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Improved Supply Chain Visibility Requires an End-to-End Solutions

Logistics Viewpoints

Last October, over 100 ships, including 70 container ships, were waiting at anchor or in drift zones to unload at the twin ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Shippers – the companies paying Ocean, Rail, and Truck carriers to transport their goods – can do little to speed shipments snarled by port congestion. million TEUs.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 20 – 26)

Logistics Viewpoints

Secretary of Transportation, told CNBC on Friday morning that what the government is watching for over the course of the day, as the issue has been identified, is “the kind of ripple or cascade effects as they get everything back in their networks back to normal.” Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg broke ground on a $1.6

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Editor’s Choice: Ocean Trends for 2021

Logistics Viewpoints

The import dwell times at the Port of Long Beach fluctuated throughout the first half of 2021, with a high of 9 days. Export dwell time in Asia, where many goods being transported to the US begin their journey, saw huge fluctuations in the first half of 2021.

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Unease Remains in U.S. East and Gulf Coast Labor Talks

Supply Chain Matters

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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When The Chickens Come Home To Roost

Supply Chain Shaman

Ships continue to hold in the west coast harbors of LA and Long Beach, and the west coast warehouses are full. We Assumed that Transportation Would Always Be Available And That We Just Needed to Negotiate Price. Build Strong Supply Chain Sourcing Development Practices. In parallel, inflation, currently at 6%, is climbing.

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The Importance of International Transportation Visibility in a Global Pandemic

3rdwave

Without inbound international transportation, product level visibility organizations are flying blind – or, they are at a minimum, severely visually impaired. I just got off a call from the Director of Supply Chain with a retailer who is experiencing major angst because many of their products are directly or indirectly sourced overseas.

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When We Don’t Have Answers, We Need to Work Quickly To Build Them

Supply Chain Shaman

Look at the 72 ships off the coast of Long Beach (up 65% from a year ago). Bi-directional orchestration is the constant redesign of the supply chain across make, source, and deliver to improve outcomes and reliability.) Could Outside-in Thinking Help? (Bi-directional