News / Liner heavyweights sail in for some tough transpacific contract talks

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Some 4,000 container shipping industry attendees are assembling at the Long Beach Convention Center in California for the biggest ever S&P Global TPM24 conference and networking event.

There is a buzz at the Hyatt Regency reception and TPM registration desks as industry partners from North America and the four quarters of the globe meet up and plan their conference sessions, meetings and networking events.

Procurement managers have their c-suite bosses in tow and ocean carriers have their top sales account teams in ...