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Longshoremen, PMA Still “Far Apart” On US West Coast Contract Talks

Pacific Maritime Association (PMA)

The current contract expired nearly six months ago, and the PMA is charging the longshoremen with deliberately working slower due to the stalemate in contract talks.

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No Joke, Hospital Food Can Taste Really Good

Less than one dozen hospitals across the U.S. operate on-site farms, ranging from a rooftop farm at Stony Brook University Hospital on Long Island to a 25-acre farm at St. Joseph Mercy Ann Arbor Hospital in Ypsilanti, Michigan.

Watertown (Wis.) Regional Medical Center Chef Justin Johnson picks banana peppers in the garden behind the hospital.

The Dirty Side Of Ocean Shipping

What happens on the high seas isn’t necessarily visible from land and the industry is largely unregulated when it comes to emissions.

A slowdown in Chinese economic growth has hammered the global shipping industry, which exited the Great Recession to take advantage of low interest rates to buy new ships to handle a rising amount of coal, iron ore and consumer goods. But as China’s factories scale back and the economies of Europe and North America gear down, the amount of cargo traversing the oceans has slowed.

Food Safety News Lists Top Stories For 2014

Among the most popular was the scandal surrounding the Peanut Corporation of America, which included federal criminal prosecutions of top executives in the company.

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Cuba Deal Comes With Benefits For American Farmers

Expanded commercial exports from the U.S. of certain goods and services will be authorized, including building materials for private residential construction, goods for use by private sector Cuban entrepreneurs, and agricultural equipment for farmers.

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Iran Will Export Food To Russia Starting In January

The Iranian food imports will include a range of foods from fresh milk to hard cheese as well as fish, seafood, and fruits and vegetables.

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Study: Illinois Top US Hub For Domestic Food Shipments

The report showed that the U.S. food network moves more than 400 million tons of food annually, and of that total, more than 70 million tons are transported through Illinois, the most of any state in the nation.

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Haggen To Expand From 18 Stores To 164 Stores With Major Acquisition

Albertsons Companies

After the close of the transaction in early 2015, Haggen will convert all of the acquired Albertsons and Safeway stores to the Haggen banner in phases during the first half of 2015.

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Napa Valley Winemakers Consider Exports To Cuba

Amid a host of American corporations poised to enter or re-enter a market largely denied them for half a century, local wineries are beginning to look into future sales through Cuba’s tourism and restaurant industries.

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Amazon Launches 1- And 2-Hour Delivery In Manhattan

Prime Now is powered by Amazon’s growing network of fulfillment centers that utilize high-end technology to speed up order delivery times for customers.

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Ocean Ports & Carriers

Vietnamese Exporter Makes First Fresh Longan Shipment To U.S.

Anh Duong Sao Co, based in Ho Chi Minh City, specializes in exporting tropical fresh produce such as rambutan, longan, mango, coconut, pitahaya, dragon fruit, pomelo and passion fruit worldwide.

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Thai Union Frozen Products To Acquire Bumble Bee Seafoods

TUF entered into a binding agreement to obtain 100 percent of the shares of Bumble Bee Foods, LLC from Lion Capital, a pan-Atlantic private equity firm, for a total purchase price of $1.51 billion.

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