Wednesday, 11 December 2019
8:00 AM — 2:00 PM
Registration
Location: Grand Ballroom Foyer
8:00 — 9:00 AM
Networking Breakfast
Location: Grand Ballroom Foyer
9:00 — 9:05 AM
Welcome Remarks
Location: Salon AB
9:05 — 9:45 AM
Day 2 Keynote Address
Location: Salon AB
At least three models for marine terminal automation have emerged. The full automation model in Europe and at Long Beach Container Terminal and TraPac in Southern California incorporates autonomous horizontal ground transportation, automated stacking cranes (ASCs) in the yard, and automation at the on-dock rail facility. Semiautomated terminals in New York-New Jersey and Virginia also incorporate ASCs in the yards, but the East Coast terminals deploy traditional yard tractors driven by longshore labor to shuttle containers within the yards. APM Terminals’ Pier 400 facility in Los Angeles this year will roll out the automated straddle carrier model already in use in Australia. Each model presents different challenges and comes at a different cost for terminal operators. This Day 2 keynote address by Mark Sisson, who leads the marine analysis group at consulting firm AECOM, will discuss the operational and cost differences inherent in these automation models.
9:45 — 10:30 AM
Marine Terminal Automation:
The Southern California Model
Location: Salon AB
Long Beach Container Terminal and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union have worked together for the past 10 years on development of the fully automated Middle Harbor terminal. LBCT Middle Harbor, with an annual throughput capacity of more than 3 million TEU, efficiently handles some of the largest container ships calling in North America. ILWU dockworkers maintain high productivity, including among the top truck turnaround times among the 12 container terminals in Los Angeles-Long Beach. In this important employer-labor discussion, Joe Gasperov and Anthony Otto will explain how employer-dockworker collaboration since the genesis of the project 10 years ago resulted in a seamless transition from manual to automated operations.
10:30 — 11:00 AM
Networking Break
Location: Grand Ballroom Foyer
11:00 AM — 12:00 PM
Vancouver:
Enhancing Productivity at Canada’s Largest Port
Location: Salon AB
The Port of Vancouver’s innovative extended-gates and truck reservation system, which has made the port a leader in truck turn times on the West Coast of North America, and the measures it has taken to reduce container dwell times at its rail facilities, have returned fluidity to Canada’s largest container port after a grueling 2017-2018 winter. Working with port stakeholders as well as provincial and federal government agencies, Vancouver has set a new standard for North American ports in container yard innovation, development of rail and road connectors, and providing better visibility via technology. In a clear-eyed assessment of the challenges ahead, port stakeholders will explain how they’re making better use of the tools at their disposal, providing actionable insights for other stakeholders as the gateway bumps up against the limits of existing terminal capacity.
12:00 — 1:00 PM
Networking Lunch
Location: Salon CD
1:00 — 2:00 PM
Landlord Ports and the Pursuit of Cargo Fluidity
Location: Salon AB
Los Angeles-Long Beach and New York-New Jersey, the two largest North American ports, face unique challenges in the era of mega-ships. Because New York and Los Angeles also serve the two largest population centers, carriers discharge and reload 65 to 85 percent of each vessel’s containers, generating cargo surges in excess of 10,000 containers during the average call. These ports experience a “peak” season every week as their terminal operators attempt to prevent their facilities from being overwhelmed by the cargo surges. The ports are working closely with terminals, carriers, truckers, railroads, and equipment providers to develop creative cargo-handling processes to ease bottlenecks and increase cargo velocity. Because these landlord ports don’t operate the terminals, however, what measures can they implement to facilitate private-sector initiatives? New York-New Jersey is working with its tenants on extended-gate programs and establishing dedicated lanes for rail cargo. Los Angeles is working with terminal operators to relocate chassis to near-dock storage yards, establish a portwide reservation system for truckers and an information portal to share advance data on shipments as much as 14 days before vessels arrive in port. What lessons can other landlord ports in North America learn from New York-New Jersey and Los Angeles-Long Beach?
2:00 — 3:00 PM
The Shipper Perspective of Port Productivity:
A Roundtable Discussion With BCOs
Location: Salon AB
Importers and exporters don’t have direct business relationships with ports and terminal operators, but they depend on the seamless hand-off of containers between marine terminals and transportation vendors for on-time delivery of their freight. In the past, most BCOs never set foot on a marine terminal. Now they realize that building relationships with the terminal operators is just as important as the relationships they have developed with their transportation carriers and third-party logistics providers. In this concluding session at the 2020 Port Performance North America Conference, a panel of BCOs will discuss the key initiatives underway at ports and marine terminals, the state of labor-management relations, and what’s working and what isn’t, and how their relationships with ports and terminal operators are changing — and why.
3:00 — 3:15 PM
Closing Remarks with Awards
Location: Salon AB
Based on JOC Port Productivity data, JOC Events will recognize the top three North American ports and top three terminals in overall port productivity in 2018 and those whose port productivity improved the most from 2017.
Top Ports — Overall Productivity, 2018:
No. 1 Small Port: Port of Wilmington, N.C.
No. 1 Midsize Port: Port of Charleston
No. 1 Large Port: Port of Savannah
Top Terminals — Overall Productivity, 2018:
No. 1 Small Terminal: Wilmington, N.C., North Carolina Ports Authority
No. 1 Midsize Terminal: Wando Welch, South Carolina Ports Authority
No. 1 Large Terminal: Garden City, Georgia Ports Authority
Most Improved Ports From 2017:
Alabama State Port Authority/Mobile
Jacksonville Port Authority
Port of New Orleans
Most Improved Terminals From 2017:
Everport Container Terminal, Los Angeles, Everport Terminal Services
Choctaw Point, Mobile, APM Terminals
Pierce County Terminal, Northwest Seaport Alliance, Everport Terminal Services
3:30 — 5:30 PM
JOC Shipper Roundtable
Location: Elizabeth Salon D
BY RESERVATION ONLY FOR BCOs
This exclusive, shipper-only discussion facilitated by JOC.com Executive Editor Mark Szakonyi and Senior Editor Bill Mongelluzzo will bring together beneficial cargo owners in an off-the-record meeting to exchange ideas and potential solutions to the numerous challenges confronting supply chain stakeholders. Among the topics of discussion will be port and terminal efficiency, the impact of ocean carrier consolidation, mega-vessels and new alliances, new and upcoming regulatory requirements, and market and pricing trends.
You must be a BCO/Shipper (you must own the goods that are being shipped) in order to take part in this shipper roundtable.
For more information, please contact Brittany Wynne at brittany.wynne@ihsmarkit.com
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