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EDITORIAL CALENDAR

Editor’s Note

JANUARY/FEBRUARY MARCH/ APRIL

Cruise Shipping Trends IT & Software • Maritime Carriers: Cruise Shipping • Maritime Carriers: Bulk Carrier Sector Report 2017 was a busy year for intermodal logistics stakeholders. For many ports and liner com- panies, it was an equally good one. Arguably, the results have matched the considerable hype • Port Logistics: Intermodal Connections • Port Logistics: Regulatory Impact Report surrounding the expanded Panama and Suez Canals. U.S. ports continue to ramp up infra-

Full • Finance: Managing IT Spending • Finance: the Cost of Big Data structure and deepen channels and the promise of the so-called mega post-Panamax tonnage is here on our doorstep. Separately, Richard Greiner of international shipping adviser Moore • Emerging Trends: Shipboard • Emerging Trends: Supply Chain Transparency

Speed

Stephens reported this month that ‘shipping confdence’ is at its highest rating in the past Connectivity • Tech: SATCOM Solutions three-and-a-half years. That’s a good place from which to kick off 2018.

Ahead • Tech: e-Vetting Tonnage for Quality • Product: Terminal Operating software

Maritime Logistics hinges on ports frst, but it doesn’t end there. That said; this edition’s port focus – North Carolina Ports – might surprise you. Nevertheless, and far from being the • Product: Maritime Security Providers • Special Report: Terminal, Yard Management

Atlantic seaboard’s biggest, the port of Wilmington alone can claim to be the most effcient. • Special Report: Port Security

And, if today’s cargo and TEU numbers at Tarheel State gateways don’t wow you, consider that in just one short year, the ports have grown from serving just 5 Carriers and 12 Carrier-

BONUS DISTRIBUTION

Port-Pair Options to 15 Carriers and over 65 Carrier-Port-Pair Options. Eying the prize rep-

Seatrade Cruise Global

March 5-8, Fort Lauderdale, FL resented by the nation’s largest cold chain agricultural market – lurking just outside the gates – NC Port executives are excited about what comes next. That story begins on page 30. MAY/JUNE JULY/AUGUST

Also in this edition, and with the IMO’s so-called ‘2020’ deadline looming large in the porthole, shipowners and bunker infrastructure providers all have diffcult decisions to make.

Container Ports Port Infrastructure & Development

One possible solution is the use of LNG as fuel, something that brings with it a sea bag of issues of its own. Addressing LNG’s logistical ‘chicken and egg’ aspect, as well as the nuts • Maritime Carriers: Top 25 Ocean Liners • Maritime Carriers: Coastal Commerce and bolts of safely transferring that fuel as bunkers, MLPro brings you up to speed quickly. • Port Logistics: Competing for Market Share • Port Logistics: Dredging & Infrastructure

Closer to home here at Maritime Logistics Professional magazine, we also saw a busy year, • Finance: Vessel Valuation Evolves • Finance: P3 Projects starting with our frst year of ramping up to six editions. Since its inception as a quarterly magazine nearly seven years ago, this BPA audited B-to-B logistics publication has seen • Emerging Trends: Combating Cyber Threats • Emerging Trends: Tanker Logistics Evolve its share of change, evolving and growing to where it is today. Covering the waterfront • Tech: Vessel Management Software • Tech: Port Security & Cyber Protection from infrastructure to shipping fnance and everything in between, when it comes to the global intermodal supply chain, MLPro is your one-stop shop for analysis, • Product: Container Handling Equipment • Service: Dredging Contractors news and emerging trends.

• Special Report: End-to-End Turnkey Logistics • Special Report: Port Planning Simulation

For example, what if you could listen in and get the latest INTEL from the U.S.

Maritime Administration’s ADM Mark Buzby, U.S. Coast Guard Commandant BONUS DISTRIBUTION

SMM 2018: Sept 4-7, Hamburg, Germany

ADM Paul Zukunft, long time Federal Maritime Commissioner William Doyle and

Breakbulk Americas: Oct 2-4, Houston, TX the International Chamber of Shipping’s CEO Kathy Metcalf, all in just one place?

Look no further: that coverage – and much more – kicks off on page 12 and continues throughout just this edition alone. That kind of laser focus

SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER NOVEMBER/DECEMBER on the industry’s most important infuencers won’t change in 2018.

Beyond this, our frst edition of the year will be produced in both

Liner Shipping & Logistics Regulatory & Environmental Review print and electronic formats. Hence, you can now choose the ve- • • Maritime Carriers: Shifting Alliances & Ports Maritime Carriers: hicle that’s right for you. I’m happy you chose to come on board.

• Port Logistics: Equipment Evolves • Port Logistics: LNG Bunkers / Infrastructure • Finance: Operator Consolidation Continues • Finance: The Cost of Green • Emerging Trends: Liner Alliances • Emerging Trends: Manage & Track Emissions • Tech: Hybrid & Long-Distance Learning • Tech: Supply Chain Management • Product / Service: e-Commerce Platforms • Service Providers: Liquid Bulk Storage

Joseph Keefe, Editor | [email protected] • Special Report: Managing Your Mariners • Special Report: MARPOL Annex VI (2020) 8 Maritime Logistics Professional November/December 2017 | |

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