Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

This year, with the LA Rams being Super Bowl champs, Good360 said it will ship thousands of “unsellable” Bengals-branded hats, T-shirts, hoodies, sweatshirts, COVID-19 masks, and scarves to struggling people in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and the Middle East. California seeks to ease port congestion by leasing six container storage sites.

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West Coast and California Logistics

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Your company has made a cost-driven decision to manufacturer in Asia and import from Asia back into the U.S. The by-product of that decision is a much lengthier supply chain and cash cycle. Your job, in logistics, is to mitigate the negative impacts of your import supply chain by designing an efficient U.S. distribution strategy.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 18, 2023

In the spring of 2022, Asia/US ocean container rates resumed pre-pandemic levels and congestion eased in November 2022 into California ports. As consumer spending fell, the days of escalating ocean freight and extreme shipping variability eased this year. However, variability and global unrest is rising.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 20, 2022

In Asia, Vietnam and Bangladesh are more important sourcing locations. Much of the world’s fabric is produced in Asia, for example. VF is having conversations with fabric manufacturers to encourage them to produce more fabric in factories outside of Asia. VF is also building a new distribution center in Ontario, California.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 22, 2022

FedEx Express introduces new routes between Asia and Europe. FedEx Express has announced the launch of a new route between Asia and Europe. Customers in North Asia, including China and Japan, will benefit from increased connection and service dependability as a result of the route. We will have to wait and see.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 19, 2022

For example, the EU’s tightening rules on palm oil imported from Southeast Asia places Malaysia and Indonesia in a difficult position, as they account for 85% of the world’s total palm oil supply. The Green Corridor: Saving Whales in California – A Case Study in Regional Collaboration. Conclusion.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 28, 2015

Recent massive strikes among dockworkers on the California coast brought the reality of supply chain continuity planning to the forefront once again for global businesses.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 15, 2021

FDA inks mutual reliance agreements with California, Florida, Utah, Wisconsin. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has entered into domestic mutual reliance agreements with California, Florida, Utah and Wisconsin. Bigger turkeys are back as Sam’s Club bets on larger holiday gatherings. Lead times for chips have surged.

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West Coast and California Logistics

APRIL 26, 2021

imports from Asia continued to climb in March. An article from the JOC shows that U.S. In fact, March was the second-busiest month on record, with imports jumping 22% from February and a whopping 90.5% compared to last March.

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Zipline Logistics

JANUARY 3, 2023

California’s AB5 . AB5 has the potential to destabilize the trucking market in California, which can create a variety of issues for shippers moving freight in and out of the state. Capacity could suffer a blow if a significant number of truckers decide to leave California. Learn more. . NMFC Changes .

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Headquartered in Oakland, California, Infor Nexus , reportedly, is the developer and operator of the largest cloud supply chain platform of its kind, with over $100 billion in goods managed annually and over 25,000 active trading organizations across all major industries. million daily shipments. Infor Nexus.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 6, 2022

Empty shipping containers are piling up in storage depots on the US east and west coasts, causing a glut of capacity even as they are sorely needed overseas in Asia to ship exports back to the US. The biggest issue now is the fact that shipping containers, once unloaded, cannot be moved. With vacancy rates as low as 1.6

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 12, 2022

Exports of strawberries, immensely popular in Asia, also increased by 29.7 A good chunk of these is found in California, home to 41,300 private and public power outlets. Both marine products were supported by growing demand from Japanese restaurants in the United States. Japanese sake exports increased 33.7 percent to 23.4

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Resilinc

MARCH 16, 2021

But supply chain bottlenecks quickly followed, and today Riedell is facing backlogs of three to five months from its suppliers of rubber wheels in California and Texas and four-month delays in shipments of boots and other parts made in Asia. Logistics problems are compounding the supply-demand imbalances. Building Boom 2.0.

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Logility

MARCH 29, 2022

There were floods in Europe and China, Hurricane Ida on the Gulf Coast, and California wildfires that all played their part. For example, COVID restrictions in Asia shut down auto production because 70% of chip manufacturing happens in Taiwan and South Korea. Shipping costs have skyrocketed. There are labor shortages.

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Elementum

OCTOBER 15, 2015

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. Typhoons can disrupt air and ship travel in Southeast Asia.

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Resilinc

JANUARY 10, 2022

Will drought persist in California, as La Niña shifts storm tracks northward? How much will La Niña increase precipitation in Asia? But specific regional impacts are harder to predict. Will the U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 17, 2022

Foxconn and Asia Market Forecasters Provide Muted Outlook on High Tech Product Demand. Foxconn and Asia Market Forecasters Provide Muted Outlook on High Tech Product Demand. Nomura reportedly indicated in its latest research note that Asia shipments may have reached a critical inflection point.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

According to Reuters : California farmers were especially hard hit by the port disruptions, with export losses estimated to be running at hundreds of millions of dollars a week. The California Citrus Mutual trade group said the slowdown had cut members’ exports by half this season compared to recent years. Productivity at U.S.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 13, 2022

The new yard is the centerpiece of four rail projects at the port to move cargo faster, more efficiently and more sustainably as the unprecedented increase of imports from Asia shows no sign of slowing down. Enjoy the weekend, and the song of the week, Going to California by Led Zeppelin. That’s all for this week.

