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Tracking The Future Of Food Logistics

A focus on transportation fundamentals contrasted with developments in food safety and security, telematics, the IoT, grocery e-commerce, and new ways to think about agriculture and consumption are leading the list.

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E-Commerce Solutions

E-Commerce Gives Online Shipping Carriers An Edge As Holidays Approach; Railroads, Ocean Vessels And Truckers Sales Fall

Physical retailers are sitting on near record-high inventories as consumer spending hasn’t yet caught up with hopes of a surge stoked by low gasoline prices.

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House Passes Deadline Extension For Railroad Safety

The rail industry and its customers have long sought an extension to the year-end deadline to install the safety system, called positive train control, on more than 60,000 miles of track.

Napa valley wine is a growing business for RailAmerica.

CSX And Louisville & Indiana Railroad Partner On $90 M Indianapolis-To-Louisville Infrastructure Upgrade

CSX Corporation Inc.

The joint project, which closed on June 17, 2015, was approved by the U.S. Surface Transportation Board in April.

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Vantix Logistics Selects Yusen Logistics (Americas) As Intermodal Provider

Yusen Logistics (Americas) Inc.

Under the contract, Yusen Logistics is managing 60 to 70 intermodal freight movements each month for Vantix, the Dallas, Texas-based division of McLane Co. Inc. and a provider of supply chain solutions for the food industry.

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Canadian National (CN) Railway Invests $20 M To Expand Cold Chain For North America

Canadian National Railway Company

To accommodate growth, CN is acquiring 200 more domestic, 53-foot temperature-controlled containers, which will add to the current fleet of containers circulating inside North America.

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Can Railroads Stay On Track?

Some shippers are questioning reliability despite years of steady improvements.

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China Cargo Train Travels To Spain; World’s Longest Railway Line

The 16,156-mile round trip on the new Yixin’ou cargo line through China, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Poland, Germany, France and Spain took four months.

The Yixin'ou cargo line completed the trip from China to Spain in four months.

Ocean Ports & Carriers

Port of Quincy Seeks $16.2 M For Intermodal Terminal

The Port of Quincy Intermodal Terminal Infrastructure Expansion Project has received widespread support with dozens of shippers and organizations sending letters to the Washington State Legislature in support of the request.

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McKay TransCold LLC Files For Bankruptcy

Five months after launching its refrigerated rail service TransCold Logistics LLC, parent company McKay TransCold LLC closed up shop and filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy liquidation with debts of about $7 million.

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Rail & Intermodal

Russian Railways Logistics Partners With Chinese Firm On Container Train

The agreement was signed at Zhengzhou (capital of Henan province) at the threshold of international congress on construction of the Chinese-European logistics hub in the Silk Road economic zone.

Pavel Sokolov, Russian Railways Logistics CEO and Zhao Wenmin, Zhengzhou International Land Port Development & Construction Co., CEO, sign a strategic cooperation agreement on the organization of international container train Zhengzhou (China) - Europe.

CSX Rebuffs CP Railway Merger Overture

CSX Corporation Inc.

CSX rebuffed Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. after it made an approach in the past week, but both railways are under pressure to extend their reach to cope with traffic backlogs created by surging shipments of oil from the Bakken region of North Dakota.

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