Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 26, 2024

With a turn of ceremonial dirt, Long Beach Mayor Rex Richardson, Congressman Robert Garcia and U.S. billion project that has been years in the making: a massive expansion of the Port of Long Beach’s railyard. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg broke ground on a $1.6

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West Coast and California Logistics

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

According to Supply Chain Dive , Port of Long Beach volumes reached over 674,000 total TEU in January. This marks an 18% YoY increase from last January.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Last year’s negotiations took place as dozens of container ships were backed up off the coast of California waiting to unload cargo. The Port of Long Beach blamed shifts in consumer demand and shipping patterns for the 28.4 network this year after its initial success at select facilities in 2022.

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Freightos

APRIL 29, 2025

While prices to Long Beach from both Shanghai and Vietnams Saigon Port increased more than 40% between the time of the reciprocal tariff announcement on April 2nd and their start date on April 9th, since then Shanghai – Long Beach rates have fallen more than 30% while prices out of Saigon have remained at their elevated level.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The California ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are extending the hours during which trucks can pick up and return containers as they try to improve freight movement and delays through ports. The Port of Long Beach will take the first step toward a 24-hour, seven days a week supply chain by maximizing nighttime operations.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Robinson and other Beneficial Cargo Owners (BCOs) participated to ensure that customers’ voices are heard. Due to the heavy influx of cargo and issues downstream, the containers continue to be stacked making it difficult for the terminals to release the older containers. CURRENT STATE. This post is credited to Sri Laxmana.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Unloading at the western ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have been an issue for many months. The ships stretch across the horizon two and three-layers deep in Long Beach. Getting a port, like Long Beach, with issues since February, to recover following the work slowdown is going to take a LONG TIME.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 30, 2021

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. meters draft, and cargo capacity up to 14,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU); previously, it could only handle vessels up to about 5,000 TEU.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 22, 2024

This report includes an observation that at the heights of the global pandemic when hundreds of container vessels were backed-up off the coast of Long Beach and Los Angeles , the automated terminal of the latter Long Beach port was better able to process vessels because of prior investment in automation.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 28, 2015

The Los Angeles and Long Beach ports handle nearly half of the nation’s cargo, and are the main gateway for imports from Asia including automobiles, furniture, clothing, electronic products and […].

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

How do I get shipment X out of Long Beach? But the fact of the matter is, industry leaders who want to avoid crashing their business on the shoals need to balance the daily hand-to-hand combat with some serious, long-term planning. Can I stack two more levels of containers on every chassis?

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 15, 2014

West Coast ports continue , causing importers like Lululemon Athletica to delay store shipments by up to 10 days, other shippers are heading to Canada’s West Coast ports, such as Prince Rupert where cargo traffic headed for the U.S. has increased 11 percent so far this year. ports have also spurred some shippers to look north. .

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Exiger Perspectives

JANUARY 13, 2025

According to the US Army Corps of Engineers, the Port of Long Beach and the Port of Los Angeles were the 5 th and 11 th largest ports in the US by total trade weight in 2022, the most recent data available.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 2, 2021

Unless you’re a cargo ship, anchored and waiting.) —- Suez Canal Opens, but Shipping Will Be Snarled for Months (WSJ – sub. Q1 2021 is in the books. The pandemic is still with us, but we have vaccines and toilet paper, so an improvement from last year. Onward and upward we go! req’d) America’s Imports.

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BlueYonder

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Over the past year, we’ve talked a lot about the logjams at the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach and how these have impacted our everyday lives — from holding Halloween decorations at sea and almost preventing last year’s holiday shopping season. Blue Yonder Live video: 1. West Coast Port Congestion Finally Clears Up.

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Freightos

APRIL 16, 2025

This mirrors what we’re seeing in real-time ocean freight rates from Freightos Terminal , where container rates from China to Long Beach have dropped 16% since the reciprocal tariffs went into effect on April 9th. As per Economics101, reduced demand is already doing its part.

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 29, 2021

ports have expanded their working hours, almost 200,000 shipping containers , with cargo worth more than USD 25 billion, remain on ships off the coast of Los Angeles as retailers scramble to ensure store shelves are stocked in time for the holiday season. While some critical U.S. To learn more watch LCT in action.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

Retailers like Amazon are chartering private cargo ships, making their own containers, and leasing planes to bypass supply chain disruptions like long wait times for dock space and workers. IATA data shows global demand for air cargo markets jumped 3.7% Air cargo carriers in North America posted an 11.4% (Statista).

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 10, 2017

Volvo Trucks demonstrates truck-platooning technology (Long Beach Post Telegram). Moving on to trucking news, a platooning demonstration was conducted this week at Long Beach. Maersk and IBM Unveil First Industry-Wide Cross-Border Supply Chain Solution on Blockchain. Who’s to Blame for the Trucker Shortage?

