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Spot Van Demand Edges Up

DAT Freight & Analytics

Refrigerated load volume dropped 4.7 percent and available capacity fell 2.5 percent, which pushed the refrigerated load-to-truck ratio down 2.3 percent to 4.3 loads per truck.

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Software & Technology

Walmart Expands Click And Collect To Eight Cities

Walmart said service was launching this month in Atlanta; Charlotte and Fayetteville, N.C.; Salt Lake City and Ogden, Utah; Nashville; Tucson, Ariz.; and Colorado Springs. Additional markets will be added in the coming weeks.

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Class Action Suit Claims Nestle, Hershey’s and Mars Use Child Labor

The California class action lawsuit filed states that Hershey’s, Mars and Nestle regularly import cocoa beans from suppliers who use child labor, including trafficked and forced child labor, specifically from plantations in the Ivory Coast.

The suits state that such children are trafficked from countries neighboring the Ivory Coast, sold to plantation owners by brokers and smugglers, and forced to work under conditions of physical violence without pay. According to the World Cocoa Foundation, 47 percent of the total U.S. imports of cocoa beans come from the Ivory Coast.

Chipotle Restores Pork To Most Restaurants

Chipotle stopped serving Carnitas at more than a third of its restaurants earlier this year after it suspended one of its primary pork suppliers when routine auditing found inconsistencies between the supplier’s operations and Chipotle’s pork protocol.

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EPA Rules Farmworkers 18 And Under Can’t Handle Pesticides

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

The EPA’s rules, adopted over two decades ago, formerly had no age restriction for workers handling pesticides on farms, forests, nurseries and greenhouses.

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Ohio River Traffic Jam Delays Grain Shipments

The delays started nearly a month ago after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers partially closed a lock outside Brookport, Ill. that allows vessels to navigate a portion of the Ohio River near where it feeds into the Mississippi River.

The section of river that includes the lock is among the busiest for transporting commodities within the U.S., with nearly 100 million tons of freight—mostly corn, soybeans and other grains but also some coal and other resources—passing through the portion of river that includes the lock each year.

California Presses Forward On Cutting Carbon From Fuel

California Air Resources Board (CARB)

The action, coming two weeks after a defeat for Gov. Brown’s planned 50 percent cut in petroleum use by 2030, signaled his determination to press forward with an aggressive environmental agenda through the regulatory process rather than by legislation.

California air regulators on Friday approved a substantial cut to carbon pollution from gasoline and diesel fuels, a move that will force oil producers to reduce the amount of carbon generated by all transportation fuels in the state at least 10 percent by 2020.

Kellogg Acquires Egypt’s Leading Cereal Company

Kellogg Company

As the first company to introduce breakfast cereal to Egyptian consumers, Mass Food Group has grown into an $18 million business (sales) with 600 employees in less than 20 years.

Sanderson Farms Recalls Chicken Over Metal Contamination

The problem was discovered when the firm received a complaint from a processing facility which found metal shavings in the product.

The products subject to recall bear the establishment number “EST. P-247” inside the USDA mark of inspection. These items were shipped to processing facilities in Georgia and Louisiana.

Ocean Ports & Carriers

SC Line Launches Shipping Service Between U.S. And Cuba

On Sept. 20, the SC Line vessel Caroline Russ berthed at Mariel in Cuba, the first call on a new service every 14 days linking Port Everglades, Fla. with Mariel and Santiago de Cuba.

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Coca-Cola Co. To Sell 9 Production Facilities To Bottlers In Supply Chain Overhaul

Coca-Cola Company

The Coca-Cola Co. took another step toward building a stronger, more streamlined production system in its flagship market by announcing the formation of a new National Product Supply System (NPSS) in the U.S.

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FedEx To Raise Fuel Surcharge For Second Time In 9 Months

FedEx Corporation

Effective Jan. 4, 2016, FedEx Express, FedEx Ground, FedEx Home Delivery, FedEx SmartPost and FedEx Freight rates will increase.

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