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July 16, 2025
WEST COAST AND CALIFORNIA LOGISTICS BLOG
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Recent, Happening Now
July 14, 2025
What Drayage Looks Like with an Integrated Cold Chain 3PL
In today’s world of temperature-sensitive logistics, food and beverage brands face a dramatically evolving playing field. New regulatory demands, heightened customer expectations, and razor-thin...
Recent, Happening Now
July 1, 2025
Why Work with an integrated Cold Chain 3PL Provider
Refrigerated freight doesn’t move itself. It takes people, systems, and tightly coordinated processes to keep food and confectionery products safe, compliant, and on schedule. Yet in today’s...
Recent, Happening Now
June 19, 2025
New eBook: Rely on an Integrated 3PL to Orchestrate Your Cold Chain
In today’s fast-paced supply chain environment, maintaining product integrity from origin to delivery has never been more critical—especially when it involves temperature-sensitive goods like food...
Southern California Ports
July 16, 2025
Happening Now: Port of Los Angeles Sees Record June
According to FreightWaves, the Port of Los Angeles had its busiest June on record, moving 892,340 TEUs—an 8% increase year-over-year. This is due, in large part, to retailers accelerating holiday...
Southern California Ports
January 15, 2025
Happening Now: Container shipping rates from Asia to the US on the rise
According to FreightWaves, container shipping rates from Asia to the U.S. rose significantly at the start of 2025, driven by shippers frontloading goods ahead of Lunar New Year. The Freightos...
Southern California Ports
November 21, 2023
Understanding the potential disruption with East Coast imports
As the negotiations between the West Coast ports and longshoremen dragged on in 2022 and 2023, some companies began redirecting import freight into the East Coast. Since then, however, the ink has...
Southern California Ports
August 15, 2023
Shipping container weight: why bigger is better into LA
Whether container rates are up or down, chances are you’d like to pay less to import containers. Fortunately, there’s a straightforward way to reduce shipping costs when shipping into the Ports of...
Southern California Ports
June 29, 2023
West Coast Port Labor Contract Brings Renewed Optimism
After 13 long months of talks and negotiations, there is finally a new West Coast port labor contract. Logisticians far and wide have been able to breathe a sigh of relief as one of their most...
Southern California Ports
May 31, 2023
West Coast Supply Chain News Brings Cautious Optimism
Around this time last year, every article about the West Coast supply chain painted a dire picture. There was an armada of ships waiting to enter the Ports of L.A. and Long Beach; there was no...
Southern California Ports
May 18, 2023
An update on West Coast port negotiations
The eyes of concerned logisticians remain focused on the ongoing West Coast port contract negotiations between the longshoremen’s union and the region’s shipping ports. The longshoremen have been...
Southern California Ports
May 2, 2023
What can 3PL companies in Southern California do for your supply chain?
Southern California is home to many things: Hollywood, beautiful weather, and storied sports franchises. More importantly to you, however, it’s a launch pad for reaching your Western US customers and...
Southern California Ports
February 23, 2023
What California’s AB5 law means for the trucking industry
Does your company hire truck drivers in California? If so, are the drivers your employees or independent contractors? If you said, ‘independent contractors,’ you’ll want to double check that....
Southern California Ports
August 2, 2022
Happening Now: Landstar Tells its CA Owner-Operators to Relocate out of State in Light of AB5
In a stark example of the practical fallout from California's new AB5 labor law, Landstar is telling its owner-operators in California that they would need to relocate out of State to continue as...
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