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Supply Chain Cartoon Caption Winners for Nov. 8, 2016 Contest

Supply Chain Digest

Melinda Scott of Jacksonville, FL and Murillo Xavier Take Home the Prize

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This Week in Logistics News (October 8-12, 2018)

Talking Logistics

Then in December 2016, one of the my predictions for 2017 was that “The Migration from Traditional User Interfaces to Chatbots and Virtual Assistants Begins.”. A TMS user, for example, can say to the system, “Show me all uncovered loads,” or an inventory manager can ask, “Which stores have less than three days inventory of product X?”

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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. Jacksonville, FL market to Miami, FL market. #17. Lakeland, FL market to Jacksonville, FL market. May 2017: $2.10 May 2018: $2.71 Automotive.

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Where to Find Loads in the Slow Season

DAT Solutions

This lane still pays better than it did in February 2016, but not by much and it's trending down. * Highest Volume Lane: Miami to Jacksonville. In the past 7 days, reefer rates on the lane from Miami to Jacksonville have been the highest they’ve been in more than a year, fetching $2.37/mile What's It Pay?

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Major Freight Markets Saw Biggest Rate Surge of the Year

DAT Solutions

Many reefer markets also matched their peaks from June 2016. Flatbed load counts are still strong in Texas , but it was the port cities of Los Angeles and Jacksonville that propelled rates, along with inland markets like Cleveland, Raleigh, and Rock Island, IL. had the highest volumes outside of Texas. mile on average.

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Supply Chain Risk Management: Could You Face a Category 4 Supply Chain Disaster?

Kinaxis

Going up the coast in Jacksonville, FL, there is a huge port that receives the second-most automobiles in the US along with all types of cargo. In 2016, this port handled 1.1 Starting with Miami, this port primarily handles containerized cargo with small amounts of breakbulk, vehicles and industrial equipment. of total U.S.