Logistics Recap
March 12th – March 18th
Los Angeles, Long Beach imports still sinking
Los Angeles had expected its numbers to be ugly in February — and they were.
“The decline was indeed steep,” acknowledged Port of Los Angeles Executive Director Gene Seroka during a press conference Friday.
Total throughput fell to only 487,846 twenty-foot equivalent units in February, plunging 43% year on year. Last month’s throughput was down 33% from January and 31% from February 2019, pre-COVID.
Zipline to launch home deliveryy service using drone-droid combo
Zipline is launching a home delivery service that leverages a drone-droid delivery team, according to an announcement Wednesday.
When the drone arrives at its location, it hovers while an autonomous droid it carries maneuvers down a tether before dropping off the package. This allows deliveries to be made in areas as small as a patio table or the front steps of a home, versus a spacious yard that drone services often require.
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Traders marshal a fleet of supertankers to haul U.S. oil to Europe
Europe is set to import a record amount of American crude in March, relying increasingly on larger tankers as sanctions on Russian oil upend global trade routes.
Ships hauling as much as 1.84 million barrels a day are set to arrive from the U.S. Gulf in March, tanker-tracking data compiled by Bloomberg show. Meanwhile, smaller vessels are getting costly with more being booked to transport Russian oil for journeys to Asia.