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Ocean Ports & Carriers

Traffic Delays Clog New York And New Jersey Port After Strike

International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA)

About 200 trucks were waiting in half-mile lines outside the gates of the Port Newark Container Terminal and Maher terminals on Monday.

With about 60,000 containers passing through the port’s terminals each week, even small delays can cost retailers, manufacturers and other importers thousands of dollars.

DHL and Compass Group U.K. & Ireland Partner On Providing Catering Services

DHL will deliver end-to-end supply chain solutions, overseeing the flow of product and management of waste.

DHL and Compass Group U.K. & Ireland will partner on providing catering services to customers in the public sector, airline, rail and facilities management industries.

Maersk Line Launches Weekly Shipping Service Between Columbia And Northern Europe

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Using StarCare technology refrigerated containers, which are designed especially to carry bananas over longer distances (up to 45 days); Maersk Line is setting new standards within the containerized controlled atmosphere business.

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Amazon Defends Rising Fulfillment Costs As Stock Price Tumbles

Some analysts were struggling to understand what they saw as lower profitably than they would like, including gross profit margin and rising fulfillment costs.

Brian Olsavsky, Amazon CFO, defended the company’s fulfillment business in a call with analysts following the company’s quarterly profit report Thursday, which was its largest ever but not big enough to meet investors’ expectations, according to Barrons.

CMA CGM Signs Cooperation Pact With Iran Shipping Lines

The agreement, signed during a goodwill visit to Paris by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, covers capacity sharing, joint route operations, and cooperation in using port terminals, the French government said.

French firm CMA CGM, the world’s third-largest container shipping operator, signed a significant cooperation agreement Thursday with Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL), according to Maritime Executive.

Rail & Intermodal

Norfolk Southern Corp. To Cut Rail Lines, Jobs

Norfolk Southern Corp.

Norfolk Southern’s strategic five-year restructuring plan is designed to reassure and bolster support among shareholders in the face of a possible proxy fight with Canadian Pacific.

Norfolk Southern Corp. on Wednesday unveiled a five-year restructuring plan that will eliminate 1,200 jobs in 2016, idle track, close and combine operations and pare back both capital spending and stock buybacks in an effort clearly aimed at fending off another hostile takeover attempt by Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd.

Rico Acquires Majority Holding In Circle Express

Circle Express has a countrywide fleet of 300 vehicles operating out of eight aviation security listed depots near the airports at Heathrow, Aberdeen, Birmingham, Exeter, Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester and a cross dock facility in Milton Park, Abingdon.

Circle Express is one of the largest independent networks offering a collection and delivery service specifically targeted at the U.K. air freight forwarding industry and is the preferred U.K. freight distribution carrier for many international freight forwarders.

Kerry Logistics To Acquire U.S. Freight Forwarder

The Hong Kong-based company, which specializes international freight forwarding and supply chain services in China and Southeast Asia, said in a conference call that it will acquire a 51 percent stake of an unnamed American company.

Food Industry Faces Daunting Logistics Challenge Committing To Cage-Free Chickens

That process could take anywhere from 15 to 20 years plus the amount of time it takes to build the new system, which will add a few million dollars.

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Wine Rush: Getting Your Wine To Global Markets ...Highlights

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Amazon Bids To Become The Biggest Global 3PL

It's part of a strategy to make Amazon the largest third-party logistics (3PL) provider worldwide, from the U.S. to Africa, Latin America, India, and even China where the company has gained ground as it tries to compete with Alibaba and Tmall.

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Uber Prepares Food Delivery App In 10 Cities

In the coming weeks customers in such cities as Los Angeles, Chicago, New York and Austin, Texas, will be able to use a new UberEats app to order from the full menus of dozens of local restaurants and have their food delivered by an Uber driver.

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