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Our Annual Meeting and TransComp Exhibition is the freight transportation industry’s premier event of the year. It features the latest products, services and technology applications designed to enhance your company’s profitability as well as educational seminars available nowhere else.

The National Industrial Transportation League’s TransComp Exhibition will be co-located with the Intermodal Expo, and held in conjunction with NITL and IANA Annual Meetings and TIA’s Fall Meeting.

• Joint Opening Session and Keynote Address, featuring Capt. Wei Jiafu, President & CEO of COSCO Group
• Closing Session invited speaker David Sanger, White House Correspondent for The New York Times.
• Admittance to the 2006 TransComp Exhibition and the Intermodal Expo
• Outstanding Educational Sessions covering a wide range of issues facing shippers, carriers, and intermediaries, including:
• Security Acronyms—What Does All This Government Alphabet Soup Mean?
• Rail Capacity—What’s Needed to Meet Our Needs Today and Tomorrow?
• RFID—The Pitfalls and Challenges Yet to be Overcome
• The Mistakes Air Shippers Make: Where They Leave Money on the Table
• Top 10 Challenges in Managing Your Supply Chain … and more!

INDUSTRY KEYNOTE SPEAKER Captain Wei Jiafu Monday’s Industry Keynote Address will feature Capt. Wei Jiafu, President & CEO of COSCO Group. Capt. Wei was appointed President & CEO of COSCO Group in November of 1998 and was elected into the 16th CPC Central Committee for Discipline Inspection in 2002. He is Chairman of China Shipowners’ Association, Chairman of China Federation of Industrial Economics (CFIE), Chairman of China Shipowners Mutual Assurance Association, Advisor of Harvard Business School and Advisor of Panama Canal Authority. Capt. Wei is the winner of numerous prestigious awards, including the 2005 CCTV People of the Year of China’s Economy, and was ranked as a leader in the global shipping and logistics industry by the Journal of Commerce’s 2005 Leadership Roll. Capt. Wei received his Master’s degree from Dalian Maritime University and a Doctoral degree in Marine Architectural Design from Tianjin University. He had been Managing Director of the Sino-Tanzania Joint Shipping Co., President of COSCO Holdings (Singapore) Pte Ltd., Managing Director of Tianjin Ocean Shipping Co., and Managing Director of COSCO Bulk Carrier Co., Ltd.

CLOSING GENERAL SESSION David E. Sanger The invited speaker for Tuesday’s Closing General Session is David E. Sanger, White House Correspondent for The New York Times. Mr. Sanger has been writing for The Times for over 24 years covering New York, Tokyo and Washington. He has reported on such issues as foreign policy, globalization, nuclear proliferation, and Asian affairs. Before covering the White House, Mr. Sanger was a correspondent and then bureau chief of The New York Times in Tokyo, where he developed a specialization in writing on the influence of economics on foreign policy, and the relationships between the United States and its major allies. In 1994, he became the chief Washington economic correspondent, later being named senior writer and, in 1999, White House correspondent. David Sanger has received numerous journalistic awards, including being named twice among New York Times reporting teams honored with the Pulitzer Prize. His first Pulitzer was in 1987, playing a major role on the team that investigated the causes of the space shuttle Challenger disaster. Later, he was among another Pulitzer-winning team to write about the Clinton Administration’s struggle to control exports to China. Mr. Sanger graduated magna cum laude in government from Harvard in 1982.

The transportation industry has a complicated relationship with energy markets and environmental protection because it both exacerbates the problem while offering various solutions. This session will frame the problem from several different perspectives.

C-TPAT, ACE, CSI, TSA, DHS, TWIC, FBI, CBP…these and other key acronyms are now part of our everyday life, yet do we really know how they affect our supply chain? Do these organizations work together, independently, or at cross-purposes? Do they work at all? How should you coordinate your efforts with them? Our panel, all experts in the heightened security environment of today’s world, will navigate us through this maze of organizations, regulations and responsibilities, and leave us with an understanding of their continuing impact on our business.

Which comes first: new capacity to haul hoped-for shipments, or a need that waits for capacity to be brought on line? How can this “capacity risk” be diminished by railroads, shippers, and others to improve service, reduce bottlenecks, and achieve the lowest total cost for all concerned? Is increased private car ownership the answer? Is intermodal the answer? What role should short lines play, and what are the pros and cons of relaxing short line abandonment procedures? These and other critical rail service issues will be addressed by our panel of experts.

This seminar will focus on establishing performance metrics for measuring the effectiveness and efficiency of logistics management, whether in-house or out-sourced. The panel will include a shipper and 3PLs.

How do YOU manage your transportation components in an ever-changing environment, while controlling costs and improving service? Is it really possible to plan for the future and what it may hold—including hurricanes, capacity crunches, driver shortages and maybe even a pandemic?

Phone sales and communication are essential for today’s industry, a transportation marketing expert will lead an exciting session of best practices for 3PLs, shippers and carriers.

Going forward, the transportation industry must address a plethora of energy and environmental challenges. Some are already mandated, others are likely to come. This session will allow companies and organizations that are already working on solutions to lay out some possible industry responses.

RFID has arrived—or has it? The government uses it, large retailers and their major suppliers have been using it, and so RFID technology must be running smoothly by now, right? Wrong! Our panel of experts on RFID implementation and use will describe the state of RFID today, and examine what it will take to make this technology useful, practical, affordable, and successful for the entire supply chain.

This session will look at the freight claim process, from start to finish, and include a discussion of what to do if your load is held hostage. The panel will comprise a lawyer, a 3PL, a shipper and a carrier.

Recent studies have pegged the costs of highway congestion at over $60 billion a year, and growing. How does this translate to the overall freight community—carriers and shippers alike? And what is the relationship between congestion, and the vitality of the U.S. economy? Discussants, including shippers, carrier capacity specialists, and public sector infrastructure planners, will attempt to quantify the costs of congestion on the global supply chain.

Rates and discounts for airfreight and air express shipments are easy to negotiate—but what about total delivered cost? What economic land mines are hidden in a carrier’s service guide? How can accessorials be controlled? Have fuel surcharges become an additional profit center all their own? This session will provide hands-on, real world examples of how shippers can confidently craft contracts to protect them from expensive surprises.

Rising transportation prices? Rising fuel cost? Inconsistent and erratic service? Tight capacity? Port service? In this day of double digit rate increases, how do you budget for transportation?