Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 22, 2024

While multi-industry logistics, transportation and customer fulfilment teams might have languished with a sigh of relief, they are likely to be aware that this new contract is not a done deal yet. Yet, there is still a reported lag times related to movement of containers to intermodal inland rail or surface trucking transportation.

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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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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

The people on the ground–my contacts in the 3PL, freight forwarding and transportation industry–know that the labor strife is only a part of the larger story. Unloading at the western ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have been an issue for many months. This is not going to be pretty.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

Increased Shipping Costs, Delays, and Transportation Issues. Increased Shipping Costs, Delays, and Transportation Issues. Retailers like Amazon are chartering private cargo ships, making their own containers, and leasing planes to bypass supply chain disruptions like long wait times for dock space and workers. Upply ).

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Background on Ocean Transport. 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 year-over-year. I find no agency or entity trying to find a holistic solution to global logistics. We are awash in a sea of self-interest.

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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. Communicate closely with transportation providers, supplying inbound and outbound forecasts and issuing delivery orders in advance of vessel arrival.

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SCMDOJO

MAY 13, 2022

The advent of containerization heralded a revolution in cargo handling techniques, the ramifications of which are still influencing maritime trade all over the world today. ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach which saw their busiest March on record, handling a combined 898,287 TEU’s. Supply Chain KPI Dashboard.

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Material Handling & Logistics

AUGUST 11, 2017

This acronym stands for All Water Service, which is one of the most cost-effective ways to ship your cargo, and also one of the most eco-friendly ; however, it’s also one of the slowest forms of freight transportation. With AWS, your cargo will be shipped from the port of origin to its destination using only water routes.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 10, 2017

Volvo Trucks demonstrates truck-platooning technology (Long Beach Post Telegram). January 2017 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI). Moving on to trucking news, a platooning demonstration was conducted this week at Long Beach. Coca-Cola Targets Small Retailers With Coke on Demand App (WSJ – sub.

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Stord

APRIL 7, 2019

Ports across the country are updating their progress on clean air goals for both rail and truck transportation. In California, the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach released a clean trucks assessment, the next step in their public plan to establish zero-emissions trucking at their facilities by 2035. This number fell by 5.4%

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 17, 2021

Even during the epidemic, the shipping industry’s significance in the value chain and the transportation of resources and goods worldwide was emphasized, probably most prominently. It has already wreaked havoc on supply chains, transport networks, and ports, resulting in a sharp drop in cargo volumes.

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Cathy Roberson

MARCH 14, 2022

Transportation carriers, regardless of mode, are feeling the fuel pain and are raising fuel surcharges as a result. As transportation carriers try to pass off some of their fuel costs to shippers, many shippers will try to pass the fuel costs off to their customers. for the 12 months ending February. I wear a number of hats these days.

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Operations and Supply Chain Management

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

With global cargo lanes clogged, businesses are turning to new ways to deliver goods. Mississippi River cargo traffic near Luling, La. The former wartime airbase handled a record 1,655 international cargo arrivals in 2021, a 73% jump from 2019, and overall tonnage rose 18%. We had a good cargo business before the pandemic.

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Freightos

APRIL 24, 2016

Break-bulk loaded cargo was poorly secured required a Tetris-like approach to handle diverse sizes of packages. Small trucker, Malcom McLean, fumes at slow loading of cargo aboard ship – “There has to be a better way.”. First intermodal cargo transportation (containers are stacked on deck). Significance.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 26, 2016

As a logistics service provider, focusing on over-the-road surface transportation management solutions via technology and managed transportation services, we find the following information on the history of shipping containers of great significance to the logistics and supply chain community at large. Significance.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Background on Ocean Transport. 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. I find no agency or entity trying to find a holistic solution to global logistics. Logistics costs in China are 16.6%

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Look out over the waters surrounding the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, which combined for a throughput of more than 17.3 million TEUs in 2020, and the cargo capacity problem is obvious. The long line of vessels sitting in the water, waiting to unburden their bellies of ocean containers is an ongoing story.

