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This Week in Logistics News (May 28 – June 3)

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How Shanghai’s lockdown is dampening Port of Oakland volumes. The Port of Oakland reported cargo in April dropped 7 percent compared to the same period a year ago due to factory and port shutdowns in China. During the peak of port congestion in 2021, as many as 30 ships were waiting to enter an Oakland berth.

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Warehousing News Roundup: April 1, 2019

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A terminal operator at the Port of Oakland is implementing hybrid yard cranes to improve air quality, per a recent press release. Over 4 million robots will be used in 50,000 warehouses by 2025 , according to one report. SSA Terminals is converting 13 cranes from diesel to hybrid power at the port’s largest marine terminal.

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Top Suppliers of Transportation Execution and Visibility

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The need to know where products are, whether they are on the way to the warehouse, store, or customer, when there are delays, and alerts for these delays, is critical to ensure a positive experience. The rise of visibility solutions at the container level is helping to drive the transportation execution market to new heights. Infor Nexus.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 23 – 29)

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USDA funding supports Port of Oakland pop-up container yard. These inventory limits determine how many units of various products sellers can send to a warehouse at any given time — thus, any changes made to inventory limits could impact whether or not a seller is able to keep enough product in stock. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

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This Week in Logistics News (July 2 – 8)

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.” This week, Walmart announced that it would charge some of its suppliers a new fee to transport goods to its warehouses and stores. Companies that use Walmart to transport goods to the retailer’s warehouses and stores will be charged a fuel surcharge and a “collect pickup charge” starting Aug. 1, said the memo.

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Warehouses Are Full as Holiday Season Commences

Material Handling & Logistics

After months of record-setting volume as retailers stocked up for a busy holiday season, imports at the nation’s major container ports will be essentially flat this month compared with the same time last year, according to the monthly Global Port Tracker report from the National Retail Federation and consulting firm Hackett Associates.

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

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Oakland port terminals plan PierPass-style program (JOC). Back in April 2000, Charles Phillips and Mary Meeker, both at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter at the time, wrote The B2B Internet Report: Collaborative Commerce , an influential paper at the time. OHL’s annual revenue is reported at €1.2 ATA Truck Tonnage Index Jumped 2.8%