Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 26, 2024

The National Transportation Safety Board has recommended the installation of such technologies in all new passenger vehicles. delaying shipments and raising transportation costs. Spot-market rates to ship a container from China to Los Angeles rose 38% in the week through Jan. And now on to this week’s logistics news.

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Multichannel Merchant

OCTOBER 14, 2022

from Seattle to Austin to Los Angeles, San Francisco and Mountain View, CA and Washington, D.C. International locales are concentrated in Asia, including Jakarta, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok, Ho Chi Minh City, Madrid, São Paulo, London and Manila. Europe and Asia.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Currently, more than 10,000 TEU vessels are cascading down to the transpacific trade from the Asia-Europe trade. This is the primary mode of transportation inland throughout the United States and will continue to compete for capacity with the oil and gas industry and truck-intermodal conversion moves into the interior of the United States.

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The Logistics of Logistics

AUGUST 16, 2021

Los Angeles is the largest port in the United States and, together with Long Beach a bit further south, account for around 30 percent of trade entering and exiting the United States. In late May 2021, the Executive Director of the Port of Los Angeles stated, “We are in the seventh month of an unparalleled import surge.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Recently, CEVA Logistics joined the Singapore Changi Airport community in a humanitarian aid project to transport 14,000-kilogram of oxygen concentrators from Los Angeles to Jakarta via Singapore. We want to support and enrich these local communities through what we do best: logistics and transportation services.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JANUARY 3, 2024

The Green Corridor: Looking for the Green Lining by Timothy Foote, Director Transportation & Network APAC at Asendia and Founder of Susymbio 2023 is soon enough to end, and the transformation to a clean logistics future moves forward. Air transport emissions reduction goals sadly will be hampered by insufficient supplies of SAF.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 7, 2022

We now add highlights of March and Q1-2022 key global transportation and logistics indices. Global and Domestic Transportation and Logistics Indices. The World Container Index , assessed by Drewy Consultants, is a compilation of eight major shipping routes to and from the United States , Europe and Asia. Global Shipping.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 20, 2022

Uber Eats launched two autonomous delivery pilots in Los Angeles on Monday with Serve Robotics, a robotic sidewalk delivery startup, and Motional, an autonomous vehicle technology company. Emissions are the other big selling point here, with the electric systems offering more efficiency than traditional ground transportation.

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

The business was a small operation in the beginning with my father and three other employees helping pack and ship zippers to customers in Los Angeles. My father soon discovered that the zippers he was importing from Asia lacked consistent quality. There are so many great things about Los Angeles.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

OCTOBER 26, 2021

As reported by CNN on October 19, 2021, there are over 200,000 shipping containers waiting off the coast of Los Angeles, representing a backlog of over 2 weeks worth of work. That is notwithstanding the trail of additional ships and containers that are still on their way to Los Angeles.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 30, 2014

I asked Troy Ryley, Managing Director of Transplace Mexico, that question in a recent episode of Talking Logistics , and here’s an excerpt of what he said: Asia was the buzzword for many years, and it still is the buzzword in many respects. Global Trade China cross-border trade Mexico NAFTA security Transplace transportation Troy Ryley'

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 23, 2022

lawmakers had expressed concerns that with supply chains already highly constrained, the CP Rail stoppage would create an added transportation crisis for import as well as export flows. Surface Transportation Board on the merger with Kansas City Southern. . Stated drivers of the changed routings from Asia to U.S. Further, U.S.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 2, 2021

Here’s an example: Every year, a huge volume of finished goods are shipped from Asia to North America. Then, the empty containers are transloaded and move into other parts of the country to be loaded with raw materials (for example agricultural products), before heading back onto shipping containers bound for Asia.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 15, 2022

West Coast ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Reports further indicate that parts of the city of Shanghai have experienced targeted lockdowns as a result of variant spread. Industry supply networks can thus expect the consequences of another round of cascading disruptions. Nearly every U.S.

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Operations and Supply Chain Management

OCTOBER 18, 2021

A truck navigates container stacks at the Port of Los Angeles last Friday. The supply-chain problems are helping drive stronger inflation, the WSJ’s Gwynn Guilford and Anthony DeBarros report , as rising transport and other logistics costs flow through to the cost of consumer goods. Transportation. Nikkei Asia).

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MIT Supply Chain

AUGUST 21, 2023

Consider, for example, how certain North American ports need to catch up to ports in Asia and Europe in the race to deploy automation to improve competitiveness. The recent stoppages at Vancouver and Los Angeles ports are symptomatic of a failure to confront the need to embrace tech-driven change.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 3, 2022

Global wide production, transportation and logistics activity levels reported for February, but continued rather concerning data related to global transportation service levels and cost. With the occurrence of the Lunar New Year and Tet New Year holidays occurring into February, all eyes were on the indices of key Asia based regions.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

JULY 8, 2016

A provider with large freight volumes can put a plan into place that puts your freight on a truck and on the road, better utilizing truck space and a swifter transportation delivery model. A Look Inside Our Los Angeles Consolidation Center. Robinson’s Los Angeles consolidation center sees around 21,000 pallets each month.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The year featured continual component shortfalls, explosive inbound materials cost increases and continuous global transportation disruptions. West Coast ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach with the average wait time for ships to be unloaded reaching 20.8 Current Year 2022. Correspondingly, U.S,

