• TPM25 | March 2-5, 2025
  • TPM25
  • March 2-5, 2025 | Long Beach Convention Center

Kristin Decas

Port of Hueneme

President and CEO

Kristin Decas took the helm of the Port of Hueneme in 2012 with a laser focus on prospering economic, environmental, and community enrichment.

On Kristin’s watch trade volumes have grown 80% and revenue has climbed 133%. The Port’s total economic activity has soared 250% increasing from $800 million to $2.8 billion. Trade-related jobs have jumped 145% from 10,200 to over 24,997 jobs and tax revenues for vital community services have risen 224%. In FY2023 the Port realized its strongest sustained trade year since its inception in 1937 moving over $15.8 billion in cargo value.

Since Kristin took the CEO post, the Port has invested over $70M in environmental improvement projects including shoreside power plug-ins for vessels and cranes, harbor deepening projects that re-nourish local beaches, and the launch of a world-class air quality monitoring program. She also championed impactful community work including food drives for over 50,000 families, local school trade programs, and thousands of port tours for the community.

Kristin currently serves on high-profile county, state, and federal transportation, economic development, and hospital boards. Kristin lives in Oxnard with her husband and is the proud mother of two daughters.

Sessions With Kristin Decas

Wednesday, 6 March

  • 09:55am - 10:40am (PST) / 06/mar/2024 05:55 pm - 06/mar/2024 06:40 pm

    TPM Cold Chain: Recovering From the Abyss: How Service Providers Are Preparing for the Next Volume Surge
    Now that the cargo volume surge and related disruption of 2020 to 2022 has passed, the international cold chain has time to reflect on what went well (not much) during the COVID era, what didn’t (a lot), and how to prepare for the inevitable next market uprising. Following a fairly muted 2022, ocean carriers spent much of 2023 adding reefer plugs and investing in new reefer containers, betting that they’ll win back refrigerated shipments. “We think the carriers will focus a bit more on the reefer trade than they have in the past two years,” Robert Sappio, CEO of reefer lessor SeaCube Containers, told the Journal of Commerce in June. Referring to eastbound trans-Pacific spot dry box rates that have tumbled more than 80 percent since the beginning of 2022, “If you are faced with the choice of chasing a reefer box or chasing a dry box that’s $1,500 or $1,600 in the spot market, it’s a no brainer.” Sappio said he expected global purchases of new reefer containers to grow 5 percent to about 300,000 TEU in 2023. For shippers, a continued influx of reefer capacity and containers would help to sustain rates that have declined by 30% or more since 2022 and significantly more than the unprecedented rates of 2020-2021. But with those rates falling, and earnings plummeting, will carriers maintain the investment pace? And, if capacity continues to outstrip demand, what measures will carriers take to close the gap? This session, featuring a panel of ocean carriers and forwarders will examine how service providers are adapting to new market conditions and what approach they’re taking toward the reefer market in 2024 and beyond.  
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