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Spot market demand heats up out West

DAT Solutions

The West Coast is starting to see the freight that shipped from China after the Chinese New Year celebrations ended. port for those ships, and that freight was already being loaded onto trucks last week. Rock Island to Indianapolis dropped 53¢ $2.91/mi. Rising Rates. Seattle is the closest U.S.

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This Week in Logistics News (September 28 – October 2, 2015)

Talking Logistics

WTO cites China, U.S., It will be available soon in New York, Baltimore, Miami, Dallas, Austin, Chicago, Indianapolis, Atlanta and Portland. Meanwhile, Cloud Logistics introduced its Same Day TMS program “designed to allow shippers to start shipping – and saving – the day they start the project.”

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Guest Post from Tim Barnes: Navigating Trump’s 35% import tax, and how US companies can utilize “Parallel Manufacturing” to grow globally

NC State SCRC

It is this cost focus that has resulted in the move of much manufacturing from the US to Mexico, China and other low cost labor locations. ship directly from Mexico to Japan for those Japanese customers). Moving manufacturing jobs back to the US would hence occur based on two key factors, the first is the falling costs of automation.