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The West Coast Bottleneck with Brian Rice

The Logistics of Logistics

Los Angeles is the largest port in the United States and, together with Long Beach a bit further south, account for around 30 percent of trade entering and exiting the United States. The US imported the most goods from Canada until 2007 when China replaced our neighbor to the north. trillion in U.S. imports of goods.

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This Week in Logistics News (August 26 – September 1)

Logistics Viewpoints

And when Mark Goodson and Bill Todman began shopping a modernized revival of The Price Is Right, Bob Barker joined on as the host, a role he would hold until his retirement in 2007. This year the twin complexes at Los Angeles and Long Beach, Calif.,

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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). We started the pandemic with an average of twenty-one more days of inventory on average across industries than at the start of the 2007 recession. Could Outside-in Thinking Help? Companies struggle to have the right inventories.

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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). We started the pandemic with an average of twenty-one more days of inventory on average across industries than at the start of the 2007 recession. Could Outside-in Thinking Help? Companies struggle to have the right inventories.

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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). We started the pandemic with an average of twenty-one more days of inventory on average across industries than at the start of the 2007 recession. Could Outside-in Thinking Help? Companies struggle to have the right inventories.

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Will Trump’s Trade War Kill Off Economic Growth?

Supply Chain Brain

The Eurozone , only recently in danger of becoming a basket case, is experiencing its strongest growth since 2007. percent this year — the best since 2010, Behravesh told the recent TPM Annual Conference in Long Beach, Calif., Global GDP chalked up growth of 3.2 percent in 2017 and is on track to approach 3.5