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Keep Fresh Food Fresh

Penske Logistics

The delicate dance of getting perishables where it needs to go, when it needs to get there and under the perfect conditions, is nothing short of a logistical ballet — one that needs to be carefully choreographed in order to get it right.

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Cargo Ferry Transport Replaces Truck Transport

The result of more than two years of work, the concept has been developed as an alternative transport solution for containers that are carried for more than 200 km on land.

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APL, Mitsui OSK Lines And NYK To Begin Asia-South America Service

The new service will use eight 6,000 TEU containerships and will feature a particularly short lead time between Hong Kong and Manzanillo, Mexico — only 17 days, the fastest on the market.

Image of the Pusan Newport International Terminal, starting point for the new AMC (Asia Mexico Colombia Express) Service that will begin May 22.

Ocean Ports & Carriers

U.S. Customs Targets Mislabeled Food Imports

This operation is part of a continued effort to interrupt what CBP calls “an extensive network of purposely mislabeled and high-risk agriculture products coming from Hong Kong, China, India and Saudi Arabia.”

Boxes of frozen fillets of catfish of the genus Pangasius -- called basa, swai or sutchi -- that were imported into the United States from Vietnam falsely labeled as sole to avoid anti-dumping duties.

Investment To Spur Tiger Cool Express Refrigerated Container Fleet

Tiger Cool Express, the second largest U.S. operator of 53-foot domestic refrigerated containers, announced in February the acquisition of 200 containers from Quingdao CIMC Special Reefer Co., Ltd. bringing its fleet to 435 containers.

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Ocean Ports & Carriers

Hapag-Lloyd Agrees To Port of Shenzhen Air Quality Program

Hapag-Lloyd has voluntarily undertaken only to use fuel with a sulfur content of less than 0.5 percent while its ships are docked at the terminal.

The companies at stake are Hapag-Lloyd, Hanjin, Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM), MOL, NYK, ‘K’ Line, Yang Ming, and UASC, along with Hamburg Sud which has a series of agreements with UASC.

Import Cargo Grows As West Coast Ports Recover

National Retail Federation (NRF)

Ports covered by Global Port Tracker handled 1.2 million Twenty-Foot Equivalent Units in February, the latest month for which after-the-fact numbers are available and historically the slowest month of the year.

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India-Based VRL Logistics Set To Go Public

VRL logistics is in the business of providing surface logistics and parcel delivery with a fleet of 3,546 owned vehicles across 28 states.

USDA Expands Beef And Pork Trade With Mexico And Peru

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack made the announcements during a meeting with producers in Des Moines, Iowa.

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Washington State Ports Stand To Gain On Portland’s Woes

The demise of Hanjin’s and Hapag Lloyd’s Portland ship calls means that in most cases their customers will shift their cargo to the ports of Tacoma and Seattle.

FILE - In this Feb. 15, 2015 file photo, the Space Needle towers in the background beyond a container ship anchored in Elliott Bay near downtown Seattle.

Will Package Delivery Giants Now Focus On Logistics And Freight Forwarding?

Future acquisitions by the major package delivery firms may focus on growing other parts of their business, such as contract logistics, logistics or freight forwarding, notes one analyst in light of FedEx Corp.’s planned acquisition of TNT Express.

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FedEx To Acquire TNT Express For $4.8 B To Boost International Reach

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The combined companies would be a strong global competitor in the transportation and logistics industry, drawing on the considerable and complementary strengths of both FedEx and TNT Express.

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