American Global Logistics

MARCH 5, 2024

Volatility and uncertainty in the logistics industry have dominated the news in 2024. Enduring Drought Disrupts Panama Canal Navigation The Panama Canal is a vital shipping route that connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Drought and congestion at the Panama Canal have significantly impacted shippers.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

However, in a blow to the autonomous trucking industry, the California Senate passed a bill Monday that requires a trained human safety operator to be present any time a self-driving, heavy-duty vehicle operates on public roads in the state. Newsom has a reputation for being friendly to the tech industry, and is expected to veto AB 316.

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The Logistics of Logistics

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

While earning his degree at Canisius College he needed a job and found himself working in the logistics industry. Beagen is often called on for her industry expertise by notable trade networks, including features on CNBC and FreightWaves. Brian grew up as a farm kid outside of Buffalo, NY and learned how to work at a young age.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

The Panama Canal expands in 2016, allowing for more and larger (post-Panamax) ships to make the passage from East Asia to the United States. Our paper looked at the question of how much traffic the expanded Panama Canal would divert to East Coast ports from a number of angles. In 2015, the Boston Consulting Group and C.H.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 26, 2023

The WSC said its “Containers Lost at Sea – 2023 Update” report revealed positive developments in container safety within the international liner shipping industry, saying the 2022 losses represent a tiny fraction of the 250 million containers currently shipped each year. But industry voices have noted concerns.

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SCM Research

JUNE 28, 2012

The report, Outlook on the Logistics & Supply Chain Industry 2012 , contains a series of articles on some of the key issues facing the logistics & supply chain industry, e.g., the role of logistics in the facilitation of international trade, the expansion of the Panama Canal, logistics clusters , the container shipping industry, sustainability, (..)

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The report authors indicated that this decline was the largest since the start of the ongoing logistics industry downturn that that occurred in April 2022. The above is relatively good news for retail and consumer goods businesses given the inventory overhang that has dogged the industry for far too long. declined a significant 7.1

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 20, 2022

Mr. Bailey has worked most of his career at VF – as an industrial engineer in facilities, in strategic sourcing, running offshore operations, and now as the person in charge of the company’s entire supply chain. Cameron Bailey, EVP of Global Supply Chain at VF Corporation, did not disappoint.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 16, 2023

Energy, industry, transport, buildings, agriculture and land use are among the main sectors causing greenhouse gases. But the EU was basically handing out free allowances to certain industries out of fear of these companies would leave for countries with looser environmental rules. It’s a way to make companies pay to pollute.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 13, 2023

freight and logistics industry continues to mitigate recessionary conditions and that was reinforced by the April 2023 Logistics Manager Index (LMI) reaching its lowest level lowest level in six and one-half years. The May report narrative reinforced that that “the negatives seem to outweigh the positives in the logistics industry.”

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Freightos

APRIL 9, 2024

Though low-water measures in Panama did not prove terribly disruptive to container traffic, the easing of Panama Canal transit restrictions as the region enters the long-awaited rainy season is nonetheless welcomed news in the industry, and has lead Maersk to restore one of its services that had stopped using the canal.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

As we have noted in this thread of updates, to a further extent, shipments from Asia eastward that traverse the Panama Canal are an important added backdrop to ocean transport disruption impacts. In parallel is the assessing of the related restricted ship transit volumes surrounding the Panama Canal because of low water levels.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 13, 2016

The shipping industry saw growth and expansion in 2014 when compared to the state of the industry since 2008. While the driver shortage is a real threat to the state of the shipping industry, more carriers, such as UPS and FedEx, are expanding their fleets to address the capacity crunch. Fleets Are Expanding.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Without a doubt, our industry needs to make sure containers are sailing on the vessel and moving through the ports, and that loads are accurately represented when it comes to weight. Panama Canal Expansion. The Panama Canal expansion, slated for completion this spring, will impact logistics in a big way. Free Time and Chassis.

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The Panama Canal Authority will reduce daily transits to about half their normal level over the next three months as the drought there stretches on, raising the possibility of reduced capacity and higher rates to the East Coast or diversions to the West Coast. Freight news travels faster than cargo Get industry-leading insights in your inbox.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 15, 2024

That’s how I feel today, thanks to the many messages of love and support I have received from friends and colleagues in the industry following my surgery. Blessed and grateful. Those messages have been a source of strength and inspiration for me during my recovery. Thank you for thinking of me and reaching out.

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Elementum

AUGUST 22, 2016

The expansion of the Panama Canal, which handles about a third of Asia-to-US trade, is poised to boost trade and shipping services by shortening the one-way journey by sea from Asia to the U.S. While ship transits through the Panama Canal rose 3.7% While ship transits through the Panama Canal rose 3.7% East Coast.

