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Midyear Port Performance Report: The State of Play
US ports will enter the second half of 2022 struggling with vessel backlogs, congested marine terminals, and inland transportation bottlenecks. What is causing these logistical problems, will they be resolved by the summer-fall peak-shipping season, and what must the ports and their stakeholders do in terms of process improvements and infrastructure development to return to fluidity? Ports are achieving some success through container dray-offs — establishing near-dock surge or “pop-up” yards for the temporary storage of containers so they do not congest the marine terminals. As near-dock sites become more difficult to find, ports are looking further inland for available land for pop-up yards and inland ports. Encouraging carriers and railroads to move more containers via on-dock rail is diverting thousands of trucks moves to intermodal rail. Now it’s up to ocean carriers to book more inland point intermodal (IPI) shipments, and it’s on the railroads to devote more capacity for IPI services. Carriers are helping to free up space by sending “sweeper” ships to vacate thousands of empty containers from the terminals. Dwell times for rail and local-delivery containers, however, are still above acceptable levels. In the longer term, ports must expand terminal capacity, densify their operations, where possible, by automating cargo-handling equipment, and by increasing cargo velocity so their marine terminals are truly transit facilities rather than storage sheds.
This webcast will assess the challenge supply chain stakeholders have faced in the first half of 2022, and what lies ahead.
Moderator: Bill Mongelluzzo, Senior Editor, West Coast, JOC, Maritime & Trade, S&P Global
Speaker(s):
Ed DeNike, President, SSA Containers
Mark Sisson, Vice President, Senior Port Planner, AECOM
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Canada Trade and Shipping Outlook
Craig Bell Estabrooks, President and CEO, Port Saint John
- Enno Koll, Head of Americas, PSA International
- Girish Nair, Assistant Vice President, International Intermodal, Canadian National Railway
- Chris Ng, Vice President, Marketing and Sales, GCT Global Container Terminals Inc.
- Cliff Stewart, Vice President, Infrastructure, Port of Vancouver
- Jonathan Wahba, Vice President, Commercial Integration, Canadian Pacific Railway