port Canaveral is facing unprecedented demand for bulkhead space — the highest in the port’s 65-year history.
Steven M. Cernak, CEO and Port Director, Port Everglades
JOC Team |
Port Everglades is evolving rapidly with more than $1 billion of infrastructure improvements underway or scheduled for the next five years.
James J. White, Executive Director, Port of Baltimore
JOC Team |
Having compensatory ocean freight rates has a domino effect on our industry. When shipowners make money, ports make money, allowing ports to make significant investments in necessary infrastructure, equipment, and technology.
Brandy D. Christian, President and CEO, Port of New Orleans
JOC Team |
Our future is that of a state-of-the-art integrated gateway, which enables us to think more comprehensively about freight movement and our multimodal efforts in order to meet the industry’s changing needs.
Chris Lytle, Executive Director, Port of Oakland
JOC Team |
In the face of uncertainty, it’s best to stick with fundamentals. For seaports, that means cost control and operating efficiency.
Curtis Robinhold, Executive Director, Port of Portland
JOC Team |
One solution for a port our size? Diversification, which is why we’re focused on offering shippers a variety of ways to access markets in this ever-changing world economy.
John F. Reinhart, CEO and Executive Director, Port of Virginia
JOC Team |
While increased tariffs may result in temporarily decreased volumes, we are focusing on diversifying our cargo mix as set forth in our strategic growth plan.
Paul Devine, President, OOCL (USA)
JOC Team |
For those who are unable to adjust and thrive in today’s new playing field, largely characterized by ever more competitive carriers with scale advantage and fewer alliances with greater market influence, we may see further consolidation taking place or companies struggling desperately to survive.
Gene Seroka, Executive Director, Port of Los Angeles
JOC Team |
Our response to change: Embrace it. We are committed to actively redefining the role of ports in the end-to-end supply chain by embracing our digital transformation.
Mario Cordero, Executive Director, Port of Long Beach
JOC Team |
We’re exploring how data sharing offers greater cargo visibility and can reduce truck turn times and yard dwell.
Jorge Luis Quijano, Administrator and CEO, Panama Canal Authority
JOC Team |
We will monitor the implementation of IMO 2020 to enforce a 0.5 percent global sulfur cap on the industry, as well as the growing digitalization, e-commerce, blockchain, and autonomous shipping.
Mark Montgomery, President and CEO, Ports America
JOC Team |
Safety and zero harm remain top priorities. These core values continue to be imperative and must be an integral part of the industry’s culture, extending to all personnel, labor, operations, cargo, and the environment.
Shaun Stevenson, President and CEO, Prince Rupert Port Authority
JOC Team |
While ports will always face new challenges associated with supporting evolving and complex global supply chains, dominant themes continue to be gateway performance and capacity.
Rev. David M. Rider, President and Executive Director, Seamen's Church Institute
JOC Team |
Emerging technologies are not limited to ship design and operation. They must also be used to make seagoing careers more attractive.
Robert Sappio, CEO, SeaCube Container Leasing
JOC Team |
There may be a shortage of reefer containers in the year ahead.
Jim Newsome, President and CEO, South Carolina Ports Authority
JOC Team |
the South Carolina Ports Authority is working to finalize major infrastructure projects that will enhance our operating efficiency and assimilate anticipated Southeast regional growth.
Carol Notias Lambos, Partner, The Lambos Firm
JOC Team |
2019 will see a continued embrace of information technology to facilitate cargo transportation. All sectors of the marine cargo-handling industry should adapt their operations to utilize these tools that are becoming more widespread.
Robin Silvester, President and CEO, Port Vancouver
JOC Team |
Canada’s international trade is growing, which has a direct impact on regions like Metro Vancouver, home of Canada’s largest port.
Nimesh Modi, CEO, BookYourCargo
JOC Team |
The truck driver shortage will continue to be a major problem as the present ratio between number of drivers available to number of loads is way out of reach to control.
