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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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Bella Foss, President and Founder, Briz Forwarding/IFC International Freight
JOC Team |
Frank Guenzerodt, President and CEO, Dachser USA Air & Sea Logistics
JOC Team |
Carl Ice, President and CEO, BNSF Railway
JOC Team |
<p>We expect to continue to see a challenging economic environment going into 2017. Economic cycles are occurring with greater volatility and unpredictable duration, which makes it harder to forecast accurately. </p>
John Fay, CEO, INTTRA
JOC Team |
<p>The ocean shipping industry in 2016 confronted two immovable forces that will continue to disrupt ocean logistics participants, driving shifts away from historically successful business models to those focused on scale, enhanced customer engagement, and accelerated technology innovation.</p>
Rider Griswold, President and Founder, Argosy Transportation Group
JOC Team |
Having a new US administration may help bring back offshore drilling and create a need for services from the marine sector, as well as a possible infrastructure investment from the public sector.
Abe Eshkenazi, CEO, APICS
JOC Team |
<p>In 2017, we can expect to hear a lot more about Industrial Internet of Things solutions such as autonomous shipping, completely networked warehouses, and global asset tracking.</p>
Lance Fritz, Chairman, President and CEO, Union Pacific
JOC Team |
<p>Technology permeates every aspect of the railroad industry, and we must challenge ourselves to always think outside the box.</p>
Allen Gina, Founding Partner, CT Strategies
JOC Team |
<p>As trade flow through the Panama Canal increases, commensurate increases in security will need to follow to stop attempts to disrupt the global supply chain. </p>
Kurt Nagle, President and CEO, American Association of Port Authorities
JOC Team |
Luc Jobin, President and CEO, CN
JOC Team |
<p>We remain engaged in ongoing discussions about railway regulatory environments in Canada and the United States. </p>
Rick Blasgen, President and CEO, Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals
JOC Team |
<p>Supply chain discipline is steadily becoming an integral part of the global business model. </p>
Jim Preuninger, CEO, Amber Road
JOC Team |
<p>As we move into 2017, global trade management executives need to brace against disrupters that have the potential to send supply chains into a tailspin.</p>
David Groves, Director, MACS Maritime Carrier Shipping
JOC Team |
<p>There is an important date looming that will have an impact on the world shipping fleet, and that is Sept. 8, 2017, when the IMO ballast water treatment convention comes into force. </p>
Brian W. Taylor, CEO, Jacksonville Port Authority
JOC Team |
<p>Global trade and transportation are evolving at warp speed, and we must adapt or get swept out by this evolution.</p>
Anil J. Vitarana, Principal, Cranford Consulting
JOC Team |
<p>Global liner shipping regulators and, in particular, the Federal Maritime Commission, should review their policies and adopt a more balanced approach in fostering a stable liner shipping industry while safeguarding the interests of shippers.</p>
Mark H. George, Chairman, IMC Companies
JOC Team |
<p>The past year brought about significant changes for intermodal transportation.</p>
Michael J. Ward, Chairman and CEO, CSX
JOC Team |
<p>Throughout its history, the rail industry has embraced technological advancement as a means to drive our collective business forward and remain relevant in an ever-changing economy.</p>
Philip M. Seng, President and CEO, US Meat Export Federation
JOC Team |
<p>After a challenging year in 2015, US beef and pork exports rebounded in 2016 and enter 2017 on a positive trajectory.</p>
Patrick J. Ottensmeyer, President and CEO, Kansas City Southern
JOC Team |
<p>The transition to a new administration in Washington will certainly bring change to the country and US rail industry. We’re optimistic their policies will promote economic growth and regulatory relief for the rail industry and broader economy.</p>
Mark J. Malloy, Vice President Logistics Administration, Metal Exchange Corp.
