Beyond TPM

Beyond TPM: Sam Ruda, port department director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, discusses the future of cities and retail shopping, moving port stakeholder collaboration from talks to action, and evaluating the port authority's 30-year master plan through the experience of 2020.

Beyond TPM: Peter Xotta, vice president, planning and operations, for Vancouver Fraser Port Authority, looks at how the port has maintained gate fluidity in the face of challenging vessel arrival patterns in the current operating environment, the ways it plans to increase resiliency and expand capacity for the future, and how “significant densification and modernization” will bring a 60 percent increase in capacity to the port’s Centerm terminal with just a 15 percent increase in terminal footprint.

Doron Grosman, president and CEO at GCT Global Container Terminals, Inc., discusses how GCT’s investments in infrastructure have helped it weather the unprecedented surge in global shipping since last year.

William Lu, senior vice president of development for CenterPoint Properties, discusses the role industrial real estate developers play in their clients’ supply chain and the importance of identifying individual client needs for 2021, such as locations for safety stock, trailer parking, and access to alternate ports. In this podcast, Lu addresses the importance of a great last-mile facility for e-commerce – and the factors that make one – as well as US West Coast development, and emerging trends.

Mario Cordero, executive director of the Port of Long Beach, discusses the shift from the “radical uncertainty” of 2020 to a “year of recovery” in 2021. He addresses the essential workers on the waterfront, record numbers of containers at the LA-LB gateway, milestones in the port’s Capital Improvement program, and longtime industry leadership in environmental sustainability.

Fabio Santucci, President and CEO of ocean carrier MSC Mediterranean Shipping Co. USA on why the current environment is not a new normal for container shipping and his belief that we can look forward with optimism.

Andre Simha, Global Chief Digital and Information Officer for ocean carrier MSC Mediterranean Shipping Co. and Chairman of the Digital Container Shipping Association, provides perspective on the container shipping industry's move toward digitization, including analysis of the progress made and the potential curves ahead. Simha discusses growing use of smart containers and the steps needed to collectively unlock the value of captured data.