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This Week in Logistics News (March 23 – 29)

Logistics Viewpoints

In the early morning hours of April 26, at approximately 1:35am, a cargo ship leaving Baltimore Harbor struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge, triggering a catastrophic collapse of the 1.6-mile-long mile-long span. The collapse sent vehicles and people plunging into the water.

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Fine-Tune Your Supply Chain By Looking at Amazon

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Heads up UPS and FedEx, Amazon is piloting package delivery in Los Angeles for marketplace customers. From there, it can move horizontally to deliver cargo and packages for others and compete with other logistics service providers. Your business can also have those tools to fine-tune your supply chain.

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The Endless Complexities of the Ocean side of Supply Chains

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The advent of containerization heralded a revolution in cargo handling techniques, the ramifications of which are still influencing maritime trade all over the world today. ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach which saw their busiest March on record, handling a combined 898,287 TEU’s.

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Is Hyperloop the Next Great Supply Chain Technology?

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The proposed first route between Los Angeles and San Francisco would cut travel times from 4 hours to 35 minutes. The CEO of the company behind the test (Hyperloop One) estimates that the system will be transporting cargo by 2019 and passengers by 2021. 1126km / h).

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This Week in Logistics News (November 27 – December 1, 2017)

Talking Logistics

Logility Acquires Halo Business Intelligence to Expand Advanced Analytics. The nation’s top ports of entry, Los Angeles-Long Beach and New York-New Jersey, in October imported a combined 1,031,127 20-foot-equivalent units…That amounted to a 2.5% BluJay Solutions Unveils MobileSTAR. economic output grew at a 3.3%

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This Week in Logistics News (April 9 – 15)

Logistics Viewpoints

It also provides predictive analytics that can tell the restaurant more about what kind of coffee its customers enjoy and when. The Port of Los Angeles , the nation’s busiest, on Tuesday reported record first-quarter volume as anxiety builds ahead of the July 1 expiration of the labor contract covering some 22,000 West Coast dock workers.

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What’s the Best Response to Global Supply Chain Disruption?

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A lack of railcars to move cargo from the ports is adding more delays. The Port of Los Angeles is joining the Port of Long Beach in doubling operational hours to 24/7. And the current global supply chain disruptions may be sticking around longer than we might think. Manufacturers know all the issues: U.S. In October, the U.S.