At TOC Americas in Cartagena, panellists from Port Everglades, JAXPORT, APM Terminals Mobile, TRANSFERPORT and BOXBAY set out how ports, roads, rail and storage technology connect cargo to inland markets.
White, who leads intermodal for North America at APM Terminals in Mobile, Alabama, said Gulf terminals are positioned to capture growing Asia-to-Latin America trade and US energy exports.
Denson White, Intermodal North America lead for APM Terminals, told TOC Americas that Mobile, Alabama’s rail reach and a shift towards inland distribution are reshaping how Gulf cargo moves across the Americas.
COMPAS’s Víctor Carrasco and Peru’s port authority chief Jorge Chávez told delegates at TOC Americas that connectivity and efficiency, not extra concrete, decide whether a terminal becomes a true trade node.
From Hanseatic Global Terminals to Peru’s port authority, four panellists at TOC Americas agreed that a terminal’s value is decided by the roads, rail and systems beyond its gates.