Key Operational Issues Influencing the Container Shipping Industry

Type: Ocean freight
Duration: 30 min
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Abstract

This session will focus on sharing of information around key operational issues impacting the container shipping industry, drawn from JOC’s extensive reporting and aggregate perspective gleaned from conversations with:

  • container lines
  • freight forwarders
  • NVOs
  • ports and terminals
  • software companies
  • other service providers

Topics to be discussed include capacity management, equipment availability, service levels, and how the industry is adjusting to contracting in a remote work setting.

Speaker

eric johnson

Eric Johnson, Sr Editor, JOC.com

Eric Johnson is the JOC's Senior Editor, Technology, where he leads coverage and analysis of technology’s impact on global logistics and trade. Johnson regularly reports on how shippers, carriers across all modes, and logistics companies use software, as well as new concepts impacting core freight transportation processes like procurement, execution, visibility, and payment. Johnson is a regular presenter and moderator at industry events and webinars. Prior to joining the JOC in May 2018, Johnson spent 13 years with American Shipper in a variety of roles, most recently covering logistics technology and leading the production of a series of benchmark studies on the logistics industry. Johnson has a bachelor’s in journalism from the University of Wisconsin and a master’s in international business from the University of Leeds, UK. He has lived and worked in Southern California, the UK, and India, and now resides in the Washington, D.C., area.

 

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