• TPM24
  • March 3-6, 2024 | Long Beach Convention Center

David Lademan

S&P Global

Senior Pricing Specialist-Global Container Freight Markets

David has worked on the Commodity Insights container freight desk since June of 2020, building and developing the coverage of both the Platts Container Rates and Platts Bunker Charges. Based out of the Houston office, David covers both North and South American ocean freight markets. He also writes weekly and monthly reports on the current state of play in the container market, and regularly speaks at conferences and webinars around the world on these topics.

Sessions With David Lademan

Monday, 27 February

  • 04:40pm - 05:25pm (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. 

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