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Watch Your Back!

The comfortable truth about warehouse ergonomics.

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Amazon's Grocery Delivery Moves into Dallas

In the Dallas region, Amazon is working with area retailers through its Local Market program, which allows customers to shop from speciality stores like Local Yocal, V+V Apothicaire, Scardello Cheese and others.

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Ocean Ports & Carriers

Port of Virginia Continues to Set New Container Volume Records

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September was the eighth month in a row the port has experienced gains in container volumes, moving up 2 percent over last year's record-setting volumes in September.

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U.S. Commerce Secretary Calls Out Port of L.A., Long Beach on Shipment Tracking

“We need to continue to up our game, we are not at the kind of world-class level that we need to be at,” said U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker.

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XPO Logistics Workers Vote to Join Teamsters Union

Warehouse workers and truck drivers in Connecticut and Illinois voted to join the International Brotherhood of Teamsters on Wednesday, becoming the first workers at XPO to form a union in the U.S.

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Railroads Continue Tough Year, Losing More Freight to Trucking in 3Q

One of the few bright spots for the railroads is agriculture, as a bumper crop helped drive third-quarter grain carloads up about 17 percent.

For the first 22 weeks of 2016, U.S. railroads reported cumulative volume of 5,274,449 carloads, down 13.7 percent from the same point last year; and 5,648,851 intermodal units, down 2.1 percent from last year. Total combined U.S. traffic for the first 22 weeks of 2016 was 10,923,300 carloads and intermodal units, a decrease of 8.1 percent compared to last year.

Shipping Logistics Startup FourKites Raises $13 Million in Funding

The startup focuses primarily on trucking, but plans to eventually expand into rail and ocean transportation in the future, as well as shipments that use more than one method of travel.

Government regulations aimed at promoting food safety have spurred the use of sensors to measure temperature, and FourKites wants to tap into those data sources to do predictive modeling for its customers.

Analysis: 3PL Market to Reach $925 Billion by 2020

Grand View Research Inc.

Availability of industry-centric 3PL services and the implementation of Big Data are emerging trends in the 3PL service industry expected to drive the market over the forecast period.

Continuous evolution and development of latest technology and automation systems for enhancing material tracking, value addition, flexibility, and security is expected to emerge as a key differentiating parameter of judgment while selecting a logistics partner.

Ocean Ports & Carriers

Port of L.A. Director Predicts More Ocean Alliances and Mergers

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Executive director Gene Seroka says in an interview that the growth rate of shipping has slowed because "retailers have watched their inventory levels with an even sharper eye than ever before."

In this Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2015 file photo, shipping containers are stacked up waiting for truck transport at the Port of Los Angeles.

Construction Begins on Cold Storage Facility at Port of Tampa Bay

The facility will be located on a 13.7-acre site adjacent to Berth 219, and is designed to handle palletized breakbulk cargo, as well as refrigerated containers.

India Considers Using High-Speed Passenger Trains for Cold Chain Perishables

Talks between India's Ministry of Food Processing Industry and Indian Railways is in an advanced stage to have "cold chain bogies" attached with superfast passenger trains.

India's Central Government is reported to be mulling a decision to attach “cold chain bogies” with superfast passenger trains, stashed with perishable goods.

Chattanooga Quickly Becoming a Hot Spot for Logistics Startups

Three new technology-based logistics firms move to Tennessee following a 12-week accelerator program called Dynamo Accelerator.

Dynamo leaders believe their program is the only logistics- and transportation-focused accelerator in the country. Running as a 'sibling' to the accelerator, the Dynamo fund is an $18 million early-stage fund investing in logistics startups. Most of the funding came from Chattanooga-based individuals and investment entities, several of which committed $1 million or more.

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