The JOC Top 100 Importers and Exporters: Analyzing the Rankings and Second Half Trade Outlook

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With US retailers raising import forecasts and inbound cargo volumes, pricing power is beginning to return to ocean carriers.  Imports alone, however, aren’t enough to jumpstart US freight demand and pull surface transportation providers out of a two-year slump. Despite some green shoots in manufacturing, the US freight economy outlook for the second half of 2024 is still cloudy, with any improvement likely to be gradual. That means shippers will have another year of pricing power over North American trucking and intermodal rail. On the ocean, however, the tide has shifted after a decline in volumes and crashing prices that fell from unprecedented heights early in the pandemic. It’s unclear, however, whether first-half increases will have second half staying power.  This webcast, featuring several Journal of Commerce senior editorial members, will examine the impact that economic-, geopolitical-, and supply chain-related events have had on importers and exporters, and how that has played out in terms of containerized shipping volumes, as reflected by the Journal of Commerce rankings of Top 100 Importers and Exporters for 2023. It also will include discussion about the dynamics shaping several import and export segments, from consumer goods and electronics to ag products and resins.

Moderator:

Eric Johnson, Senior Editor-Technology, Journal of Commerce by S&P Global

Speaker(s):

Michael Angell, Senior Editor-Northeast and Gulf Coast Ports, Journal of Commerce by S&P Global

Ari Ashe, Senior Editor-Intermodal and South Atlantic Ports, Journal of Commerce by S&P Global

Bill Mongelluzzo, Senior Editor-West Coast, Journal of Commerce by S&P Global

Mark Szakonyi, Executive Editor, Journal of Commerce by S&P Global

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