Logistics Oakland Shipping Sourcing 
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.
Logistics Viewpoints
APRIL 5, 2021
The company has a sourcing team that vets the beans. In DSD, instead of shipping truckload quantities of goods directly to a retailer’s regional distribution center every few weeks, a manufacturer has their own account representatives that sell to and service individual stores. Those reps go into stores and stock the store shelves.
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Logistics Viewpoints
JULY 22, 2022
And now on to this week’s logistics news. Trucker protests shut down Port of Oakland terminals. To meet demand, 3PLs increasingly tapped the spot market to source carriers to cover shipments. In the next 40 years, the answer is (most likely) a definitive no. But are the Jetsons just a few centuries before their time?
Logistics Bureau
APRIL 2, 2020
The huge build-up of containers at China’s docks has created a major ocean freight imbalance, with a shortage of cargo in US and European ports and a shortfall in boxes needed by Western exporters to ship products to other parts of the world. Some ports are quarantining arriving ships for 14 days. Ocean Freight.
Locus
MARCH 30, 2023
All it took Billy Beane from Oakland A’s to break the myth that more money can win more games was data. Final-mile delivery contributes to 53% of the total cost of shipping. It is a unique microscope that allows your business to obtain a comprehensive picture of your last-mile logistics costs. What is the solution to this issue?
Logistics Viewpoints
OCTOBER 27, 2021
I assume many Logistics Viewpoints readers are busy with their day-to-day responsibilities and have been unable to dig deeper into the status of the port congestion, but would like to know more as it is directly related to one’s day to day responsibilities at work. Source: Ports of LA, Long Beach, Oakland, Seattle-Tacoma.
CH Robinson Transportfolio
OCTOBER 27, 2015
Of course, cost isn’t the only factor—overall shipping time, flexibility, and reliability matter, too. Oakland and the Seattle-Tacoma ports on the West Coast. Robinson, Wide Open: How the Panama Canal Expansion is Redrawing the Logistics Map. Source: Boston Consulting Group.
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