Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 20, 2022

Those goods flowed through three regional hubs – in Singapore, Panama City, Panama and Stabio, Switzerland – to 49 distribution centers, 24 of which VF operates. In Asia, Vietnam and Bangladesh are more important sourcing locations. Much of the world’s fabric is produced in Asia, for example.

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Freightos

APRIL 9, 2024

Judah Levine April 9, 2024 Weekly highlights Ocean rates – Freightos Baltic Index Asia-US West Coast prices (FBX01 Weekly) fell 9% to $3,294/FEU. Asia-US East Coast prices (FBX03 Weekly) fell 19% to $4,309/FEU. Asia-Mediterranean prices (FBX13 Weekly) fell 19% to $4,316/FEU. Ocean rates from Asia to N. Prices to N.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

DECEMBER 1, 2015

What will happen when the Panama Canal expansion is completed in 2016? The Panama Canal is over a century old. And the canal was too small for the Post-Panamax vessels, which carry two to three times as much cargo as the ships that currently squeeze through the Panama Canal. Robinson to be prepared for the shifts ahead.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

The Panama Canal expands in 2016, allowing for more and larger (post-Panamax) ships to make the passage from East Asia to the United States. Our paper looked at the question of how much traffic the expanded Panama Canal would divert to East Coast ports from a number of angles. In 2015, the Boston Consulting Group and C.H.

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Judah Levine Optimize your logistics tendering, vendor selection, negotiations, and procurement Book a Demo Weekly highlights Ocean rates – Freightos Baltic Index Asia-US West Coast prices (FBX01 Weekly) increased 3% to $1,609/FEU. Asia-US East Coast prices (FBX03 Weekly) climbed 7% to $2,357/FEU. Indeed, Asia – N.

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Freightos

MARCH 19, 2024

Judah Levine March 19, 2024 Weekly highlights Ocean rates – Freightos Baltic Index Asia-US West Coast prices (FBX01 Weekly) fell 4% to $4,244/FEU. Asia-US East Coast prices (FBX03 Weekly) fell 4% to $5,875/FEU. Asia-Mediterranean prices (FBX13 Weekly) fell 7% to $4,155/FEU. Asia reached $4.60/kg

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Freightos

JANUARY 3, 2024

Carriers are adding additional vessels to their rotations and are sailing faster to keep up with regular departure schedules in Asia, but the longer return trips will mean more time required to repatriate empty containers and could lead to shortages at Asian origin ports. The number of impacted Asia – N.

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Freightos

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Judah Levine December 28, 2023 Optimize your logistics tendering, vendor selection, negotiations, and procurement with Freightos Data Book a Demo Weekly highlights Ocean rates – Freightos Baltic Index Asia-US West Coast prices (FBX01 Weekly) increased 7% to $1,659/FEU. Asia-US East Coast prices (FBX03 Weekly) were level at $2,505/FEU.

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Judah Levine November 15, 2023 Optimize your logistics tendering, vendor selection, negotiations, and procurement with Freightos Data Book a Demo Weekly highlights Ocean rates – Freightos Baltic Index Asia-US West Coast prices (FBX01 Weekly) increased 6% to $1,711/FEU. Asia-US East Coast prices (FBX03 Weekly) climbed 3% to $2,421/FEU.

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Freightos

AUGUST 23, 2023

Visit our Resource Center Weekly highlights Ocean rates – Freightos Baltic Index : Asia-US West Coast prices (FBX01 Weekly) ticked up 1% to $1,936/FEU. Asia-US East Coast prices (FBX03 Weekly) climbed 3% to $2,991/FEU. Asia-Mediterranean prices (FBX13 Weekly) fell 3% to $2,327/FEU. Asia – N.

