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A Primer on Insurance Coverage For Food Contamination Losses

Be prepared: Product contamination poses a worst-case scenario in f&b.

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Creating A Food Safety Culture

One topic that has gotten less coverage though is how companies are steadily creating a food safety culture within their organization and broader ecosystem.

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How to Create a Company Culture that Ensures Food Safety

NSF International

With focused effort encouraging staff involvement, organizations can secure engagement and empower their workforce to deliver a sustainable food safety culture.

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Utilize 3PL Sales To Build Your Cold Chain

East Coast Warehouse & Distribution

3PLs can be strategic partners in helping overcome today’s challenges.

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Ocean Ports & Carriers

Port Authority Of New York And New Jersey Bids For No. 1 Spot

The Port Authority aims for the New York area to surpass the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, Calif., to become the busiest U.S. gateway for imports and exports.

With about 60,000 containers passing through the port’s terminals each week, even small delays can cost retailers, manufacturers and other importers thousands of dollars.

Air Canada And Cargojet Airways To Launch Dedicated Freighter Service To Latin America And Europe

The new Air Canada Cargo flights will provide 52 tons of net cargo capacity and are scheduled to begin June 9, 2016, subject to obtaining the necessary regulatory approvals.

Under the arrangement, Air Canada Cargo also plans to introduce dedicated freighter service to Europe from Toronto in the second half of 2016.

Prime Inc. Sues New York Over Highway Trucking Taxes

The Prime lawsuit seeks to recoup previous payments to the state under the two taxes.

Prime, run by Missouri businessman Robert Low, is taking aim at the $15 certificate of registration and the $4 highway use tax decal that previously had to be purchased for trucks operating in New York state.

Walmart Expands Grocery Pickup To Eight More Cities

The company announced it is launching free grocery pickup in Kansas City; Boise, Idaho; Richmond and Virginia Beach, Va.; Austin, Texas; Provo, Utah; Daphne, Ala.; and Charleston, S.C. These eight locations expand a service already offered in 20 markets.

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Software & Technology

US Foods Acquires Data Analytics Provider Food Genius

Food Genius is a foodservice data provider specializing in collecting, analyzing, and delivering granular foodservice data and analytics.

Food Genius is a foodservice data provider specializing in collecting, analyzing, and delivering granular foodservice data and analytics,

Ocean Ports & Carriers

Global Ocean Shipping Alliances Press Forward

The European Commission, the EU’s regulator, has set April 29 as its deadline to decide on the merger of CMA CGM and NOL.

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Ocean Ports & Carriers

Ports To Invest $154.8 Billion In Infrastructure Improvements Over 5 Years

American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA)

The combined $155 billion, 5-year investment that U.S. ports and their private sector partners are planning represents a more than three-fold increase over the combined $46 billion figure obtained from the same survey five years ago.

Economist John C. Martin, Ph.D., president of Lancaster, Pa.-based Martin Associates, said U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis formulas show that investing nearly $155 billion in capital projects at U.S. ports would create about 1.6 million direct, indirect and induced domestic jobs, accounting for approximately 3.3 billion person-hours of work over the period of the investment.

USDA To Strengthen Local Food Supply Chains

The project, dubbed “Food LINC,” will connect demand for local food in in those 10 urban areas with supply from farmers, strengthening each region’s local food business sector and increasing consumer access to local food.

Food LINC is part of USDA's Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food Initiative (KYF2) supporting the Obama Administration's work to strengthen economic bonds between rural and urban areas, creating sustainable wealth for rural communities and putting more money into the pockets of rural producers.

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