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Zipline Logistics

JUNE 29, 2021

That means that there will be fewer available trucks to transport the products flooding the freight market in an already tight market. As manufacturing returned in Asia, enterprises began bringing imports in at historical volumes. Retail restocks are a current culprit of increased volume, as are sources of direct consumer spending.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Those same words were said when the ports were shut down for 10 days in 2002 , and again in December 2012 when 600 clerks went on strike , shutting down the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach for 8 days. ports lags those in Asia and Europe. We cannot let this happen again. Productivity at U.S. The bottom line for all U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 22, 2023

Transportation prices reportedly contracted for the tenth consecutive month, but authors pointed to a lessened rate in the April data. Spot rates for the Shanghai to Los Angeles shipping lane segment reportedly averaged $1823. Further indicated was: “ whether or not we have hit bottom of rates is unclear.” percent this year.

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Freightos

APRIL 24, 2016

US Army uses the “Transporter” container, developed four years earlier for removals, for Korean War supply movements. First intermodal cargo transportation (containers are stacked on deck). The beginning of the Asia-Advanced Economies trade boom. Containerization is driving technology in other transport modes.

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Operations and Supply Chain Management

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Freighters and reconfigured passenger jets fly in from Asia and the Middle East, operated by the cargo units of Cathay Pacific Airways, Emirates, Korean Air, Qatar Airways, Turkish Airlines, and several other carriers. Nearby are distribution centers for companies ranging from Macy’s Inc. to Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. from 2020 and a 5.4%

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

A provider with large freight volumes can put a plan into place that puts your freight on a truck and on the road, better utilizing truck space and a swifter transportation delivery model. A Look Inside Our Los Angeles Consolidation Center. Robinson’s Los Angeles consolidation center sees around 21,000 pallets each month.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 26, 2016

As a logistics service provider, focusing on over-the-road surface transportation management solutions via technology and managed transportation services, we find the following information on the history of shipping containers of great significance to the logistics and supply chain community at large. Shipping between Europe, S.E.

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 2, 2020

Loading and discharging operations at the ports of Shanghai, Jingtang, Lianyungang, Tianjin, Caofeidian, and Huanghua are slow due to lack of stevedores, while a shortage of licensed trucks and drivers is restricting the transport of cargo to the ports. percent from February 2019.

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Zipline Logistics

MARCH 30, 2021

Katie Denis, the vice president of industry narrative at the CBA, spoke to Transport Topics recently, stating , “I think the ongoing demand to me breaks down into short-term and long-term behavior. Many cite the flood of products from Asia , labor difficulties due to COVID-19, and a shortage of warehousing space.

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Intelligent Audit

DECEMBER 12, 2022

However, there were not enough containers in Asia to export goods to the U.S. Over 100 ships waited to unload containers in December at Los Angeles and Long Beach, the U.S. Higher fuel surcharges were added to all modes of transportation to recoup higher prices. gateways for Asian imports.

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RFgen

MARCH 19, 2015

Port of Los Angeles Executive Director Gene Seroka said it could take up to eight weeks for the port to resume normal operations again, while other industry professionals believe it could take some ports up to six months , The Wall Street Journal reported. West Coast ports in about three months. Standoff to Affect the Supply Chain?

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RFgen

MARCH 19, 2015

Port of Los Angeles Executive Director Gene Seroka said it could take up to eight weeks for the port to resume normal operations again, while other industry professionals believe it could take some ports up to six months , The Wall Street Journal reported. West Coast ports in about three months. Standoff to Affect the Supply Chain?

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ShipBob

APRIL 26, 2023

It involves all the activities related to the sourcing and transportation of raw materials needed in the manufacturing process. Starting with the COVID-19 pandemic, which resulted in nationwide lockdowns that put a temporary stop to raw materials transport. Further, the Great Resignation did not leave the logistics industry unscathed.

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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. You can learn more about this topic on Land Line and Transport Topics. The Port of Los Angeles has been a pain point for some time. Currently, nearly 100% of all ocean capacity is in rotation.

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NC State SCRC

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Nowhere is digital transformation needed more than the Los Angeles port, where major operational disconnects are occurring between ships, trains, and trucks. Hopefully there is SOMETHING in the Infrastructure Bill that passed this week which is dedicated to investment in this port, which is a major gateway for US imports from Asia).

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Supply Chain Movement

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

12 Questions about Multimodal Transportation Management. Together with Professor Christopher Tang from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Supply Chain Movement has devised this mindmap outlining the route, with road signs indicating potential hazards along the way. 33 | Seamless Supply Chain Execution.

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Supply Chain Opz

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

That might mean diverting from Los Angeles/Long Beach to Canada or Mexico. Work with your broker to see if you can get priority on unloading the ship and inland transport. However, make sure you have infrastructure at the reliever port, or things might just be worse.

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Elementum

AUGUST 25, 2015

They’re showing mixed recovery: In July, Los Angeles posted a 3.5 Tianjin, which served as a key gateway to the world’s second largest economy, is part of Asia-U.S. 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.

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