At the 2017 NASSTRAC Annual Conference, A3 Freight Payment’s CEO Ross Harris presented an original presentation entitled “Putting your Transportation Budget In Context: Using External Indices to Justify Your Transportation Spend to the Finance Geeks”
The presentation made reference to several macroeconomic indices that can be used as data points when justifying parts of a transportation budget.
Here are the links to those data sources mentioned during the presentation:
ISM Manufacturing Index
March release with full details:
https://www.instituteforsupplymanagement.org/ismreport/mfgrob.cfm?SSO=1
Chart source for index:
https://ycharts.com/indicators/production_index
Baltic Dry Index
Details of the index:
http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2003/10/the_shipping_news.html
Chart and data source:
http://www.dryships.com/pages/report.php
ATA Truck Tonnage Index
Release with full details:
http://www.trucking.org/article/ATA-Truck-Tonnage-Index-Increased-2.9%25-in-January
Chart source for index:
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/TRUCKD11
BLS Inbound/Outbound Air Freight Services Index
Fact sheet:
https://www.bls.gov/mxp/affact.htm
Chart source for index:
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IC131
China Containerized Freight Index (CCFI)
Background:
http://wolfstreet.com/2015/10/25/china-containerized-freight-index-ccfi-shanghai-scfi-drop-to-new-lows/
Chart source for index:
http://en.sse.net.cn/indices/ccfinew.jsp
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