Turvo

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Turvo’s Collaborative TMS Paved the way for Port X Logistics to Triple Growth The past two years have created a series of hurdles and obstacles for the global supply chain. This is due, in large part, to the Amazon effect which has increased delivery expectations for not only domestic online shopping purchases, but for industries as a whole.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Editor’s Note: This is one of the most popular posts we publish every year: our list of supply chain and logistics events to attend in the coming year. Also, if you have a favorite industry conference not included on the list, please post it in the comments. Most of the conferences on our list are in the U.S.,

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Editor’s Note: This is one of the most popular posts we publish every year: our list of supply chain and logistics events to attend in the coming year. Also, if you have a favorite industry conference not included on the list, please post it in the comments. Most of the conferences on our list are in the U.S.,

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

In this week’s news… XPO Logistics Acquires Optima Service Solutions. TomTom launches toll reporting to help transport companies manage costs. This follows the company’s acquisition of 3PD this past July, another provider of heavy goods, last-mile logistics in North America. Robinson Enters Switzerland Marketplace.

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Multichannel Merchant

DECEMBER 21, 2021

has significantly expanded its fulfillment network and added automation capabilities through the acquisition of 3PL Whiplash for $480 million, giving it warehouse assets in key markets and ports including Long Beach, CA, Seattle/Tacoma, New York/New Jersey and Savannah, GA. Ryder System Inc.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 4, 2021

Further, for Logistics Service Providers, excellence is supply chain management is how they differentiate themselves. A company may assume that a supplier’s component built in Wuhan China moves through the port of Shenzhen and takes 22 days on average to reach the port of Long Beach in California.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 1, 2017

The mad dash begins to finish all the work that needs to get done before 2018 arrives, so without delay, here’s the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week: E-Commerce Boosts U.S. Ryder Forms Strategic Partnership with Plug and Play to Support Development of Innovative Supply Chain and Logistics Startups.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group through its affiliate the Supply Chain Matters blog unveils a summarized overview of our annual prediction themes for industry and global supply chains for the year 2023 and beyond. West Coast ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach with the average wait time for ships to be unloaded reaching 20.8

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 16, 2015

— In this week’s supply chain and logistics news… DSV agrees to acquire UTi Worldwide Inc. SMC³ Acquires Transportation Costing Group. August 2015 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI). Port of Long Beach sees highest Q3 cargo volume in history (Cargo Business News). UPS Sets 2016 Rates.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 29, 2022

Then the company worked with their Italian lawyers to get a special industry designation that allowed them to legally keep working. Those components get trucked by the Vietnamese Railways, loaded, and then transported to the Haiphong port, where a freight forwarder ensures the container is loaded on an Ocean carrier.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 25, 2022

In our Supply Chain Matters news capsule of September 27, we pointed out that business, supply chain and transportation media had reported this that the cost of shipping a container of goods from China to the U.S. It is becoming clearer that supply chain procurement and logistics teams elected to route import shipments thru either U.S.

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SCMDOJO

MAY 13, 2022

Nearly all goods, bulk, and liquid as well as more obvious commodities, are capable of being transported by this method, whilst specialized containers and new fittings are frequently introduced to an already sophisticated market. ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach which saw their busiest March on record, handling a combined 898,287 TEU’s.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 13, 2015

XPO Logistics Expands Last Mile Services with Acquisition of UX Specialized Logistics. December 2014 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI). Transportation Department pushes tough oil train standards – sources (Reuters). Robinson is a Talking Logistics sponsor. UX had revenue and adjusted EBITDA of $113.2

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

It will take two to six months for supply chains to get back to normal, and some industries will suffer permanent losses, especially farmers. This dispute has left a damaging effect on our industry—causing extreme delays and millions in lost sales,” the American Apparel & Footwear Association said, as reported in the WSJ. “If

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 4, 2021

Further, for Logistics Service Providers, excellence is supply chain management is how they differentiate themselves. A company may assume that a supplier’s component built in Wuhan China moves through the port of Shenzhen and takes 22 days on average to reach the port of Long Beach in California.

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

… We flew over the sprawling Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach — 40% of all U.S. Although merchants and seamen have been storing goods in some kind of container since the beginning of maritime trade, it wasn’t until the Second World War that standardized metal containers were used to transport goods. ”[5].

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

CombineNet and Transplace Extend Partnership in Delivering Advanced Transportation Procurement Solution to North America. Labor and management work out deal at Port of LA/Long Beach ( Logistics Management ). Con-way Truckload and Con-way Multimodal Join Forces to Launch New Intermodal Service for North America.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 23, 2022

In this Supply Chain Matters March 23 rd edition of our COVID-19 and Ukraine Conflict News Capsule, we provide updates to ongoing industry supply chain developments and disruptions of concern to our reading audience. Surface Transportation Board on the merger with Kansas City Southern. . East Coast Ports the Likely Next Test.

