BlueYonder

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Over the past year, we’ve talked a lot about the logjams at the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach and how these have impacted our everyday lives — from holding Halloween decorations at sea and almost preventing last year’s holiday shopping season. Now There Are Too Many Shipping Containers.

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Ware2Go

JANUARY 10, 2022

Should you change your supply chain procurement strategy in light of continuing supply chain disruptions? Supply chain procurement strategies had long been favoring Just in Time procurement. So, should merchants change their supply chain procurement strategies as they head into 2022? Big Picture Thinking.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Less-than-container load (LCL) shipping has become part of the solution design to many supply chain challenges. LCL shipping provides shippers with cost and time savings as they face longer wait times at ports along with more last-minute-change needs, based on disruption and delays. Combating today’s tight air and ocean market.

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Intelligent Audit

AUGUST 20, 2021

And now, additional port shutdowns in China are undermining the overall flow of goods just as the back-to-school rush winds down and as shippers begin to enter the peak holiday shipping season. Additionally, shipping rates are already above their 2020 peak season levels. Why Port Shutdowns Are Continuing.

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ToolsGroup

JANUARY 25, 2022

Download guide: 8 Winning Strategies to Combat Supply Shortages ? As the port of Long Beach continues to suffer blockage and delays, companies are taking a fresh look at alternate ports for supply chain relief. Target will provide alternatives. Consumers vote with their wallets and footsteps.” We need to address the data.”.

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Intelligent Audit

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Understanding the state of holiday shipping and learnings for the next peak season means realizing that rates are always going to jump-start near Halloween. Any conversation about the state of holiday shipping would be incomplete without discussing ocean freight congestion and shortages. Ocean Freight Shortages Abound. late rate.

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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. Readers' choice! Significance.

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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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West Coast and California Logistics

AUGUST 15, 2023

Fortunately, there’s a straightforward way to reduce shipping costs when shipping into the Ports of L.A. and Long Beach. In this article, we’ll discuss the practice of importing products using higher shipping container weights and making use of the Overweight Corridor.

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The very next day I called Jim Hull, our Senior Industries Strategy Director, to share my frightening shopping experience, and he confirmed my worst nightmare — everything I needed for an enchanting All Hallows’ Eve was somewhere on a ship in one of the many port logjams. So, the cargo ships might get unloaded, but the U.S.

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BlueYonder

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

This blog was written by Bryant Miller, Corporate Communications, with insights from Jim Hull, Senior Industries Strategy Director at Blue Yonder. Or how Target can send its own cargo ship to China to pick up goods, while smaller retailers have their orders waiting 70 ships deep at a port in Long Beach.

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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. Supply Chain Brain – Out-of-Control Shipping Costs Fire Up Prices From Coffee to Toys. Natrol transforms demand planning strategy with Wolters Kluwer Vanguard Software. Four Strategies for Smarter Demand Planning.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 25, 2022

West Coast Container Ship Backup Has Ended. In our Supply Chain Matters news capsule of September 27, we pointed out that business, supply chain and transportation media had reported this that the cost of shipping a container of goods from China to the U.S. Whereas the spot rate to ship a container from China to the U.S.

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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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Intelligent Audit

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Most carriers have now announced peak season shipping surcharges , and the USPS slowdown of first-class mail is now well underway. However, major West Coast ports have implemented changes to operating hours that may alleviate part of the burden and increase the number of ships processed through the backlog as the run to peak season continues.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Peak season for ocean freight shipping is underway. Here’s an easy way to think about the regular and potential future disruptions that could impact your ocean shipping strategy, and what you can do to prepare for what comes next. At these times of the year, you should see less risk to your standard ocean shipping strategy.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 15, 2022

West Coast ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. A two-year long global wide pandemic and now heightened global geo-political tensions with the threat of nation state conflicts should indeed be a call to action in the reexamination or realignment of existing component and product sourcing strategies, regardless of industry.

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Turvo

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Currently, Long Beach California is dealing with a record number of ships loitering outside the port, and that’s not the only place that’s getting increased traffic. Not only are ships bottlenecked in an attempt to unload, but many of them are being loaded with empty containers, meaning U.S

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 31, 2022

A container from Shanghai to Long Beach was 56 days in 2020 and increased to 80 days in 2021. Source E2open Shipping Index). He genuinely cared for the organization and prided himself on forging clever strategies. How could this be?” ” Let’s set the stage. Lucas was a brilliant and committed CFO.

