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. It was the direct cause of a 113% increase in twenty-foot equivalent units at the Port of Los Angeles, where their goal is to clear a backlog of anchored ships waiting to go to port.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

The people on the ground–my contacts in the 3PL, freight forwarding and transportation industry–know that the labor strife is only a part of the larger story. Unloading at the western ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have been an issue for many months. This is not going to be pretty. What do you think?

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

There may be instances where you will have to work more closely with carriers and book further in advance to ensure you can meet critical deliveries. If you fail to book in time, you may miss your delivery deadlines, or will have to use an expedited shipping method to meet them. Booking early is a good idea in certain situations.

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Intelligent Audit

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Los Angeles followed in kind on October 13, 2021, in tandem with President Biden’s aides’ announcements that UPS, FedEx and Walmart will increase around-the-clock operations, according to the New York Post. . The increased port activity movements will have one ultimate impact—more freight ready for OTR transport.

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Cathy Roberson

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

“Despite challenges, we have successfully obtained bookings for ocean freight and over 90% of the merchandise we will need for our peak third and fourth-quarter selling season, Joann’s CFO Matt Susz told analysts. We’re fortunate if we can be at 20% or 25% of capacity under contract.”

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TMC

JULY 6, 2017

Enter transportation management system (TMS) technology solutions. There is immediate visibility to what hasn’t been picked up and what hasn’t been booked in the online portal. Think back to the Hanjin bankruptcy, the Polar Vortex of 2014, or pretty much any time there is a strike at the Port of Los Angeles.

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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. The current set of supply chain disruptions is bringing increased focus on the need for digital transformation of our supply chains.

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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. It is not clear yet what 2022 bookings look like. 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.

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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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TMC

JULY 6, 2017

Enter transportation management system (TMS) technology solutions. There is immediate visibility to what hasn’t been picked up and what hasn’t been booked in the online portal. Think back to the Hanjin bankruptcy, the Polar Vortex of 2014, or pretty much any time there is a strike at the Port of Los Angeles.

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TMC

JULY 6, 2017

Enter transportation management system (TMS) technology solutions. There is immediate visibility to what hasn’t been picked up and what hasn’t been booked in the online portal. Think back to the Hanjin bankruptcy, the Polar Vortex of 2014, or pretty much any time there is a strike at the Port of Los Angeles.

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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). Development of intermodal container shipping is impacting other transport modes. Shipping between Europe, S.E. Significance.

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Supply Chain Opz

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

Therefore, a firm would be well served to develop a supply chain strategy as described in my book: Supply Chain Transformation. 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.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Right now the prototype looks like those creepy X-ray specs advertised in the back of comic books. Companies like Peloton Technology are testing different ways to make self-driving transport efficient and safe. HYPERLOOP WILL CHANGE TRANSPORT. DRONES WILL GO MAINSTREAM. All that’s needed now is regulatory approval.

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NC State SCRC

JULY 29, 2017

In my new book “ The Living Supply Chain ” co-written with Tom Linton, we reflect on the new capabilities required to be able to work with the evolving imperative of real-time data. Examples include the Tianjin explosion, the tsunami in Japan, and the port closure in Los Angeles. These principles are not new.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

AUGUST 11, 2017

There may be instances where you will have to work more closely with carriers and book further in advance to ensure you can meet critical deliveries. If you fail to book in time, you may miss your delivery deadlines, or will have to use an expedited shipping method to meet them. Booking early is a good idea in certain situations.

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DAT Solutions

APRIL 21, 2017

Loads available for shipment on the spot truckload market, where companies book freight transportation on a daily basis, were up 46% last month compared with February and 92% year-over-year. Shippers ramped up activity in March, according to the online freight marketplace DAT Solutions LLC. year-over-year, according to DAT.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 26, 2018

However, the biggest pain point for these global supply chains is the one that seems inescapable – transportation costs. Pain Points Increasing Transportation Costs. No matter how much can be saved from sourcing globally, transportation costs continue to creep in to seriously affect a product’s profit margin.

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Freight Center

JANUARY 23, 2020

The winter months can be brutal in terms of weather and that impacts the transportation business greatly. For example, if you shipped your freight from Miami to Los Angeles, it may pass through a blizzard in Denver while in transit. Ready to book your shipment but not sure if you need freeze protection services?

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Talking Logistics

MAY 19, 2017

Port of Los Angeles and GE Transportation launch solution to digitize maritime shipping. Supply Vision Launches New Transportation Management System Software, Supply Vision 3.0. Carriers can press a button to book a load, and receive the amount that’s in the app. Werner Launches Final Mile Solution (Truckinginfo).

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Zipline Logistics

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

All of which require transportation from manufacturer to retail outlet. According to an article published in Transport Topics , “The Port of Los Angeles, the nation’s busiest seaport, hit an all-time record in August, processing 12% more volume that totaled 961,833 20-foot-equivalent units (TEUs).”

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 29, 2019

Here are some more details from the article: Nodal Exchange, a unit of German exchange giant Deutsche Börse AG, plans to debut 11 new futures contracts linked to trucking costs […] Seven of Nodal’s new contracts will track the cost of booking a truck over popular routes, such as Los Angeles to Dallas and Philadelphia to Chicago.

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ShipBob

JULY 14, 2022

Say a company had one booking and they put five containers into that booking. There’s a 15% chance that whatever vessel it was booked on won’t actually leave. Alternatively, if they had split those five containers over three, four, maybe even five bookings they could have diversified the risk.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 10, 2017

January 2017 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI). For example, goods from Schneider Electric were transported on a Maersk Line container vessel from the Port of Rotterdam to the Port of Newark in a pilot with the Customs Administration of the Netherlands under an EU research project. Department of Transportation.

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6 River Systems

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

With how quickly new technology, tips and warehouse management techniques are emerging, wouldn’t it be nice to take a page from someone else’s book? The world of supply chain and logistics is changing every day. Each one is featured as having done something unique to reinvent their supply chain and logistics.

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Freightera

MAY 26, 2017

Currently international freight transport is about 10% of the total greenhouse gas emissions but it’s going to grow based on the recent projections of the European parliament to between 20 and 50% of the total global greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 under business as usual scenario. Transport uses 64% of the oil globally.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 8, 2022

.” This week, Walmart announced that it would charge some of its suppliers a new fee to transport goods to its warehouses and stores. This is another example of how businesses are looking to offset rising costs for things such as transportation and fuel. The fuel surcharge is based on the cost of fuel to transport the goods.

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NC State SCRC

AUGUST 28, 2020

For instance, a drive through clinic in Los Angeles purchased 50,000 tests a week, but were only getting about 8,000 people to show up. The test location was off a freeway, and was not serviced by public transportation. Every single flight is booked for weeks out. million for a single flight.

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Ware2Go

OCTOBER 14, 2021

One measure of this is the daily tally of container ships idling outside the congested ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach — the entry point for about 40 per cent of goods imported into the US. Container ships are anchored by the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles. Fallon/Bloomberg.

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