The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

AUGUST 8, 2016

In June 2016, the Panama Canal will double its capacity, and this capacity expansion will undoubtedly reshape the freight flows around the globe, including those transiting through the Port of Los Angeles (click here for a past blog related to this subject).

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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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Freightos

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

In a single day in 2015, Alibaba handled an average of $9.9 According to Adobe research, total US online spend on Black Friday and Cyber Monday in 2015 hit a paltry $5.8 Trucking that same container from Long Beach to Chicago can cost more than double that price. Why Singles Day Will Become A US Sales Festival.

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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. He presented his outlook for container shipping to the TPM Annual Conference in Long Beach, Calif.,

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Elementum

APRIL 20, 2015

The volume of containers handled at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach is reaching historic levels as longshoremen barrell through what was once a three month long backlog of containers waiting to be unloaded. Altogether the port complex of Los Angeles and Long beach reported handling almost 1.5

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Elementum

JULY 14, 2015

Summer is supposed to be the busiest time of year for freight and air shipping, but given slow demand and overcapacity in recent months, expectations for the third quarter have changed, and not for the better. While the West Coast port fiascos have kept business away from Los Angeles and Long Beach, it’s not the only reason for the downtrend.

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DAT Solutions

JANUARY 2, 2018

2017 was a wild year, as freight transportation faced one disruption after another. Those four factors added up to extraordinary pressure on spot market truck capacity, driving rates up as high as we’ve seen them since at least 2010, when we established the freight rates database that forms the foundation of DAT RateView.

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Freightos

MARCH 5, 2017

Report from TPM Long Beach. It’s the freshly appointed CEO of CMA CGM, Rodolphe Saadé, speaking about the new opportunities that lie online during a session at Journal of Commerce’s TPM 2017 in Long Beach. Lessons from CMA CGM, Maersk and K+N on Transparency and Digitalization. By Zvi Schreiber, CEO, Freightos.

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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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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. As I mentioned before, freight transport is currently seven percent of freight emissions. This is based on work from the European parliament in 2015. It’s currently 19% of total CO2 emissions.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

OCTOBER 21, 2014

As this year’s chairman of the Intermodal Association of North America (IANA), I was thrilled to meet with over 1,700 of my colleagues at the annual Intermodal Expo, which was held September 21-23 in Long Beach, CA. freight transportation mix. Freight Services IANA Intermodal Rail Transportation'

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 3, 2017

Freightos unveils beta launch of international freight price index (American Shipper). 2016 North American Freight Numbers. We cannot let this happen again,” is what the American Apparel & Footwear Association said in 2015. Trump administration re-evaluating self-driving car guidance (Reuters). Guess what?

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