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Intelligent Audit

AUGUST 16, 2022

As AB5 shakes up the reliability of California ports, some FedEx contractors have been loud about their willingness to shake up FedEx to get higher pay per stop during the Black Friday rush. However, UPS reported that, “Effective August 14, 2022, Asia to Canada WWE FREIGHT rates will decrease.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Reshoring to the US and Europe Accelerating, Now Also Serving CO2 Emission Reduction Objectives by Luc Kremers , Vice President – Asia Pacific, BCI Global Reshoring is accelerating as American and European companies want to de-risk their supply chains from geopolitical developments and supply chain disruptions.

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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. Workers sympathetic to the California dock workers, as well as diverted freight have slowed down operations at other ports up and down the west coast. So What Is An Importer To Do?

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 16, 2016

In the past, the logistics industry’s growth was driven by Asia to Europe and Asia to North America exports. Author Bio: Kevin Hill heads up the marketing efforts and provides technical expertise to the sales and service teams at Quality Scales Unlimited in Byron, California. Patterns of Growth . Today it is not so.

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DAT Solutions

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

No doubt this will complicate efforts to get products from Asia to U.S. The Hanjin bankruptcy and the Chinese typhoon will cause some measure of disruption and delay to imported freight for the holidays, making California ports busier than usual, at a later point in the season. and Europe for the winter holiday season.

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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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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

Menlo Logistics Keen to Build on 2014 Growth in South Asia. 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. A New Traffic Jam Hits L.A. WSJ – sub. in October. Think again.

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Resilinc

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

On September 19, Exalos AG, headquartered in Switzerland, announced its sale to California-based Indie Semiconductor. TSMC reports the new US location will cost 30-50% more to run than one in Asia. There have also been numerous business sales in 2023 so far. Another challenge is the cost of workers.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Geological Survey (USGS), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and researchers from Vrije Universeit Brussel and University of California Santa Cruz, Business Insider created a video depicting what the Earth would like if all the water currently captured in ice sheets and glaciers melted. And in the U.S.,

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DELMIA Quintiq

OCTOBER 11, 2015

The California Transparency in Supply Chains Act went into effect in 2012, applying to all retailers and manufacturers with annual global revenues of more than $100m doing business in California. This article was previously featured in Supply Chain Asia magazine and summarized on Supply Management.

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The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

JANUARY 21, 2014

Freeman comes to Anderson from the Southern California Gas Company where she served as the director of community relations and led departments that coordinated philanthropic contributions, community outreach and employee involvement. .  Global MBA for Asia Pacific. Freeman succeeds Linda Baldwin who retired in July.

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Kanban Logistics

JUNE 30, 2022

But, for the next two years, companies are free to import solar panels from Southeast Asia without fear of tariffs. second to only California, according to the SEIA. Depending on what happens with the investigation, tariffs could be re-implemented after the 24-month period. What the solar panel tariff exemption means for importers.

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NC State SCRC

MARCH 31, 2021

Most PPE is produced in Asia, with ironically a large proportion produced in the Wuhan region. [1] A number of the larger states were hit hardest early in the pandemic, including California, New York, Massachusetts, Texas, and Washington; many of the Mid West states didn’t feel the full wrath of the virus until later.

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Intelligent Audit

MAY 5, 2022

The omicron variant, high inflation, a surge in energy prices, COVID-19 lockdowns in Asia, and geopolitical uncertainty contributed to the average daily parcel volume declines. FedEx reported a 0.1% drop for its fiscal third quarter that ended February 28, while UPS reported a 3.0% The average revenue per piece increased 9.3% per parcel.

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Resilinc

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

In addition to Target, Amazon, Costco, Home Depot and Wal-Mart are among the large retailers that have chartered container ships to move goods from Asia to North America. Now, air shipping is increasingly in demand by retailers whose products would otherwise languish off the coast of Southern California or in congested Chinese ports.

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West Coast and California Logistics

AUGUST 23, 2018

If you import from Asia, your company has made a strategic decision to lengthen its supply chain to lower actual product costs. There’s a new supply chain mantra in the post-Amazon era, and that mantra is SPEED. Whether you are delivering to retailers or consumers, or both, customers want products faster in a more predictable time window.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

MAY 17, 2021

As such, vessels for ocean capacity between Asia and the United States are expected to remain fully booked for most/all of 2021. If AB-5 passes in California, what kind of impact do you foresee on owner-operators? As a point of clarity, AB-5 did pass in California and is now law.

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