As 2020 begins, there are no signs that Montreal, Canada’s second biggest port after Vancouver, strategically located deep inland in relation to the industrial heartland of North America, is slowing down in terms of both capacity and cargo expansion.

When emissions regulations are implemented for one mode of transportation, an hourglass turns over for other modes.

Gene Seroka the executive director of the Port of Los Angeles outlined a new strategy for the Port to regain lost market share.

Stephanie Simon, Head of Airfreight, Americas Region, Damco’s outlook for 2020

Special to the AJOT Mike Short, president of global forwarding, C.H. Robinson

Critics says the cost of doing business at Long Beach and Los Angeles is high and due in part to tough regulations on diesel emissions, however Mario Cordero, executive director of the Port of Long Beach remains optimistic.

Unbeknownst to many, a US$452 million port modernization project is moving towards completion in Kingston, and it’s already remaking Jamaica’s major port.

The US-Mexico-Canada free trade agreement will become a reality, now that US House of Representatives has voted to approve the treaty through implementing legislation.

The Trump Administration is supporting new U.S. Customs rules that the Offshore Marine Services Association says will weaken the Jones Act and outsource American jobs in the oil, gas and offshore wind farms industries.

With Canadian legislators not due back from a winter break until January 27, the chances appear virtually nil that Canada will ratify before February at the earliest the revised North American free trade accord re-named the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) signed on December 10.