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7:30am - 8:30am (PST) / 26/feb/2023 03:30 pm - 26/feb/2023 04:30 pm
TPM23 Golf Open
Now in its eighth year, the TPM Golf Open features more than 100 golfers competing in a four-person scramble (best ball) event at one of Southern California's premier courses. Prizes and networking reception are included.
Registration: 7:30 AM
Shotgun Tee Time: 8:30 AM
Location: Pelican Hill Golf Club, Newport Coast, CA.
["TPM23 Golf Open", "TPM23 Golf Open"]
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9:30am - 4:30pm (PST) / 26/feb/2023 05:30 pm - 27/feb/2023 12:30 am
TPM23 Challenge Cup: Regatta and Yacht Race
Returning for its fourth year, the Challenge Cup features on-the-water team building, networking, and competitive racing aboard the famous fleet of Catalina 37 racing yachts owned by the Long Beach Sailing Foundation and used in internationally prestigious regattas such as the Congressional Cup. The Los Angeles Yacht Club, the body officiating the regatta, presents the historic Morrow Cup to the winning team.
["TPM23 Challenge Cup: Regatta and Yacht Race", "TPM23 Challenge Cup: Regatta and Yacht Race"]
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11:00am - 7:00pm (PST) / 26/feb/2023 07:00 pm - 27/feb/2023 03:00 am
["TPM23 Registration", "TPM23 Registration"]
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12:00pm - 12:45pm (PST) / 26/feb/2023 08:00 pm - 26/feb/2023 08:45 pm
Shipper Briefing
A special, off-the-record discussion and preview of TPM23 and the issues dominating today's containerized ocean shipping industry. Don't miss this opportunity to hear from the senior JOC editorial team about the key issues to be discussed during the conference, and to convey what questions you'd like addressed before leaving Long Beach. BY RESERVATION ONLY FOR SHIPPERS.
["Shipper Briefing", "Mark Szakonyi", "Executive Editor, JOC.com and The Journal of Commerce", "S&P Global", "Shipper Case Studies"]
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12:50pm - 1:20pm (PST) / 26/feb/2023 08:50 pm - 26/feb/2023 09:20 pm
TPM23 Orientation
With 50-plus sessions — many of them running concurrently — as well as numerous receptions and other networking opportunities, not to mention off-site activities, TPM can be an overwhelming experience. Successfully navigating the week requires a strategic game plan, but where do you start in your efforts to get the most out your time in Long Beach? In this brief introductory session for new and veteran TPM attendees alike, members of the TPM23 team will provide a roadmap of the four-day event, including details about what topics will be covered, how to obtain information you may be looking for, networking events, and generally how to maximize your TPM experience.
["TPM23 Orientation", "Chris Brooks", "Executive Director, Shipping Intelligence", "S&P Global", "TPM23: An Orientation", "TPM23: An Orientation"]
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1:30pm - 1:45pm (PST) / 26/feb/2023 09:30 pm - 26/feb/2023 09:45 pm
TPM Academy: An Introduction
NEW AT TPM23! TPM Academy is a series of 45-minute educational workshops offering a practical introduction and overview of key subjects that international trade professionals typically encounter in their day-to-day responsibilities. Taught by seasoned professionals with deep knowledge and experience, each 45-minute course will provide attendees with a conceptional and practical understanding that will make dealing with these issues much easier in the real world. In this 90-minute introduction, Dan Gardner, an educator with 30 years of logistics experience, will run through the course material, the courses that make up TPM Academy, and other details of this essential feature for professionals who have recently joined the industry, for TPM newcomers, and for those who simply have a passion to learn.
["TPM Academy: An Introduction", "Dan L. Gardner", "Co-Founder, and President", "Trade Accelerators, Trade Facilitators Inc.", "TPM Academy", "TPM Academy"]
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1:45pm - 3:30pm (PST) / 26/feb/2023 09:45 pm - 26/feb/2023 11:30 pm
TPM Academy: The Financial Implications of Global Supply Chain Management
This module explores the causal relationship between the tactical execution of a supply chain strategy and a company’s financial results. Presented from a global perspective, participants will analyze the links between product sales, landed cost, lead-time rationalization and inventory management, and the results found on an importer or exporter’s balance sheet, income statement and cash flow statement. Through the study of successful supply chain and logistics practices, and the application of timeless financial measures to real-world examples, this program creates tangible links between tactical supply chain execution and financial performance. Designed for both finance and non-finance professionals, attendees will learn to speak the language of supply chain finance and accounting by studying topics such as:
- Financial analysis and global trade
- The operating cycle
- The cash-to-cash cycle
- Asset management
- KPIs for global operations
- Financial metrics for global SCM
- The DuPont formula
- Inventory management in a global environment
["TPM Academy: The Financial Implications of Global Supply Chain Management", "Dan L. Gardner", "Co-Founder, and President", "Trade Accelerators, Trade Facilitators Inc.", "TPM Academy", "TPM Academy"]
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3:30pm - 5:00pm (PST) / 26/feb/2023 11:30 pm - 27/feb/2023 01:00 am
Networking Reception: TPM23 Celebrates Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Supply Chain
NEW IN '23: Join us for 90 minutes of networking, cocktails, and light snacks. Kickstart your TPM23 experience by building and re-establishing relationships while celebrating diversity in our industry! This reception will provide a chance to inspire and be inspired through the sharing of diverse ideas and experiences. All TPM23 attendees are invited, but space is limited.
["Networking Reception: TPM23 Celebrates Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Supply Chain", "Networking Reception", "Main Program"]
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5:00pm - 7:00pm (PST) / 27/feb/2023 01:00 am - 27/feb/2023 03:00 am
["Hospitality Reception", "Hospitality Reception"]
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7:00am - 6:00am (PST) / 27/feb/2023 03:00 pm - 27/feb/2023 02:00 pm
["TPM23 Registration", "TPM23 Registration"]
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7:30am - 8:30am (PST) / 27/feb/2023 03:30 pm - 27/feb/2023 04:30 pm
["Networking Breakfast", "Networking Breakfast"]
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8:30am - 8:50am (PST) / 27/feb/2023 04:30 pm - 27/feb/2023 04:50 pm
["Welcome Remarks", "Sarah Cottle", "Senior Vice President, Head of Research, Advisory & Specialty Solutions", "S&P Global Market Intelligence", "Peter Tirschwell", "Vice President-Shipping Intelligence", "S&P Global", "Welcome Remarks"]
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8:50am - 9:30am (PST) / 27/feb/2023 04:50 pm - 27/feb/2023 05:30 pm
Keynote
The Russia-Ukraine war and escalating tension in Taiwan are but two examples of how quickly geopolitical pressure can ratchet up risk in supply chain planning and execution. Now, perhaps more than ever, global supply chain stakeholders of all types must account for these and other conflicts and disputes in their strategic planning. In his TPM23 keynote address, retired Gen. David Petraeus will analyze the nature and magnitude of these and other geopolitical risks, and what they mean for international trade.
["Keynote", "Lindsay Newman", "Executive Director and Head of Geopolitical Thought Leadership", "S&P Global Market Intelligence", "General David H. Petraeus (Ret.)", "Partner, KKR and Chairman, KKR Global Institute", "", "Keynote Address", "Main Program", "Container Shipping"]
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9:30am - 10:00am (PST) / 27/feb/2023 05:30 pm - 27/feb/2023 06:00 pm
The Global Economic and Trade Outlook: How Container Shipping Demand Is Shaping Up
As of mid-October, concerns about the North American and global economy were mounting as multiple central banks aggressively raised interest rates to combat inflation while the war in Ukraine and China’s zero-Covid policy contributed further to a negative economic outlook. “Gradualism has given way to super-sized interest rate increases and a clearer resolve to restrain actual and expected inflation, despite adverse economic consequences,” S&P Global wrote on Sept. 20. Although US containerized imports from Asia were just starting to turn negative — as of August 2022, volumes had been up every month year over year versus 2021 and were up 6 percent year-to-date from 2021 and 27 percent versus 2019. But senior industry executives who have spoken to The Journal of Commerce were clearly worried about the outlook for the next 12 to 18 months. On the global front, S&P Global Market Intelligence is forecasting global real GDP growth to slow from 5.8 percent in 2021 to 2.8 percent in 2022 and 2.0 percent in 2023. As he has done each year at TPM since 2015, award-winning economist Dr. Nariman Behravash will present his plain-spoken but highly informed view of the economic outlook and what it means for international logistics and supply chains.
