The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

JULY 21, 2014

  The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are vital to the LA economy, not only because they provide a significant number of jobs in the shipping and logistics industries, but also because they give the city itself a competitive edge with regard to shipping times and transportation costs when it comes to operating a global businesses here.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

The major impact will be to hazardous cargo (majority of classes), with a hold on Xiamen port from August 1st to September 7th, including imports to Xiamen, exports from Xiamen, and transfers via Xiamen. In 2014, a port strike at Los Angeles-Long Beach caused severe congestion and freight delays. Union labor contracts.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

If your firm is currently importing cargo from Asia, you know about the challenges faced by what is rapidly becoming a crisis on the West Coast. Negotiations threaten to stretch well into 2015, but the ramifications of this could be felt much longer. This problem has been exacerbated by many factors: Driver Shortages.

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3PL Insights

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Based on statistics as of 2015, the following U.S. Thus, these are America’s largest ocean ports: The Port of Los Angeles, The Port of Long Beach (California), The New York/New Jersey Port (Newark, NJ), The Georgia Ports (Savannah, Brunswick, Bainbridge & Columbus) and The Northwest Seaport Alliance (Washington State).

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Supply Chain Brain

MARCH 19, 2018

He presented his outlook for container shipping to the TPM Annual Conference in Long Beach, Calif., Similar bottlenecks at inland points threaten to slow the movement of cargo and choke off growth. What’s more, the global orderbook for new ships stands at half the level of 2012-2015. sponsored by IHS Markit.

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Elementum

AUGUST 25, 2015

percent decline in container volumes from 2014 , while Long Beach reported its best month ever during the same time. Now, as traffic from Tianjin slows to a crawl, Long Beach and Los Angeles ports are poised to suffer the most from the decreased volumes. They’re showing mixed recovery: In July, Los Angeles posted a 3.5

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Freightos

OCTOBER 30, 2016

In 2015, trucking revenue reached $726.4 Cargo Chief. Focus on long-haul, not local. Acquiring an autonomous trucking company was another clear indicator, as was the 2015 Uber Cargo test runs in Hong Kong. What Uber’s Announcement Means. billion dollars , with 3.6 million trucks moving 10 billion tons of freight.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

JUNE 21, 2016

Editor’s note: This post originally ran in October 2015. They serve regional markets and are unlikely to receive large volumes of cargo headed to the battleground region. Disadvantaged: Los Angeles-Long Beach. East and West Coast Ports to Battle for U.S. Region After Panama Canal Expansion.Transportfolio.

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6 River Systems

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Boot Barn’s Fontana Distribution Center is a state-of-the-art, 200,000 square foot facility (opened in 2015) that ships multiple weekly outbound orders to the company’s 200+ stores in 30 states. Located in Chicago, the facility opened in 2015 , making it the first LEED Platinum certified manufacturing plant in the industry.

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Freightera

MAY 26, 2017

This is based on work from the European parliament in 2015. Notice what’s happening here – around 2015 where the emissions begin to take off. The port of Long Beach is one of the busiest ports in the world. Moving freight from Long Beach, California to Dunwoody Georgia through our system.

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Elementum

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

They already had three solar farms in North Carolina and Nevada before they partnered with First Solar in 2015 to build another solar farm in California. The energy that they will receive will eventually be used to power Apple headquarters and stores within the state.

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