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Zipline Logistics

OCTOBER 5, 2021

According to a Logistics Management survey of industry professionals, “there is a strong sentiment that the 2021 Peak Season will be more active than it was a year ago, with 79% of respondents indicating that will be the case, with 16% contending it will be similar to 2020, and 5% expecting it to be less active.”.

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Material Handling & Logistics

AUGUST 11, 2017

The ocean freight industry uses many acronyms to describe a shipment’s routing. 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. Inland Point Intermodal.

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ShipBob

APRIL 26, 2023

It involves all the activities related to the sourcing and transportation of raw materials needed in the manufacturing process. Starting with the COVID-19 pandemic, which resulted in nationwide lockdowns that put a temporary stop to raw materials transport. Further, the Great Resignation did not leave the logistics industry unscathed.

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Intelligent Audit

AUGUST 20, 2021

Dealing with supply chain disruption has been the steady drumbeat in the industry for more than a year. The industry is experiencing a dual disruption coming out of the events in both China port shutdowns and accelerated demand for inventory replenishment, causing backups at US ports.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 15, 2022

West Coast ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Industry supply networks can thus expect the consequences of another round of cascading disruptions. Reports further indicate that parts of the city of Shanghai have experienced targeted lockdowns as a result of variant spread.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

JUNE 18, 2021

This disruption also came on top of an already brittle logistics system which is currently grappling with several unprecedented challenges, including equipment shortages and decreased schedule reliability, to name a few. While flexibility is important any time global logistics is involved, the phrase ‘now more than ever’ holds true here.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

JULY 14, 2015

There are some retailers – whose industry is characterized by high volume imports from China and elsewhere – who can vouch for the verity of this statement. They’d be the ones who were able to flex their supply chain and logistics plans to overcome some very challenging obstacles in the last 12 months.

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Locus

DECEMBER 1, 2021

“The line between disorder and order lies in logistics.” ~Sun With bottlenecks in manufacturing and rising labor shortages in transporting goods, businesses struggle to counter toy shortage. With bottlenecks in manufacturing and rising labor shortages in transporting goods, businesses struggle to counter toy shortage.

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ThroughPut

MARCH 22, 2022

The pandemic has been both cruel and kind to the ports industry. The shipping industry contributes to 25% of America’s total GDP with the Port of Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach being the busiest, handling more than 40% of all inbound cargo shipped to the U.S. Timely and optimal resource utilization.

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Scores of container ships await unloading at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, carrying all those coveted toys, electronics, and other goods. s freight system. And even when containers are unloaded, the lack of labor at trucking companies and warehouses means that consumers are waiting longer to get their goods.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 26, 2016

Editor's Note: This is a guest blog from Freightos , is a SaaS-enabled marketplace for the logistics industry. Magazine article) as a goliath looking to take on the entrenched "David" shipping industry. One visionary, Malcom McLean , is featured prominently in the industry’s development.

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Intelligent Audit

MARCH 5, 2020

Over the last month, the Dow Jones Industrial Index has been down over 10%, with an extremely high level of volatility. In the first quarter of 2020, containership operators have already canceled 60+ trans-pacific sailings to the ports of LA and Long Beach. Shipping Impact from COVID-19. Looking at Past Outbreaks.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

MAY 6, 2015

Guest Blogger, Rich Chrzanowski — Container volume at US ports hit an all-time high in 2014 and a DOT transportation study projects volume to more than triple in coming years. Compounding the problem is the emergence of megaships which are taxing the aging infrastructure of US ports leading to long back-ups for trucking.

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The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

JULY 21, 2014

  The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are vital to the LA economy, not only because they provide a significant number of jobs in the shipping and logistics industries, but also because they give the city itself a competitive edge with regard to shipping times and transportation costs when it comes to operating a global businesses here.

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Elementum

JULY 28, 2015

The trucking industry has turned to technology to address the industry's worsening trucker shortage and labor strike issues while Congress attempts to resolve the problem through legislation. The trucking industry is hugely important for the United States’ supply chain— 67% of all freight in the U.S. Strikes and Wage Hikes.

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 2, 2020

China says almost all of its major industrial companies have resumed production and that its ports are again running at near-full capacity after a two-month Coronavirus-linked shutdown. The decline results largely from a result of lack of ex-China flow-trade, according to Neil Chambers, director of Container Transport Alliance Australia.

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Intelligent Audit

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The global pandemic has changed the transportation and shipping industry in many ways, some of which will linger for years to come. Issues with logistics and shipping capacity continue to haunt supply chain management as experts predict that the shipping bottlenecks and backlogs at big U.S. Utilize multimodal transport options.

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PINC

OCTOBER 23, 2019

It didn’t take long for trucking industry officials to jump into the conversation around California’s new gig-economy law. Industry groups say the measure that passed the state’s legislature would upend road transport business across the state, WSJ’s Jennifer Smith reports. Port Trucking Implications. While many U.S.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 2, 2021

We’ve interviewed executives in Retail , Public Sector , Procurement and other industries and disciplines to get a sense of how the industry is reacting, not only to navigate the immediate challenges, but to future proof themselves from future disruption. The latest major disruption that has the entire supply chain world buzzing?

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