["The Global Economic and Trade Outlook: How Container Shipping Demand Is Shaping Up", "Dr. Nariman Behravesh", "Former Chief Economist", "IHS Markit", "Container Shipping"]
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10:00am - 10:30am (PST) / 27/feb/2023 06:00 pm - 27/feb/2023 06:30 pm
["Networking Coffee Break", "Coffee Breaks"]
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10:30am - 11:30am (PST) / 27/feb/2023 06:30 pm - 27/feb/2023 07:30 pm
Container Shipping Outlook: The Industry View of the Year Ahead
As of early fall 2022 the market was shifting rapidly and again heading into uncharted territory. Spot rates in the eastbound trans-Pacific were rapidly approaching pre-pandemic levels, defying widespread market consensus over the past two years that sub-$2,000-per-FEU levels would ever be seen again. Yet here we are. Carriers were responding with new rounds of blank sailings while shippers, carriers, and forwarders were assessing the meaning for the next round of service contract negotiations. If there was ever a moment when perspective, clarity, and informed thinking was called for it’s now. In an opening market outlook session that dates back to the first TPM in 2001, industry leaders will offer their big-picture outlook
["Container Shipping Outlook: The Industry View of the Year Ahead", "Mark Szakonyi", "Executive Editor, JOC.com and The Journal of Commerce", "S&P Global", "Randy Chen", "Vice Chairman", "Wan Hai Lines", "Alan Murphy", "Co-Founder and CEO", "Sea-Intelligence Consulting", "Container Shipping"]
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11:30am - 12:15pm (PST) / 27/feb/2023 07:30 pm - 27/feb/2023 08:15 pm
TPM CEO Series: A Conversation With Mediterranean Shipping Co.'s Soren Toft
Soren Toft joined MSC in December 2020 as CEO of what is now the world’s largest container shipping company, following a distinguished 25-year career at Maersk where he rose to executive vice [resident and chief operating officer. He is the first person outside the Aponte family to hold such a leadership role at MSC. In addition to becoming the world’s largest carrier in early 2022, MSC has been growing its fleet and has built the largest order book of any major carrier, at 39 percent of its current fleet, according to Alphaliner. MSC also has been diversifying this year, launching an air cargo offering for the first time and expanding its rail transportation and towage businesses, particularly within Europe. Meanwhile, the company is approaching completion of its acquisition of Bollore Africa Logistics. In North America, it is steadily building its presence and investment in terminal operations via majority-owned Terminal Investment Ltd. since acquiring a majority stake in TTI at Long Beach in 2017. Most recently, it is partnering to build a new terminal at Baltimore that would double the port’s throughput. MSC is also an active bidder to operate a new terminal at the Port of Montreal. In this in-depth conversation with Soren at TPM23, we will have the opportunity to discuss with him all of these developments and others. MSC has been increasingly active in tackling climate change, committing to deploy its first net-zero-carbon-emissions-capable ship by 2030 and achieving complete net decarbonization by 2050.
["TPM CEO Series: A Conversation With Mediterranean Shipping Co.'s Soren Toft", "Peter Tirschwell", "Vice President-Shipping Intelligence", "S&P Global", "Søren Toft", "Chief Executive Officer", "MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company", "TPM CEO Series", "TPM CEO Series"]
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11:30am - 12:15pm (PST) / 27/feb/2023 07:30 pm - 27/feb/2023 08:15 pm
TPM Academy: Incoterms® 2020 Rules — Understanding and Application
Companywide knowledge of Incoterms is fundamental to supply chain execution and financial success. Because trade terms specify the seller’s delivery responsibility under a sales contract, Incoterms impact risk transfer, who is responsible for shipping costs, landed cost calculations, calculation of gross profit, and payment for logistics services. The content of this module goes beyond the basics of understanding shipping terms to address rights and responsibilities between the seller and buyer — in both import and export scenarios — as well as the division of transportation costs between the parties. With an emphasis on the updates to Incoterms® 2020, this class will set the stage for other modules such as Ocean Freight Procurement and Maritime Cargo Insurance.
["TPM Academy: Incoterms® 2020 Rules — Understanding and Application", "Dan L. Gardner", "Co-Founder, and President", "Trade Accelerators, Trade Facilitators Inc.", "TPM Academy", "TPM Academy"]
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12:15pm - 1:30pm (PST) / 27/feb/2023 08:15 pm - 27/feb/2023 09:30 pm
["Networking Lunch", "Networking Lunch"]
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1:30pm - 2:00pm (PST) / 27/feb/2023 09:30 pm - 27/feb/2023 10:00 pm
["TPM23 CEO Series: A Conversation With DHL Global Forwarding CEO Tim Scharwath", "Greg Knowler", "Senior Editor, Europe-The Journal of Commerce", "S&P Global", "Tim Scharwath", "CEO", "DHL Global Forwarding", "TPM CEO Series"]
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1:30pm - 2:15pm (PST) / 27/feb/2023 09:30 pm - 27/feb/2023 10:15 pm
TPM Academy: Marine Cargo Insurance — An Explanation of Coverage Option
In a trade environment rife with risk, the entire maritime community must have a detailed understanding of marine cargo insurance and which supply chain exposures may or may not be covered. Whether a company is trying to grasp what “general average” means in the case of a vessel running aground, or a shipper needs to make choices about the level of insurance to carry, a formal marine cargo insurance strategy is integral to any company’s risk management program. Taught be Rick Bridges, an expert with years of experience in the field, this module will address topics that include the carrier’s limited liability pursuant to a contract for carriage and the difference between Institute Cargo Clause A, B & C insurance coverage. With a great tie-in to the class on Incoterms 2020 Rules, Rick also will reveal how terms of sale protect or expose importers and exporters.
["TPM Academy: Marine Cargo Insurance — An Explanation of Coverage Option", "Rick Bridges", "Vice President and Account Executive-Supply Chain and Logistics", "Lockton Companies", "TPM Academy"]
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2:00pm - 2:30pm (PST) / 27/feb/2023 10:00 pm - 27/feb/2023 10:30 pm
TPM23 CEO Series: Export Supply Chains in Disarray — A Conversation With the US Dairy Export Council's Krysta Harden
As the head of the US Dairy Export Council, Krysta Harden was in the middle of the campaign to rewrite US ocean shipping law that resulted in the 2022 Ocean Shipping Reform Act signed into law on June 16. Although the law imposes tougher standards on ocean carriers to ensure capacity is made available to US exporters, the law leaves it to the Federal Maritime Commission to clarify the meaning of “unreasonable.” To that effect, the FMC on Sept. 21 invited public comment “to define unreasonable refusal to deal or negotiate with respect to vessel space accommodation provided by an ocean common carrier.” How confident is the leader of a major exporter group that actual relief for exporters will result from passage of OSRA. What expectations does she have of ocean carriers and other parties in the supply chain to support her members’ exports? And what impact is geopolitical turmoil in Russia-Ukraine, China, and elsewhere having? Krysta Harden, CEO of the US Dairy Export Council, and a former US deputy Agriculture Secretary under President Obama, will address these issues and more in a comprehensive discussion that US exporters of all types won’t want to miss.
