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The Ruan Story with Ben McLean

The Logistics of Logistics

Ben joined Ruan in 2007 and served in a number of corporate and operational roles, including COO and CIO, before assuming his current role in 2015. Ben is also a member of the Iowa Business Council and served as chair of the organization from 2016 to 2018. About Ruan Transportation.

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Market Updates and Favored Shippers: 2015 Transportfolio Recap

CH Robinson Transportfolio

We teamed up with researchers from Iowa State University to find answers. The post Market Updates and Favored Shippers: 2015 Transportfolio Recap appeared first on Transportfolio. It was an exciting year in the supply chain industry, and our Transportfolio ® blog has followed the action every step of the way.

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Transportation Network Planning: Public and Private Common Ground

Supply Chain View from the Field

Similarly, other presentations on commodity transportation flow maps in the state of Iowa, transportation models in the city of Chicago, and synchro-modalithy systems in the Netherlands provided fascinating new innovations in transportation modeling that will be important in helping to shape the environment for improvement.

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Biobased Economy Continues to Grow: USDA Secretary Announces NC State-Duke Study Results on Monday

NC State SCRC

Vilsack, a former governor of Iowa, briefly ran in the 2008 presidential race and was considered by Hillary Clinton as a potential running mate in 2016. The methodology used to create this report involved scaling the outputs from IMPLAN using estimates of the biobased portion of each sector from the 2015 study.

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Columbus Day 2020: A Holiday in Search of a Name

Enterra Insights

Some states like Oregon, Iowa, and Nebraska have never observed it. … A 2015 survey conducted by the Pew Research Center found that Columbus Day was the most inconsistently-observed US holiday.”[3] 3] To quell the controversy some groups have opted to the change the holiday’s name.

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Which States are Making the Grade in Logistics?

Material Handling & Logistics

Content Summary: Iowa has 4,389 miles of railway lines, with 2,431 miles of railway tracks classified as Class 1. The state invested $52 million in its waterway infrastructure from 2010 to 2015. ?The It has dedicated on-terminal rail intermodal facilities for two Class I railroads, CSX and Norfolk Southern. The state received a B.

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Columbus Day/Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2019

Enterra Insights

Some states like Oregon, Iowa, and Nebraska have never observed it. A 2015 survey conducted by the Pew Research Center found that Columbus Day was the most inconsistently-observed US holiday.”[2]. It has also been argued that America had already been ‘discovered’ by the indigenous people when Columbus arrived.