Kuehne + Nagel's Marcus Reimann, senior vice president of seafreight, North America, and Blume Global CEO Pervinder Johar joined JOC Senior Editor Alessandra Barrett for a conversation about the heightened call for cargo visibility in landside operations. Johar and Reimann discuss the affordability challenges that face trucking companies, designing with the end user - the driver - in mind, and the importance of resetting expectations to drive increased investment in trucking businesses.
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Can the culture of ocean carriers fundamentally evolve?
Mark Laufer, owner of logistics service provider Laufer Group International, on how carrier culture has evolved during the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting shipping disruption and why technology and online pricing aren’t going to solve as many problems as the industry would like to believe they will.
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Bigger in Texas: Port Houston channel expansion, cargo balancing
Port Houston Executive Director Roger Guenther discusses a new, gender- and race-conscious procurement program, stepping into the first construction phase of Project 11, and the balancing of import and export cargo in 2021 at the port.
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Defining transparency through equal access to data
Brian Kempisty, founder of Port X Logistics, on addressing the multimodal complexities of integrating technology into drayage operations, using APIs to pull information together sooner — while the container is on the water, and defining transparency through equal access to the data.
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Unlocking East Coast cargo fluidity
Stephen Edwards, CEO of The Port of Virginia, on stepping into this role at a challenging moment for ports worldwide, his perspective on West Coast cargo shifts, and the role ports can play in facilitating a movement toward greater, holistic data access that translates into pattern analysis and user/fluidity improvements.
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