Port of Long Beach launched an online dashboard, called WAVE, which will report incoming cargo traffic with the aim to improve operations and ease cargo traffic in the port.
Specifically, WAVE, Weekly Advance Volume Estimate, provides goods movement stakeholders such as trucking companies and chassis providers with forward-looking data to better cope with surging cargo volume and other challenges.
Despite the pandemic, port of Long Beach is seeing a record amount of cargo movement at a time when new COVID-19 protocols are limiting capacity.
The Port has been acting to help partners better handle the surge. In addition to launching WAVE, the Port has opened STOR, or “Short Term Overflow Resource,” a temporary storage area where terminals can store empty containers or stage loaded containers for faster delivery.
It is reported that WAVE’s report will be updated weekly, each Monday, while project cargo container volume and vessel calls several weeks in advance. It will also include estimates of categories of cargo, such as export, import and empty.
Mario Cordero, the Port’s Executive Director, stated that
We’ve created the WAVE report to provide our goods movement stakeholders with up-to-date forecast data to use in their planning process. Sharing this information is highly beneficial for the supply chain, especially as we cope with both seasonal and unanticipated peaks and valleys in cargo volume.