["TPM23 CEO Series: Export Supply Chains in Disarray — A Conversation With the US Dairy Export Council's Krysta Harden", "Krysta Harden", "President and CEO", "US Dairy Exports Council", "TPM CEO Series", "TPM CEO Series"]
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2:30pm - 3:00pm (PST) / 27/feb/2023 10:30 pm - 27/feb/2023 11:00 pm
["Networking Coffee Break", "Coffee Breaks"]
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3:00pm - 3:45pm (PST) / 27/feb/2023 11:00 pm - 27/feb/2023 11:45 pm
The Ocean Capacity Outlook: Shedding Light on a Complex Picture
The outlook for ocean container capacity has rarely been this complex. Beginning in 2020 carriers went on a furious ordering binge, driving the orderbook as a percentage of the existing fleet from 10 percent to 30 percent in two years’ time. The container shipping orderbook was just shy of 7 million TEU at the beginning of October; 2.6 million TEU of those new ships will be delivered in 2023 and 2.8 million TEU in 2024, according to S&P Global. At the same time, with volumes weakening and spot rates collapsing from their 2021 peak on the trans-Pacific and Asia-Europe, carriers likely will slow or cancel some orders. Drewry, for example, estimates the effective net increase in container shipping capacity in 2023 will be 11.3 percent, with demand growing at just 1.9 pecent. One capacity-absorbing measure that may help carriers manage excess supply is the International Maritime Organization’s 2023 environmental regulations that aim to reduce shipping’s carbon impact with penalties for less-efficient container ships. However, Jan Tiedemann, senior analyst at Alphaliner, said the actual impact of IMO 2023 was “still a mystery” and the industry was in a wait-and-see mode. This session will explore the outlook in depth.
["The Ocean Capacity Outlook: Shedding Light on a Complex Picture", "Mark Szakonyi", "Executive Editor, JOC.com and The Journal of Commerce", "S&P Global", "Jan Tiedemann", "Senior Analyst", "Alphaliner", "Concurrent Breakout Sessions"]
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3:00pm - 3:45pm (PST) / 27/feb/2023 11:00 pm - 27/feb/2023 11:45 pm
["Advancements in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: How the Transportation Industry Stacks Up", "Concurrent Breakout Sessions", "Concurrent Breakout Sessions"]
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3:00pm - 3:45pm (PST) / 27/feb/2023 11:00 pm - 27/feb/2023 11:45 pm
Delivering on OSRA 2022's Promises: A Townhall Discussion With FMC Chairman Daniel Maffei
In this informal, interactive dialogue with Daniel Maffei, TPM23 attendees will have the opportunity to question the Federal Maritime Commission chairman on his agency’s plans to implement the 2022 Ocean Shipping Reform Act, signed into law on June 16, and other steps to improve resiliency along US international supply chains in the wake of the ongoing pandemic and resulting port and inland disruption. Topics will include detention and demurrage, export capacity, maritime data, and others that attendees choose to raise.
["Delivering on OSRA 2022's Promises: A Townhall Discussion With FMC Chairman Daniel Maffei", "Teri Griffis", "Associate Editor-The Journal of Commerce", "S&P Global", "Daniel Maffei", "Chairman", "Federal Maritime Commission", "Concurrent Breakout Sessions"]
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3:00pm - 3:45pm (PST) / 27/feb/2023 11:00 pm - 27/feb/2023 11:45 pm
["Cool Cargoes I: The Mid- and Long-Term Market and Investment Outlook — North America", "Thomas Eskesen", "Founder", "Eskesen Advisory", "Concurrent Breakout Sessions", "Cool Cargoes"]
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3:00pm - 3:45pm (PST) / 27/feb/2023 11:00 pm - 27/feb/2023 11:45 pm
TPM Academy: Techniques for Procuring Maritime Transportation Services
When it comes to negotiating ocean freight rates with carriers and non-vessel-operating common carriers, there’s no doubt that the last three years have been the most tumultuous in the history of containerized transportation. In an age where beneficial cargo owners need to balance volumes between carrier contracts, negotiated rate agreements with NVOs and/or the spot market, including shippers associations, shippers need every tool at their disposal to negotiate equitable deals. This hands-on session will be led by industry veteran James Caradonna, who has direct experience negotiating agreements from the the carrier and BCO perspective. Through an approach that is rich with best practices and proven techniques, attendees will learn how to structure comprehensive terms that are aligned with service agreement requirements covered in the Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2022.
["TPM Academy: Techniques for Procuring Maritime Transportation Services", "James Caradonna", "General Manager-Pricing and Procurement", "MCL Multi Container Line", "Concurrent Breakout Sessions", "TPM Academy"]
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3:50pm - 4:35pm (PST) / 27/feb/2023 11:50 pm - 28/feb/2023 12:35 am
Making the "Shipper of Choice" Grade
It’s not enough anymore to just to be a so-called shipper of choice, nor is it always clear what it takes to be considered one. Container lines now are armed with tools to better determine which shippers forecast well, deliver cargo as booked, and provide flexibility on when they load. The difference in a shipper's grade can determine whether cargo is left on the dock or makes the booked sailing. Falling grades could mean that the carrier is less willing to grant a shipper's requested space allocations, or, in extreme cases, they may turn the "failing students" away. Shippers who are aware of how they rank along carriers’ various customer performance metrics can better understand how to get higher priority, even if their volumes don’t make them an automatic VIP account.
["Making the \"Shipper of Choice\" Grade", "Mark Szakonyi", "Executive Editor, JOC.com and The Journal of Commerce", "S&P Global", "Chantal McRoberts", "Head of Advisory", "Drewry Supply Chain Advisors", "Concurrent Breakout Sessions"]
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3:50pm - 4:35pm (PST) / 27/feb/2023 11:50 pm - 28/feb/2023 12:35 am
OSRA 2022: Will the New Law Finally Improve Detention and Demurrage?
Following years of complaints and fact-finding exercises by the Federal Maritime Commission, frustration over unfair detention and demurrage charges boiled over during the pandemic and led directly to importers and exporters uniting behind the 2022 Ocean Shipping Reform Act, signed into law by President Biden on June 16. While the law offers certain protections for exporters, its real impact will be in detention and demurrage: empowering the FMC to restore these fees to their core purpose of facilitating the movement of freight, not serve as an extra source of revenue. To drive this agenda, however, the FMC needs shippers to initiate cases, while shippers still must pay D&D bills to have containers released, and then seek relief later. This session will take a deep look into how the environment has changed for shippers in the roughly eight months since OSRA was signed into law, and what they can expect going forward.
["OSRA 2022: Will the New Law Finally Improve Detention and Demurrage?", "Peter Tirschwell", "Vice President-Shipping Intelligence", "S&P Global", "Bryn Heimbeck", "CEO", "TradeTech", "Concurrent Breakout Sessions"]
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3:50pm - 4:35pm (PST) / 27/feb/2023 11:50 pm - 28/feb/2023 12:35 am
Transloading: Re-Engaging Old Strategies
Since 2020, transloading has grown significantly in popularity among shippers, but much of the new business was about getting freight to distribution centers quickly, a speed-to-market play. Lost in the shuffle were more traditional benefits of transloading: converting four 40-foot containers into three domestic containers, or five 40-footers into four domestic containers. Such a conversation may save a shipper money, but also increase the productivity of a distribution center with more cargo going into each dock door. As supply chains normalize from the frenetic pace of the last two-plus years, how can shippers rethink transloading and reintroduce some of the traditional benefits back into their supply chains? Where does transloading make sense and where does international intermodal have an advantage? This session will feature representatives from companies that are investing in transloading on the East, Gulf, and West coasts who will discuss potential new solutions for shippers.
