PODCAST: Prelude to TPM 2017 – a portrait of Pier 400

Vessel Mgr. Pier 400 LSA with a specially painted vehicle to promote safety.

Next week the largest shipping conference, the annual Transpacific Maritime (TPM) conference takes place in Long Beach. Organised by the Journal of Commerce and cannily positioned on the calendar just as shippers and carriers are sitting down to begin negotiating their annual contracts on the transpacific trade, the event has also become a focal point for the industry to discuss – and some of these conversations verge on the thoroughly confrontational – the widespread challenges facing it.

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