Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 24, 2023

At one California warehouse that utilizes a container transport unit system, goods are offloaded onto automated conveyors where they get scanned, sorted and stored by self-operating robots. On Tuesday, Long Beach reported February throughput of 543,675 TEUs, coming in 11 percent above Los Angeles.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Background on Ocean Transport. When the ball drops on Times Square to welcome in 2022, the employees at the Port of Long Beach will celebrate moving 9 M TEUs in imports: a 26% increase year-over-year. I find no agency or entity trying to find a holistic solution to global logistics. We are awash in a sea of self-interest.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Ships continue to hold in the west coast harbors of LA and Long Beach, and the west coast warehouses are full. We Assumed that Transportation Would Always Be Available And That We Just Needed to Negotiate Price. In parallel, inflation, currently at 6%, is climbing. Retail shelves are increasingly empty.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 4, 2024

The solution is particularly strong in creating visibility and coordination of international transport, collaboration with supplier networks and automating trade finance processes. A good example is saying “What are my demurrage issues at the Port of Long Beach?” Infor Nexus is prototyping deeper capabilities.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 22, 2024

While multi-industry logistics, transportation and customer fulfilment teams might have languished with a sigh of relief, they are likely to be aware that this new contract is not a done deal yet. Yet, there is still a reported lag times related to movement of containers to intermodal inland rail or surface trucking transportation.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

OCTOBER 29, 2014

This is the primary mode of transportation inland throughout the United States and will continue to compete for capacity with the oil and gas industry and truck-intermodal conversion moves into the interior of the United States. The post Los Angeles and Long Beach Terminal Congestions appeared first on Transportfolio.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Look at the 72 ships off the coast of Long Beach (up 65% from a year ago). Current processes single-thread tactical planning across functions and the data models for deliver (DRP), make (MPS), source (MRP or DDMRP), or transport (TMS) do not enable orchestration, or process interoperability. Could Outside-in Thinking Help? (Bi-directional

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 17, 2021

The import dwell times at the Port of Long Beach fluctuated throughout the first half of 2021, with a high of 9 days. Export dwell time in Asia, where many goods being transported to the US begin their journey, saw huge fluctuations in the first half of 2021.

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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., Now part of S&P Global Market Intelligence , the JOC Group is the world’s authoritative provider of business intelligence, information and events for trade, transportation and logistics professionals.

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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. Infor makes the point that a graph database’s ability to infer relationships helps to keep the model up to date.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 8, 2023

About Qualle Since launching in May 2022, Qualle has quickly built up a substantial trucker base that spans from the LA and Long Beach ports to New York, New Jersey, Savannah, Houston, and Memphis ports. Truckers can use Qualle to manage and request street turns with multiple steamship lines at the click of a button.

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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. This is not going to be pretty.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

According to FedEx, the tight labor market added $450 million to costs, including increased overtime, higher wages to attract workers, and extra spending on transportation. This is adding expenses for new truck routes and additional third-party transportation companies.

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Exiger Perspectives

JANUARY 13, 2025

Californias role as a vital nexus for transportation, technology, and industrial machinery places manufacturing supply chains at significant risk from the ongoing wildfires. Power outages, evacuations, and closures of key transportation routes have disrupted production and distribution networks in the Southern California region and beyond.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 15, 2014

There was the infamous 11-day shutdown in 2002 , and just two years ago, 800 clerical workers at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach went on strike , shutting down the ports for eight days and costing the region’s economy about $8 billion. The bottom line: History keeps repeating itself at the U.S. West Coast ports.

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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. Infor makes the point that a graph database’s ability to infer relationships helps to keep the model up to date.

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Freight Waves

JUNE 11, 2025

The biggest contributor to the increase in the total figure last year was the cost of water transportation, up 93.1% The USBLC compiled by the report’s authors said full truckload transportation costs fell to $387 billion in 2024 from $408.7 That’s an increase of $77.9 billion a year earlier.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 10, 2017

Volvo Trucks demonstrates truck-platooning technology (Long Beach Post Telegram). January 2017 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI). Moving on to trucking news, a platooning demonstration was conducted this week at Long Beach. Department of Transportation. Who’s to Blame for the Trucker Shortage?

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 14, 2017

If you’re a transportation professional, for example, and all you know is transportation, your opportunities for advancement are limited compared to someone who has a broader supply chain perspective. The Transportation Revolution: Takeaways from CLX Logistics’ 6th Annual Customer Conference.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 12, 2022

Looming transportation shortages in the United States with the adoption of AB5 and the redefinition of the owner-operator are risks. Unresolved labor issues in the Leathermen Terminal in Charleston South Carolina and contract negotiations for 22,000 dock workers in the ports of LA and Long Beach hang heavy. The answer?

