Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Google, automakers object to California rules for self-driving cars (Reuters). in September; compared with September 2015, the SA index fell 0.7%, the first year-over-year decline since October 2015. Consumers Trust Amazon, FedEx, UPS, Post Office Over Google For Drone Deliveries (IoT Daily). Last month the U.S.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

My journey to understand SanDisk started in June 2015. Founded in 1988 in Milpitas, California, SanDisk is publicly traded on NASDAQ with 8,600 employees globally, and market capitalization in 2015 over $13B. The supply chain is vertically integrated and global shipping almost 2 million units daily. in Net Cash on Hand.

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The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

AUGUST 8, 2016

Given the various limitations of the Panama Canal (tolls, congestion, ship tonnage limitation), most goods that need to be delivered from East Asia to the United States are currently unloaded in the Port of Los Angeles and shipped by train to their final destination. million worldwide.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Even though there have been concerted efforts to reverse the downturn experienced in the year 2015, most shipping lines have not succeeded in reversing the trends in supply chain. Revenues, and in turn profits, took a turn for the worse in 2015 due to stagnating volumes and over-capacity. Author Bio.

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Kinaxis

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

However, one thing that we need to really think about is this: If people want to buy LPs, what is the established supply chain to get the LPs produced, packaged, and shipped to these listeners? In the United States of America, in 2015, 12,000,000 new LPs were sold, up from 1,000,000 in 2007 (Source: Wikipedia ).

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

According to the report, Tesla intends to utilize a more environmentally friendly process for producing the battery friendly raw ore and ship that ore by truck or rail to Tesla’s various other battery manufacturing sites. with commercial volume operations by the end of 2024. Others in this area include Li-Cycle Holdings Corp.

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Freight Plus

MARCH 14, 2019

Wagers, who was hired last April, may have initially been brought on board to help reaccelerate the company’s mergers & acquisitions which had been stagnant since 2015. British Navy saves 27 aboard doomed cargo ship. The ship ultimately sank to a depth of 2,800 miles. Kenneth Wagers exits XPO after COO role eliminated.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

JULY 14, 2015

Opportunity Knocks – The Wall Street Journal reports the West Coast ports’ share of container imports fell precipitously year over year between May 2014 and May 2015 according to U.S. What are the contours of the opportunity and how were some retailers prepared to seize it while many others weren’t? Census Bureau data.

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Elementum

OCTOBER 15, 2015

1997 satellite image versus 2015 satellite image. It will probably alleviate California’s drought. El Niño is set to bring copious amounts of precipitation to California and the Southern United States. will see a wet winter while California is preparing for storms that will bring floods and mudslides. The Southern U.S.

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Kinaxis

OCTOBER 23, 2015

A massive El Niño occurred in 1997-1998, unleashing record rains in California, deadly tornados in Florida, and a brutal drought in Indonesia, thus landing the term firmly on the radar (no pun intended) of millions of people around the globe. And it still isn’t, despite the headline of this post.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 14, 2015

Take a look at how the IoT supply chain is changing the landscape in terms of equipment functionality, shipping processes, invoicing and payments, and analysis of trends. The IoT Supply Chain and Shipping Processes. This process has already been deployed in vending machines owned by Cantaloupe System in California.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Editor’s Note: This is our second post in a two part series about how to get your logistics and transportation practices in order in time for holiday shipping or peak season crunches. Holiday shipping time also bring customers that ship primarily for this season. Truckload Holiday Shipping.

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Freightos

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Short lived , the fidget frenzy was just the latest consumer fad to push global production into overdrive, like 2015’s hoverboards. The retailer can sell via a plethora of websites – their own website, AliExpress or they can use a platform like the Freightos Marketplace to arrange shipping to the US online.

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Elementum

MAY 19, 2015

Los Angeles has handled 5% fewer containers so far in 2015 compared to last year. 3% fewer containers in 2015 compared to 2014. Port of Los Angeles spokesman Phillip Sanfield claims that year-to-date shipping volumes have likely dropped off because cargo ships have not returned to normal schedules after February’s delays.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Editor's Note: This is our second post in a two part series about how to get your logistics and transportation practices in order in time for holiday shipping or peak season crunches. Holiday shipping time also bring customers that ship primarily for this season. Truckload Holiday Shipping.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

As reported in the Wall Street Journal yesterday, it appears that “Amazon’s robot army is finally falling into place,” with deployments at warehouses in California, Kentucky, Texas, and others. Here are some interesting details from the article: At a 1.2-million-square-foot million-square-foot warehouse in Tracy, Calif.,

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DAT Solutions

JUNE 20, 2017

The last time it was that high was in August 2015. Fresno volumes were down unexpectedly, and so were load counts out of the Ontario market in Southern California and along the border in Nogales, AZ. Load-to-truck ratios are highest for reefers in the darker blue areas on the Hot States Map above. to Denver rose 37¢ to $3.23

