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Retail giants crush the rush with charters, air freight

Resilinc

In the race to fill distribution centers and store shelves with inventory for the holidays, some of the world’s largest retailers and ecommerce sellers are jumping ahead of smaller competitors by chartering ships, shifting freight to air, re-rerouting inland shipments, and hiring more staff for distribution centers and other supply chain nodes.

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“Why Do I have to Wait?” Supply Chain Disruption Gets Its Day

Logistics Viewpoints

Source: Descartes Datamyne. This indicates a sustained increase of goods imports above previous levels. The Marine Exchange of Southern California has stated on its Twitter page @MXSOCAL ship report a number of records at the Port of LA/Long Beach. It may also represent an increased reliance on merchandise imports.

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Achieving Maturity in Risk Management Takes Years

Logistics Viewpoints

Examples of third-party data would include weather forecasts, sustainability ratings, or D&Bs on a company’s financial viability. One of the players in this market, Resilinc, is monitoring 105 million data sources. The goods are then shipped to the Port of Long Beach, unloaded, and then trucked to a factory in Fresno.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 22 – 28)

Logistics Viewpoints

US homes 8 retailers keeping Earth Day alive through a commitment to sustainability Ground parcel delivery costs reached a record high in Q1, although pricing discounts from carriers softened the blow, according to the TD Cowen/AFS Freight Index. British supermarkets source peppers exclusively from Spain during the winter months.

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Warehousing News Roundup: April 8, 2019

Stord

Rail freight volumes continued to fall at the end of March alongside service outages due to flooding in the Midwest. In California, the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach released a clean trucks assessment, the next step in their public plan to establish zero-emissions trucking at their facilities by 2035.

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Experts Discuss How to Streamline Global Supply Chain

Supply Chain Opz

Whether you''re a manufacturing company in China, a sourcing agent in London or a world''s leading company in Silicon Valley, we''re all in a global supply chain networks. Quality information from accounting systems is of critical importance en route to a successful supply chain which helps movement towards sustainability.

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2021 Supply Chain Challenges: The Top 5 Lessons Learned + Tips from 11 Industry Experts

ToolsGroup

Many businesses need to eliminate waste and implement sustainable supply chains that support many different types of products being fulfilled to a geographically diverse customer base. We then opened a distribution center in Seattle to use their ports up there instead of the ports in Long Beach and Los Angeles, which are extremely backed up.