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31 Motivations for Reshoring Manufacturing & Updated Reshoring Stats

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We first started writing about and featuring reshoring content back in September of 2013, and have since added 10 more reshoring related posts in our reshoring blog category. for example, compared to shipping state-to-state. For example, Chinese wages have increased 320% since 2000. energy costs have dropped. Since 2005, U.S.

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Reshoring in America: The Future Outlook, Current Hindrances & Issues, and Ways to Stimulate Reshoring

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There were 10% fewer manufacturers in 2011 than in 2008—a record low since 1977, when the Census Bureau started collecting Business Dynamics data. However, there are a million fewer manufacturing jobs than in 2008. For example, Apple cannot launch iPhone production in the U.S. And, the labor force was 35% smaller in those days.

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Trucking Rates Looking to Increase: The Driving Factors & What You Can Do About It

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Since the collapse of the housing market and the economy in 2008, the freight transportation industry has managed to claw its way out of a damaging situation and maintain historically low trucking rates. What’s Driving the Trucking Rates Increase? Reshoring Initiative. 3PLs Eat Much of Shipping Costs.

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Current State of the Capacity Crunch

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The shipping industry saw growth and expansion in 2014 when compared to the state of the industry since 2008. For example, having drivers oversee the individual unloading of freight from a truck can be replaced with drop shipments, allowing drivers to devote more time to getting to the next haul.

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Top Transportation Management and Transportation Articles of 2015

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We continue our series on the most read articles from the Cerasis blog for 2015 today by featuring any of the blogs in the transportation management or transportation categories. . We are now on the 4th of our 5 main blog categories we will feature as we wind down the year. Read the Full Article Here.

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[INFOGRAPHIC] The History of Shipping Containers

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Editor's Note: This is a guest blog from Freightos , is a SaaS-enabled marketplace for the logistics industry. Early examples of intermodal containers include railroads from 1830s (various sized containers), and Pennsylvania Railroad regular container service (1929). Loading and unloading was particularly troublesome. Significance.