Hanson Logistics Enewsletter

CONTENTS

• Chicago Congestion
• 2005 3PL Financial Results
• Hanson Velocities
• Cole's Quality Foods
• ATA Agenda
• Letter from the President

Congestion and Chicago - It Comes With The Territory
If you're moving products through the Midwest and Central States, the odds are high that your products will travel through or even stop in Chicago. In this article, we take a look Chicago congestion and give you the stats and figures.

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Is Bigger Better? - 3PL Financial Results - 2005
This article, by supply chain management consulting firm Armstrong & Associates, Inc.,
breaks down the logistics revenues for 2005.

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Letter from the President
Congestion Issues and the East Side Solution

The advent of summer brings to the forefront the critical issue of congestion. As vacationers take to the highways, our nation’s freight will share increasingly precious highway capacity and the resulting congestion, already costing our nation some $200 billion a year, according to Norman Mineta, U.S. Secretary of Transportation.

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Hanson Logistics Introduces Velocities™ Multi-Vendor Consolidation Program
Hanson Logistics is pleased to introduce Velocities™ - a fast growing multi-vendor consolidation program designed for small and mid-sized consumer product
good (CPG) companies.

Learn about Velocities.

Coles Quality Foods Awards Transportation Management to Hanson Logistics
Officials at Hanson Logistics are pleased to announce that the company has been awarded a multi-year transportation management contract from Cole's Quality Foods, Inc., makers of Cole’s garlic bread and other frozen bread products.

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ATA Cites Infrastructure, Fuel as Critical Trucking Issues
Improved national infrastructure, rising fuel prices and new diesel-fuel regulations top trucking’s agenda this year, an American Trucking Associations’ official told an investors’ conference in New York.

Read complete article by Transport Topics.