News / TPM22: Relationships really do matter when the going gets tough

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This week’s Transpacific Maritime Conference (TPM) in Long Beach, California, brought thousands of BCOs, forwarders, NVOCCs, analysts, press (and a few carriers) together to reaffirm that relationships really do matter.

Indeed, JOC’s TPM22 theme, Relationships Matter, was never more appropriate as groups of BCOs, with their C-suites in tow, commandeered any available workspace to exchange supply chain nightmare stories and tap each other for the best short- and longer-term solutions.

Ocean carrier representatives did what they could, but often their hands were ...