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Resilinc

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

In addition to boosting night-time operations at the backed-up port of LA/Long Beach, Target is seeking to hire 30,000 new permanent staff for supply chains. The smaller ships currently transport only a small percentage of the retailers’ goods—less than 20% in the case of Costco. 12 statement.

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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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Elementum

MAY 19, 2015

Ports Of LA and Long Beach Fail To Continue Record Setting Growth. The ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles continue to deal with the after-effects of February’s total port shutdowns, reporting mixed container volume growth for April. Long Beach managed to continuing an upwards trend, posting a modest 7.9%

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ThroughPut

MARCH 22, 2022

The shipping industry contributes to 25% of America’s total GDP with the Port of Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach being the busiest, handling more than 40% of all inbound cargo shipped to the U.S. Port operators therefore need to plan how they will meet supply with demand and match cargo schedules on a real-time basis.

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The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

JULY 21, 2014

  The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are vital to the LA economy, not only because they provide a significant number of jobs in the shipping and logistics industries, but also because they give the city itself a competitive edge with regard to shipping times and transportation costs when it comes to operating a global businesses here.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

JUNE 3, 2021

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) at the ports of LA and Long Beach has “well over 100 shipments on hold pending determination of admissibility“ due to suspicion of forced labor. Upon arrival into the United States, the cargo is subject to seizure by CBP and treated as an importation prohibited by 19 U.S.C

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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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Elementum

JULY 28, 2015

On July 21, truckers working for the Pacific 9 Transportation company went on indefinite strike, causing further congestion problems and delays at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Strikes and Wage Hikes.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

The center will focus on the development of key long-term technologies [including autonomous driving technology] that advance Uber’s mission of bringing safe, reliable transportation to everyone, everywhere.”. Finally, there are more than 20 cargo ships anchored at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach waiting to be unloaded.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

According to FedEx, the tight labor market added $450 million to costs, including increased overtime, higher wages to attract workers, and extra spending on transportation. This is adding expenses for new truck routes and additional third-party transportation companies. That’s all for this week. by the Beatles.

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RFgen

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Census Bureau, the top location in terms of tonnage, the Port of South Louisiana, processed more than 212 million tons of cargo over 12 months. In that same year, the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach combined loaded close to 9 million twenty-foot equivalent units. According to the most recent statistics from the U.S.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 16, 2015

SMC³ Acquires Transportation Costing Group. August 2015 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI). Port of Long Beach sees highest Q3 cargo volume in history (Cargo Business News). Port of Long Beach sees highest Q3 cargo volume in history (Cargo Business News).

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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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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 1, 2017

If transportation and logistics are an indicator of economic health, things are looking very good at the moment. The nation’s top ports of entry, Los Angeles-Long Beach and New York-New Jersey, in October imported a combined 1,031,127 20-foot-equivalent units…That amounted to a 2.5% economic output grew at a 3.3%

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

The major impact will be to hazardous cargo (majority of classes), with a hold on Xiamen port from August 1st to September 7th, including imports to Xiamen, exports from Xiamen, and transfers via Xiamen. In 2014, a port strike at Los Angeles-Long Beach caused severe congestion and freight delays. Union labor contracts.

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RFgen

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Census Bureau, the top location in terms of tonnage, the Port of South Louisiana, processed more than 212 million tons of cargo over 12 months. In that same year, the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach combined loaded close to 9 million twenty-foot equivalent units. According to the most recent statistics from the U.S.

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Locus

DECEMBER 1, 2021

With bottlenecks in manufacturing and rising labor shortages in transporting goods, businesses struggle to counter toy shortage. With overstuffed warehouses, the cargo piles on the docks leave ports short of needed equipment. A rise in transportation costs. Backlog in ships entering the ports. FreightWaves , 2021.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 28, 2023

Shoppers started seeing shortages of tomatoes on about February 20, with retailers saying a combination of bad weather and related transport issues in north Africa and Europe were causing significant supply problems. The adjacent Port of Long Beach also saw a significant decline in container volume in March.

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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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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 13, 2015

December 2014 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI). Transportation Department pushes tough oil train standards – sources (Reuters). With more than 30 cargo ships anchored offshore, countless supply chains scrambling, and the prospect of a $2 billion per day hit on the U.S.

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