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Annual Review and Outlook
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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Mediterranean Shipping Co. (USA)
JOC Team |
2012 will be another difficult year for many companies in our industry. Most of the cost-cutting measures we have identified inside our offices have been done. Slow steaming also has been done.
Metro Group Maritime
JOC Team |
The outlook for the steamship container line business is similar to that in 2010 and 2011.
Intermarine
JOC Team |
Although ours is a world increasingly connected by technology, the most significant development we can expect in our industry in 2012 will highlight the financial, rather than the technological, conne
International Association of Ports and Harbors
JOC Team |
Despite a gloomy outlook for the world economy because of the eurozone crisis, ports worldwide will continue to handle goods, commodities and passengers, generating direct and indirect jobs and wages
INTTRA
JOC Team |
In the ocean freight industry, we’re flooded with large data sets that are growing exponentially with the millions of container orders processed every month.
Kuehne + Nagel
JOC Team |
One of the most important changes we have experienced in the past few years and that is expected to continue is the increasing volatility in the containerized ocean shipping market.
Maersk Line USA
JOC Team |
Think about it. Leaders and innovators make their mark on the world by thinking differently from their peers and predecessors.
Maryland Port Administration
JOC Team |
Although the direction of the U.S. and the European economies are major questions hanging over global trade heading into 2012, there are two important issues facing East Coast ports.
Massachusetts Port Authority
JOC Team |
Public ports, terminal operators and steamship lines are destined to face financial pressures in 2012. <br /> <br />
Institute of International Container Lessors
JOC Team |
As we enter 2012, the world economy is expected to remain on a course of growth and stabilization.
DP World
JOC Team |
As we embark on the new year, we need to take a closer look at what is happening in the industry as a whole and reassess our strategies to meet old and new challenges, as well as create opportunities
Hoegh Autoliners
JOC Team |
2011 was generally a year of recovery for the car carrier industry, even though the tragic earthquake and tsunami in Japan and flooding in Thailand presented significant setbacks. <br /> <br />
Evergreen Group
JOC Team |
Overcapacity equals Oversimplification. Some in our industry don’t learn from experience. In 2011, ocean carriers again suffered millions of dollars in financial losses.
Georgia Ports Authority
JOC Team |
2012 will be another critical year as East Coast ports prepare and invest for the Panama Canal expansion, even though the expansion won’t be completed until 2014.
Halifax Port Authority
JOC Team |
Top of mind heading into 2012 is finding ways and means to ride through an extended period of volatility.
European Shippers' Council
JOC Team |
Shippers will need to deal with some important risks in 2012 as the container liner industry comes off another disastrous year.
Hapag-Lloyd (America)
JOC Team |
Although not quite at the level of 2009, the trans-Pacific liner shipping industry will experience another very difficult and challenging year in 2012, with many shipping lines again incurring dramati
Hanjin Shipping
JOC Team |
We see two major drivers in 2012 that will produce critical changes in carrier alignment and dynamics.
DHX - Dependable Hawaiian Express; DGX - Dependable Global Express; DAX - Dependable AirCargo Express
JOC Team |
The coming year is an election year in the United States. Elections historically have had some global impact and headline-making capabilities with respect to U.S.
Crowley Maritime Corp.
JOC Team |
The U.S. maritime industry has experienced many challenges and disappointments over the past few years.
Cosco Americas; Cosco Container Lines Americas
JOC Team |
The next year be a challenging, turbulent and complex year for the ocean transportation industry.
Canaveral Port Authority
JOC Team |
Whether the expansion of the Panama Canal ultimately requires the deepening of several U.S.
China Shipping (North America) Holding
JOC Team |
Ocean carriers seem doomed in their struggle to project future capacity requirements while guaranteeing reasonable ocean transportation costs for customers’ needs. <br /> <br />
APL
JOC Team |
With rising costs, slowing market growth and depressed freight rates, liner shipping will again be under pressure in 2012.
Ceres Terminals
JOC Team |
Sept. 30, 2012 is a headline date in the maritime industry because it marks the expiration of the current collective bargaining agreement between labor and management on the East and Gulf coasts.
Clipper Group
JOC Team |
One of the more significant changes in the multipurpose/breakbulk industry is the increased focus on safety and quality. <br /> <br />
CMA CGM (America)
JOC Team |
As uncertainty looms over the U.S.
Containerization and Intermodal Institute
JOC Team |
Any organization dedicated to every sector of the international movement of cargo faces the same challenges as its members and supporters in the industry we serve.
Cooper/T. Smith Corp.
JOC Team |
We’ve addressed a wide range of events over recent years that have created subtle and drastic changes to our industry.
Alix Partners
JOC Team |
No other industry has been hit harder in recent years than the global shipping industry.
AMA Capital Partners - New York Maritime
JOC Team |
The Damocles Sword that will remain over shipping markets in 2012 will be the debt issue. <br /> <br />
APM Terminals
JOC Team |
The year 2012 will be characterized by uncertainty.
Argosy Transportation Group
JOC Team |
We offer a positive outlook for 2012, and believe the domestic project sector requiring heavy deck barges will be strong, as will the international markets, specifically Mexico, and Central and South
Helen Delich Bentley and Associates
JOC Team |
The Harbor Maintenance Tax finally may be used exclusively for the purpose for which it was initiated: Deepening and maintaining the ship channels in and out of U.S.
Damco North America
JOC Team |
I doubt there’s ever been a time where it was more difficult to predict what the year ahead will bring.<br /> <br />
Agility Project Logistics
JOC Team |
I love writing optimistic commentaries for <em>The Journal of Commerce</em>. The only problem is realizing how terribly wrong I have been over the past two years.
Consolidators International
JOC Team |
How 2012 shapes up for the forwarding business depends on the forwarder’s focus. If he is concentrating on imports from China, 2012 will be a nasty 12 months.
CB Richard Ellis
JOC Team |
Following a four-year slide, leading indicators for industrial real estate showed modest gains in 2011. Vacancies are down and rates have begun to stabilize.
IMS Worldwide
JOC Team |
I’m glad to see 2011 behind us and am looking forward to a steady but slow improvement in all logistics sectors this year.
Con-way
JOC Team |
The trucking industry in 2012 will be largely shaped by two primary issues: the worsening shortage of qualified drivers and the outcome of legislative and regulatory policy developments regarding high
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