Tuesday, 10 December 2019
7:30 AM — 5:00 PM
Registration
Location: Grand Ballroom Foyer
7:30 — 8:30 AM
Networking Breakfast
Location: Grand Ballroom Foyer
8:30 — 8:45 AM
Welcome Remarks
Location: Salon AB
Senior Editor,
JOC, Maritime & Trade,
IHS Markit
Bill Mongelluzzo
8:45 — 9:30 AM
Keynote Address:
The Challenges Facing Terminal Operators
Location: Salon AB
Container terminal operators in North America are at the fulcrum of international supply chains, where ocean carriers meet truck and rail operators. Although their business relationships are with the liner companies, terminal operators also serve motor carriers, intermodal railroads, equipment providers, and ultimately, BCOs. Their challenges begin with late vessel arrivals. On-time performance at North American ports this past year dropped as low as 40 percent, according to Copenhagen-based consultant and shipping analyst Sea-Intelligence. How are terminal operators responding to consistently late vessel arrivals to ensure containers are delivered to BCOs and truckers on time? What demands will ocean carriers, BCOs, and truckers place on North American ports and terminal operators in the coming years as they handle larger vessels cascaded from Asia-Europe to the trans-Pacific and trans-Atlantic trades? Will North American ports be able to handle container exchanges of 10,000 or greater from mega-ships? Wim Lagaay, CEO of APM Terminals North America, will set the stage for the 2019 Port Performance North America Conference with his analysis of the challenges facing terminal operators.
Senior Editor,
JOC, Maritime & Trade,
IHS Markit
Speaker Introduction
Bill Mongelluzzo
President & CEO,
APM Terminals North America
Keynote Speaker
Wim Lagaay
9:30 — 10:30 AM
The Economic and Container Shipping Outlook:
What It Means for North American Ports
Location: Salon AB
Executive Editor,
JOC.com and
The Journal of Commerce, Maritime & Trade,
IHS Markit
Session Chair
Mark Szakonyi
Director, Transportation Consulting, Economics and Country Risk, IHS Markit
Panelist
Paul Bingham
Senior Vice President,
Trade and Sales,
Hyundai Merchant Marine
Panelist
Lawrence Burns
Senior Editor,
Global Ports,
JOC, Maritime & Trade,
IHS Markit
Panelist
Turloch Mooney
The fundamentals of container shipping may be improving, but the industry is hardly out of the woods, as the outlook for demand weakens and carriers grapple with higher operating costs tied to the low-sulfur global mandate. Maritime research firm Alphaliner expects global container capacity in 2020 to expand 3.3 percent while demand will grow 3.1 percent, compared with 2019 increases of 3.6 percent and 2.4 percent, respectively. But demand is fluid, particularly as the US-China trade war takes steady US economic growth down a notch, prompting Drewry Shipping Consultants in early October to downgrade its demand outlook for 2019 to 2.6 percent from 3 percent. This session will offer forward-looking analysis of the US and global economies, how they connect to containerized trade in 2020 and beyond, and what it all means in terms of port fluidity through North American ports.
10:30 — 11:00 AM
Networking Break
Location: Grand Ballroom Foyer
11:00 AM — 11:45 AM
Chassis I:
Minimizing Disruption Through Collaboration
Location: Salon AB
Intermodal equipment providers have a rather straightforward mission: Have the right amount of chassis at the right locations at the right time. The international supply chain, however, faces so many interruptions — from weather events and consistently late vessel arrivals to peak-season spikes in volumes and excessive retention of chassis at warehouses by large BCOs — that it’s becoming almost impossible to predict a terminal’s chassis from day to day. Furthermore, motor carriers’ demands for “trucker choice” in determining which chassis they wish to use adds additional complexity to the chassis regime. Two of the largest US port complexes, Los Angeles-Long Beach with its pool of pools and the South Atlantic ports, have made progress this past year in developing solutions, but chassis shortages and dislocations are still a problem. How are these ports, and the truckers and BCOs they serve, collaborating to improve their particular chassis regimes?
Senior Editor,
JOC, Maritime & Trade,
IHS Markit
Session Chair
Deputy Executive Director,
Port of Long Beach
Panelist
President and CEO,
RoadOne IntermodaLogistics
Panelist
Vice President,
CMI West,
CMI Transportation
Panelist
Chief Operating Officer,
Georgia Ports Authority
Panelist
Chief Operating Officer, South Carolina Ports Authority
Panelist
Sponsored by:
11:45 AM — 12:30 PM
Chassis II:
The IEP View of Solving the Equipment Challenge
Location: Salon AB
Every seaport and intermodal rail hub has a different operating environment with its own complexities, making intermodal equipment providers’ job uniquely challenging. Los Angeles-Long Beach, with 12 marine terminals served by three ocean carrier alliances, is a landlord port like New York-New Jersey with its growing fleet of trucker-owned chassis. The operating ports of Savannah and Charleston have attempted to form a single gray chassis pool and a neutral manager, but that project is on hold. Inland hubs such as Chicago, Memphis, and Dallas-Fort Worth grapple with the railroads’ differing operational models of stacked vs. grounded containers. With no single solution in sight for all of these facilities, top executives from the three major IEPs will discuss the challenges they face, and their preferred solutions, to address these issues.