["Transloading: Re-Engaging Old Strategies", "Ari Ashe", "Senior Editor-Intermodal Rail and Southeast Ports, The Journal of Commerce", "S&P Global", "Rachael Acker", "Logistics Director", "Wolverine Worldwide", "Sarthak Verma", "Senior Vice President-International", "J.B. Hunt Transport Services", "Concurrent Breakout Sessions"]
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3:50pm - 4:35pm (PST) / 27/feb/2023 11:50 pm - 28/feb/2023 12:35 am
["Cool Cargoes II: The New Tech Frontier in Refrigerated Shipping", "Concurrent Breakout Sessions", "Cool Cargoes"]
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3:50pm - 4:35pm (PST) / 27/feb/2023 11:50 pm - 28/feb/2023 12:35 am
TPM Academy: Best Practices for Auditing Ocean Freight Invoices
Negotiating a detailed ocean transportation agreement with a carrier is one thing; getting billed what was agreed to can be an entirely different story. In an industry where it’s accepted practice to list multiple charges on a single invoice, beneficial cargo owners need to be sure the freight invoices they receive from carriers and 3PLs are 100 percent consistent with the underlying contract or quote. A natural continuation of the class on negotiating ocean contracts, this topic provides importers and exporters with insights on how to audit freight invoices at the line level. With an emphasis on upfront collaboration between shippers, carriers, forwarders, and customs brokers that helps to reduce billing issues in the first place, participants will gain valuable knowledge on how to audit freight invoices quickly and accurately.
["TPM Academy: Best Practices for Auditing Ocean Freight Invoices", "James Caradonna", "General Manager-Pricing and Procurement", "MCL Multi Container Line", "Concurrent Breakout Sessions", "TPM Academy"]
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4:40pm - 5:25pm (PST) / 28/feb/2023 12:40 am - 28/feb/2023 01:25 am
The Route to Carbon-Neutral Shipping and a Multi-Fuel Future
The past few years have thrown an intense spotlight on shipping’s global role in emissions, and the industry faces a multitude of challenges in the years ahead as it moves toward net zero. The International Maritime Organization, the governing body, has set ambitious targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from ships, and there indeed is a strong political will to phase them out as soon as possible. The most ambitious of these targets is to reduce GHG emissions by 2050 at least 50 percent vs. 2008 levels, and there is also an intermediate target to reduce CO2 emissions by 2030. Shippers are looking to decarbonize their supply chains while container carriers are in major a transition from conventional to climate- friendly carbon-neutral fuels, having placed early bets on green methanol and bio-LNG, among others. The industry, however, will need to understand key drivers and implications of a new multi-fuel future. Future fuel availability is also a new focus in S&P Global’s latest and significantly updated 2022 Maritime Forecast to 2050 report, which outlines under what conditions each new fuel type will proliferate. What will win — biofuels, e-fuels or fossil fuels with carbon capture and storage — remains uncertain, but we can say with confidence that the future fuel market will be more diverse than today and reliant on multiple primary energy sources. This session will address the future fuel transition, what role shippers play in the supply chain decarbonization, and how the collaboration between shippers and carriers can turn this muti-decade challenge into a business opportunity.
["The Route to Carbon-Neutral Shipping and a Multi-Fuel Future", "Rahul Kapoor", "Vice President and Head of Commodity Analytics and Research", "S&P Global Market Intelligence", "Concurrent Breakout Sessions", "Main Program", "Container Shipping"]
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4:40pm - 5:25pm (PST) / 28/feb/2023 12:40 am - 28/feb/2023 01:25 am
Dedicated Drayage as a Solution for Tight Truck Capacity
Volatile drayage capacity and costs are driving more companies to take control of the port-to-warehouse move into their own hands through dedicated drayage, a new take on the dedicated trucking services increasingly common in over-the-road freight lanes. But drayage is a different animal than truckload, and the dedicated model has to be adapted to the unique features of harbor trucking. This panel will examine when and where dedicated drayage is feasible, and how it can work for shippers.
["Dedicated Drayage as a Solution for Tight Truck Capacity", "Concurrent Breakout Sessions"]
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4:40pm - 5:25pm (PST) / 28/feb/2023 12:40 am - 28/feb/2023 01:25 am
TPM Academy: Negotiating Letters of Credit With Overseas Vendors and Customers
In today’s global trade environment, companies must exercise particular caution when agreeing on payment terms. With financing choices that include staged payments, open terms, letters of credit, sight drafts, and time drafts, importers and exporters need to understand up front the true implications of their credit policies and practices. While briefly discussing the options available for payment terms between sellers and buyers, this course will focus on best practices related to negotiation, creation, and execution of letters of credit. Beneficial for importers, exporters, bankers, and 3PLs, industry expert Dan Gardner will go into detail on letters of credit components that include key clauses, documentation requirements, and how to avoid amendment and discrepancy fees.
["TPM Academy: Negotiating Letters of Credit With Overseas Vendors and Customers", "Dan L. Gardner", "Co-Founder, and President", "Trade Accelerators, Trade Facilitators Inc.", "Concurrent Breakout Sessions", "TPM Academy"]
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4:40pm - 5:25pm (PST) / 28/feb/2023 12:40 am - 28/feb/2023 01:25 am
The Logistics Implications of Sourcing Shifts
China’s market share of total U.S. containerized imports has been declining slowly for several years, and now hovers around 40 percent, as labor-intensive manufacturing has gravitated to lower-cost countries. But now a new and more elevated sense of risk over COVID-19 lockdowns and geopolitical uncertainties has led to growing urgency among companies to de-risk long-haul supply chains by turning to new sources of production, whether to Western Hemisphere countries or elsewhere in Asia. This session will examine this phenomenon and its implications for corporate supply chains based on original data and analysis.
["The Logistics Implications of Sourcing Shifts", "Greg Knowler", "Senior Editor, Europe-The Journal of Commerce", "S&P Global", "Jan Hoffmann", "Head, Trade Logistics Branch, Division on Technology and Logistics", "UNCTAD", "Mabel Ng", "Director Product Management", "S&P Global Market Intelligence", "Daniel Krassenstein", "Global Supply Chain Director", "Procon Pacific", "Concurrent Breakout Sessions"]
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5:30pm - 7:30pm (PST) / 28/feb/2023 01:30 am - 28/feb/2023 03:30 am
["Welcome Reception", "Welcome Reception"]
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7:00am - 6:00pm (PST) / 28/feb/2023 03:00 pm - 01/mar/2023 02:00 am
["TPM23 Registration", "TPM23 Registration"]
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7:30am - 8:30am (PST) / 28/feb/2023 03:30 pm - 28/feb/2023 04:30 pm
["Networking Breakfast", "Networking Breakfast"]
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8:30am - 8:45am (PST) / 28/feb/2023 04:30 pm - 28/feb/2023 04:45 pm
Welcome Remarks and Log-Net E-Commerce Excellence Award
LOG-NET's Electronic Commerce Excellence award has consistently reinforced the partnership between carriers and their customers and the fundamental importance of data quality in that relationship. Digitization has made data management and data quality foundational elements of successful global supply chains. Whether the data is coming from smartphones, web forms, Internet of Things devices, AI, or EDI, it needs to be complete, timely, and accurate. Data quality is critical, considering the consumers of this information now range from import and logistics specialists to business intelligence and machine learning platforms that demand ever more granular information. Since 2003, LOG-NET CEO John Motley has presented the LOG-NET E-Commerce Excellence award at TPM. The award recognizes the efforts of the international carrier community and its outstanding daily performance with LOG-NET's Trading Partner and Data Quality teams.