Gene Tyndall, President, MonarchFx, a unit of Tompkins International
JOC Team |
E-commerce may end up the greatest change ever in both the consumer and business markets.
Sylvie Vachon, President and CEO, Montreal Port Authority
JOC Team |
We have witnessed the first complete year under the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, and it has yielded real benefit.
Wally Devereaux, Managing Director, Cargo and Charters, Southwest Airlines
JOC Team |
As firms invest in technology, it’s vital to remember that our industry was built on handshakes and building relationships with customers.
Paul Devine, President, OOCL (USA)
JOC Team |
Over the last few years, the scale game has taken everyone into a whole new industry landscape.
W. Patrick Burgoyne, President and CEO, NYK Ports: Ceres Terminals, Yusen Terminals
JOC Team |
John Wolfe, CEO, Northwest Seaport Alliance
JOC Team |
In this industry, price matters.
John J. Nardi, President, New York Shipping Association
JOC Team |
With longshore labor peace secured, we at the New York Shipping Association will be focused on implementing the provisions of the new six-year East Coast and New York/New Jersey labor agreements, especially those that impact productivity and the competitive position of the Port of New York and New Jersey.
Karen Oldfield, President and CEO, Halifax Port Authority
JOC Team |
The shipping industry along the east coast of North America is evolving at a tremendous pace.
Griff Lynch, Executive Director, Georgia Ports Authority
JOC Team |
The Georgia Ports Authority’s central challenge of 2019 is maintaining our high customer service standards in the face of exponential cargo growth.
Michael DiVirgilio, President, Principal, Containerization and Intermodal Institute; MJ DiVirgilio & Associates
JOC Team |
In life, and usually in business, the future is thought to be too difficult to predict, but for liner shipping, the future seems to look like the past all too often.
Peter Friedmann, Executive Director, Agriculture Transportation Coalition
JOC Team |
Challenges are many for the agriculture and forest products exports community.
Marianne Rowden, President and CEO, American Association of Exporters and Importers
JOC Team |
The era of trade liberalization may be over despite the trade community’s best efforts to stop protectionism and fragmentation.
Sumitha Sampath, Vice President, Operations, XVELA
JOC Team |
I am hopeful in 2019 that we will see some existing technologies go mainstream and nascent ones emerge.
Richard White, Founder and CEO, WiseTech Global
JOC Team |
In 2019, logistics providers face increasing pressures to improve visibility and cross-border execution, and reduce costs, risks, and errors that decimate margins.
Prasad Gollapalli, Founder and CEO, Trucker Tools
JOC Team |
The freight transportation industry is in a technology renaissance.
Kurt Nagle, President and CEO, American Association of Port Authorities
JOC Team |
A top 2019 priority is Congress adopting the American Association of Port Authorities’ unified industry plan that devotes 100 percent of HMT funds to America’s ports, while placing no additional tax burden on the industry or taxpayers.
Michael A. Regan, Chief of Relationship Development, TranzAct Technologies
JOC Team |
2019 will be a year for shippers to regroup and recover from the Perfect Storm of 2018.
Frank McGuigan, CEO, Transplace
JOC Team |
The increased capability of third-party technology providers, original equipment manufacturers, and tech-based freight brokers has provided a level of real-time (or near real-time) visibility that has not been seen before in the transportation industry.
David G. Ross, Global Transportation & Logistics Research, Stifel
JOC Team |
Over the past couple years, the movement to “everything tech” and “disruption” all over has reached a fever pitch.
Ruth Snowden, Executive Director, Canadian International Freight Forwarders Association
JOC Team |
Canada, during recent negotiations with the US and Mexico on moving forward with a revamped North American Free Trade Agreement (now USMCA), is still facing a new age of protectionism with duties and tariffs, and where the classification of products has become ever more key in compliance.
John Monarch, CEO, ShipChain
JOC Team |
Blockchain is both the most overhyped and most promising non-energy technology in the logistics industry today.
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