BlueYonder

OCTOBER 29, 2021

ports have expanded their working hours, almost 200,000 shipping containers , with cargo worth more than USD 25 billion, remain on ships off the coast of Los Angeles as retailers scramble to ensure store shelves are stocked in time for the holiday season. While some critical U.S. To learn more watch LCT in action.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 30, 2021

When the ball drops on Times Square to welcome in 2022, the employees at the Port of Long Beach will celebrate moving 9 M TEUs in imports: a 26% increase in year-over-year volume. meters draft, and cargo capacity up to 14,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU); previously, it could only handle vessels up to about 5,000 TEU.

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

It used to take two days to get cargo off the docks. … We flew over the sprawling Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach — 40% of all U.S. Marketing expert Robby Pedraza explains, “During World War II, standard sized shipping containers were developed to ship military cargo to the front lines. Now, it takes nine.

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QAD

DECEMBER 16, 2021

A lack of railcars to move cargo from the ports is adding more delays. The Port of Los Angeles is joining the Port of Long Beach in doubling operational hours to 24/7. QAD Demand and Delivery ensures visibility and collaboration on inventory, schedules, orders, shipments, invoices and replenishment requirements.

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DAT Solutions

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Since two of the re-scheduled ships docked in the twin seaports of Los Angeles and Long Beach over the weekend of September 10-11, demand has surged for vans in the L.A. Even if they didn’t have cargo on Hanjin ships, big retailers are starting to shift inventory from West Coast distribution centers to other DCs farther east.

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Stord

APRIL 7, 2019

The e-commerce giant’s new 855,000-square-foot fulfillment center in Staten Island is 20% smaller than its usual facilities, but handles 50% more inventory than a traditional warehouse because of design choices and its use of automation. Delta reported a dip in air cargo freight last month compared to March of 2018.

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Exiger Perspectives

JANUARY 13, 2025

Supply Shortages: Interruptions to manufacturing and distribution centers could result in reduced inventory availability. According to the US Army Corps of Engineers, the Port of Long Beach and the Port of Los Angeles were the 5 th and 11 th largest ports in the US by total trade weight in 2022, the most recent data available.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Port of Long Beach sees highest Q3 cargo volume in history (Cargo Business News). Inventory Management. MatchBack Systems Launches MatchAdvisor™ to Optimize Inland Street-Turns. UPS Expands UPS Worldwide Express™ Service. UPS Sets 2016 Rates. August 2015 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI). Cost Management.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Much of this added container volume is attributed to either retailers front-loading their Q4 inventory purchases, or diversions related either to the likely threat of a U.S. This port reportedly processed an average of 13 container vessels for each of this three month period. East Coast labor disruption, which as noted actually occurred.

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3rdwave

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Conversely, it’s just as easy to find situations where parties are typing container numbers into terminal websites in the hopes of finding the true status of their cargo. At large ports like Los Angeles and Long Beach that feature appointment systems, chassis pools, and thousands of drayage drivers, the job gets really tough.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Some of the larger air terminals in the United States are seeing delays of up to 5-7 days to claim cargo, and ocean vessels continue to be delayed at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, waiting on average 10-15 days to berth. While delays may seem inevitable, there are creative solutions for shippers to lessen the impact.

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Material Handling & Logistics

OCTOBER 10, 2017

A TEU is one 20-foot-long cargo container or its equivalent. Cargo volume does not correlate directly with sales because only the number of containers is counted, not the value of the cargo inside, but nonetheless provides a barometer of retailers’ expectations. million TEUs set just one month earlier in July.

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Resilinc

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

In the race to fill distribution centers and store shelves with inventory for the holidays, some of the world’s largest retailers and ecommerce sellers are jumping ahead of smaller competitors by chartering ships, shifting freight to air, re-rerouting inland shipments, and hiring more staff for distribution centers and other supply chain nodes.

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Aera Technology

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Meanwhile, pharma companies are still trying to iron out distribution and inventory complexities that cause another $25 billion in excess inventory – in a nutshell, the new drugs are complex proteins and if they’re not properly handled every step of the way to market, they’ll go bad!

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Vanguard Software

JUNE 18, 2021

June 12, 2021 – Cargo ships stacked up at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Inventories of lumber, aluminum cans, tires, cardboard and plastic all running low. The Latest Supply Chain News. The Wall Street Journal – Supply Chains Are Strained. These Companies Are Best Prepared.

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Cathy Roberson

MARCH 14, 2022

Last year it seemed the biggest concern for many shippers was receiving inventory on time, regardless of the cost. However, if you’re interested in reading a summary of a couple of the conferences I attended, TPM Tech and TPM, here you go: A Tech Homecoming at TPM Tech Welcome Back to Long Beach!

