News / TPM24: 'Frenetic interaction', insight and advice – it's a 'people business'

Although the main focus of the S&P Global TPM24 conference and networking event in Long Beach this week is, of course, the transpacific container supply chain, its multinational delegate attendance ensured there was plenty of coverage of other tradelanes.

Notwithstanding TPM’s raison d’etre, company ambassadors from the US and across the globe came to talk and learn more about their industry, confirming an oft-repeated phrase about shipping: that, despite the huge advances in technology, it remains a “people business”.

An Asia-Europe market ...