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National Fishers Institute Slams Greenpeace's Canned Tuna Rankings As 'Rank-n-Spank'

NFI notes Greenpeace is a “multinational behemoth” with a $300-million a year operating budget that has spent a grand total of zero dollars on tuna science, yet continues to use tuna as a poster child for its fund raising efforts.

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Convenience Stores Hit New Expansion Wave In China

The 15 major convenience store chains in China posted 18.2% growth in sales in 2013, higher than department stores' 9.6 percent and the 7.8 percent posted by hypermarkets and supermarkets.

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Barry Callebaut To Acquire World’s Finest Chocolate In U.S.

The Swiss company, which already has 11 factories in the U.S., said the deal would allow it to capitalize on growth opportunities with other customers in the region and add 25,000 tons per annum in production volume in the near term.

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Congressmen Seek To Promote Airships For Transporting Cargo

Airships have the potential to carry large cargo payloads over long distances, at a fraction of the cost of fixed-wing aircraft, and can reach some of the most remote locations inaccessible for maritime traffic and traditional aircraft.

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Nebraska Legislators: Let Processors Own Swine Operations To Save Pork Processing

Recently filed amendment language now pending in the Nebraska Legislature could clear the way for Chinese-owned Smithfield Foods Inc. to own, control, and feed hogs in contract swine operations in the state.

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Ural Chamber Seeks To Improve Infrastructure As Local Food Trade Booms

Ural representatives at the meeting said the food industry and processing facilities in the Middle Urals face strategic dilemmas, including outdated technology, materials, infrastructure, refrigeration, transportation and other related issues.

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Alibaba Opens California Data Center, Challenging Amazon In U.S. E-Commerce

The new California data center marks the Chinese company's latest measured expansion onto American soil, and into a hotly contested U.S. market now dominated by Amazon.com Inc , Microsoft Corp and Google Inc.

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Brazil Poultry Port To Reopen As Trucker Protest Ends

The protests demanding lower diesel fuel prices and higher payments to cover freight costs were concentrated in southern Brazil in its final days, blocking meat exports and leaving some grocery stores with bare shelves.

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China Cargo Train Travels To Spain; World’s Longest Railway Line

The 16,156-mile round trip on the new Yixin’ou cargo line through China, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Poland, Germany, France and Spain took four months.

The Yixin'ou cargo line completed the trip from China to Spain in four months.

PepsiCo And Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Close Russian Plants

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Russia is PepsiCo’s second biggest market by revenue after the U.S., contributing about 7 percent of overall revenue

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Ocean Ports & Carriers

West Coast Port Woes Slam Ag Exports And Logistics Hard

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Some in the food and logistics industry fear a permanent loss of overseas business.

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Striking Brazil Truck Drivers Disrupt Grain And Meat Shipments

Access to the country's main poultry exporting port of Itajai in Santa Catarina has been blocked since Friday, affecting meat packers BRF SA and JBS SA, a port spokesman said.

Brazilian truckers strike In protest of rising fuel taxes.

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