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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. Strong Software Bookings Growth Highlights First Half 2017 Results for JDA. For the fiscal year ending May 31, 2017, Milgram had approximately $155.3

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The Future Remains in the Clouds

Enterra Insights

According to tech journalist Antonio Regalado ( @antonioregalado ), “The term [‘cloud computing’ dates back] to late 1996, and to an office park outside Houston. 9] Akhilesh Tiwari, “ Crawl, walk, run: How global companies can shift to the cloud ,” CIO Dive, 24 October 2017. The Intelligent Cloud.

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The Increasing Role of Climate Change in Supply Chain Disruptions

NC State SCRC

The Texas freeze and the power outages brought the world’s largest petrochemical complex to a standstill, forcing more plants in the Gulf of Mexico region to shut down than during Hurricane Harvey in 2017. A month later (March), many remained offline, and analysts said it could be months more before all are fully back. as supplies tighten.

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Flatbed Rates and Ratios at Record Highs

DAT Solutions

May 2017: $2.10 Much of that activity is centered in the Houston market. The top four flatbed lanes in the country originate or end in Houston: #1 Houston market to Houston market. #2 2 Houston market to Midland, TX market (the Permian Basin). #3 3 Houston market to Dallas market. #4. May 2018: $2.71

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Answering the Call in Times of Disaster

Material Handling & Logistics

Behind the scenes during the tumultuous disaster season of 2017, building materials manufacturers leaned heavily on dynamic digital tools to supply recovery efforts. The urgent phone call to the building materials manufacturer came as yet another hurricane was churning its way toward landfall during the record storm season of 2017.

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What happened to all the Texas freight?

DAT Solutions

Demand also cooled out of Houston, the largest flatbed market in the country and the top market supplying Midland and its surrounding counties. Regional van markets like Dallas and Memphis —which send freight to Houston—seem to be impacted by the slowdown in oil drilling as well. New pipeline projects underway.

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Summer freight: Calm before the storm?

DAT Solutions

Spot market volume is also now on par with 2017, with load-to-truck ratios for each trailer type finally coming back to earth. The spot market cooled in Texas , and outbound rates in Dallas and Houston have fallen more than 10% in the past month. That extra capacity has taken some of the pressure off of pricing.