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SCMDOJO

MAY 13, 2022

Each year around 700 million TEUs are shipped across the world keeping global trade and businesses running and more than eighty percent of global goods trade volumes are carried by sea, with about a sixth of that volume in shipping containers. in March, while the average delay for late vessel arrivals decreased once again to 7.26

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

JUNE 18, 2021

Switching between ports, modes, and trade lanes has been an active strategy to avoid these delays, but shippers can’t rely on only adjusting once or twice since other shippers are also making these shifts as they compete for limited space. This is due to the magnitude of the trade lanes and exports the port touches.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

A container from Shanghai to Long Beach was 56 days in 2020 and increased to 80 days in 2021. Source E2open Shipping Index). He genuinely cared for the organization and prided himself on forging clever strategies. His response? How could this be?”. Let’s set the stage. Lucas was a brilliant and committed CFO.

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Many retailers are already advising customers on their websites about inventory issues and shipping delays. . Scores of container ships await unloading at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, carrying all those coveted toys, electronics, and other goods. s freight system.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Disruptions were brought about not only by the persistent and recurring spread of Covid -19 infections globally, but also significant storms and natural disasters, a one-week blockage of one of world’s most transited shipping canals, followed by complete disarray among global shipping schedules.

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Freightos

MARCH 29, 2017

At JOC ’s TPM in Long Beach last month, no less than fifteen sessions featured technology, digitalization, and freight future-proofing. According to Jonathan Pulitzer, a managing director of GE Ventures: GE is a global shipper with large business tied to shipping, as well as a logistics business.

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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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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 23, 2022

American Shipper reported last week that the number of container ships calling on major U.S. West Coast ports during 2021 in trying to process historic ship backlog levels. West Coast ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach throughout 2021. Surface Transportation Board on the merger with Kansas City Southern. . Further, U.S.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

MAY 6, 2015

Compounding the problem is the emergence of megaships which are taxing the aging infrastructure of US ports leading to long back-ups for trucking. Shipping delays are expected to cost the retail industry $7 billion this year and as much as $37 billion by 2016. As a result they are better equipped to handle megaship traffic.

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Supply Chain Opz

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

Paul Dittmann , Executive Director of the Global Supply Chain Institute at the University of Tennessee Improving operational efficiency in the global supply chain is a complex undertaking, and requires a documented, multi-year strategy instead of knee jerk reactions, and programs of the month. These are three examples: Rule 3.1:

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Shipping Networks (WSJ – sub. Shipping firm Clarksons braces for data leak after refusing to pay hacker (The Guardian). annual rate in the third quarter, faster than earlier estimated, and the reports from shipping sites suggest the muscular economic growth is continuing in the fourth quarter. economic output grew at a 3.3%

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Zipline Logistics

MARCH 13, 2020

According to an article published in Freight Waves , “ Fewer ship calls in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic as well as lingering effects from the United States’ trade war with China resulted in a 17.9% year-over-year drop in imports at the Port of Long Beach in February. ” .

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

FedEx Helps Small Businesses Streamline Shipping with fedex.com Integration Manager. Labor and management work out deal at Port of LA/Long Beach ( Logistics Management ). CombineNet and Transplace Extend Partnership in Delivering Advanced Transportation Procurement Solution to North America. Mexico trade.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

AUGUST 11, 2017

Peak season for ocean freight shipping is underway. Here’s an easy way to think about the regular and potential future disruptors that could impact your ocean shipping strategy, and what you can do to prepare for what comes next. At these times of the year, you should see less risk to your standard ocean shipping strategy.

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Freightos

MARCH 23, 2023

This year’s recent TPM – the annual transpacific maritime conference hosted by the Journal of Commerce in Long Beach, CA at the end of February – was a combination of post-pandemic debrief, projections for the rest of the year and beyond, and lessons learned. What just happened???

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Maersk, the world’s largest container shipping company, reported its best quarter in 117 years, posting a $5.9B Ships continue to hold in the west coast harbors of LA and Long Beach, and the west coast warehouses are full. Much of the inventory on the ships at sea will miss the essential seasonal windows.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Look at the 72 ships off the coast of Long Beach (up 65% from a year ago). Does anyone want to wager with me how many of those ships have inventory that is not really needed in the supply chain? Each of These Buffer Strategies Require Design and Bi-Directional Orchestration. Could Outside-in Thinking Help?

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ToolsGroup

JANUARY 6, 2022

We then opened a distribution center in Seattle to use their ports up there instead of the ports in Long Beach and Los Angeles, which are extremely backed up. Lesson #5: From Shipping to Stocking, Process Matters. These strategies are based on your business’s resources and needs.

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