A great article on John Slangerup, the new head of the Port of Long Beach, CA, and the efforts to fit the port in better with supply chain realities. An important feature: his outreach effort across the country to let people know the port will address supply chain issues for the end user of the cargoes. That’s a big step forward, and it’s needed at all our ports.
Supply Chain Digest- Supply Chain and Logistics Stock Report for Week Ending September 18, 2026.
- Supply Chain by the Numbers for Sept. 18, 2026
- Ideas for Reducing Transport Costs given Rising Fuel Prices Redux
- Is Port Congestion a Growing Concern
- Lineage Logistics Sues Two Solar Panel Operators over June Fire that Destroyed Las Angeles Warehouse
- Cass Freight Index for August Mostly Positive for Carriers
- The Labor Day Supply Chain 2026 Part 2
- Supply Chain and Logistics Stock Report for Week Ending September 11, 2026
- Tech Trade Group ITI Critical of FCC Ban on Foreign Made Robots
- In Face of Rising Costs and Complexity, Companies Paring SKU Counts
- Port Technology International
- An error has occurred; the feed is probably down. Try again later.
- Marine Link
- Saudi Gulf Oil Exports Pick Up After Pipeline Attack
- Houthis Fight to Cut Off Red Sea After Trump Calls Off Strike
- Xeneta Shares Weekly Ocean Container Shipping Market Update
- Jan De Nul Orders Second Subsea Trenching Vessel
- Dong Fang Takes Delivery of Newbuild SOV, Orders Another from Vard
- Jinhui Shipping Orders Two Bulk Carrier Newbuilds
- Tanker Hit by Projectile in Strait of Hormuz, UKMTO Reports
- Trafigura Launches Volare Shipping to Run 14-Strong VLCC Fleet
- Tanker Shuttles Keep Hormuz Oil Moving as Costs Soar
- Cadeler, Vattenfall Team Up New Offshore Wind O&M Solutions
Supply Chain and Logistics 
Yes, change is hard. But operational innovation is essential, and must be disruptive in scope. Ports and their partners must together commit to making the end-to-end supply chain performance better. Evidence from the past says that a principal component will be information exchange and what is called ‘visibility’ across all partners. The rest will come from infrastructure innovation, and from good old operations management problem solving.
But unless enterprises that might be in competition learn to cooperate, it won’t be possible. Perhaps there needs to be a mind-set change in the shipping and port industry. Slangerup’s on the right track; other supply chains have been pioneering such changes for years.
LikeLike