1st Trans-Pacific Maritime Asia Conference

The TPM Asia conference—an outgrowth of the Journal of Commerce’s established TPM conference held each year in Long Beach, California—will present a series of in-depth sessions focusing on trans-Pacific ocean container trade and logistics from an Asian perspective. The objective of the conference is to give shippers, 3PLs, and other professionals operating in the trans-Pacific a detailed briefing on the state of the world’s largest ocean container trade lane at the height of the annual peak shipping season. September is typically the heaviest loading month for trans-Pacific volumes in Asia and a time when the logistics challenges of moving enormous volumes of trade to North America are at their height.

“Shippers in the trans-Pacific face a myriad of challenges and opportunities in Asia, from sourcing issues to navigating local transportation and obtaining space on vessels during the height of the peak season,” said Alan Glass, president of Commonwealth Business Media, which owns the Journal of Commerce Conferences. “Like the TPM conference in Long Beach, the TPM Asia program will zero in on the key challenges and solutions that that trans-Pacific shippers face throughout Asia.”

Sessions at the conference will address key issues such as manufacturing and sourcing shifts in China; rates and capacity, insight into the 2007 peak and slack seasons, China export-customs issues, new sourcing markets in Vietnam and India, and many other issues.