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Yantian Port Congestion: How Can Shippers Navigate Another Major Supply Chain Disruption?

CH Robinson Transportfolio

Unlike the Suez Canal incident or other recent port issues, which have impacted a more limited number of regions and trade lanes, the Port of Yantian is a major export hub for multiple large markets like Europe, North America, Latin America and Oceania. The result? continue to be exacerbated (i.e.

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This Week in Logistics News (November 18-22, 2013)

Talking Logistics

This follows the company’s acquisition of 3PD this past July, another provider of heavy goods, last-mile logistics in North America. Finally, labor tensions continue to simmer at the West Coast ports.

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America Adapting to Supply Chain Chaos

Operations and Supply Chain Management

The upswing was largely driven by trade between Asia and North America, where the volume of containers jumped 33% from the average level for the five years preceding the pandemic. imports from Asia are still overwhelming some of the nation’s biggest ports, especially in Los Angeles, Long Beach, and Oakland. from 2020 and a 5.4%

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Webinar Q&A: Answers to 8 Common Freight Market Questions

CH Robinson Transportfolio

These topics are highly relevant to a wide range of shippers across North America and may help you make smarter, more informed supply chain decisions. Now, this congestion is spreading to Oakland, Vancouver, and Seattle ports. Your market insights questions answered. ports is getting worse, not better.

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This Week in Logistics News (August 17-21, 2015)

Talking Logistics

Oakland port terminals plan PierPass-style program (JOC). New Target COO’s headache: Too few goods to keep shelves filled (Reuters). Google Express Plans to Shut Down Its Two Delivery Hubs (Re/Code). Postal Service Tries Hand as Fishmonger, Grocer (WSJ – sub. ATA Truck Tonnage Index Jumped 2.8%

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Greg Lehmkuhl Named President of Con-Way Freight

Supply Chain Network

He subsequently earned his MBA from Oakland University in Rochester, Mich. and its subsidiaries operate from more than 500 locations across North America and in 20 countries. He is a graduate of Michigan State University, East Lansing, Mich., He is based at Con-way Freight’s headquarters in Ann Arbor, Mich. About Con-way Inc.

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China Exports Rebound Even as Western Markets Face Lockdown

Logistics Bureau

This decline follows a bleak performance in February, when container volumes into the Californian ports of Los Angeles, Oakland, and Long Beach from were down 35.2 Substantial capacity constraints are being experienced in both directions between Europe and North America, Latin America, China, and the Middle East.

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