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Freightos

AUGUST 29, 2023

Visit our Resource Center Weekly highlights Ocean rates – Freightos Baltic Index : Asia-US West Coast prices (FBX01 Weekly) increased 5% to $2,029/FEU. Asia-US East Coast prices(FBX03 Weekly) climbed 3% to $3,075/FEU. Asia-Mediterranean prices(FBX13 Weekly) fell 1% to $2,313/FEU. August GRIs pushed Asia – N.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

As we have noted in this thread of updates, to a further extent, shipments from Asia eastward that traverse the Panama Canal are an important added backdrop to ocean transport disruption impacts. In parallel is the assessing of the related restricted ship transit volumes surrounding the Panama Canal because of low water levels.

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Freightos

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Judah Levine February 13, 2024 Optimize your logistics tendering, vendor selection, negotiations, and procurement with Freightos Data Book a Demo Weekly highlights Ocean rates – Freightos Baltic Index Asia-US West Coast prices (FBX01 Weekly) increased 11% to $4,859/FEU. Asia-US East Coast prices (FBX03 Weekly) climbed 3% to $6,589/FEU.

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Freightos

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Judah Levine December 19, 2023 Optimize your logistics tendering, vendor selection, negotiations, and procurement with Freightos Data Book a Demo Weekly highlights Ocean rates – Freightos Baltic Index Asia-US West Coast prices (FBX01 Weekly) fell 3% to $1,556/FEU. Asia-US East Coast prices (FBX03 Weekly) were level at $2,509/FEU.

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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). However, the capacity expansion of the Panama Canal may change this shipment pattern.

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Freightos

JUNE 21, 2023

Visit our Resource Center Weekly highlights FBX Overview Ocean rates – Freightos Baltic Index : Asia-US West Coast prices ( FBX01 Weekly ) fell 9% to $1,427/FEU. Asia-US East Coast prices ( FBX03 Weekly ) decreased 5% to $2,487/FEU , and are 79% lower than rates for this week last year.

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Freightos

AUGUST 8, 2023

Visit our Resource Center Weekly highlights Ocean rates – Freightos Baltic Index : Asia-US West Coast prices (FBX01 Weekly) increased 9% to $1,672/FEU. Asia-US East Coast prices (FBX03 Weekly) increased 3% to $2,667/FEU. Asia-Mediterranean prices (FBX13 Weekly) increased 18% to $2,345/FEU.

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Freightos

JUNE 27, 2023

Visit our Resource Center Weekly highlights FBX Overview Ocean rates – Freightos Baltic Index : Asia-US West Coast prices ( FBX01 Weekly ) fell 15% to $1,209/FEU. Asia-US East Coast prices ( FBX03 Weekly ) decreased 8% to $2,298/FEU , and are 80% lower than rates for this week last year. Asia – N.

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Freightos

JULY 26, 2023

Visit our Resource Center Weekly highlights FBX Overview Ocean rates – Freightos Baltic Index : Asia-US West Coast prices (FBX01 Weekly) increased 2% to $1,366/FEU. Asia-US East Coast prices (FBX03 Weekly) climbed 6% to $2,519/FEU. In Asia – N. Air rates – Freightos Air index China – N.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 19, 2015

East Coast Ports Could Gain 10 Percent Additional Share Following Panama Canal Expansion. Robinson announced findings from a joint research project they conducted that looked at how “the Panama Canal’s expansion will likely change the way cargo moves, by both water and land, into and within the United States.” FAA expects to clear U.S.

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Supply Chain Brain

MARCH 31, 2021

North America, an integrated container logistics company, has announced the start of a new service linking ports in Vietnam and China with the US East Coast via the Panama Canal, starting in May 2021. Maersk Inc.

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Supply Chain Brain

MARCH 21, 2022

billion expansion of the Panama Canal doubled its capacity in 2016, allowing the world’s largest cargo ships to sail more easily to America’s East Coast from Asia. Now, one of those giant vessels has been stuck near the U.S. capital for more than a week.

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3PL Insights

JULY 28, 2016

The Panama Canal was originally constructed as a way to increase maritime trade in the Americas, and it is the largest American engineering feat undertaken in history. And now, over a century after its original completion, the Panama Canal has once again been expanded. Panama Canal, Panama City, Panama, Central America.

