Containers Rerouted from Baltimore Face Lengthy Dwell Times at East Coast Ports
Supply Chain Brain
MAY 1, 2024
Demurrage charges for rerouted containers waiting at East Coast ports could add up to as much as $3.9 million each week.
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Supply Chain Brain
MAY 1, 2024
Demurrage charges for rerouted containers waiting at East Coast ports could add up to as much as $3.9 million each week.
Supply Chain Dive
APRIL 12, 2024
Infrastructure and low dwell times contributed to the Port of Savannah's 436,000 total TEUs handled in March.
Supply Chain Brain
APRIL 11, 2023
The decrease in dwell time has been aided by the shift in trade patterns, with many shippers opting to use the Port of New York and New Jersey instead.
Supply Chain Dive
NOVEMBER 15, 2024
Spiking port volumes have increased dwell times, causing some companies to consider alternative transport options.
Supply Chain Brain
JUNE 12, 2024
Dwell times at the port have since stabilized across the board, having returned to their pre-closure levels with full capacity now restored to the port.
Supply Chain Brain
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
Shippers and carriers are turning to technology to overcome new supply chain challenges. One process that requires a lot of personnel interaction, and has been specifically targeted for improvement, is the transfer of the bill of lading (BOL).
Supply Chain Collaborator
JULY 26, 2019
Appointment Scheduling & Dwell Times and Pickup/Delivery Locations | Dynamic premise time reporting looks at historical arrival and departure events stored in the TMS and enables calculation of the average premise time for trucks on a location-specific basis./
Supply Chain Collaborator
JUNE 22, 2018
Using TMS and route optimizers to plan more efficient shipments , a shipper can significantly reduce lead times and shrink dwell times. They also avoid the chronic change orders that are a result of insufficiently robust planning and time consuming manual processes. Finding Capacity.
Supply Chain Collaborator
JULY 26, 2018
Better scheduling of pickup/deliver appointments and dock door availability improves on-time performance and reduces dwell time for carriers who have their pick of shippers to pull for. Respecting their time with robust scheduling makes carriers more inclined to accept your tenders.
Supply Chain Collaborator
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
ATRI reports detention times have crept up in 2019 following the historic and painful capacity crunch of 2018 during which, shippers pursued “Shipper of Choice” status with their carriers by focusing on ways to make carriers’ lives easier (like reducing detention/dwell time).
Supply Chain Collaborator
AUGUST 14, 2019
TMS scheduling helps minimize dwell times and optimizes driver Hours of Service which makes a shipper a more attractive partner to busy carriers. TMS carrier management functions and carrier performance analytics enable a shipper to address issues early and provide insightful feedback to their carrier-partners.
Supply Chain Collaborator
MAY 8, 2018
Imprecise Shipment Scheduling | Dwell times, detention, long lines waiting for the warehouse to free up an available dock door. Moreover, customers have grown to expect real-time shipment tracking at every step of the way to support their just-in-time inventory strategies. This one does !
Supply Chain Collaborator
FEBRUARY 18, 2016
Add to the TMS platform an integrated yard management system capability and significant time can be carved off of dwell times through better dock door scheduling and utilization. <br><br
FourKites
DECEMBER 21, 2020
Despite these increases, we’ve seen a decline in dwell time of 43% both in the US and around the world. The Consumer Packaged Goods sector has seen 21% growth in tracked shipping volumes. Within Food and Beverage, shipping volumes have grown by 6%. Focus on the Forecast.
Supply Chain Collaborator
MAY 26, 2015
The longer lead times and better scheduling enabled by TMS solutions help to minimize unpaid dwell times while fostering quicker load and unload times. The upside of this is more efficient utilization of hours of service and less time spent away from home due to HOS impacts. Use Technology to Benefit Drivers.
Supply Chain Collaborator
MAY 27, 2016
More timely and accurate updates on shipment status are key to improving pickup and delivery scheduling, easing delays at origins and destination sites. Reductions in driver dwell times and other consequences of better scheduling yield more efficient utilization of drivers’ hours of service and lower overall landed cost-per-mile on shipments.
Supply Chain Collaborator
SEPTEMBER 19, 2017
Robust optimization capabilities enabling quick adaptation to changes in routes, carriers and shipment sequences, helping keep delivery times low. Advanced, automated scheduling capabilities enable shippers to better plan deliveries and avoid long detention/dwell times when chaos roils supply chains for others.
Supply Chain Collaborator
JULY 25, 2016
Examination of KPIs such as on-time performance (and the reasons for lateness, long dwell times, slow loading/unloading, OS&D claims, etc.) is useful in understanding the correlation between performance and carrier relationships.
Supply Chain Collaborator
JUNE 11, 2015
This useful innovation dramatically reduces dwell times or deliveries arriving after scheduled windows. Secret #2 – Increase lead times by wringing efficiencies from yard movements and activities using a yard management system integrated with your TMS.
Supply Chain Collaborator
APRIL 8, 2015
TMS software is proven to help reduce costs by improving lead times and pickup delivery scheduling. Decreasing dwell times, missed delivery times and other assessorial fees levied against inefficient shippers is just one example.
Procurement Insights
NOVEMBER 21, 2022
Here are some interesting stats from Long View Systems regarding dwell times and phishing: – According to industry reports, 91% of all information security breaches result from a phishing scheme. Great share, Nick Fratto ! – While 30% of phishing incidents are recognized when they occur, only 3% are reported.
Supply Chain Collaborator
APRIL 13, 2018
Active appointment scheduling at other origins and destinations allows for highly efficient, effective transportation planning and reduces (and in some cases even eliminates) long dwell times and delays waiting for loading/unloading.
Supply Chain Collaborator
JANUARY 26, 2018
This helps to reduce dwell times and makes truck utilization more efficient in a tight capacity environment. The one and only TMS provider currently offering most of the functionality described above is a darling among high volume food shippers for this (among many other) reasons.
Supply Chain Game Changer
JULY 22, 2020
They can keep track of the time that cars are being serviced, and they can watch for excessive dwell time. When railyards use the data provided through AEI tags, they can put their cars into the rotation more often, thus increasing their bottom line.
SCMDOJO
OCTOBER 30, 2024
This translates into higher dwell times and lower bounce rates for better SEO rankings. Using website addresses that describe concerns using logistics keywords drives traffic. Feeling heard, users are more likely to engage with the site and its content.
FourKites
DECEMBER 30, 2020
With a yard management system, you are armed with data to support improvements made in your supply chain in areas such as detention costs, carrier on-time performance and equipment dwell time, to name a few.
Arkestro
NOVEMBER 2, 2022
So the speed of sourcing or procurement events can impact premium freight, obsolescence, repair dwell time, and even machine downtime. So in the automotive industry right now, procurement and sourcing processes have heightened operational efficiency impact. What comes in handy with the Arkestro approach is the event simulation.
HICX
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
These can be as wide-ranging as required, including dwell times in warehouses or where transportation routes could be refined. Process optimization Supply chain software can provide businesses with core areas that need to be focused on and improved by utilizing insights gained from supplier performance data.
Supply Chain Collaborator
AUGUST 3, 2018
Advanced Scheduling – ensuring more exact pickup/delivery times, reducing dwell times, optimizing Hours of Service, increasing DC throughput and providing visibility into dock door utilization. Especially useful for food shippers during production peaks in a tight capacity environment.
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