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Below is a quick visual representation of the terminal congestion in Southern California. Anticipate congestion for future peak shipping periods. The next anticipated peak time will be during the Chinese New Year in February, 2015. Delays with specific terminals have approached 40-50+ days. FUTURE STATE.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 29, 2015

March 2015 North American Freight Numbers. And this week, HighJump acquired Nexternal , a cloud-based eCommerce platform provider based in California. Speaking of Amazon, the company is raising the bar again on delivery in response to Walmart testing a free, three-day shipping service. NAFTA freight totaled $96.1

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3PL Insights

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Based on statistics as of 2015, the following U.S. shipping ports are included in the list of largest ocean ports in the world. million TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent unit shipping containers) in 2015. Approximately 2,000 shipping vessels come and go from this port per year. million TEUs come and go in 2015.

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DAT Solutions

DECEMBER 22, 2015

in 2015 to-date, intermodal has been growing 1.7%. The opening of the expanded Panama Canal in 2016 will enable the new class of mega-container ships to travel from Asia to destinations on the U.S. Meanwhile, drought-stricken areas continue to receive rain, which is very welcome, especially in California. for the quarter.

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Elementum

AUGUST 25, 2015

While the labor strikes are over, fears of continued unrest are leading some shipping companies to avoid West Coast ports. percent increase in total volumes for the two Southern California ports combined—not the surge in profits expected from the peak shipping season. Put the two together, though, and you’ve got a 5.4

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QAD

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

state of California and has no land borders. Japan is known throughout the world as one of the best sources for technology products and automobiles, so it makes sense that top industries include motor vehicles and electronic equipment as well as machine tools, steel and nonferrous metals, ships, chemicals, textiles and processed foods. .

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EcoVadis

JUNE 16, 2016

Numerous 2015 media reports exposed slave conditions in the Thai fishing sector. Current legislation regarding forced labor in supply chains, including the California Transparency in Supply Chains Act and the UK Modern Slavery Act , require companies to disclose their efforts to identify and prevent supply chain forced labor.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Descartes Reports Fiscal 2015 Second Quarter Financial Results. Oil train regulation passes in California ( Reuters ). While some companies have gone that route, particularly those that ship mostly via truckload, demand for freight audit and payment services remains strong, especially for parcel and less-than-truckload (LTL) shipments.

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6 River Systems

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

The new facility will allow the company to offer two-day shipping to most (about 90%) of the U.S. When customers order items not stocked at one of Belk’s fulfillment centers, those items are shipped directly from the vendor. Belk @belk With more than 300 department stores in 16 states throughout the Southern U.S.,

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Resilinc

JANUARY 8, 2024

San Andreas (2015) If California was a country, its $3.1 Thus, a catastrophic earthquake in California would have a profound supply chain impact. In the actual Krakatoa eruption, ash fell in a 300,000 square-mile radius , halting ships for two and a half days. trillion economy would be the fifth biggest in the world.

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Abivin

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Passages, capes, and straits are defined as geographical areas through which international shipping routes must transit. Chokepoints commonly have shallow, constricting depths, which hinder navigation and place restrictions on ship capacity. Potential for closure or interruption. It is approximately 190 kilometers long.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 29, 2015

Enjoy the list for Q1 2015: 4 Companies Looking to Buck the Transportation Technology Status Quo. Based out of California, Peloton Technologies is pioneering the use of vehicle to vehicle communication to tackle two of the trucking industry’s largest problems – fuel and safety. Staxxon – Shipping Containers. in that timeframe.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

When FedEx, UPS, US Postal Service packages should be shipped for upcoming holiday season. The California-based company, which has expertise in plant science, robotics, and artificial intelligence, recently announced the launch of its mobile support robot named Grover. Iron Ox launches autonomous greenhouse robot.

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Freightera

MAY 26, 2017

As many of you may be aware, freight shipping, international shipping and also aviation are not included in the COP21 agreement. The shipping industry is currently a vast producer of nitrous oxides and sulfate oxides, produce about 15% of the total nitrous oxides emissions in the world. It’s currently 19% of total CO2 emissions.

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Material Handling & Logistics

AUGUST 14, 2018

In 2015 it was a dark story if you were a carrier. A recent California Supreme Court decision holding that independent contractors cannot be in the same business as those who use them is expected to wipe out the use of independent contractor drivers in the courier and trucking industries. Kearney and co-author of the report. "In

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Freight Plus

AUGUST 27, 2018

Aside from electricity, it could be argued the no greater 19th century invention shaped shipping in the United States of America more than the semi truck. So, where did the semi truck come from and how has it kept up with technology to evolve into the dominate force in shipping that it is today? to 28,000 lbs.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 16, 2016

planes and ships ); Iran and North Korea and their nuclear ambitions; ISIS exporting its brand of terrorism around the world; and China building islands in the South China Sea (and reportedly putting weapons on them ). Cyber risk and security is getting more attention from the ocean shipping community too. What’s next for SCONs?

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