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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...
Recent, Happening Now
June 9, 2025
Happening Now: Transportation Pricing Outpacing Capacity
According to FreightWaves, transportation pricing grew faster than capacity again in May. Despite rising capacity, prices surged even more—signaling tightness in the transportation market and...
Recent, Happening Now
May 19, 2025
Per-Diem and Detention Charges in Shipping: What They Are and How to Prevent Them
Detention and demurrage charges—already a pain point for importers—are once again under scrutiny. In 2025, a mix of regulatory ambiguity, evolving steamship line practices, and a volatile...
Southern California Ports
September 12, 2019
New Enhancements Aim to Speed Container Drayage at Los Angeles and Long Beach Ports
If you’ve been following operations at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach in recent years, the trend looks something like this: the Ports continually break new volume records, truck turn times...
Southern California Ports
August 8, 2019
What shippers should know about driver misclassification by California drayage carriers
With the state supreme court’s Dynamex decision, followed by its Senate Bill 1402 (SB 1402), California’s position on the hiring of independent owner-operators by drayage carriers is now firmly...
Southern California Ports
July 25, 2019
Why Experience Matters for Drayage Drivers
Drayage is technically just another transportation service. A driver picks up a load and then delivers it. With port drayage, however, this simple process becomes much more complex. Navigating...
Southern California Ports
June 27, 2019
Update on the Southern California Logistics Services Market
When it comes to Southern California logistics, there’s never a dull moment. The region is home to the busiest ports in the country, while the state continues to dramatically alter the way logistics...
Southern California Ports
April 11, 2019
Why Carriers are Stepping Away from Independent Truck Drivers in CA – and Why Shippers Should Care
Carriers are having a rough go of it as of late. The truck driver shortage has left them scrambling to find new drivers to fill seats vacated by those retiring, leaving the industry, or switching...
Southern California Ports
February 21, 2019
Overweight Container Logistics at the Ports of L.A. and Long Beach
Shipping containers across the ocean to the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach is a big job with a big impact on your company’s supply chain. It can also come with a big price tag, especially when...
Southern California Ports
January 10, 2019
4 Ways to Move Drayage Freight Despite the Driver Shortage
Stop me if you’ve heard this before: we’re in the midst of a truck driver shortage. While we may feel that we’ve reached the saturation point in hearing – and reading – about this shortage, the...
Southern California Ports
November 29, 2018
The Importance of Scalability in ECommerce Order Fulfillment
Growing from 100 orders per month to 15,000 per month. For most companies, that’s a dream come true. But if you have the wrong solution in place for eCommerce order fulfillment, that’s a dream that...
Southern California Ports
November 15, 2018
California SB 1402: What You Need to Know
Does your logistics operation source drayage services in California? If so, read on as new legal developments in the state can put you on the hook for damages if the drayage provider you hire is...
Southern California Ports
October 25, 2018
Finding the Optimal California Warehouse Space for Your Products
California. A very big state with a very big population. In fact, it’s the largest consumer market in the U.S. and thus a very sensible place to have a distribution center. Making California even...
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