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HOS Rules and Higher Rates

DAT Freight & Analytics

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How Robots Are Changing the Food Industry And Improving Fulfillment

W&H Systems, Inc.

Robots have moved upstream and can be used for filling, capping, sterilizing, high-speed picking and sorting, packaging and other activities.

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Ocean Ports & Carriers

Key Ports & Carriers In The Global Food Supply Chain

From major gateways to niche players, U.S. ports play and expanding role in the handling of bulk and containerized food shipments.

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Today’s Food Shoppers Are Less Likely To Have A Primary Destination

Food marketers must cater to a more mobile buying audience; logistics partners can help them succeed.

Food Logistics managing editor Elliot Maras.

Software Solutions

RFID Tags Provide Real-Time Checking For Chicken Deboning And Distribution

Ozark Mountain Poultry developed RFID technology to capture real-time information at different points of the production and delivery process.

Temperature Control Technology Boosts Cold Transport Capabilities

Options Expand For Fresh, Refrigerated And Frozen Transport And Security

A George’s employee takes the temperature of a refrigerated chicken package in transit.

Rising Transport Costs Raises Stakes For TMS

Cloud-Based Systems And Other Technologies Create New Options

Logility demonstrates its TMS life cycle beginning with shipment history, moving to shipment planning, then shipment execution, then freight accounting before returning to the shipment history database.

Lineage Logistics Unveils Cold Storage Facility In Santa Maria, Calif.

The facility, which spans more than 10 acres and 5.7 million cubic feet of freezer warehouse storage space, is a centerpiece for regional agricultural production and storage.

Shipping Fresh Foods: PeriShip Taps Into Pulse API From WeatherBug For Real-Time Weather

Earth Networks, the company behind WeatherBug mobile apps, enterprise weather solutions and APIs, is providing PeriShip with the weather intelligence it needs to track its customers’ shipments.

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Farmbox Direct: Subscription Service Delivers Local-Organic Produce

Following the company’s launch in Manhattan and Brooklyn, Farmbox Direct has expanded throughout the East Coast and plans to expand and serve customers nationally.

Ashley Tyrner, founder and CEO of Farmbox Direct, ships certified organic produce to customers weekly on a subscription basis.

Kroger Tests Click And Collect Grocery Service In Cincinnati

Modeled after Harris Teeter's "click and collect" at 150 stores in the Southeast, Kroger is now tinkering with the service at its Liberty Township store.

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Ocean Ports & Carriers

Port Tampa Bay’s McKay Bay Wins Environmental Award

The net impact of the program has resulted in the restoration of estuarine wetlands and adjacent shallow intertidal bay bottom within this historically impaired water body.

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