Transportation News, Logistics, Ports and Trade

[FBX Weekly] Backlog clearing at Shanghai could mean new surge for LA/LB

AJOT Newsroom | October 14, 2021 | Maritime | Liner Shipping

Supply chain technology provider boasts transportation management platform born on GCP

AJOT Newsroom | October 14, 2021 | Shipping Technology

Blume Global, the leading provider of supply chain execution and visibility solutions, is proud to be the first to deliver logistics execution and supply chain visibility solutions completely native to Google Cloud Platform. Customers that use Blume’s digital operating platform with Blume Maps can access these solutions from a cloud-native platform.

China’s chastening over coal dependency will boost clean energy

Bloomberg | October 14, 2021 | Energy

Port of Oakland’s Wan heads statewide port group

AJOT Newsroom | October 14, 2021 | Ports & Terminals

Chosen President of California Association of Port Authorities

CNH Industrial halts work at some European plants on chip woes

Bloomberg | October 14, 2021 | Intermodal | Trucking

FAA takes aim at Alaska’s high air-accident rate

Bloomberg | October 14, 2021 | Air Cargo | Airports

Ports & Terminals

Stas Margaronis | October 14, 2021

US port officials urge more infrastructure investment to combat port congestion

Two U.S. port officials said improvements in transportation infrastructure are necessary to avoid a repeat of current port congestion problems and cited the need for upgrades in warehousing and rail transport as well as increased worker training.

Biden confronts supply-chain crisis stretching past his grip

Bloomberg | October 14, 2021 | Ports & Terminals

President Joe Biden wants to break a logjam at U.S. ports and stave off a holiday season of shortages and delays -- bottlenecks that officials and stakeholders say extend far beyond the reach of the White House.

Wild weather sparks ship backlog from Shenzhen to Singapore

Bloomberg | October 14, 2021 | Ports & Terminals

A tropical storm that’s lashing southern China mixed with Covid-related supply chain snarls is causing a ship backlog from Shenzhen to Singapore, intensifying fears retail shelves may look rather empty come Christmas.

Prices paid to US producers post smallest advance this year

Bloomberg | October 14, 2021 | Logistics

Ports & Terminals

Bloomberg | October 14, 2021

Christmas toy shortages loom as cargo clogs major U.K. port

Sirens blared as cranes lifted containers from the Ever Genius, a ship stretching four times the width of Buckingham Palace along a berth this week at the U.K.’s Port of Felixstowe. The warning shrieks for British dockworkers might well have been alarms for the global economy.