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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. Manhattan Transportation Management Enhancements Enable the Acquisition and Supervision of Additional Shipment Capacity. Descartes Acquires MacroPoint.

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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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Get Your Supply Chain Back on Track in the Wake of the Hurricanes

Material Handling & Logistics

The 2017 hurricane season wreaked unprecedented damage and destruction on the southern United States and Caribbean, with three catastrophic category 4 and 5 storms occurring within a single month. Companies have an even smaller margin of error than usual entering peak season, due to the ripple effect of the recent hurricanes.

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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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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.

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Flatbed Demand Skyrockets. Why?

DAT Solutions

Fossil fuels aren’t the only energy source fueling flatbed demand. And while some parts are small enough to be transported in dry vans, the big stuff—blades, towers, and the turbines that turn the blades—require flatbeds for transport. Source: American Wind Energy Association. Construction. Automotive.

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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]