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This Week in Logistics News (August 28 – September 1, 2017)

Talking Logistics

Port Houston Container Terminals to Resume Operations Friday (WSJ – sub. LevaData to Transform Strategic Sourcing for Global Procurement and Supply Chain Leaders. The rains and winds of Tropical Storm Harvey are over, but the impact of the storm on the residents of Houston and the surrounding areas will continue for some time.

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Flatbed Rates and Ratios at Record Highs

DAT Solutions

Here's how the current national average rate compares with previous years: May 2016: $1.92 Line haul rates, excluding the fuel surcharge, have risen about 35% since May 2016. Much of that activity is centered in the Houston market. 2 Houston market to Midland, TX market (the Permian Basin). #3 Source: DAT RateView.

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Four Risk Mitigation Actions for Weathering a Stormy Market

TMC

Although container shipping is in dire straits with several other lines at risk of failure or in the throes of restructurings, it is by no means the only source of unpredictability in freight markets. The enlarged waterway opened in June 2016, and is capable of handling container ships up to 13,000 TEU’s in size.

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How Natural Gas and Plastics Impact the Truckload Spot Market

DAT Solutions

Those effects have been more dramatic since August 2016, with the new construction adding to the stronger-than-usual start to the year for flatbed freight. is a net exporter of liquefied natural gas as of November 2016. The Houston Hub. Houston is in the middle of all of it. According to the Wall Street Journal, the U.S.

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Flatbed Demand Skyrockets. Why?

DAT Solutions

Flatbed demand has increased 102% year-over-year and has been on a steady climb since August 2016. and in 2016 it hit 21.6. The flatbed load-to-truck ratio has been on a steady climb since August of 2016. Fossil fuels aren’t the only energy source fueling flatbed demand. Source: American Wind Energy Association.

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REPOST: Why Chattanooga is the Silicon Valley of Trucking with Craig Fuller

The Logistics of Logistics

SaaS product, SONAR, is the leading freight market analytics tool and dashboard, aggregating billions of data points from hundreds of sources to provide the fastest data in the transportation and logistics sector. The business started in 2016, but we didn’t get our first venture funding until 2017. FreightWaves’?

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Why Chattanooga is the Silicon Valley of Trucking with Craig Fuller

The Logistics of Logistics

The business started in 2016, but we didn’t get our first venture funding until 2017. I think the next generation of venture capital will be in places like Detroit, Des Moines, Houston, Cleveland, etc. We actually do hire a lot of great writers that don’t have experience in the space and combine them with market experts. [08:54]