SCMDOJO

MAY 13, 2022

Each year around 700 million TEUs are shipped across the world keeping global trade and businesses running and more than eighty percent of global goods trade volumes are carried by sea, with about a sixth of that volume in shipping containers. Supply Chain KPI Dashboard.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 15, 2014

billion) over the past decade to improve rail and road access and boost inspection capacity at West Coast ports…Canadian railroad companies have also moved to capitalize on those infrastructure investments. has increased 11 percent so far this year. ports have also spurred some shippers to look north. . billion Canadian dollars (US$1.22

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Even items that were traditionally reserved for air – like cellphones and other high-value items – are now occasionally shipped by ocean. Q3 of 2016 reinforced what we already know – it’s a tough time to be an ocean carrier. iPad Pro is estimated at just 1% of the product value).

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

JUNE 18, 2021

Right now, the reliability that the vessel carrying your goods or expected to pick up your goods will show up on time is roughly 5%. At this time last year, it was around 80%+. While flexibility is important any time global logistics is involved, the phrase ‘now more than ever’ holds true here. The result?

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Zipline Logistics

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Capacity tightened steadily, and rejection rates climbed from 20.5% to 22.7%, breaking a four-month-long trend of steady decline (excluding holiday impact).”. Capacity tightened steadily, and rejection rates climbed from 20.5% to 22.7%, breaking a four-month-long trend of steady decline (excluding holiday impact).”.

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 11, 2021

If you thought 2020 was filled with retail chaos due to store closures, in many ways the retail sector is struggling even more due to a combination labor shortages, driver and trucking shortages, semi-conductor shortages, container shortages, and long delays at ports. Never has the old adage “the early bird gets the worm” been so true.

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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). Guillaume Roels. million worldwide.

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Operations and Supply Chain Management

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Although it’s not what economists would call structural change just yet, Nardone is optimistic that the additional business during the pandemic won’t disappear as the virus fades. The shipping industry, which accounts for 80% of world merchandise trade, had a record year in 2021 , with volume totaling 179.1 It’s been booming since”.

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ShipBob

APRIL 26, 2023

Since the majority of raw materials were imported from China, which was the first to be impacted by the pandemic, there was a long and massive disruption in transportation links and raw materials supply. In an ecommerce business, supply chain performance is one of the key factors affecting the performance of the business as a whole.

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Locus

DECEMBER 1, 2021

As all kinds of shoppers re-enter the shops, companies have a hard time fulfilling this surging demand. Many retailers are reserving trucking spaces or ships and doing their best to counter the toy shortage. The huge problem facing the US toy industry is that there are not enough workers to get products unloaded and shipped.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Shipping Networks (WSJ – sub. Shipping firm Clarksons braces for data leak after refusing to pay hacker (The Guardian). annual rate in the third quarter, faster than earlier estimated, and the reports from shipping sites suggest the muscular economic growth is continuing in the fourth quarter. cities in 2019 (Reuters).

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Freightos

MARCH 23, 2023

This year’s recent TPM – the annual transpacific maritime conference hosted by the Journal of Commerce in Long Beach, CA at the end of February – was a combination of post-pandemic debrief, projections for the rest of the year and beyond, and lessons learned. What just happened??? What happens next?

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Locus Robotics

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

When you hear the word “bottleneck”, you probably think of the 109 container ships that were backed up off the Southern California coast. But that didn’t mean the end of the bottleneck when the ships left the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Think our robots are just for picking ? Putaway without Bulk Storage.

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Supply Chain Opz

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

In the process, they reduce cycle times, and speed up customer responsiveness; and they reduce waste throughout their operations. Due to the rapid change in global business environment, managers find it difficult to gain the edge over competitors. We believe many practices in global supply chain management can be applied in every industry.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Global shipping is national news with most stories covering the symptoms. When the ball drops on Times Square to welcome in 2022, the employees at the Port of Long Beach will celebrate moving 9 M TEUs in imports: a 26% increase year-over-year. As ports become more congested, lead time variability increases.

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TransAudit

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

The costs of ocean shipping can be quite high. In some cases, the fees might be considered exorbitant — especially when you compare them to the amounts you were charged just a few years ago. To keep your shipping expenses under control, your only choice is to pay close attention to what you’re being charged.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

Increased Shipping Costs, Delays, and Transportation Issues. Dealing with the Shipping Container Crisis. With every link of the supply chain impacting businesses both large and small, keeping up with the globally disrupted supply chain evolution is a recipe for whiplash. The Semiconductor Shortage and Plans to Increase Chip Production.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Global shipping is national news with most stories covering the symptoms. When the ball drops on Times Square to welcome in 2022, the employees at the Port of Long Beach will celebrate moving 9 M TEUs in imports: a 26% increase in year-over-year volume. As ports become more congested, lead time variability increases.

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DAT Solutions

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Cargo ships were re-routed or delayed en route to and from ports from Savannah to Baltimore. Ships in and near Hong Kong were delayed, which caused a disruption of traffic at the top U.S. destination, the combined Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. loads per truck, with areas of tighter capacity along the West Coast.

