Comment / TPM sketch – the blessed relief of 'Lars'

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If there is one forum in which logistics executives are made to feel like rock stars, it’s S&P’s (née JOC) annual Transpacific Maritime (TPM) conference in Long Beach.

“A Conversation with the One and Only Otto Schact” was the title of the session with the eponymous ex-head of Kuehne + Nagel’s ocean freight operations. Mr Schact is rightly regarded as a legend, the near-40 years he has spent in shipping – two decades with Hapag-Lloyd was followed in a gamekeeper-turned-poacher move ...