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Creating The Next Gen Global Food Supply Chain

Foodservice providers, restaurants, and grocers are among those tasked with responding quickly to shifts in consumer demands, while simultaneously staying on top of their own business demands and those of their suppliers.

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Maersk Container To Start Reefer Production In Chile

Maersk Container Industry (MCI)

Maersk Container Industry (MCI) announced it will open a new reefer container factory in San Antonio, Chile, the first factory to produce refrigerated containers in Latin America.

Danish shipping and oil group A. P. Moller-Maersk could split up into separate companies, its chairman said on Thursday after naming Soren Skou, the head of its container business, as chief executive.

Ocean Ports & Carriers

Maersk Line Announces January Rate Increase And Surcharge

A.P. Moller- Maersk

Both the general rate increase and the peak season surcharge will take effect GRI Jan. 15, 2015.

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Maersk Line To Close Pacific Shipping Service

In a notice advising customers of the decision, Maersk Line said the overall trans-Pacific trade and its TP5 service between North China, South Korea and Japan to the West Coast had provided unprofitable results for nine out of the last 10 years.

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Georgia Ports Continue To Report Record Freight Activity

Georgia Ports Authority

Savannah's Garden City Terminal handled a record 311,759 twenty-foot equivalent container units (TEUs) in October - a 13.6 percent increase (37,432 TEUs) compared to the same month a year ago.

Georgia Ports Authority's Garden City Terminal at the Port of Savannah.

Software & Technology

WAM Technologies Launches Remote Monitoring For Vessels

VesselConnect offers a low-infrastructure, cost-effective alternative to older power line modem (PLM) technology for remote reefer monitoring, which requires ships to be fitted with cables and other control hardware.

Ocean Ports & Carriers

MacAndrews Adds Extra Liverpool, U.K. Service From Spain

MacAndrews, part of the CMA CGM Group, now will offer four departures per week from Bilbao arriving in Liverpool on a Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.

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UPDATE: U.S. West Coast Labor Unrest Hits Perishables Hard

The time- and temperature-sensitive reefer cargoes that have been delayed on vessels sitting outside the breakwater in LA/LB are deteriorating quickly and shippers are counting their losses by the hour.

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Buffalo Niagara International Gateway Organization To Create Western New York Logistics Hub

The Buffalo Niagara International Trade Gateway Organization's (ITGO) primary goal is to create a globally-known logistics hub in Western New York.

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Port Tampa Bay To Purchase High-Profile Container Crane

ZPMC will fabricate and deliver both 65-ton gantry cranes, with a 174-foot out-reach, that will service up to 19 rows of containers — longer reach than the current gantries that are 40-plus years old.

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South American Vessel Alliance Brings Increased Capacity To JAXPORT

Jacksonville Port Authority (JAXPORT)

The agreement, between Hapag-Lloyd, CSAV Group, Hamburg Süd, Aliança, Yang Ming and NYK shipping lines, offers additional capacity for the port to attract cargo moving between the U.S. East Coast and ports in Brazil and Argentina.

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New Port Manatee Service Offers Swift Mexico Link

The direct, weekly service is offering a two-way connection between Mexico and U.S. for refrigerated produce and other goods

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