Webcasts

Shippers and carriers across all modes again are anxiously watching the economy. On the ocean side, cargo volumes are increasing, but an onslaught of new capacity entering the market is pressuring rates, and carriers are doing everything in their power — slow-steaming, consolidating routes and idling ships — to bring supply-demand into better balance. Air cargo carriers face similar, if even deeper challenges, as traditional airborne freight increasingly shifts to other modes. Intermodal rail, meanwhile, is growing on the international side, but the true star is domestic traffic as increasing cargo shifts from the truckload market.

This webcast will analyze the outlook for trade during the busiest time of the year for shippers, carriers and third-party logistics companies — the run-up to the holiday shopping season — and what it means for freight rates and profitability.

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Interested in sponsoring this event? For more information, please contact Tony Stein on tstein@joc.com

Perhaps no other evidence of China’s emergence as a manufacturing powerhouse is needed than the JOC’s list of Top 50 global container ports. While Hong Kong and Singapore have traded the top spot among global ports for the better part of 15 years, Shanghai and other Chinese ports have been the fastest-growing over the past 10 years. That’s largely been driven by China’s emergence as a major manufacturing center and exporter. But with a rapidly growing middle class driving up wages, global manufacturers and shippers again are looking to diversify their sourcing. What will this mean for he world’s container ports?

This webcast will analyze the JOC’s Top 50 Container Ports report, discuss the economic and logistics factors driving growth among regional, country and individual ports and the challenges they face.

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Interested in sponsoring this event? For more information, please contact Tony Stein on tstein@joc.com

Canada’s economy — like that of the United States — has undergone a choppy recovery since the Great Recession. But the good news is that international trade volumes are on the rise. Canada’s four main container ports — Montreal, Halifax, Vancouver, and Prince Rupert — handle different levels of cargo for domestic Canadian consumption, combined with being entry points for cargo to the U.S. market, creating unique supply chain challenges while offering shippers and carriers alternatives to U.S. ports. Intermodal rail continues to be a fundamental mode for moving international cargo within Canada and North America overall, and the country’s two main railroads — Canadian National and Canadian Pacific — have a vast interconnected network serving Canadian east-west markets and the U.S. Midwest. That’s also true for vibrant north-south cross-border trade with the U.S. With more than 70 percent of Canada’s 34 million people living within 100 miles of the U.S. border, the movement of cargo and people across this border is a fact of life for Canadian business, especially the international sector.

This webcast will analyze the U.S.-Canada trade and cross-border trucking relationship, the growth of Canada’s ports, especially the controversial Prince Rupert and the challenges shippers face when doing business with Canada.

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Interested in sponsoring this event? For more information, please contact Tony Stein on tstein@joc.com

One of the largest trade lanes in the world, the Asia-Europe market is struggling under the weight of Europe’s fiscal and economic crisis. It couldn’t come at a worse time for ocean carriers that are taking delivery of a slew of new, large container ships ordered before the crisis. With the biggest of these ships being deployed in the Asia-Europe trade, where ports have the infrastructure in place to handle them, carriers face a daunting capacity challenge: There’s too much of it, and that’s putting severe downward pressure on freight rates. The story is much the same on the air cargo side, if not worse.

This webcast will analyze this critical trade for ocean and air carriers, what they’re doing to manage the market, and when they and their customers can expect improvement in Europe.

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Interested in sponsoring this event? For more information, please contact Tony Stein on tstein@joc.com