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Global trade has eased as warehouse inventories of retailers and manufacturers remain elevated,” Port of Los Angeles Executive Director Gene Seroka said. This year the twin complexes at Los Angeles and Long Beach, Calif., year-over-year decline, processing 684,290 20-foot-equivalent containers.

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Savi

MARCH 14, 2019

Last week, the Savi Team once again attended the Trans-Pacific Maritime (TPM) conference in Long Beach, California, but this year the team detected a noticeable shift in the conversation. Beneficial Cargo Owners, or BCOs, openly said shipping price increases are necessary for carriers to stay profitable.

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Ware2Go

OCTOBER 9, 2021

Seventy-three cargo ships await unloading at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach on Saturday, a record. The system has also been plagued by random setbacks, as in July when the cargo ship Ever Given lodged itself into the Suez Canal , bringing a major shipping thoroughfare to a halt for nearly a week.

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Supply Chain Brain

MARCH 19, 2018

He presented his outlook for container shipping to the TPM Annual Conference in Long Beach, Calif., Similar bottlenecks at inland points threaten to slow the movement of cargo and choke off growth. sponsored by IHS Markit. Carrier services have stabilized as well. The bankruptcy of Hanjin Shipping Co.,

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 28, 2023

A steep, across-the-board decline in imported cargo , exports and empty containers during March dropped volumes at several major ports to levels not seen since before the COVID-19 pandemic. The adjacent Port of Long Beach also saw a significant decline in container volume in March.

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6 River Systems

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

In higher-traffic markets, Advance Auto Parts has “hub” stores that keep more inventory in-stock to give customers what they need when they need it. Bed Bath & Beyond is also implementing inventory reduction strategies and is on track for a 5% reduction year-over-year by the end of the current fiscal year.

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Elementum

AUGUST 25, 2015

percent decline in container volumes from 2014 , while Long Beach reported its best month ever during the same time. Now, as traffic from Tianjin slows to a crawl, Long Beach and Los Angeles ports are poised to suffer the most from the decreased volumes. They’re showing mixed recovery: In July, Los Angeles posted a 3.5

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Supply Chain Opz

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

Reducing lead times from suppliers can help turn inventory faster, freeing up cash and ultimately satisfying customers. Risk pooling is considered the most important concept in supply chain management as it governs the tradeoffs in inventory management and leads to effective strategies such as push/pull and postponement.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 16, 2024

The international inbound transportation service is only available to Walmart Fulfillment Services (WFS) sellers that source or manufacture goods in China, and all cargo must be shipped from Yantian, Shanghai, or Ningbo ports. Cargo imported into the U.S. are then directly transported to a Walmart fulfillment center.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 1, 2022

Retail’s inventory glut means big business for liquidators. Some retailers are waiting weeks to move cargo by train out of Southern California’s ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, while others are giving up on the railroads and shifting shipments of furniture, apparel and other consumer goods to trucks for long inland journeys on highways.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Retailers’ holiday inventory planning has been fraught with unpleasant supply-chain surprises for two straight years. Inventory discipline is showing up in cargo numbers. For the full year, NRF and Hackett are expecting import cargo volume to have declined 13 percent versus last year. supply chain reliability.

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RFgen

MARCH 19, 2015

Mayor of Long Beach, California Robert Garcia believes business should return to normal at all U.S. Long Beach and Los Angeles – approximately 24 miles apart – are the two largest container ports in the U.S. While the jury is out on how long it will take Western U.S. Standoff to Affect the Supply Chain?

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RFgen

MARCH 19, 2015

Mayor of Long Beach, California Robert Garcia believes business should return to normal at all U.S. Long Beach and Los Angeles – approximately 24 miles apart – are the two largest container ports in the U.S. While the jury is out on how long it will take Western U.S. Standoff to Affect the Supply Chain?

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

According to today’s published report by business broadcast network CNBC , The Port of New York/New Jersey has been involved in discussions with ocean carriers and terminal operators about managing cargo leading up to an interruption, ensuring appropriate measures are in place to complete cargo movements off the terminals before any shutdown.

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Zipline Logistics

MARCH 24, 2020

year-over-year drop in imports at the Port of Long Beach in February.” . That is even with increased demand for some products , as many producers had a safety stock of inventory piled ahead of proposed tariffs. . The effects of this import lull have not yet wholly hit producers in the US.

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Ware2Go

OCTOBER 14, 2021

One measure of this is the daily tally of container ships idling outside the congested ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach — the entry point for about 40 per cent of goods imported into the US. Nike has warned of inventory shortages and Costco is having trouble keeping enough toilet rolls in stock. The stakes are high.

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