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IN FOLLOWING TRADITION, THIS MARKS THE 17TH YEAR that Logistics Management has produced our Rate Outlook print feature and follow-up webcast (Jan. 27) combination. Our analytics have shown that this approach continues to yield our most-read magazine feature and our best-attended webcast of the year. And over that time, we've never wavered from the simple premise: We lead off the January issue with a snapshot of the state of the global economy and fuel costs and then examine how those realities will affect freight rates and capacity levels across each mode of transportation over the coming year. The effort gives shippers a clear, 30,000-foot view of where freight costs are heading and why. For the past 13 years, executive editor Patrick Burnson has taken the lead, and I'm happy to report that he's done the same again this year. Over the course of the past two months, he's surrounded himself with some of the leading economic, fuel and freight transportation analysts in the domestics and global markets-many of our top sources that we use over the course of our reporting year. |