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The Best is Yet to Come

3PL Insights

We leased a facility in Allen Park and expanded our hazmat facility in Detroit. Our quality team worked hard to ensure that all of our facilities, including our new spaces, are ISO 2015:9001 certified. Our customers and colleagues alike know that it’s our people that make Evans successful. Our hard work is paying off.

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East and West Coast Ports to Battle for U.S. Region After Panama Canal Expansion

CH Robinson Transportfolio

Editor’s note: This post originally ran in October 2015. It will take in other metropolitan areas like Detroit and Columbus, and encompass a newly contested region that accounts for more than 15% of the U.S. Of course, cost isn’t the only factor—overall shipping time, flexibility, and reliability matter, too.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 5 – 11)

Logistics Viewpoints

Ocean’s biggest shipping lines are buying planes. Hasbro raising toy prices due to shipping costs. Relativity Space , a rocket startup founded in 2015, plans to build fairly small rockets that can blast satellites into orbit cheaply and quickly. And now on to this week’s logistics news. IKEA now sells its own plant-based meat.

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The History of the Semi Truck

Freight Plus

Aside from electricity, it could be argued the no greater 19th century invention shaped shipping in the United States of America more than the semi truck. So, where did the semi truck come from and how has it kept up with technology to evolve into the dominate force in shipping that it is today? to 28,000 lbs. Trucks get roughly 7.2