Associate Editor, JOC,
Maritime & Trade,
IHS Markit
Session Chair
Ari Ashe
President and CEO,
TRAC Intermodal
Panelist
Jennifer Polli
CEO,
American Intermodal Management
Panelist
Nathaniel Seeds
CEO,
DCLI
Panelist
William J. Shea
President and
Chief Operating Officer,
Flexi-Van
Panelist
Charles Wellins
CEO,
Consolidated Chassis Management
Panelist
Mike Wilson
12:30 — 1:30 PM
Networking Lunch
Location: Salon CD
1:30 — 2:30 PM
It All Starts With the Terminal:
What Ports Are Doing to Improve Cargo Flow for Customers
Location: Salon AB
Associate Editor,
JOC, Maritime & Trade,
IHS Markit
Session Chair
Ari Ashe
Vice President,
Operations,
Montreal Port Authority
Panelist
Daniel Dagenais
Chief Operations Officer,
Virginia International Terminals
Panelist
Kevin Price
Director, Planning
and Technology,
Port Houston
Panelist
Mike Shaffner
Recognizing the crucial role they play in the international supply chain, ports and marine terminals are taking creative steps to improve cargo fluidity, ensure equipment availability, and streamline the handoff of containers among the transportation modes. The role of facilitator is becoming increasingly complex as vessel sizes increase and container exchanges lengthen. Ports’ strategies include process improvements such as container dray-offs and appointment systems for truckers. Technology advancements allow ports and terminal operators to be the trusted portal through which information is shared electronically among all members of the supply chain in a secure environment. In this highly anticipated session, representatives of East, Gulf, and Canadian ports will discuss what they are doing to improve port performance, and port users will talk about how they benefit from these efforts, and what remains to be done.
2:30 — 3:00 PM
Networking Break
Location: Grand Ballroom Foyer
3:00 — 4:00 PM
Port Call Optimization:
From Concept to Reality
Location: Salon AB
Senior Editor,
Global Ports,
JOC, Maritime & Trade,
IHS Markit
Session Chair
Turloch Mooney
President and CEO,
Harbor Trucking Association, President and CEO,
Ventures 52
Panelist
Weston LaBar
Executive Director,
Port of Los Angeles
Panelist
Gene Seroka
The debate over greenhouse gas emissions has brought the topic of port call optimization to the forefront of global maritime policy. An International Maritime Organization resolution adopted in May encourages cooperation among ports and shipping companies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from ships, and optimization of port calls is highlighted as one of four key areas of focus. The concept is essentially about improving oceanside port efficiency through standardization of port call processes, improving stakeholder communication and data exchange. The goal is for vessels to spend less time in port and to facilitate just-in-time vessel arrivals. This panel will explore the issues around port call optimization in container shipping. It will discuss such challenges as developing data standards and encouraging the exchange of key operational data among stakeholders to facilitate improved port productivity and other conditions for achieving just-in-time vessel arrivals in the global container shipping network.
4:00 — 5:00 PM
Port Innovation:
Bridging the Communication Gap
Location: Salon AB
Vice President,
Maritime & Trade,
IHS Markit
Session Chair
Peter Tirschwell
Founder & CEO of
PortPro Technologies,
Axle Technologies
Panelist
Michael Mecca
Vice President
of Information Technology,
The Triangle Group
Panelist
Eric Lenzen
Container ports are traditionally where shippers and their representative parties butt their collective heads against walls. However, more than even delayed vessel arrivals, lack of in-transit cargo visibility, and tight capacity, the lack of continuity between ocean and landside operations, and what goes within the terminals, can create efficiencies that result in costs related to demurrage, detention, delays, and information black holes Technology can solve these issues, but the tricky challenge is that each port cluster tends to act independently, with different ecosystems building separate solutions to account for the differing characteristics of each region. What approaches can be scaled effectively across regions? What specific technologies are changing the way parties interact to drive more cargo fluidity, visibility, and connectivity through ports? This session will address these questions, and more.
5:00 — 6:30 PM
Networking Reception
Location: Grand Ballroom Foyer
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