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The 7 Best Events For Freight Shipping in 2015

GlobalTranz

FTR Transportation Conference 2015 Indianapolis, Indiana; September 15-17. Early bird registration is already open for 2015’s FTR Transportation Conference, which dubs itself “The Premier Forecasting Event of the Year.” 2015 Surface Transportation Summit Toronto, Ontario, Canada; October 14.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 8 – 14)

Logistics Viewpoints

Philadelphia lobbied for the capital to remain in Pennsylvania, but it was no use. Amazon postpones Prime Day sale in Canada and India. Amid the concern of gas shortages, Bloomberg reports the Biden administration may consider waiving the Jones Act, passed in 1920, to allow foreign tankers to transport gasoline and diesel fuel.

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The History and State of Vehicle Routing!

Supply Chain Game Changer

On top of that we have all other forms of economic growth, the expansion of outsourcing and global sourcing, all of which drive ever increasing demand on the over the road transportation of goods. In 2019 alone trucking accounted for almost $800 billion of expenditure in the U.S. The number of potential delivery routes is virtually infinite.