The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

JULY 21, 2014

increase in containerized cargo volumes in May 2014 from the previous year. Its proximity to the Port of Long Beach creates a maritime cluster that supports flexible supply chains with ready access to 14 major freight hubs across the US. .   The Port of LA is America's #1 container port. It saw an 8.2%

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Supply Chain Brain

MARCH 19, 2018

Strong results for air freight, container shipping and export orders in particular suggest that, while the trade recovery may moderate in due course, it will likely continue in the coming months and remain above trend,” the report says. Similar bottlenecks at inland points threaten to slow the movement of cargo and choke off growth.

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Elementum

APRIL 22, 2015

Since 2012 the FAA has been under increasing pressure to implement a comprehensive and streamlined pathway for companies wishing to obtain commercial drone operating licenses. Last year Rolls-Royce unveiled a virtual prototype for unmanned freight cargo ships, showing that the future of drones isn't exclusively airborne.

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Elementum

MAY 13, 2015

The country’s underdeveloped intermodal freight transportation system is consistently outperformed by its faster and better integrated U.S. The move may be risky, but the mega retailer’s play may also be indicative of an emerging trend in North American maritime freight. freight imports anytime soon. Lazaro Cardenas Port.

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Mexico Supply Chain Planning Software Supply Chain Planning Retail 60

Freightos

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Back in 2012, the company decided to transfer IT decision-making powers from the corporate level down to individual business unit CIOs. In 2015, Maersk Transport and Logistics generated nearly 75% of Maersk’s revenue. billion in 2015, the entire industry was still scrambling to order new ships. This isn’t a new strategy.

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Techgistics

JUNE 4, 2017

In 2016, third-party sellers accounted for approximately 50% of Amazon’s unit sales and are also Amazon’s second largest source of revenue - $23 billion in 2016 a 43% gain on 2015. It’s going to be easier, cheaper, and faster to deliver multiple packages to several locker locations than many individual customer locations.

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Cathy Roberson

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Amazon introduced its B2B marketplace in 2012, AmazonSupply, and then in 2015, renamed it Amazon Business. Catch my weekly column on air cargo, freight forwarding, and the express markets, and the occasional podcast on Air Cargo World. I wear a number of hats these days.

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6 River Systems

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Bed Bath & Beyond @BedBathBeyond Bed Bath & Beyond has discovered a way to save millions of dollars on freight over the next few years, thanks to a new 755,000 square-foot distribution facility slated to open in the fall of 2019. The new facility will allow the company to offer two-day shipping to most (about 90%) of the U.S.

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Operations and Supply Chain Management

APRIL 24, 2015

April 23, 2015. Given my focus on this topic here in 2015, I thought it would be appropriate to repost that list, which I think is a good one. The result was terribly inefficient handling on both sides of the equation, poor space utilization on the cargo ships, freight damage, and high logistics costs. First Thoughts.

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6 River Systems

JULY 29, 2020

A behemoth in the logistics industry, UPS has operations in shipping, air freight, trucking, last-mile delivery and drone delivery. It started in 1969 as DHL Air Cargo, and by the late 1970s, the company had expanded its operations and offered services throughout the world. Kuehne + Nagel Inc. Jacobs in 2011.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

billion on air cargo hub, fans talk of bigger ambitions (Reuters). 3Gtms Announces Freight Claims Management Partnership with TranSolutions. billion to build a large air cargo hub in northern Kentucky. Freight claims is one of those “white spaces” in transportation management that TransSolutions addresses with its solution.

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