Freightos

JUNE 15, 2021

A third of all cargo is carried in passenger planes. So to meet capacity, airlines started to convert passenger planes into cargo planes at scale. In the last quarter of 2020, it became clear cargo rates weren’t coming down anytime soon. MarineTraffic map of container ships waiting for a spot at the ports of LA/Long Beach, Jan.

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The Logistics of Logistics

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The port problem first became noticeable in the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach, the ports where the majority of shipments from Asia are received. Our team is also available for advisory boards, leadership recruitment, and corporate speaking engagements. The number of ships waiting to enter the biggest U.S.

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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. Blue Yonder Live video: 1. West Coast Port Congestion Finally Clears Up.

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American Global Logistics

JANUARY 24, 2019

Supply Chain Dive —Dive Brief: • An import surge across the country — led by a rush to bring in product before Chinese New Year and a scheduled tariff increase on March 2 — is leading to congestion at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, according to a customer advisory sent by American Global […].

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NFI

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The Port of Long Beach celebrated the completion of its new, state-of-the-art bridge opening Monday, October 5, 2020. Designed to improve traffic and cargo flow, the six-lane.

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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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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 28, 2015

The Los Angeles and Long Beach ports handle nearly half of the nation’s cargo, and are the main gateway for imports from Asia including automobiles, furniture, clothing, electronic products and […].

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Supply Chain Brain

APRIL 7, 2023

The impact of the closures on cargo flow was limited due to low volumes, though one container ship scheduled to go to a berth today was delayed and loitering offshore.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Unloading at the western ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have been an issue for many months. The ships stretch across the horizon two and three-layers deep in Long Beach. Getting a port, like Long Beach, with issues since February, to recover following the work slowdown is going to take a LONG TIME.

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Gravity Supply Chain

JANUARY 28, 2022

TPM22: Let’s catch up at Long Beach! With only a month to go to TPM22 and TPMTech22, the Gravity team is gearing up for an exciting week to come at Long Beach. If you can’t come down to Long Beach (we’ll be missing you!), simply get in touch with us via email, and we’d be delighted to chat.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 2, 2021

Unless you’re a cargo ship, anchored and waiting.) —- Suez Canal Opens, but Shipping Will Be Snarled for Months (WSJ – sub. Q1 2021 is in the books. The pandemic is still with us, but we have vaccines and toilet paper, so an improvement from last year. Onward and upward we go! req’d) America’s Imports.

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Supply Chain Brain

APRIL 6, 2023

The terminal closures come as cargo volumes have dropped sharply at the Southern California ports from peak levels a year ago.

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BlueYonder

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

So even if the beans manage to reach their entry port, they may spend extra days or even weeks at anchor waiting for a berth, only to find there might not be workers to unload the cargo, drive the trucks, or even roast the brews. But all this comes at a cost.

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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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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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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

How do I get shipment X out of Long Beach? But the fact of the matter is, industry leaders who want to avoid crashing their business on the shoals need to balance the daily hand-to-hand combat with some serious, long-term planning. Can I stack two more levels of containers on every chassis?

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Stord

APRIL 7, 2019

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. Delta reported a dip in air cargo freight last month compared to March of 2018. This number fell by 5.4%

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Labor shortages haven’t disappeared: The port of Long Beach is now operating 24/7, but labor shortages still abound across the rest of the supply chain. So, the cargo ships might get unloaded, but the U.S. needs 80,000 truckers — a record high — to keep the goods moving.

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Supply Chain Brain

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Under the new policy, the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles will charge ocean carriers for each container that falls into one of two categories.

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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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Supply Chain Brain

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

s largest ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. A month after Texas poached Tesla Inc.’s s headquarters from California, it’s now trying to attract freight carriers dealing with near-record backlogs at the U.S.’s

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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.

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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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Supply Chain Brain

MARCH 28, 2022

Ocean cargo handlers are scrambling for solutions to the congestion that continues to plague major U.S. container ports, especially Los Angeles and Long Beach. But the ultimate answer might lie in something beyond their control: time.

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Cathy Roberson

MARCH 14, 2022

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! TMP22 - It's a Wrap - Cathy Thanks for reading. For daily thoughts and shares, be sure to follow me on Twitter and LinkedIn.

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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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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 15, 2014

West Coast ports continue , causing importers like Lululemon Athletica to delay store shipments by up to 10 days, other shippers are heading to Canada’s West Coast ports, such as Prince Rupert where cargo traffic headed for the U.S. has increased 11 percent so far this year. ports have also spurred some shippers to look north. .

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Material Handling & Logistics

NOVEMBER 13, 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. Ports covered by Global Port Tracker handled 1.76

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This year the twin complexes at Los Angeles and Long Beach, Calif., The threat of a nationwide strike and protests by cargo truck drivers in Mexico has been postponed after federal authorities showed a willingness to listen to the truckers’ demands, according to officials from the Mexican Alliance of Carrier Organizations (AMOTAC).

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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. The Latest Supply Chain News. The Wall Street Journal – Supply Chains Are Strained. These Companies Are Best Prepared. Inventories of lumber, aluminum cans, tires, cardboard and plastic all running low.

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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. From the earliest days of the pandemic, air cargo providers have been called upon to meet high demand for PPE and other critical products, and later to deliver vaccine doses.

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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). 0 TEUs 0 meters long.

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BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

In addition to our never-arrived Halloween costumes , guess what else is sitting in those 70-something container ships waiting to be unloaded at the port of Long Beach? You’ve heard about big box retailers sidestepping the global supply shortages by chartering their own cargo ships , right? You guessed it — vinyl records.

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 2, 2020

Although the situation on the ground is changing day by day, some trends can be identified which are likely to continue, or in some cases be exacerbated, for as long as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to take its toll. Latest Developments: Freight costs are up five-fold as exporters/importers scramble for space on remaining cargo runs.

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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. cargo has flowed through the country’s West Coast ports until recently.

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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. cargo has flowed through the country’s West Coast ports until recently.

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