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Freightos

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Chinese carriers are increasingly using these platforms to consolidate LTL loads, driving more effective shipping. Given China’s fragmented trucking market and heavily tolled road infrastructure, platforms introducing more cost-effective shipping should become even more popular. It’s not just talk.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Insufficient warehouse capacity and a lack of containers while supply chain shortages make headline news. Look at the 72 ships off the coast of Long Beach (up 65% from a year ago). Does anyone want to wager with me how many of those ships have inventory that is not really needed in the supply chain? The end result?

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The Logistics of Logistics

JANUARY 12, 2022

Richard is the Co-Founder and CFO of Staxxon , a shipping container company that has developed an innovative shipping container that is poised to revolutionize the space. Staxxon has developed, patented, and certified a new design for ISO (International Organization for Standardization) shipping containers. About Staxxon.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The LA and Long Beach Container Vessels. The photos of the cargo ships at anchor waiting for berth at the ports of LA and Long Beach certainly generate an emotional response, “what in those containers will affect my work or personal consumption plans?” Source: Ports of LA, Long Beach, Oakland, Seattle-Tacoma.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Insufficient warehouse capacity and a lack of containers while supply chain shortages make headline news. Look at the 72 ships off the coast of Long Beach (up 65% from a year ago). Does anyone want to wager with me how many of those ships have inventory that is not really needed in the supply chain? The end result?

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Insufficient warehouse capacity and a lack of containers while supply chain shortages make headline news. Look at the 72 ships off the coast of Long Beach (up 65% from a year ago). Does anyone want to wager with me how many of those ships have inventory that is not really needed in the supply chain? The end result?

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 21, 2022

I just read about a different take on facial recognition software that uses artificial intelligence in a little different way. Supply disruptions would be problematic as businesses are already facing a shortage of raw materials and longer delivery times. Certainly sounds like interesting technology.

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DAT Solutions

JANUARY 2, 2018

Those four factors added up to extraordinary pressure on spot market truck capacity, driving rates up as high as we’ve seen them since at least 2010, when we established the freight rates database that forms the foundation of DAT RateView. The biggest influences were the Four Es: Economic growth. E-commerce. Electronic logging devices.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JANUARY 19, 2022

This situation has been compounded by the fact that Covid-19 essentially exposed what was already an underperforming process thanks to factors such as the US-China trade war, less efficient shipping routes and a huge drive to cut costs by consolidating loads. Shipping challenges. New trade routes.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

This is simply another example of how the combination of capacity, manufacturing, and port delays impacts every aspect of our lives. Most of Estee Lauder’s holiday product has already been shipped to retailers. billion, compared to “just” $5 billion last year. And now on to this week’s logistics news.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 2, 2021

America’s imports are stuck on ships floating off LA. While the shipping bottleneck from the Ever Given should begin to dissipate, another bottleneck in the US looms: port congestion. And more ships keep arriving, making the congestion worse. When they do emerge, there can be as many as 1.5

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 13, 2022

Port of Long Beach goes big on trains to relieve congested docks. As e-commerce continues to grow, companies are looking at new and innovative ways to ensure they get orders delivered on time to their customers. After more than two years, I finally traveled for a conference again. And now on to this week’s logistics news.

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NC State SCRC

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Long Beach shipping expanded 29% during the same period, such that the two ports now account for 37% of the US market since the pandemic, more than double the share of the Port of New York and New Jersey, the closest competitor. This makes the LA Port a particularly vulnerable factor in global supply chains.

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QAD

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Lara has many years of experience in not just the wine industry, but global supply chains, including the food and beverage supply chain and logistics. Like most industries, the wine industry has experienced many disruptions, but it seems like they just keep going from one problem to another. Steve: Hi Lara, thanks for joining me today.

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3rdwave

MARCH 28, 2019

Sitting at the airport awaiting my flight back home provides an opportunity to reflect back on my experience at the TPM 2019 conference in Long Beach, California. For those that are not familiar with the TPM conference, or Trans-Pacific Maritime, it is the premier conference for the container shipping industry.

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3rdwave

MARCH 28, 2019

Sitting at the airport awaiting my flight back home provides an opportunity to reflect back on my experience at the TPM 2019 conference in Long Beach, California. For those that are not familiar with the TPM conference, or Trans-Pacific Maritime, it is the premier conference for the container shipping industry.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

People will steal just about anything these days. FedEx makes progress with AI to sharpen delivery time estimates Amazon to expand grocery delivery Revenue up at Uber as company looks to bolster grocery delivery Trade deficit climbs 5% to $61.5 The model factors in shipping variables such as weather patterns and traffic conditions. “We

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Freightera

MAY 26, 2017

As many of you may be aware, freight shipping, international shipping and also aviation are not included in the COP21 agreement. The shipping industry is currently a vast producer of nitrous oxides and sulfate oxides, produce about 15% of the total nitrous oxides emissions in the world. It’s currently 19% of total CO2 emissions.

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