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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Logility

APRIL 5, 2021

What do the port of Long Beach, California and the Suez Canal have in common? Fortunately, a pair of industry experts recently published a two-part series on implementing strategies for success despite inevitable disruptions in both demand and supply. If it’s not COVID, it’s something else.

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The Logistics of Logistics

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Beagen is often called on for her industry expertise by major media networks, including recent features on CNBC and FreightWaves. The port problem first became noticeable in the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach, the ports where the majority of shipments from Asia are received. About Lauren Beagen .

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Freightos

JUNE 15, 2021

When that stopped, the industry found itself in a crunch and within just months, prices took off by some 400%. MarineTraffic map of container ships waiting for a spot at the ports of LA/Long Beach, Jan. Even if you don’t care about world economics or how the logistics industry operates, this is important.

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The Logistics of Logistics

AUGUST 22, 2022

He is the founder and chairman of the annual JOC TPM conference in Long Beach, Calif., The JOC develops industry-leading events such as TPM , the world’s largest containerized shipping event. the world’s largest container shipping conference, now 23 years old.

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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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NFI

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

This year was no different as experts in the industry gathered in Long Beach this past week. For ten years the Advanced Clean Transportation (ACT) Expo has been the largest and most comprehensive assembly of advanced technology commercial vehicles.

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ToolsGroup

JANUARY 25, 2022

In a bold move which bore resemblance to the fighting spirit of the retail industry as a whole these past two years, the National Retail Federation (NRF) Big Show 2022 went ahead as planned in New York City despite rising COVID cases and reduced attendance. We must incentivize more Americans to get into the supply chain industry.

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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. Factor in big-picture industry changes. Which industries will survive?

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Logility

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Case in point: an industrial goods importer modeled the impact in time and cost of bypassing Long Beach during a slowdown by delivering to a Mexican port and directly railing containers to the central U.S. Model the new flow paths around a port slowdown or a supplier’s capacity shortages.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

The people on the ground–my contacts in the 3PL, freight forwarding and transportation industry–know that the labor strife is only a part of the larger story. Unloading at the western ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have been an issue for many months. Lora Cecere is the Supply Chain Shaman.

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The Logistics of Logistics

AUGUST 16, 2021

He has been in the logistics industry for over 10 years and has learned and experienced the ups, downs, and changes in the industry during that time. Brian and his team at Dray Depot are taking the industry by storm with some very exciting moves and further plans for a $36 million project to expand into cold storage in the southeast.

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 29, 2021

At the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach alone, this impacts approximately 60,000 containers with cargo worth more than USD 2.6 The recent announcement of escalating fines on containers that are past their dwell time, puts additional pressure on companies across the network. To learn more watch LCT in action.

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Freightos

MARCH 23, 2023

This year’s recent TPM – the annual transpacific maritime conference hosted by the Journal of Commerce in Long Beach, CA at the end of February – was a combination of post-pandemic debrief, projections for the rest of the year and beyond, and lessons learned. More (too much?) Tech to save the day?

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Reportedly, the queue of container vessels waiting to unload at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach was just four vessels last week, compared to over 100 ships in January. Import volume for Los Angeles and Long Beach ports reportedly declined 18 percent in September, the lowest level since September 2020.

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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 10, 2023

And] markers of industrialization and globalization — nitrogen and mercury released from burning fossil fuels, microplastics pollution, nitrogen from fertilizers and other changes — also spiked at different places across the globe in the mid-20th century.”[2] But it’s been a long-running (phenomenon).”[3]

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The very next day I called Jim Hull, our Senior Industries Strategy Director, to share my frightening shopping experience, and he confirmed my worst nightmare — everything I needed for an enchanting All Hallows’ Eve was somewhere on a ship in one of the many port logjams. So, the cargo ships might get unloaded, but the U.S.

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BlueYonder

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

This blog was written by Bryant Miller, Corporate Communications, with insights from Jim Hull, Senior Industries Strategy Director at Blue Yonder. Or how Target can send its own cargo ship to China to pick up goods, while smaller retailers have their orders waiting 70 ships deep at a port in Long Beach. No chicken wings?

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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. The goods are then shipped to the Port of Long Beach, unloaded, and then trucked to a factory in Fresno. One article claims it cost the auto industry hundreds of billions of dollars!

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Consumer Goods Logistics

MARCH 15, 2018

As the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach continue to experience record-setting growth, the entire Southern California logistics industry is in full “boom” mode. The Inland Empire logistics industry has the room for growth that these counties do not and is poised to continue setting records of its own.

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Intelligent Audit

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Let’s take a look at what’s really happening, what it means for the industry, and what shippers need to know about it. . According to the Long Beach Post News , the Port of Long Beach implemented a 24/7 operations pilot program to go to 24/7 operations on September 21, 2021.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 31, 2022

A container from Shanghai to Long Beach was 56 days in 2020 and increased to 80 days in 2021. The reinvention of planning is needed, but it is hard to unwind the industry. I have been an industry analyst for two decades. Current technologies and processes focus on volume trade-offs.

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Resilinc

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

With the USMCA trade agreement providing greater certainty on trade rules and more transparency around labor and other ESG issues, OEMs in industries ranging from automotive to furniture, toys to medical products are growing their Mexico-based supply chains. Mexico’s largest categories of exports to the U.S. trade data.

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Freightos

MARCH 29, 2017

At JOC ’s TPM in Long Beach last month, no less than fifteen sessions featured technology, digitalization, and freight future-proofing. The venture capital industry is a key player in driving freight digitalization. 4: The Market Opportunity of Digitizing Big Industries. Where It’s Going.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

A container from Shanghai to Long Beach was 56 days in 2020 and increased to 80 days in 2021. The reinvention of planning is needed, but it is hard to unwind the industry. I have been an industry analyst for two decades. Current technologies and processes focus on volume trade-offs.

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Material Handling & Logistics

AUGUST 11, 2017

The ocean freight industry uses many acronyms to describe a shipment’s routing. This term is used to describe an intermodal freight service that utilizes ocean and truck or rail to transport to another port location, for example, a shipment coming from Shanghai to New York via Long Beach. Inland Point Intermodal.

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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

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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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. Multiple years of global supply chain sourcing strategy predicated on lowest cost of manufacturing has exposed many rocks and added vulnerabilities.

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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

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. These solutions align with the operational needs of many industries. In short, the graph database can help keep the supply chain model accurate.

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Overcapacity (to the tune of 10% of the industry’s container capacity as surplus space) and fierce competition pushed South Korean ocean carrier Hanjin into bankruptcy on August 31st 2016, triggering a price uptick that held steady throughout the September holiday shipping surge. An ocean carriers need all the volume they can get.

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MIT Supply Chain

APRIL 27, 2023

Labor relations are in the spotlight with employers at Los Angeles and Long Beach ports , management teams at FedEx , and UPS engaged in critically important contract negotiations with trade union representatives. We are now on the cusp of an industrial revolution driven by innovations such as artificial intelligence.

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BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The White House announced they’re working with the Port of Long Beach and the Port of Los Angeles to up their operations to 24/7, nearly double their previous operations. You can also catch the full rundown from our Blue Yonder Live video: 1. The White House is asking for 24/7 operations.

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Turvo

DECEMBER 10, 2021

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. Currently, Long Beach California is dealing with a record number of ships loitering outside the port, and that’s not the only place that’s getting increased traffic.

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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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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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