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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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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 29, 2022

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. The goods are then shipped to the Port of Long Beach, unloaded, and then trucked to a factory in Fresno.

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Supply Chain Opz

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

That might mean diverting from Los Angeles/Long Beach to Canada or Mexico. Work with your broker to see if you can get priority on unloading the ship and inland transport. Hold your imports as long as possible before committing to final delivery.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Ships continue to hold in the west coast harbors of LA and Long Beach, and the west coast warehouses are full. We Assumed that Transportation Would Always Be Available And That We Just Needed to Negotiate Price. In parallel, inflation, currently at 6%, is climbing. Retail shelves are increasingly empty.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Ships continue to hold in the west coast harbors of LA and Long Beach, and the west coast warehouses are full. We Assumed that Transportation Would Always Be Available And That We Just Needed to Negotiate Price. In parallel, inflation, currently at 6%, is climbing. Retail shelves are increasingly empty.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Those same words were said when the ports were shut down for 10 days in 2002 , and again in December 2012 when 600 clerks went on strike , shutting down the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach for 8 days. The ILWU and PMA have always taken a “What’s in it for Me?” Productivity at U.S. ports lags those in Asia and Europe.

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NFI

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

As the country heads into the holiday peak season, gridlock at the LA/LB port complex continues. Struggles with delayed vessel arrivals, congestion, labor availability, chassis shortages, and appointment system shortcomings continue to hamper the flow of containers.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 21, 2017

MacroPoint Announces Platform Integration with JDA Transportation Management Solution. Long Beach ports emits only water from tailpipe (OCR). On the software front, just when you thought “Does the market need another transportation management system (TMS)?” Manhattan Associates Reports First Quarter 2017 Performance.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Look at the 72 ships off the coast of Long Beach (up 65% from a year ago). Current processes single-thread tactical planning across functions and the data models for deliver (DRP), make (MPS), source (MRP or DDMRP), or transport (TMS) do not enable orchestration, or process interoperability. Could Outside-in Thinking Help? (Bi-directional

Supply Chain Planning Software 195

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Look at the 72 ships off the coast of Long Beach (up 65% from a year ago). Current processes single-thread tactical planning across functions and the data models for deliver (DRP), make (MPS), source (MRP or DDMRP), or transport (TMS) do not enable orchestration, or process interoperability. Could Outside-in Thinking Help? (Bi-directional

Supply Chain Planning Software 195

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Talking Logistics

JULY 16, 2018

Much of the transportation data coming from carriers is inherently flawed. He gives the example of a container that is supposed to arrive at Long Beach but actually arrives at Los Angeles. “It’s because the underlying data problem hasn’t been solved,” said Adam. The old rules logic says the shipment hasn’t arrived as planned.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JANUARY 12, 2022

In the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, up 78% of the containers leaving the ports for Asia are empty. Up to 5 Staxxon containers can be transported in the space required for one traditional container. Until now, an empty container took up just as much space as a full container.

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The Logistics of Logistics

AUGUST 16, 2021

Los Angeles is the largest port in the United States and, together with Long Beach a bit further south, account for around 30 percent of trade entering and exiting the United States. While American consumers demand went up, transportation and logistics companies struggled to keep up. Employees stayed home because 1.)

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 12, 2018

If you’re a transportation professional, for example, and all you know is transportation, your opportunities for advancement are limited compared to someone who has a broader supply chain perspective. 19th TPM Annual Conference , March 3-6, Long Beach, CA. Industry Conferences (chronological order).

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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. In only three years, the VC has already accumulated four logistics and transportation companies in its portfolio (Freightos, Bringg , Windward , and Nexar). 2: (Freight) Data Is The New Oil.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Rule sets –like ATP, VMI, Transportation Routing, Allocation and Assortment logic– are simple rule sets. Unloading a container in Long Beach varies by the season; yet the planning systems have a fixed value. With cognitive learning, we redefine master data. It is adaptive. Redefinition of Rules.

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3rdwave

MARCH 20, 2020

Without inbound international transportation, product level visibility organizations are flying blind – or, they are at a minimum, severely visually impaired. The vast majority of these supply-side shipments come in through the port of Long Beach/LA. carriers ability to transport goods, .

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