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Transportation
California Trucking Firm Files For Bankruptcy; Owes $7 Million To Drivers’ Back Pay
Pacific 9 Transportation has become the latest trucking company to turn to bankruptcy proceedings after a wage-claim battle before the California Labor Commissioner.
Pacific 9 Transportation’s bankruptcy filing on Tuesday halts collection attempts from drivers who have fought for back pay, arguing the Carson, Calif., company improperly classified them as independent contractors instead of employees.
Ocean Ports & Carriers
Slowdown In Global Trade Hammers Port Activity
Overall trade rose just 2.8 percent in 2015, according to the World Trade Organization, the fourth consecutive year below 3 percent growth and historically weak compared with global economic expansion.
Brazil's Port of Itajai in Santa Catarina.
Regulations
Pilgrim’s Pride Recalls 4.5 Million Pounds Of Chicken Products
The nationwide recall includes more than 20 products and three brands: Gold Kist Farms, Pierce Chicken and Sweet Georgia Brand.
Pilgrim’s Pride Corp. is recalling more than 4.5 million pounds of fully cooked chicken products after consumer complaints and federal confirmation that they contain extraneous material including metal and plastic.
Warehousing
Amazon Brings One-Hour Restaurant Delivery To San Francisco
Prime Now Restaurant Delivery offers customers transparent pricing — there are no menu markups or hidden service fees and delivery on all orders is free for a limited time.
Amazon.com announced that Prime Now customers in San Francisco, Calif. can now enjoy one-hour delivery from local restaurants, including Big Chef Tom’s Belly Burgers, Buca di Beppo, DOSA, The Monk’s Kettle, Nick’s Crispy Tacos, Pressed Juicery and many more.
Ocean Ports & Carriers
Maritime Administration Awards $ 4.9 Million To Strengthen U.S. Shipyard Competitiveness
Provided through the Small Shipyard Grant Program, the funding supports industrial modernizations that increase productivity, allowing our Nation’s small shipyards to compete more effectively in the global marketplace.
MARAD received 118 grant applications requesting $80 million in assistance, far exceeding the $4.9 million made available for the grants.
Grocery Retail
Aldi Removes Major Pesticides, Joining The Nation’s Healthiest Grocers
Aldi
Aldi said it would drop products with any of eight major pesticides: Deltamethrin, Chlorpyrifos, Clothianidin, Cypermethrin, Imidacloprid, Thiamethoxam, Sulfoxaflo and Fipronil.
The move is being applauded by health-food aficionados for the healthy aspects of eating foods without pesticides and because those pesticides are considered harmful to bees.
Agriculture
Trans-Pacific Partnership: New Opportunities for U.S. Agriculture in Vietnam
Vietnam now ranks as the United States' 11th-largest agricultural export market, with top products including cotton, tree nuts, soybeans, and dairy.
Vietnam remains one of the fastest-growing markets for U.S. food and agricultural products, with U.S. exports totaling $2.3 billion in 2015. That's a 357 percent increase from 2007, the year Vietnam joined the World Trade Organization (WTO).
Ocean Ports & Carriers
G6 Alliance To Send 10,000 TEU Ships Through Panama Canal
The G6, which comprises APL, Hapag-Lloyd, HMM, MOL, NYK, and OOCL, will launch anew its new NYX service later this year, although it did not give a date for the launch.
The announcement comes in the week that the alliance discovered it is to lose another member next year, when OOCL joins the proposed Ocean Alliance with CMA CGM, Evergreen and Cosco Container Line. APL will also leave the alliance when its sale to CMA CGM is completed.
Food Safety
FSMA Brings New Requirements: Assess, Control, Verify And Document
The movement of U.S. food safety efforts away from a reactive, punitive measures to a preventive system of safeguards has many food company owners fizzing.
Fsma
Risk/Compliance
Avian Pathologists Rap Excessive Moves Against Antibiotics In Poultry
The new document, “AAAP White Paper on Poultry Welfare and Careful Antibiotic Use,” expressed concerns over the growing trend for some food retailers and restaurants to only offer poultry products from flocks raised with no antibiotics.
Antibiotic use in poultry should be minimized through carefully planned and well-executed preventive practices, according to a new position statement released by the American Association of Avian Pathologists.
Ocean Ports & Carriers
International Maritime Organization Adopts Fuel Consumption Reporting Rule To Mitigate Climate Change
International Maritime Organization (IMO)
The Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) has approved mandatory requirements for ships to record and report their fuel consumption.
The Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) has approved mandatory requirements for ships to record and report their fuel consumption.
Sustainability
Opinion: Food Labels Have Been A Big Failure
Study after study shows that labels have failed to promote even modest dietary improvements.
Original label (left) versus the proposed new nutrition facts label (right).
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