Award Presenter: John Motley, CEO, LOG-NET
["Welcome Remarks and Log-Net E-Commerce Excellence Award", "Jenny Paurys", "Head of Economics & Country Risk and Maritime, Trade & Supply Chain", "S&P Global", "Peter Tirschwell", "Vice President-Shipping Intelligence", "S&P Global", "John Motley", "CEO", "LOG-NET", "Welcome Remarks and Log-Net E-Commerce Excellence Award"]
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8:45am - 9:30am (PST) / 28/feb/2023 04:45 pm - 28/feb/2023 05:30 pm
["Session to Come", "Container Shipping"]
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9:30am - 10:15am (PST) / 28/feb/2023 05:30 pm - 28/feb/2023 06:15 pm
["Session to Come", "Container Shipping"]
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10:15am - 10:45am (PST) / 28/feb/2023 06:15 pm - 28/feb/2023 06:45 pm
["Networking Coffee Break", "Coffee Breaks"]
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10:45am - 11:30am (PST) / 28/feb/2023 06:45 pm - 28/feb/2023 07:30 pm
["TPM Academy: Managing the Inland Move", "Ari Ashe", "Senior Editor-Intermodal Rail and Southeast Ports, The Journal of Commerce", "S&P Global", "TPM Academy", "TPM Academy"]
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10:45am - 11:30am (PST) / 28/feb/2023 06:45 pm - 28/feb/2023 07:30 pm
["Session to Come", "Container Shipping"]
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11:30am - 12:00pm (PST) / 28/feb/2023 07:30 pm - 28/feb/2023 08:00 pm
TPM23 CEO Series: A Conversation With CN CEO Tracy Robinson
Tracy Robinson had no honeymoon when she took the helm of Canadian National Railway in February 2022. International container volumes, still recovering from an extraordinarily difficult operating environment driven by extreme weather conditions in Vancouver in late 2021, were just beginning to soar. COVID-19 marked a challenging period sending carload and intermodal demand plunging, and the staffing cuts and resource adjustments made during that period couldn’t be reinstated at the speed at which rail freight rebounded. Instead, Robinson guided Canada’s largest railroad through a service recovery challenged by surging volumes and multiple layers of last-mile challenges in Toronto and Montreal. The threat of a US-wide rail strike, driven in part by rail workers’ frustration with safety conditions, this fall further underscored the new precariousness of rail labor. Amid these domestic challenges and changing trade flows — some driven by rising geopolitical tensions — CN is positioning Halifax and the US Gulf for growing Southeast Asia trade, and strengthening routings through Prince Rupert, Mobile, and new inland ramps to give US shippers more alternatives and flexibility for when disruption inevitably bites. CN’s continued investment to deepen its reach into consumer supply chains, however, must be balanced by industry cost pressures. Addressing how technology can strike that balance and gain resilience, Robinson will discuss how the rail industry must adapt to a changing labor market and new geopolitical and economic issues reshaping shipping. In a Q&A discussion with Journal of Commerce Executive Editor Mark Szakonyi, Robinson, CN’s first female CEO in its 104-year history, will discuss what’s changed in the industry irrevocably over the last three years and what that means for the future.
["TPM23 CEO Series: A Conversation With CN CEO Tracy Robinson", "Mark Szakonyi", "Executive Editor, JOC.com and The Journal of Commerce", "S&P Global", "Tracy Robinson", "President and CEO", "CN", "TPM CEO Series", "TPM CEO Series"]
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11:30am - 12:15pm (PST) / 28/feb/2023 07:30 pm - 28/feb/2023 08:15 pm
TPM Academy: OSRA 2022 — Invoice Requirements and Charge Complaints for Detention & Demurrage
The Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2022 was signed into law by President Biden on June 16, 2022. Whereas OSRA 2022 addresses multiple challenges associated with the US container supply chain, the big topics of interest revolve around invoice requirements for ocean carriers that are specific to demurrage and detention, as well as how parties can dispute charges by filing a “Charge Complaint” with the Federal Maritime Commission. This real-world analysis of OSRA 2022 will begin with an update of where things stand with the implementation of the act and then go into detail about how carriers are now required to structure invoices for demurrage and detention, and what shippers must to do submit valid charge complaints to the FMC. An integral component of the multiple classes offered on maritime logistics, this is a must attend for all TPM attendees.
["TPM Academy: OSRA 2022 — Invoice Requirements and Charge Complaints for Detention & Demurrage", "Rich Roche", "Senior Vice President", "Mohawk Global", "TPM Academy", "TPM Academy"]
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12:00pm - 12:30pm (PST) / 28/feb/2023 08:00 pm - 28/feb/2023 08:30 pm
TPM23 Accelerator: A Presentation by Foreign Policy Expert and Author Dr. Bruce Jones
Many in the industry have read To Rule The Waves, the groundbreaking 2021 book by Brookings Institution Fellow Bruce Jones that coherently analyzes the growing convergence of geopolitics, sea power, great power struggles, and container supply chains. According to publisher Simon & Schuster, the book takes readers on a “fascinating voyage through the great modern ports and naval bases — from the vast container ports of Hong Kong and Shanghai to the vital naval base of the American Seventh Fleet in Hawaii and the sophisticated security arrangements in the Port of New York-New Jersey. Along the way, the book illustrates how global commerce works “... midst a global naval arms race.” In this TED-style presentation, Dr. Jones will speak to geopolitical risks increasingly being taken into consideration by supply chain planners and the C-Suite. https://bit.ly/3fmlBmF
["TPM23 Accelerator: A Presentation by Foreign Policy Expert and Author Dr. Bruce Jones", "Mark Szakonyi", "Executive Editor, JOC.com and The Journal of Commerce", "S&P Global", "Bruce Jones", "Project Director", "The Brookings Institution, and Author of "To Rule the Waves"", "TPM23 Accelerator"]
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12:30pm - 1:30pm (PST) / 28/feb/2023 08:30 pm - 28/feb/2023 09:30 pm
["Networking Lunch", "Networking Lunch"]
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1:30pm - 2:00pm (PST) / 28/feb/2023 09:30 pm - 28/feb/2023 10:00 pm
TPM23 CEO Series: A Conversation With DCLI CEO Bill Shea
One would be challenged to identify a US transportation executive with a longer, more successful track record than Bill Shea, the CEO of DCLI, the largest provider of chassis to the US transportation market. A decades-long streak of deal-making and business building has left Bill in a position to offer unique perspective on the current environment and where the industry is headed. He was the key driver behind the carve-out of DCLI from Maersk in 2012, thereby playing a key role in facilitating the mass exit of ocean carriers from the chassis business. DCLI owns approximately 285,000 chassis and expanded into the domestic chassis market in 2018 with the acquisition of TRAC Intermodal’s fleet of approximately 72,000 53-foot domestic chassis. Bill was also the thought leader behind the 2015 creation of the Pool of Pools, the gray daily-use chassis pool that operates at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. He also led DCLI’s acquisitions of REZ-1 and IAS and their further development into Blume Global, a leading technology company providing asset management and logistics software services to railroads, ocean carriers, logistics companies, motor carriers, and BCOs. In this conversation with Peter Tirschwell, Bill will offer his thoughts about where the industry is headed in terms of railroads, intermodal, chassis, ocean carriers, ports, and technology.
["TPM23 CEO Series: A Conversation With DCLI CEO Bill Shea", "Peter Tirschwell", "Vice President-Shipping Intelligence", "S&P Global", "William (Bill) Shea", "CEO", "Direct ChassisLink Inc. (DCLI)", "TPM CEO Series", "TPM CEO Series"]
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2:00pm - 2:45pm (PST) / 28/feb/2023 10:00 pm - 28/feb/2023 10:45 pm
["The State of Flow: An Analysis of North American Port Efficiency", "Mark Szakonyi", "Executive Editor, JOC.com and The Journal of Commerce", "S&P Global", "Stephen R. Lyons", "Retired Gen US Port and Supply Chain Envoy", "The Biden-Harris Administration", "Container Shipping"]
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2:00pm - 2:45pm (PST) / 28/feb/2023 10:00 pm - 28/feb/2023 10:45 pm
TPM Academy: Ensuring Compliance with US CBP and Partner Government Agency Regulations
Whereas supply chain disruption and ocean freight rates have dominated trade news during the pandemic, US importers must remain committed to compliance with all US Customs and partner government agency regulations or risk avoidable delays and fees. After all, if importers are unable to legally execute customs entries, their supply chains will be negatively impacted. Taught by licensed customs brokers and with an emphasis on integrating inbound transportation and customs clearance, this class features basic training on essentials such as building parts files, classification and valuation, and documentation must-haves. Built on the bedrock Customs principle of informed compliance, the instructor also will offer best practices on how to streamline collaboration between the importer of record and the customs broker.