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Supply Chain Digest

MAY 24, 2016

US Retailers Awash in Inventory, Panama Canal Route to or from Asia will be Much Shorter, Nike Says it is Committed to Going Circular, Confusion about Meeting New Container Weight Rules

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Elementum

AUGUST 22, 2016

The expansion of the Panama Canal, which handles about a third of Asia-to-US trade, is poised to boost trade and shipping services by shortening the one-way journey by sea from Asia to the U.S. While ship transits through the Panama Canal rose 3.7% dip on box volumes on services heading from Asia to Europe in January.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JUNE 21, 2022

There are many causes, for example, container ships from Asia are now too large to traverse the Panama Canal (20 years ago they were not), so they offload on the West Coast of the United States and are compelled to truck all goods to the East Coast.

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APICS

JUNE 24, 2016

According to the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Panama Canal is one of those wonders. The canal accommodates about one-third of Asia-to-Americas trade but required infrastructure upgrades to keep up with the latest shipping trends. The modern world has its own wonders.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 17, 2015

Robinson and the Boston Consulting Group published a research report on the potential impact the Panama Canal expansion could have on logistics strategies and operations (watch my conversation with two of the authors in a recent episode of Talking Logistics ). from East Asia could shift from West Coast ports to East Coast ports by 2020.

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Tompkins Blog

JULY 14, 2014

Retailers rely heavily on these ports for imported goods coming in from Asia. Blog Post: Who Will Win the Race for Freight in the Panama Canal Expansion? Blog Post Asia Global Ports Shipping Transportation' How could this affect them in the long run? Will this continue to be a major disruption? Photo Credit: Jim Bahn.

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Elementum

AUGUST 18, 2015

What’s Happening in Panama? On August 7th, Panama’s government declared a state of emergency due to an extreme drought. The Panama Canal is a hugely important passage for global trade routes. But isn’t Panama Undergoing expansion? As global trade increases, key routes like the Panama Canal are nearing capacity.

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The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

JULY 21, 2014

Several key threats are noteworthy: Competition: Panama Canal expansion: it's expected to be completed in 2015; there's already been some debate about how it will affect LA, for instance, an LA Times article in 2011 predicted a 25% decrease in business for LA. toys) from Asia because people will be able to print them at home.

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Supply Chain 24/7

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

The Panama Canal expands in 2016, allowing for more and larger (post-Panamax) ships to make the passage from East Asia to the United States.

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Kinaxis

OCTOBER 23, 2015

For example, the Panama Canal has already restricted the size of ships permitted to pass through it due to drought conditions created by El Niño. As a result, some shipments moving from Asia to the Gulf Coast and eastern ports of the United States will be forced to reduce cargo loads to meet the new requirements.

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Resilinc

MARCH 5, 2024

Here’s a look at two recent major droughts that have impacted supply chains: Panama Canal Drought Impact on Supply Chain In 2023, the Panama Canal, one of the world’s most important waterways, faced one of the driest years in over 140 years. In April, the Panama Canal Authority will reevaluate water levels.

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RFgen

MARCH 19, 2015

The recent standoff, coupled with the planned expansion of the Panama Canal – scheduled to complete in 2016 – could potentially divert shipping to different ports, which would impact supply chain stakeholders on the West Coast. Imports alone dropped 28 percent year over year in January, the Wall Street Journal added.

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RFgen

MARCH 19, 2015

The recent standoff, coupled with the planned expansion of the Panama Canal – scheduled to complete in 2016 – could potentially divert shipping to different ports, which would impact supply chain stakeholders on the West Coast. Imports alone dropped 28 percent year over year in January, the Wall Street Journal added.

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TMC

JUNE 30, 2016

An Expanded Panama Canal Takes Logistics into Uncharted Waters.Connect. Since the Panama Canal opened this past Sunday, we wanted to share it with you again. The enlargement of the Panama Canal was recently completed, enabling mammoth-sized container vessels to transit the waterway. East and West Coast ports.

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