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This Week in Logistics News (August 26 – September 1)

Logistics Viewpoints

This year the twin complexes at Los Angeles and Long Beach, Calif., Before an Amazon delivery driver ever drops a package on someone’s doorstep in metro Denver, they have likely gone through a three-day course developed locally, one that could eventually serve as a model of delivery driver training across the country.

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Supply Chain and Logistics Conferences to Attend in 2019

Talking Logistics

McLeod Software : UC2019 , August 25-27, Denver, CO. 19th TPM Annual Conference , March 3-6, Long Beach, CA. LabelMaster : Dangerous Goods Symposium , September 4-6, Chicago, IL. LLamasoft : SummerCon 2019 , June 17-21, Chicago, IL. Manhattan Associates : Momentum 2019 , May 20-23, Phoenix, AZ. MODEX : No show in 2019.

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Asian imports turn up the heat for vans on the West Coast

DAT Solutions

Expect the seasonal pressure to continue through much of November, as a massive typhoon in Hong Kong caused scheduling delays on inbound ships at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, the arrival point for 49% of Asian imports. to Chicago , Dallas , Phoenix , and Denver. Denver to Oklahoma City plummeted 24¢ to $1.38/mile.

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Van rates return to spring levels

DAT Solutions

There’s been a slowdown in Texas, and volumes and rates are falling in Southern California, after frenzied activity a few weeks ago at the port of Los Angeles/Long Beach. Los Angeles to Denver declined 8¢ to $3.07/mile. Many of the markets have looser capacity now than earlier in the summer. FALLING RATES.

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L.A. freight gets a tailwind from hurricanes and typhoons

DAT Solutions

destination, the combined Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Denver to Albuquerque got a 7¢ increase, to $2.18/mile. Ships in and near Hong Kong were delayed, which caused a disruption of traffic at the top U.S. Together, those two ports receive almost 50 percent of Asian imports to the U.S. Apart from L.A.

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Uber Freight: Another “Uber-for-Trucking”?

Freightos

It maybe be 1,100 trucking miles from the Port of Long Beach to Denver, Colorado, but it’s 7,250 miles by boat first. On-line tracking?) or trucking is non-existent in international freight. That matters.

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Toyota Consolidating Operations in Texas

Operations and Supply Chain Management

Toyota narrowed its preferred locations to Denver, Atlanta and Charlotte, N.C., The auto maker also has a small manufacturing operation in Long Beach, Calif. Toyota’s current sales and marketing unit headquarters in Torrance, Calif., Mr. Lentz said. Erlanger, Ky., Real-estate firm Jones Lang LaSalle handled the search.

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