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Freightos

MARCH 19, 2024

Easing Panama Canal restrictions announced last week – which will increase daily transits to 27 – are also a good sign for transpacific shippers to the East Coast. Freight news travels faster than cargo Get industry-leading insights in your inbox. American demand projections could also help keep N.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 10, 2023

The International Maritime Organization (IMO) adopted tougher greenhouse gas emission targets for the global shipping industry on Friday. The IMO is a United Nations agency responsible for creating a regulatory framework for the global shipping industry. The member states have agreed to tougher standards. The new pledge is squishy.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 19, 2015

East Coast Ports Could Gain 10 Percent Additional Share Following Panama Canal Expansion. but I also believe that someone will ultimately “crack the nut” and transform the industry. Download the report — Wide Open: How the Panama Canal Is Redrawing the Logistics Map — for all the details. FAA expects to clear U.S.

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Freightos

JANUARY 3, 2024

America vessels will also be higher than usual as several carriers had already rerouted some services – that normally transit the Panama Canal on their way to the East Coast – to the Suez to avoid possible Panama Canal drought-driven delays and extra costs. The number of impacted Asia – N.

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Freightos

AUGUST 23, 2023

Dive deeper into freight data that matters Stay in the know in the now with instant freight data reporting Sign up for Free Analysis Low water levels driving weight restrictions and reductions in daily Panama Canal transits has created a backlog of about 150 ships waiting – some for more than a week – for passage.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JANUARY 3, 2023

The aviation industry is required to push the development of SAF and activate every other enabler to reduce emissions. The US and Norway launched a Green Shipping Challenge to encourage stakeholders along the maritime value chain to propose concrete steps that will help to achieve full decarbonisation of the industry no later than 2050.

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3PL Insights

JULY 28, 2016

The Panama Canal was originally constructed as a way to increase maritime trade in the Americas, and it is the largest American engineering feat undertaken in history. And now, over a century after its original completion, the Panama Canal has once again been expanded. Panama Canal, Panama City, Panama, Central America.

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The Supply Chain Matters blog provides our latest news capsule edition follow-up relative to updating our readers to prior industry supply chain management developments that we have shared on this blog. based automakers Ford Motor , General Motors and Stellantis , that the implications would ripple across the industry.

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Freightos

DECEMBER 28, 2023

America vessels will be even higher than usual as several carriers had already rerouted some services – that normally transit the Panama Canal on their way to the East Coast – to the Suez to avoid possible Panama Canal drought-driven delays and extra costs. But the number of impacted Asia – N.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

I’ll be leading a panel discussion on “Automation, Real-time Insights, and Collaboration” with various industry leaders. I don’t speak Catalan, but I speak Spanish, and I’ll get to speak plenty of it next week at the Transporeon Summit 2023 conference in Barcelona.

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

New transit reductions in the Panama Canal are already causing increases in congestion , and impacting some perishables trade between South and North America, though large container carriers have so far not been impacted strongly. Freight news travels faster than cargo Get industry-leading insights in your inbox.

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Material Handling & Logistics

AUGUST 11, 2017

The ocean freight industry uses many acronyms to describe a shipment’s routing. For example, a shipment from China to the East Coast would go through the Panama Canal to reach its destination and vice versa. . The same shipment via RIPI would go through the Panama Canal and arrive at the East Coast. Printer-friendly version.

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Freightos

AUGUST 29, 2023

The Panama Canal Authority announced that low-water restrictions will likely stay in place for at least ten months , though there has not been any significant impact on container shipping via the canal yet. Freight news travels faster than cargo Get industry-leading insights in your inbox.

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

China’s slowing economy is generally bad news for the freight industry. The underlying trends in freight industry are often interconnected, as this (paywalled) article on West Coast ports’ prospects shows. New carrier routes that will benefit the freight industry include the trans-Eurasia rail and the Northern (Arctic) sea route.

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Freightos

JUNE 21, 2023

In the near-term, the West Coast might enjoy an increase in volumes at the expense of alternative destinations as drought-driven low water levels in the Panama Canal are getting worse , with added restrictions announced for July that could significantly reduce the number of daily transits possible via the canal.

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Freightos

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

More carriers are resuming Panama Canal transits as conditions there have stabilized and will hopefully improve with the start of the rainy season in May – another factor that should mitigate the Red Sea crisis impact on N. Freight news travels faster than cargo Get industry-leading insights in your inbox.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JUNE 21, 2022

There are many causes, for example, container ships from Asia are now too large to traverse the Panama Canal (20 years ago they were not), so they offload on the West Coast of the United States and are compelled to truck all goods to the East Coast. Get SYSPRO ERP for Supply Chain Management.

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Freightos

DECEMBER 19, 2023

But because of the excess capacity available to address the disruption – something that was not the case during the Suez Canal blockage in 2021 – it is possible that the industry will avoid the extreme rate spikes like those seen during the pandemic. Freight news travels faster than cargo Get industry-leading insights in your inbox.

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DELMIA Quintiq

APRIL 19, 2016

The Panama papers were still hogging the headlines and competing hard against dissections of mishaps in the private lives of British politicians. This is driven by the fact that China will continue to rationalize resource-based and resource-dependent industries. The price we have to pay to keep the industry afloat.

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DELMIA Quintiq

AUGUST 30, 2016

Now let’s switch to the shipping industry and the places where congestion occurs the most – in ports and canals. Take the example of the crossing of Panama Canal. Can the maritime industry take a page out of the aviation industry and make it better? A clash of planning capabilities in shipping.

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