["TPM Academy: Ensuring Compliance with US CBP and Partner Government Agency Regulations", "Robert Stein", "Senior Vice President", "Mohawk Global Trade Advisors", "TPM Academy", "TPM Academy"]
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2:45pm - 3:15pm (PST) / 28/feb/2023 10:45 pm - 28/feb/2023 11:15 pm
["Networking Coffee Break", "Coffee Breaks"]
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3:15pm - 4:00pm (PST) / 28/feb/2023 11:15 pm - 01/mar/2023 12:00 am
Labor Update: What Now and What's Ahead
Along with severe port and inland congestion, longshore labor has dominated the industry’s agenda over the past year as negotiations got under way between West Coast employers and dockworkers. Significant volumes were diverted to ports on the East and Gulf coasts and in Canada to avoid negotiations that have a history of disruption going back to the 1990s. As of early October, five months into negotiations that began on May 10, concern was growing about the pace and direction of the talks despite active involvement by the Biden administration to achieve a deal before the midterm elections. Growing instances of locally initiated disruption at ports in the Pacific Northwest, Oakland, and Southern California were occurring amid the inability of negotiators to address core union grievances such as support in jurisdictional disputes with other unions. This session will assess the status of these negotiations as well as parallel developments on the East Coast, and point to implications for the future.
["Labor Update: What Now and What's Ahead", "Bill Mongelluzzo", "Senior Editor, West Coast, The Journal of Commerce", "S&P Global", "Container Shipping"]
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3:15pm - 4:00pm (PST) / 28/feb/2023 11:15 pm - 01/mar/2023 12:00 am
Trade Lane Deep Dive: Asia-Europe
Carriers on the Asia-Europe trade are sailing into a year when the economic and geopolitical challenges are deepening, with growing uncertainty on both the supply and demand side of the container shipping business. Russia’s ongoing war with Ukraine has resulted in huge hikes in energy prices, creating runaway inflation across Europe that has left consumers struggling with a cost-of-living crisis expected to extend through 2023. This already has dampened demand for containerized transport through an anemic 2022 peak season —North Europe imports from China fell 10 percent in the July-September seasonal peak — and there are no expectations of the traditional surge in volume ahead of Chinese New Year on Jan. 22. Carriers are trying to match capacity with falling demand by blanking sailings in an aggressive program in which they withdrew 1.6 million TEU in the last four months of 2022, and some analysts warn that a rate war is possible. As economic and geopolitical headwinds strengthen, this session will dive into the Asia-Europe supply-demand fundamentals to examine the host of factors stacking up to undermine the stability of the trade lane, including capacity flooding back into the market, tanking demand, and rising COVID-19 infections in China ensuring no change in Beijing’s lockdown approach to the pandemic.
["Trade Lane Deep Dive: Asia-Europe", "Greg Knowler", "Senior Editor, Europe-The Journal of Commerce", "S&P Global", "Alexander Nowroth", "Managing Director", "Lebenswerk Consulting Group", "Container Shipping"]
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3:15pm - 4:00pm (PST) / 28/feb/2023 11:15 pm - 01/mar/2023 12:00 am
["Cool Cargoes III: What Shippers Need", "Cool Cargoes", "Cool Cargoes"]
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3:15pm - 4:00pm (PST) / 28/feb/2023 11:15 pm - 01/mar/2023 12:00 am
TPM Academy: Strategies & Tactics for Managing Ocean Export Programs
Anyone involved in exporting goods from the US via ocean container freight knows that things were difficult long before the COVID-19 outbreak. Especially true for exporters in the central US, the ability to procure containers and chassis has always been a challenge, and the situation has only gotten worse over the last few years. In a module that is 100 percent dedicated to ocean exports, attendees will learn ways to maximize the probability of gaining access to equipment, as well as how to enhance their operations through coordination with drayage providers, forwarders, ocean carriers. and rail ramps. Integral to this presentation is a bonus section on how shippers can take advantage of the export-centric provisions of OSRA 2022 to ensure access to equipment and vessel capacity.
["TPM Academy: Strategies & Tactics for Managing Ocean Export Programs", "TPM Academy"]
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3:15pm - 4:00pm (PST) / 28/feb/2023 11:15 pm - 01/mar/2023 12:00 am
How to Improve Container Flow Through Terminals
If the pandemic experience taught us anything about supply chains, it's the urgency of maintaining container flow through ports and terminals. The logic is simple: Too many containers — loaded or empty — sitting on terminal grounds slows productivity at the berth and the gate. As data clearly showed, lower productivity results in ships remaining at berth for longer, forcing incoming ships — and all of their cargo — to wait at anchor. Transit times, lead times, and inventory-carrying costs all increase as a direct result, while shippers' revenue and responsiveness to customer demands go down. Many factors work against flow: empties not being removed quickly, excessive free time within service contracts, and shippers and truckers' slow transition to 24/7 operations, to mention but a few. Unprecedented pressure obviously was placed on the system beginning in late 2020, but future shocks are a certainty, and lessons need to be learned. This session will address what steps need to be taken to ensure consistent flow going forward.
["How to Improve Container Flow Through Terminals", "Peter Tirschwell", "Vice President-Shipping Intelligence", "S&P Global", "Mario Cordero", "Executive Director", "Port of Long Beach", "Roger Guenther", "Executive Director", "Port of Houston Authority", "Griffith V. Lynch", "Executive Director", "Georgia Ports Authority", "Beth Rooney", "Director-Port Department", "Port Authority of New York and New Jersey", "Concurrent Breakout Sessions", "Concurrent Breakout Sessions"]
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4:00pm - 4:45pm (PST) / 01/mar/2023 12:00 am - 01/mar/2023 12:45 am
The eBL Inflection Point
An electronic bill of lading sounds like such a reasonable and practical idea that it's difficult to understand why there has been so little adoption of them. The world has dispensed with paper versions of documents in dozens of high-values, high-importance scenarios, including bidding on houses. Yet eBLs account for only a tiny percentage of overall bills of lading each year. The barriers to adoption actually are numerous: no single eBL product; diverse pilots involving different container lines; unique banking regulations in each country touching international shipments; and a lack of priority among shippers to force service providers to change. In 2022, however, some strides were made that might end up being seen as a true fork in the road. The Digital Container Shipping Association convened numerous eBL software vendors in a pilot that seeks to create interoperability among the various products. This is key because shippers don't want to be forced into several eBL formats depending on the shipping lines they use. And progress has come in terms of making banks more comfortable with the creation and transfer of eBLs. This session will dig into where the industry is, how vendors that are competitive with each other can work together to drive adoption of eBLs, and the role shippers can play in driving broader use of eBLs.
["The eBL Inflection Point", "Logistics Technology", "Concurrent Breakout Sessions", "Logistics Technology"]
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4:00pm - 4:45pm (PST) / 01/mar/2023 12:00 am - 01/mar/2023 12:45 am
Marine Chassis: Will We Reach Equilibrium in 2023?