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West Coast and California Logistics

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

According to the Los Angeles Times , The Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are experiencing record-high cargo traffic. This surge is attributed to multiple factors including the diversion of goods to Southern California following a recent labor dispute that shut down major East and Gulf Coast ports.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

The major impact will be to hazardous cargo (majority of classes), with a hold on Xiamen port from August 1st to September 7th, including imports to Xiamen, exports from Xiamen, and transfers via Xiamen. In 2014, a port strike at Los Angeles-Long Beach caused severe congestion and freight delays. Union labor contracts.

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Supply Chain Opz

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

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

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American Global Logistics

JANUARY 24, 2019

Supply Chain Dive —Dive Brief: • An import surge across the country — led by a rush to bring in product before Chinese New Year and a scheduled tariff increase on March 2 — is leading to congestion at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, according to a customer advisory sent by American Global […].

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

It used to take two days to get cargo off the docks. … We flew over the sprawling Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach — 40% of all U.S. Marketing expert Robby Pedraza explains, “During World War II, standard sized shipping containers were developed to ship military cargo to the front lines. Now, it takes nine.

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Material Handling & Logistics

AUGUST 11, 2017

This acronym stands for All Water Service, which is one of the most cost-effective ways to ship your cargo, and also one of the most eco-friendly ; however, it’s also one of the slowest forms of freight transportation. With AWS, your cargo will be shipped from the port of origin to its destination using only water routes.

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Freightos

APRIL 29, 2025

While prices to Long Beach from both Shanghai and Vietnams Saigon Port increased more than 40% between the time of the reciprocal tariff announcement on April 2nd and their start date on April 9th, since then Shanghai – Long Beach rates have fallen more than 30% while prices out of Saigon have remained at their elevated level.

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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. But occasionally an outside force so intense occurs that can cause part of your supply chain to weaken and put at risk your bottom line. West Coast Dockworkers Strike/Slowdown.

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Resilinc

AUGUST 10, 2021

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union is trying to stop the next round of automation at the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles because it will eliminate jobs. And freight-forwarder Hellman will begin a pilot next year using 60 UAVs for air cargo operations between 39 airports in 13 European countries, according to Reuters.

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QAD

DECEMBER 16, 2021

A lack of railcars to move cargo from the ports is adding more delays. The Port of Los Angeles is joining the Port of Long Beach in doubling operational hours to 24/7. And the current global supply chain disruptions may be sticking around longer than we might think. Manufacturers know all the issues: U.S. In October, the U.S.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 17, 2021

It has already wreaked havoc on supply chains, transport networks, and ports, resulting in a sharp drop in cargo volumes. Thus, even at the peak of the outbreak, spot rates were steady whenever the cargo was less. In December 2020, the Long Beach/Los Angeles port in California had a 23 percent rise in traffic over the prior year.

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Gravity Supply Chain

MARCH 29, 2022

On 24 and 25 February, our team participated in #TPMTech at the Rennaissance Hotel in Long Beach, CA. Long Beach: Effectively managing your supply chain in a time of disruption. We also visited the Long Beach port complex. TPMTech: Proud to be Platinum Sponsors.

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Material Handling & Logistics

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

A TEU is one 20-foot-long cargo container or its equivalent. Cargo volume does not correlate directly with sales because only the number of containers is counted, not the value of the cargo inside, but nonetheless provides a barometer of retailers’ expectations. Ports covered by Global Port Tracker handled 1.76

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DAT Solutions

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Since two of the re-scheduled ships docked in the twin seaports of Los Angeles and Long Beach over the weekend of September 10-11, demand has surged for vans in the L.A. Even if they didn’t have cargo on Hanjin ships, big retailers are starting to shift inventory from West Coast distribution centers to other DCs farther east.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 17, 2016

At Los Angeles and Long Beach, meanwhile, the response has been more nuanced: terminal operators early on said they would not allow containers past their gates without VGM documentation already in tow, but they are now saying they may potentially offer container weighing services.

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BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

In addition to our never-arrived Halloween costumes , guess what else is sitting in those 70-something container ships waiting to be unloaded at the port of Long Beach? You’ve heard about big box retailers sidestepping the global supply shortages by chartering their own cargo ships , right? You guessed it — vinyl records.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 30, 2021

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. meters draft, and cargo capacity up to 14,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU); previously, it could only handle vessels up to about 5,000 TEU.

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Supply Chain Brain

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Several terminals at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach remained closed on September 27, after a tractor-trailer overturned on a vital artery for cargo.

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