JOC Team |
<p>A feeling of uncertainty pervades the shipping world with the rapid political shifts in the Western world with “isolation” as a strong undercurrent.</p>
Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem, Group Chairman and CEO, DP World
JOC Team |
<p>Change and innovation is where our future lies. New trade routes by land and sea, new ways of connecting the global supply chain will impact us all, and to those that adapt, the future belongs. </p>
April Zobel, Export Traffic Manager, Lansing Trade Group
JOC Team |
<p>Uncertainty rings true as the word for 2017, which will be a bit unlike 2016.</p>
Chris Caton, Senior Vice President, Global Head of Research, ProLogis
JOC Team |
<p>Location strategy will become increasingly important to the performance of logistics real estate in 2017.</p>
Alison Leavitt, Managing Director, Wine and Spirits Shippers Association
JOC Team |
<p>The overcapacity issues and slower-than-expected trade volumes exacerbated by the China slowdown have plagued the industry, and mounting losses led to necessary shifts.</p>
Perry M. Bourne, Director International Transportation and Rail Operations, Tyson Foods
JOC Team |
<p>2017 will offer some potential opportunities for meat proteins originating in the United States.</p>
Matthew R. Shay, President and CEO, National Retail Federation
JOC Team |
<p>As retailers look toward 2017, one of the biggest questions is what a new President Trump will mean for retail’s priority issues.</p>
Siva Narayanan, Director International Operations and Warehousing, Solvay Purchasing & Supply Chain Excellence — North America
JOC Team |
<p>2016 has been a watershed year.</p>
Huxiang Zhao, President, FIATA
JOC Team |
<p>Logistics is the main facilitator of international trade; for this reason, anything affecting trade affects logistics.</p>
Susumu Naruse, Secretary General, International Association of Ports and Harbors
JOC Team |
<p>The global economy seems to be entering another era of uncertainty and is becoming more protectionist, to the dislike of the port industry. </p>
John G. Larkin, Managing Director, Stifel
JOC Team |
<p>Carriers and 3PLs breathed a sigh of relief the morning after election day. Finally, the period of uncertainty was over. While some are concerned that trade might be restricted, most carriers and 3PLs are looking forward to four, and perhaps eight, years, of fewer, less onerous regulations and a simplified tax code, perhaps including a reduced corporate tax rate.</p>
Sandy Kennedy, President, Retail Industry Leaders Association
JOC Team |
<p>Retailers are experiencing a period of profound change. How individual companies react will determine so much about their future. </p>
Michael Alfultis, President, SUNY Maritime College
JOC Team |
<p>Two major issues face US maritime education and training in 2017. First, the new administration must be made aware of the vital role the six state maritime academies play in ensuring the nation maintains a sufficient pool of licensed mariners. Second, maritime academies must assess current curricula and determine what programs should be added to meet the future needs of the maritime industry, based on the increasing pace of technological and regulatory changes.</p>
Jon S. Helmick, Director, Maritime Logistics and Security Program, US Merchant Marine Academy
JOC Team |
<p>A dramatic decline in piracy off the Horn of Africa and in the western Indian Ocean since 2014 has produced a collective sigh of relief among ship operators, government agencies, and others concerned.</p>
William J. DeWitt III Executive, Director and Professor of the Practice of Transportation, Transportation Institute at the University of Denver
JOC Team |
<p>Transportation and logistics organizations, successful in 2017 and beyond, will proactively transfer the capabilities of the departing generation to following generations.</p>
Andrew Slusher, President and CEO, SMC3
JOC Team |
<p>There’s been a continued debate over transportation messaging and shipment visibility that will likely dominate supply chain conferences and board rooms in 2017.</p>
Mario Cordero, Chairman, US Federal Maritime Commission
JOC Team |
<p>Consolidation of container carriers and the realignment of ship alliances are commercial developments of significant magnitude, and point to a trio of critical priorities that industry and government must immediately address.</p>
Jens Bjørn Andersen, CEO, DSV
JOC Team |
<p>M&A proved to be a major theme in the freight forwarding business in 2016 and further consolidation is very likely in 2017.</p>
James R. Muhs, President and CEO, FedEx Trade Networks
JOC Team |
<p>Ocean container overcapacity is a major challenge we see impacting the freight forwarding industry in 2017 and beyond.</p>
Brad Dechter, President, DHX-Dependable Hawaiian Express and DGX-Dependable Global Express
JOC Team |
<p>In my opinion, the single most important change in 2017 will be the reduction in capacity within the worldwide ocean carriage industry.</p>
John Abisch, Regional CEO for the USA, Central America and the Caribbean, ECU Worldwide
JOC Team |
<p>The barrier to entry to become a licensed NVO remains low, yet I expect we will see more consolidation during 2017.</p>
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