Scudder Smith

Scudder Smith specializes in international trade and goods movement analysis and forecasting. He has performed multiple container forecasts for private clients to contribute to their port due diligence bids, refining the container forecasting procedures and databases. Mr. Smith was responsible for analysis and forecasting of the liner-container segment of the Panama Canal’s demand study in support of its multi-billion dollar expansion plans. This work included analysis of previous consultant’s studies and complete, ground-up, development of detailed models and forecasts with detail for 30 commodity groups. These models took into account US macroeconomic and regional economic growth, patterns of US personal consumption, trends in import propensities, rapid shifts and projections of country shares of US imports, trends in containerization, stowage factors, increasing size of container fleets, transit times and costs, patterns of commodity flows over the US intermodal system, and US coastal and port shares of trade. Mr. Smith currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the International Trade Data Users Group.