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With a little over six months until the IMO 2020 legislation comes into force, the containerised shipping market is bracing itself for a period of change and uncertainty.

Join our live webinar as our panel of speakers will discuss the latest developments on a range of topics including scrubber adoption, rule compliance, capacity withdrawal threats, and fuel availability and integrity.

SpeakersMark Szakonyi, Executive Editor, JOCDalibor Gogic, Principal Anayst, Maritime & Trade, IHS Markit

The stars are aligning for Mexico’s transportation and logistics sector, with cargo volumes through the ports growing, the number of trucks across the border rising, and a new sense of stability and hope. The cloud of a possible dismantling of the North American Free Trade Agreement has receded, replaced with the United States, Canada, Mexico Agreement. Mexico has a new president, a major upgrade about to open at the Port of Veracruz, and a sense that the country could be the biggest beneficiary of a prolonged US-China trade war, as Mexican manufacturing, just over the US border, becomes increasingly attractive to investors. Yet to make the most of its good fortune, Mexico will need to overcome some deep-seated fluidity issues that torment the nation’s logistics and transportation sector. Top of the list are the increasingly disruptive security issues on trucks and trains.

This webcast, a primer for the 2nd Annual JOC Mexico Trade Conference in Mexico City in July, will analyze the state of the Mexican container shipping, transportation and logistics market, with an emphasis on the following issues, challenges and trends:

• The import-export outlook
• The impact of new trade agreements
• Port efficiency and disruption
• The regulatory landscape
• Sector-specific analysis

Moderator:Hugh Morley, Senior Editor, JOC

Speakers:Christopher Wilson, Deputy Director, Mexico Institute, Wilson Center Jorge Monzalvo, Head of Delivery, Middle America Area, Maersk

Growth in containerized cargo volumes through Canadian freight networks is shifting into a slower gear two year after surging in 2017. Even so, containerized cargo is set to keep expanding in the mid-single digits, thanks to new trade pacts and an expanding domestic economy. Year-over-year growth in imports through the top four Canadian ports slowed to 3.1 percent in 2018 after jumping 13.3 percent in 2017. Containerized exports increased 3.5 percent last year after expanding 6.5 percent in 2017. At the same time, broader Canadian economic growth is slowing, and consumer demand may weaken, putting renewed pressure on the need to better enable exports.

This webcast, a primer for the 3rd Annual JOC Canada Trade Conference in Toronto, will analyze the state of the Canadian container shipping, transportation, and logistics market, with an emphasis on the following issues, challenges, and trends:

• The import-export outlook
• The impact of new trade agreements
• Port efficiency and disruption
• The ELD effect on trucking
• The regulatory landscape

Moderator:Dustin Braden, Shipper Engagement Manager, JOC

Speakers:Dean Davison, Technical Director, Maritime, WSPPatrick Lo, CEO, Canaan Group

One of the most intense trucking capacity crises in recent memory throttled inland distribution channels in 2018, thanks to high import volumes and enforcement of the electronic logging device mandate. Capacity began to creep back late in the year as transportation networks found a new balance, but demand for drayage, truckload and LTL capacity remained strong, and truck utilization rates were high, keeping pressure on pricing.

As the industry rounds the first-quarter bend of 2019, this webcast will analyze the current landscape, the outlook for the rest of the year, and focus on these key questions:

• Will shippers find capacity relief?
• Will slower economic growth mean more capacity or will increasing complexity and other obstacles keep capacity tight?
• What can shippers do to ensure capacity they need in drayage and over-the-road trucking?

Moderator:William Cassidy, Senior Editor, Trucking and Domestic Transportation, JOC

Speakers:Kevin M. Zweier, Vice President, Transportation Practice, Chainalytics

Global third-party logistics providers might feel like they’re in a vise grip. On one side, logistics software providers, both established and upstart, are trying to arm shippers with systems that render 3PLs less important. On the other side, some ocean carriers are aiming to recapture the supply chain management ground they ceded to 3PLs over the last decade. If anyone is used to the hustle, it’s logistics service providers experienced in low-margin markets, but the burden to remain relevant is more pronounced than ever. Although much of the focus in 2018 centered on the impact that digital forwarders worldwide might have on legacy companies, that simplifies the challenges 3PLs face, especially those with extensive forwarding operations. Margin-based buying and selling of capacity probably isn’t a sustainable model in an environment where shippers have detailed insight into freight rates. Relying on shippers to use obsolete or user-unfriendly systems when easy-to-deploy, affordable, and browser-accessible freight management tools abound likewise isn’t a sound strategy. And, with large global shippers generally preferring to deal directly with carriers as much as possible, the movement of carriers into services ancillary to port-to-port operations is another cause for concern.

Maersk Group’s September decision to hive off the origin services from its 3PL sister company Damco and incorporate those services into its liner carrier business is emblematic of this last dynamic. CMA CGM’s increasingly close ties to CEVA Logistics, including a 25 percent investment stake, is another. Those carriers, and potentially others, might have seen it as a mistake to forfeit the lucrative supply chain management turf and the deeper customer relationships that come with those services. All of these forces are set to compel 3PLs to double down on investment in two key areas: global supply chain visibility and execution and technology at large. Those two are inextricably linked, and 3PLs focusing on those areas inevitably will move further away from a pure margin-taking model.

This webcast will analyze the state of the 3PL market as the first quarter of 2019 comes to a close.

Moderator:

Chris Brooks, Director, Programming, JOC Events, Maritime & Trade, IHS Markit

Speakers:

Steve Walker, Founder, SBS Worldwide and SWG Global

Nerijus Poskus, Global Head of Ocean Freight, FlexportEric Johnson, Senior Editor, Technology, JOC