Port events this fall: a calendar for truckers in Montréal, Philadelphia, Vancouver and Los Angeles

Most trucking companies that serve a container terminal know the gate, the yard and the dispatch screen very well. They know the people behind the port less well. Yet the people who decide gate hours, chassis rules, new terminals and appointment systems meet several times a year, in rooms that are often open to carriers. This page lists the ones coming up this fall.

Every event below has its own page in the SwapContainer events section. The date and the venue come from the organiser’s official page, and each listing links back to it. We did not guess a date or a venue: when the organiser has not published one, the listing says so.

Montréal

The Montréal calendar is fed mostly by CargoM, the logistics and transportation cluster of the metropolitan area, which keeps a shared calendar for the whole community. Coming up:

• October 27 · Journée maritime québécoise 2026, organised by the Société de développement économique du Saint-Laurent (SODES).
• October 28 · a CargoM panel with Cégep André-Laurendeau on logistics careers in a period of global disruption.
• October 29 · Le Grand Dîner de l’ACQ, 75th anniversary edition, at Le Salon Richmond 1861. The Association du camionnage du Québec is the province’s trucking association.
• November 12 · the 81st Festival des Huîtres of the Club de Trafic de Montréal, on the Grand Quai of the Port of Montréal.
• November 16 · Forum Logistique 2026, at the Hôtel Bonaventure.
• November 18 · the Port of Montreal Community Open House, an evening with the port’s experts.
• December 3 · CargoM’s annual members’ evening, in the Salle Dominic Taddeo at the Port of Montréal.

All Montréal events: Montréal on SwapContainer.

Philadelphia

Around the Delaware River, two calendars do most of the work: the Maritime Exchange for the Delaware River and Bay, which serves the whole tri-state port community, and the Pennsylvania Motor Truck Association (PMTA).

• October 19 · Traffic Club of Philadelphia Annual Golf Outing.
• October 28 · PMTA’s 2026 Safety Day Conference.
• October 29 · World Trade Centers Day 2026, by the World Trade Center of Greater Philadelphia.
• November 2 · a PMTA lunchtime webinar on PennDOT’s winter weather restrictions for trucks.
• November 5 · the Great West / PMTA 2026 Risk Summit.
• December 10 · the joint holiday dinner of the Ports of Philadelphia Maritime Society and the World Trade Association of Philadelphia.

All Philadelphia events: Philadelphia on SwapContainer.

Vancouver

• November 3 · State of the Port, by the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade, at the Hyatt Regency.
• November 18–19 · WESTAC’s Fall Member Forum, « Gateway to Growth », at the Wosk Centre for Dialogue. WESTAC is the Western Transportation Advisory Council.
• November 19 · the CIFFA Western Gala Dinner, at the Pinnacle Hotel Harbourfront. CIFFA is the Canadian freight forwarders’ association.

All Vancouver events: Vancouver on SwapContainer.

Los Angeles and Long Beach

The Harbor Trucking Association (HTA) represents drayage carriers at the San Pedro Bay ports and in Oakland. Its calendar is the reference for truckers there:

• October 21 · HTA SoCal membership meeting, at the Shoreline Yacht Club in Long Beach.
• October 29 · the Fall SoCal Motor Carrier Conference 2026, at 725 Harbor Plaza, Long Beach.
• November 11 · HTA SoCal membership meeting.
• December 9 · HTA SoCal membership holiday party.

Further out, the TPM27 conference of the Journal of Commerce returns to Long Beach from February 28 to March 3, 2027. All events in the area: Los Angeles · Long Beach on SwapContainer.

Why a trucker should look at this calendar

A swap works when two companies trust each other enough to hand over a box at the gate. That trust is built in exactly these rooms. A dinner or a members’ meeting is where a dispatcher meets the company that drops the empties they need, and where a terminal explains the rule that changes next month. Going to one event a quarter, in your own port, is often enough to change who you can call.

We update this calendar from the organisers’ own pages. If you run an event that belongs here, or if a date changes, write to info@swapcontainer.com with the link to your official page.