For the second consecutive year, chassis shortages disrupted the supply chain and prevented shippers from getting their containers delivered in a timely fashion. The problem was acute in Chicago, Dallas, Memphis, Kansas City, and several other smaller markets. As import volumes decline, however, could the equipment problem resolve itself? Will a decline in imports and higher production out of chassis manufacturers to pump out more chassis lead to a balance in the middle of the supply-and-demand curve? How do we ensure there won’t be an overcorrection with too many chassis built for yesterday’s surge that collect dust in today’s slowdown? And will truckers gravitate toward owning their chassis rather than rely on third parties? In this session, we will explore these questions and what it means toward ensuring chassis are no longer a headline story in 2023.
["Marine Chassis: Will We Reach Equilibrium in 2023?", "Ari Ashe", "Senior Editor-Intermodal Rail and Southeast Ports, The Journal of Commerce", "S&P Global", "Trevor Ash", "CEO", "CIE Manufacturing", "Mike Burton", "President", "C&K Holdings", "Daniel Walsh", "President and CEO", "TRAC Intermodal", "Trucking/ Intermodal/ Inland Distribution"]
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4:00pm - 4:45pm (PST) / 01/mar/2023 12:00 am - 01/mar/2023 12:45 am
Trade Lane Deep Dive: The Trans-Atlantic
The trans-Atlantic has traditionally been a stable trade lane, and as the world finds its footing following the COVID-19 years, that reputation has not only remained intact, but it has been further entrenched. In 2022, the trans-Atlantic became the most profitable of the east-west trade lanes, according to Alphaliner, with sustained demand and elevated rates driving up the average per-mile revenue while the trans-Pacific and Asia-Europe routes struggled with fast-eroding volume and precipitous price declines. Heavy congestion at ports on both sides of the Atlantic was a feature of the trade lane throughout 2022, and the bottlenecks in North Europe and on the US East Coast remained deep into the fourth quarter, keeping ship utilization high and propping up rate levels. But the rally won’t last forever. Indeed, deteriorating economic conditions and rising inflation in the US are expected to put the brakes on demand, while port congestion will no longer delay vessels, and rates will fall. When trans-Atlantic demand and rates will return to normal — or what that normal will look like — is difficult to predict but few in the industry expect the bull run to extend deep into 2023.
["Trade Lane Deep Dive: The Trans-Atlantic", "Greg Knowler", "Senior Editor, Europe-The Journal of Commerce", "S&P Global", "Michael Amri", "Global Sea Freight Business Development Manager", "Hellmann Worldwide Logistics", "Container Shipping", "Concurrent Breakout Sessions"]
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4:00pm - 4:45pm (PST) / 01/mar/2023 12:00 am - 01/mar/2023 12:45 am
["Cool Cargoes IV: The Carrier Perspective of What's Next", "Cool Cargoes", "Cool Cargoes"]
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4:00pm - 4:45pm (PST) / 01/mar/2023 12:00 am - 01/mar/2023 12:45 am
TPM Academy: Decarbonization 101: Minimizing the Maritime Carbon Footprint
With at least a dozen players involved in the most basic of supply chains, there are vast opportunities for companies to reduce the carbon footprint created born of ocean transportation. Given this urgent need, it's incumbent upon shippers, carriers, 3PLs, drayage operators, truckers, and rail operators to make the reduction of hydrocarbon emissions a core goal of their Environmental, Social & Governance strategies. Led by Kristy Asseili, maritime sustainability lead at S&P Global, this session not only will provide techniques on how individual companies can reduce emissions, but present case studies on how companies band together to achieve carbon neutrality across the maritime ecosystem. Supported by field-proven techniques for shrinking carbon footprints, this class is a must for companies committed to good corporate citizenship
["TPM Academy: Decarbonization 101: Minimizing the Maritime Carbon Footprint", "Kristy Asseily", "Maritime Sustainability Lead", "S&P Global", "TPM Academy", "TPM Academy"]
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4:45pm - 5:30pm (PST) / 01/mar/2023 12:45 am - 01/mar/2023 01:30 am
Optimizing Inland Freight Flow
Getting goods from ports and warehouses to inland distribution centers is increasingly difficult, with obstacles both on the intermodal rail side and over the road. A lack of accurate data at several freight transfer points remains a major obstacle to making the best decisions about how to move freight inland to customers. Too much freight still “goes wild” and untracked at some point in transit. How can we optimize the outbound flow of freight from ports to inland destinations? This panel of experts will look at the decisions, processes, and technology necessary to support optimizing inland freight flow.
["Optimizing Inland Freight Flow", "William B. Cassidy", "Senior Editor, Trucking, and Domestic, The Journal of Commerce", "S&P Global", "Mike Regan", "Co-Founder and Chief of Relationship Development", "TranzAct Technologies", "Jeffrey Tucker", "CEO", "Tucker Company Worldwide", "Trucking/ Intermodal/ Inland Distribution", "Main Program", "Trucking/ Intermodal/ Inland Distribution"]
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4:45pm - 5:30pm (PST) / 01/mar/2023 12:45 am - 01/mar/2023 01:30 am
["Data Quality: Who Holds the Key to Greater Visibility?", "Eric Johnson", "Senior Editor, Logistics Technology-The Journal of Commerce", "S&P Global", "Logistics Technology"]
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4:45pm - 5:30pm (PST) / 01/mar/2023 12:45 am - 01/mar/2023 01:30 am
["The Interplay Between Ocean and Air: When Taking to the Skies Makes Sense", "Air Cargo"]
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4:45pm - 5:30pm (PST) / 01/mar/2023 12:45 am - 01/mar/2023 01:30 am
TPM Academy: Technology Applications for the Maritime Supply Chain
Next to supply chain disruptions and volatile ocean freight rates, the biggest headline in international trade is the application of technology to multiple facets of global operations. In addition to cargo tracking capabilities, hot-topic solutions range from predictive/prescriptive analytics and robotic process automation to the deployment of application programming interfaces and automated trade compliance software. Presented by TPM’s resident expert on all thing's technology, this module opens with a review of maritime-centric technology solutions (by category) and quickly transitions into an analysis of how shippers, carriers, forwarders, customs brokers, and drayage providers can deploy technologies that increase productivity, while enhancing overall supply chain performance.
["TPM Academy: Technology Applications for the Maritime Supply Chain", "Brian Glick", "Founder and CEO", "Chain.io", "TPM Academy", "TPM Academy"]
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4:45pm - 5:30pm (PST) / 01/mar/2023 12:45 am - 01/mar/2023 01:30 am
California Drayage in Crisis: How Severely will AB5 and CARB Limit Capacity?
How dire is California’s drayage capacity situation? “Gasoline has been poured on the fire that is our ongoing supply chain crisis,” the California Trucking Association said when the US Supreme Court on June 30 declined to hear an appeal challenging AB5, clearing the way for full implementation of California’s “gig worker” law and its direct impact on 70,000 owner-operators serving the state’s ports. The ruling set in motion a wholesale restructuring of the drayage sector that is still playing out. If that wasn’t enough, California harbor truckers are warning of an almost 30 percent drop in truck capacity at the state’s container ports as of Jan. 1, when a state air quality mandate takes effect that allows only 2010-or-newer model-year trucks to serve marine terminals. The Harbor Trucking Association said about 28 percent of the approximately 20,000 trucks in the Los Angeles-Long Beach drayage truck registry will be older than the 2010 model year and thus disqualified from operating at the ports. This session will dive into where this situation is headed in 2023 and beyond.
