TPM25 Talk
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←“ The predictability you can get from having fewer logistics service providers is something customers want.”
Jens Lund, CEO, DSV Group
→“ We’ ll have six folks arrested on Monday, and then we will see them again on Friday, so this is not going to be something that the railroad is going to be able to solve on its own. We absolutely must have federal involvement.”
Kate Farmer, CEO, BNSF
→“ We expect the ceasefire process is likely to break down in the next 12 months and military operations will resume in Gaza.”
Jack Kennedy, Head of Middle East and North Africa Country Risk, S & P Global
↑“ I have found no shipper willing to believe this. Schedule reliability has been atrocious for the past five years, so shippers want to see it actually improve first.”
→“ Once the carriers in the first alliance return to Suez, all the rest will have to follow, and in my view, that will happen in the second half.”
Tom Behrens-Sørensen, Chairman, ECCO Global Shoe Production
Lars Jensen, CEO, Vespucci Maritime
→“ If there’ s bad weather or a strike in Busan, why should shippers in Shanghai or Ningbo suffer? We can isolate that problem and deal with [ it ] more effectively.”
Lars Mikael Jensen, Global Head of Hubs, APM Terminals
↓“ We cannot have these kinds of dwells, and if we cannot come together to figure it out, then cargo will go elsewhere.”
Alan McCorkle, CEO, Yusen Terminals www. joc. com April 7, 2025 | Journal of Commerce 17