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Peter Tirschwell

Peter Tirschwell, Vice PresidentmailLinkedin

Peter Tirschwell is vice president within S&P Global Market Intelligence and leads the Journal of Commerce business. A career shipping and transportation journalist, he has been a reporter, West Coast bureau chief, editor-in-chief, and publisher in his 30-plus-year career with the company. He also is the founder and chair of TPM, the world’s largest container shipping conference, held annually in Long Beach, California. He writes a regular Journal of Commerce column and has appeared frequently on the Wall Street Journal’s editorial pages. He speaks regularly at industry events and has been quoted in mainstream business media including the BBC, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, and The New York Times, and appears regularly on business programs such as CNBC’s Squawk Box.

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TPM21: Surprise demand, not greed, sent container rates soaring

Peter Tirschwell, Vice President |
Container line CEOs and others told the JOC's TPM21 conference that carriers have been doing their best to adjust to volumes that surged to record levels in the second half of 2020 after plummeting during early COVID-19 lockdowns.
Container lines

Slower container circulation cripples global shipping system

Peter Tirschwell, Vice President |
Just when the container shipping system needed more capacity to handle resurgent volumes, the reduced circulation of containers caused a contraction in available capacity, driving up rates and further compounding massive cargo delays.
Container lines

Trans-Pacific carriers aim to curb free time in annual contracts

Peter Tirschwell, Vice President |
If carriers are successful in reducing the number of days shippers can hold containers before being charged detention fees, some shippers may have to adjust warehouse operations so they can unload and return containers to carriers more quickly.
Container lines

Shocks to container system rarely lead to improvements

Peter Tirschwell, Vice President |
The container shipping industry is in the midst of yet another predictable cycle in which supply chains are upended by unpredictable external forces, relationships between carriers and shippers are tested.
MaritimeContainer lines

Late 2020 scramble saves LA-LB shippers from heavy duties

Peter Tirschwell, Vice President |
Rapid collaboration by stakeholders as 2020 wound down helped prevent more than half a billion dollars in tariffs from being imposed on goods waiting at anchorage off the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.
North American ports

Ex-APL executive Timothy Rhein dead at 79

Peter Tirschwell, Vice President |
Rhein left a powerful legacy in shaping the careers of generations of executives, and instilling a commitment to quality, value, and innovation that is reflected today in ocean carriers’ pursuit of value creation.
Maritime

No end in sight for container shipping dysfunction

Peter Tirschwell, Vice President |
Some shipping executives believe that with trans-Pac eastbound space sold out through Chinese New Year, the ongoing impact of the pandemic on buying patterns favoring household goods versus travel and leisure will extend the import surge well into 2021.
Container lines

South Carolina says ILA blocking liner services from new container terminal

Peter Tirschwell, Vice President |
South Carolina Ports Authority on Wednesday filed an unfair labor practice charge alleging an illegal secondary boycott in violation of the National Labor Relations Act.
North American ports