Bloomberg News reported this week that another little-noticed indicator, rail shipments of waste freight, rose 45% in April and May, the highest increase since 1994.
First off, AppleInsider is reporting that some supa' secret shipments are about to make their way via air-freight from the Far East to the United States around the 5th of September.
The algorithms that came out of Powell's lab in the 1980s had changed the industry's "less-than-truckload" segment (consisting of parcels and smaller freight) by mapping out a more efficient way to plan routes and using terminals that break down shipments.