["California Drayage in Crisis: How Severely will AB5 and CARB Limit Capacity?", "Bill Mongelluzzo", "Senior Editor, West Coast, The Journal of Commerce", "S&P Global", "Alexandra Griffon", "Co-founder and CEO", "BlueCargo", "Concurrent Breakout Sessions", "Concurrent Breakout Sessions", "Container Shipping"]
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5:30pm - 7:00pm (PST) / 01/mar/2023 01:30 am - 01/mar/2023 03:00 am
["Networking Reception", "Networking Reception"]
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8:00am - 11:00am (PST) / 01/mar/2023 04:00 pm - 01/mar/2023 07:00 pm
["TPM23 Registration", "TPM23 Registration"]
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8:30am - 9:00am (PST) / 01/mar/2023 04:30 pm - 01/mar/2023 05:00 pm
["Networking Breakfast", "Networking Breakfast"]
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9:00am - 9:45am (PST) / 01/mar/2023 05:00 pm - 01/mar/2023 05:45 pm
A Conversation With Jon Monroe
As businesses embraced the digital revolution over the last decade, many elements in the supply chain workflow have been streamlined and new pathways created, connecting a notoriously fractured industry in ways that couldn’t have been imagined before. Whether it is the rise of ecommerce and last-mile delivery, the growing prominence of big data and analytics and a revolution in supply chain visibility, progress is undoubtedly being made rapidly. However, many problems from the past continue to plague the industry. Large areas of the supply chain continue to be inefficient and manual intensive for shippers and logistics service providers. The challenge for our industry is one of streamlining the flow of information, documents, and communication, so that we can deliver on the promise of innovation, in this brave new digital age.
This webinar will examine the current frustrations within the industry and examine how we can advance even faster to a digitally led but human-assisted environment, where data, tech, and AI take center stage to realize even better business outcomes.
The Journal of Commerce is joined by executives from WNS in this webinar to discuss how shipping and logistics companies can rethink, reimagine, and reform the complete ecosystem in this new normal.
["A Conversation With Jon Monroe", "Peter Tirschwell", "Vice President-Shipping Intelligence", "S&P Global", "Jon Monroe", "President, Business Process Design and Improvement, Ocean Supply Chain Logistics, and Investment Due Diligence", "Jon Monroe Consulting", "Shipper Case Studies", "Concurrent Breakout Sessions", "Shipper Case Studies"]
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9:50am - 10:30am (PST) / 01/mar/2023 05:50 pm - 01/mar/2023 06:30 pm
When Visibility and Capacity Matching Meet: A Balsam Brands Case Study
Case studies at JOC events offer a glimpse of the issues shippers face in their supply chain networks and how they are partnering with their logistics and transportation providers to resolve them.
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When pandemic-led cargo surges strained landside capacity in 2021 and early 2022, shippers of all sorts faced a myriad of problems. With warehouse space filled to the rafters and trucking companies unable to keep up with volumes, containers backed up at the ports, unable to move. Finding trucking providers proved a daunting, time-consuming task, and detention and demurrage charges skyrocketed. Balsam Brands, one of the largest companies providing Christmas- and other holiday-related décor and which imported about 6,000 TEU in 2021, paid “obscene” amounts for D&D in 2021, said Michael Shaughnessy, the company’s senior vice president of operations, supply chain, and emerging markets. Enter Cargomatic, a tech-focused logistics solutions company that uses AI-based visibility tools and more than 14,000 motor carriers operating some 35,000 trucks across 65 terminals in the US, Canada, and Mexico to match shippers’ needs to move cargo timely with the trucking capacity it needs in specific markets. “Our D&D and per-diem charges this year are a fraction of what they were in ’21, and we’ve minimized missed and delayed pickups,” said Shaughnessy, who signed on with Cargomatic in March. This case study will examine the significant challenges Balsam was able to address by creating a single point of contact to manage its trucking shipments, rather than developing, managing, and juggling the hundreds of relationships it would otherwise need to have.
["When Visibility and Capacity Matching Meet: A Balsam Brands Case Study", "William B. Cassidy", "Senior Editor, Trucking, and Domestic, The Journal of Commerce", "S&P Global", "Weston LaBar", "Chief Strategy Officer", "Cargomatic", "Michael Shaughnessy", "Senior Vice President, Operations, Supply Chain, and Emerging Markets", "Balsam Brands", "Shipper Case Studies", "Concurrent Breakout Sessions", "Shipper Case Studies"]
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10:30am - 11:00am (PST) / 01/mar/2023 06:30 pm - 01/mar/2023 07:00 pm
["Networking Coffee Break", "Coffee Breaks"]
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11:00am - 11:45am (PST) / 01/mar/2023 07:00 pm - 01/mar/2023 07:45 pm
Applying Charles Koch’s Virtuous Cycles of Mutual Benefit in the Ocean Space
Case studies at JOC events offer a glimpse of the issues shippers face in their supply chain networks and how they are partnering with their logistics and transportation providers to resolve them.
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Core to the principals that have enabled Koch Industries to transform over six decades from a small engineering firm into a multinational conglomerate with projected annual revenues of $125 billion and 120,000 employees in 60 countries is Chairman and CEO Charles Koch’s philosophy of Virtuous Cycles of Mutual Benefit. Simply stated, it is the process by which people and organizations continuously build capabilities that create value for others. At Koch subsidiary Georgia-Pacific, a leading producer of packaging and household goods, the transportation team seeks to apply VCMB in its relationships with all of its transportation and logistics partners. In the transportation space, that means, among other things, seeking to create a win-win approach by offering steady volume, making best efforts to honor allocations, focusing on low dwell including a willingness to work on reducing dwell, returning boxes in good condition and a desire to reduce touches, changes and e-mails. Georgia-Pacific’s view is that greater mutual benefit is achievable by reducing bureaucracy, eliminating multiple touch points, reducing changes including schedules and bookings, and improving data. In this case study, members of the GP transportation team will discuss VCMB as they seek to apply it in the ocean space, discussing their expectations, frustrations, and vision for continuous improvement.
For more information visit:
https://www.kochind.com/KOCHInd-Dev/media/KochIND/Landing%20Pages/vcmb/Continually-Transforming-Koch-VCMBs-WEB.pdf
["Applying Charles Koch’s Virtuous Cycles of Mutual Benefit in the Ocean Space", "Shipper Case Studies", "Concurrent Breakout Sessions", "Shipper Case Studies"]
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11:45am - 12:30pm (PST) / 01/mar/2023 07:45 pm - 01/mar/2023 08:30 pm
["Case Study: How Container Lifecycle Management Software Saved Hubbell $2 Million in Accessorial Fees", "Eric Johnson", "Senior Editor, Logistics Technology-The Journal of Commerce", "S&P Global", "Jake Hoffman", "Chief Technology Officer", "Gnosis Freight", "Pieter Potgieter", "Corporate Transportation Manager, International Logistics Air and Ocean", "Hubbell", "Shipper Case Studies", "Concurrent Breakout Sessions", "Logistics Technology"]
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12:30pm - 2:00pm (PST) / 01/mar/2023 08:30 pm - 01/mar/2023 10:00 pm
Lunch With Lars: The Final Word
Perhaps no other global shipping analyst has as broad and progressive a lens as Lars Jensen. Since 2018, the former Maersk executive, shipping entrepreneur, author, and, most recently, Vespucci Maritime founder has closed out TPM with his short-, medium- and long-term vision of what is next for the global containerized shipping market, whether it be the next wave of technology, aggressive zero-emission shipping targets, or provider-shipper relationships.
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2:30pm - 4:00pm (PST) / 01/mar/2023 10:30 pm - 02/mar/2023 12:00 am
The Port of Long Beach TPM23 Port Tour
The Port of Long Beach cordially invites TPM23 attendees to join a 90-minute harbor cruise that will tour many of the port facilities. The cruise will depart from Dock #7 and will last approximately 90 minutes. The tour will offer a close-up look at the many container terminals, on-dock rail yards, and diverse mix of cargo that makes the Port of Long Beach a world leader in the goods movement. TPM23 attendees may use this opportunity to discuss with port representatives how the current and future challenges of trade growth are being handled at the Port of Long Beach.
Location: 100 Aquarium Way Dock #7, Long Beach, CA 90802
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