port efficiency

Southern California ports rank dead last on global efficiency index

Cranes moving containers at Port of Long Beach

After a year of headlines lamenting a congested supply chain, a report ranking port efficiency made it official: Southern California’s ports were the least efficient in 2021. The backlog of ships awaiting a berth in San Pedro Bay last year topped 100 — a threshold that didn’t consistently abate until Lunar New Year of 2022.

Released Wednesday, the second edition of the Container Port Performance Index, a collaboration between the World Bank and S&P Global Market Intelligence, ranked the ports of...

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How Shanghai lockdowns are affecting trade… and why Australia’s problem is in Australia

Pictured: a containership underway. Cameron Venti via Unsplash.

Shanghai is an extremely important node in the global supply chain, so any disruptions there will, inevitably, have a series of flow on effects throughout the world. Because of the Chinese COVID-lockdowns, locally, in Shanghai, there are issues with a lack of availability of truck drivers and a lack of warehousing, among other things. Export volumes out of Shanghai are therefore likely to reduce.

Forwarders [the people that arrange...

https://www.shippingaustralia.com.au/how-shanghai-lockdowns-are-affecting-trade-and-why-australias-problem-is-in-australia/

Rethinking resiliency as the pressure on port operations increases

Now, more than ever, as supply chains across the world are affected, port operators need to account for isolated, disruptive events that have the potential to impact not only their operations, but also their profitability.
World trade increasingly relies on longer, larger and more complex port facilities and systems, with maritime transport a vital trade backbone. As such, when ports experience failures or disruption, it’s big news.
For example, in June 2018, …

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Port of Rotterdam completes ‘successful’ Pronto digital operations platform test

The port of Rotterdam has successfully trialled its Pronto digital operations platform at ECT Delta Terminal – and it will reduce expensive quayside and ship downtime.
The results of the pilot has encouraged the port to eye rolling out the platform across its box terminal complex, as well as promoting it to other North European container ports.
However, despite any synergistic advantages of a standard operational communications system, progress there is likely …

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