The Port of Long Beach announced Thursday that it has selected technology consultant Uncomn to help it do something historically uncommon in the ports sector: provide digital end-to-end visibility across transportation modes.
Executive Director Mario Cordero said during a press conference that the port has made it a priority “to help stakeholders by getting them information they need and when they need it. … It was clear that the best possible solution was to offer access to a platform that...
Port of Los Angeles Executive Director Gene Seroka has been named the recipient of the Containerization & Intermodal Institute’s (CII) 2021 Connie Award.
“As the head of the nation’s largest port, Gene showed unwavering leadership throughout the pandemic by consistently rising to the occasion with innovative solutions to ever-changing challenges,” CII President Steve Blust said.
During the height of the pandemic in the spring of 2020, LA Mayor Eric Garcetti named Seroka the city’s first chief...
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The Port of Los Angeles is willing to pay out $7.5 million to San Pedro Bay container terminals over the next year if they turn trucks faster.
“We see this as an investment in our efficiency,” a port spokesman told American Shipper Wednesday.
The port announced this week that beginning Feb. 1, it will reward container terminals for both improving truck turn times and completing dual transactions.
The port said the incentive program is designed to help move trucks faster and more efficiently...
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Port of Los Angeles Executive Director Gene Seroka delivered a State of the Port address Thursday that reflected on Americans’ resiliency during the COVID-19 pandemic while looking ahead to economic resurgence.
Seroka said that despite the “unexpected events” of 2020, the port accomplished or significantly advanced all of the priorities he laid out in his address last year. Focus on such priorities as workplace diversity, supply chain optimization, drayage efficiency, zero-emissions equipment...
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November container volume at the Port of Los Angeles was up 22% year-over-year to more than 889,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs).
That number could have been closer to 990,000, according to Executive Director Gene Seroka.
“It’s worth noting that there were 12 ships at anchor on November 30 awaiting berthing rights here in Los Angeles with an estimated 100,000 TEUs on board. Those vessels were delayed by about two days and thus shifted into our December data,” Seroka reported during a...
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Port of Los Angeles Executive Director Gene Seroka looked back on “a year of big swings” during a live interview with FreightWaves’ Dooner and Michael Vincent on Tuesday.
Those swings have taken the port from a springtime trough of a 19% year-over-year volume drop to today, when the amount of imports “is just unprecedented,” Seroka said during the Q&A conducted during FreightWaves’ North American Supply Chain Summit.
Seroka has long been an advocate for information sharing among stakeholders. The...
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Wabtec and the Port of Los Angeles teamed up for a software-based means of improving intermodal container transport between Asia and inland freight-importing customers within the United States. It is not just...
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At American Shipper’s Global Trade Tech Summit on Sept. 16, keynote speaker Gene Seroka, Port of Los Angeles executive director, spoke of the need for digital transformation in the industry, specifically equating this to “visibility, reliability and efficiency” in ocean freight. Seroka detailed the Port of LA’s Port Optimizer, a platform co-created with GE...
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The Port of Los Angeles recorded its best September in the gateway’s 114-year history last month. The 888,625 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) processed, a 13.3% year-over-year increase, contributed to the third quarter becoming the single-best quarter on record, with more than 2.7 million TEUs moved.
Port of LA Executive Director Gene Seroka said an average of 900,000 TEUs were moved per month in the third quarter. “It’s a big upswing from what we … were used to seeing in just the first six...
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Port of Los Angeles Executive Director Gene Seroka called for a national export program to narrow the trade gap between the United States and China during an appearance on CNBC’s “Squawk Box Asia” this week.
“We are now at five imports to every export and that’s the widest trade gap we’ve witnessed at the Port of Los Angeles in some time,” Seroka told hosts Rosanna Lockwood and Sri Jegarajah on Thursday.
He said that import-export imbalance puts pressure on the port’s service providers and does...
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