Peter Tirschwell is Senior Director, Content at IHS Maritime & Trade, publisher of The Journal of Commerce, JOC.Com and PIERS maritime trade data. In his role he is responsible for all content appearing in JOC publications, websites, events and other products and is leading a pioneering effort at the IHS Maritime & Trade to push content in new directions to unlock new value for JOC subscribers. A career transportation journalist, Peter was a reporter, West Coast Bureau Chief, Editor in Chief and Publisher of The Journal of Commerce in his 20+ year career with the company beginning in 1992. He is the founder and chairman of the annual TPM conference in Long Beach, Calif., one of the world's largest shipping events, and led the development of the recently released JOC Port Productivity data, the first global database of port performance. He writes a regular column in The Journal of Commerce covering a range of international logistics topics, speaks regularly at industry events and has been quoted in mainstream business media including the BBC, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and New York Times. He lives in Brooklyn with his family and is an avid sports fan, fly fisherman and sailor.
