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Overcoming the Barriers to Cold Chain Acceptance

Carrier Transicold

The concept of maintaining constant temperature is relatively new to emerging countries, creating challenges that excite the industry’s most innovative players.

End-to-End Cold Chain Integrity: It’s About More than Compliance

From capacity constraints and labor shortages to changing buying habits, the global cold chain faces numerous risks, all while maintaining food safety.

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Food Logistics' 2018 Top 3PL & Cold Storage Providers

The companies on this year’s Top 3PL & Cold Storage Providers list continue to improve their expertise and keep up with the latest temperature monitoring technologies, transportation management systems and warehouse management systems.

3 Pl Top 2018

Ocean Ports & Carriers

Automation Advances at Seaports

The paper-intensive port environment is yielding to software and technology that promises to streamline the movement of cargo and information.

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Ocean Ports & Carriers

Port Long Beach, GE Transportation Begin Technology Pilot Project

Port of Long Beach

Over the next two months, stakeholders across the port will use GE’s Port Optimizer software to access data that the port says will allow them to move cargo containers more efficiently.

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July Spot Truckload Volume, Rates Return to Earth

DAT Freight & Analytics

Spot market freight availability dropped sharply in July, returning to typical seasonal levels after an all-time peak in June.

Dat Freight Index

Uber Will Double its Investment in Uber Freight

Uber Freight

Fuel Efficiency

Golden State Foods, Duke Energy Partner to Save Fuel and Lower Emissions

Golden State Foods

The foodservice distributors new Garner, North Carolina distribution center will host a truck electrification facility that is projected to save roughly 80,000 gallons of fuel a year.

Instead of idling engines, cargo trucks at Golden State Foods in Garner, N.C., now use electricity to keep food cold and lower emissions to the environment. The effort will save the company 80,000 gallons of fuel a year. Duke Energy has been involved with three such projects in North Carolina over the past two years.

Autonomous Trucking Startup Receives $40 Million in Series A Funding

Kodiak Robotics

Kodiak is focusing solely on automated trucks, and while there a lot of complexities, it plans to solve the long-haul self-driving trucking problem.

Kodiak

Spot Rates Fall But Van, Reefer Ratios Increase

Spot truckload rates continued a seasonal decline during the week ending August 4 as the overall number of loads posted on DAT load boards fell 0.7 percent and capacity dipped 1.3 percent.

Dat32

Ocean Ports & Carriers

Maersk Scales Back on Profit Forecast

A.P. Moeller-Maersk suggested that its earnings will be weaker than expected due to rising fuel prices, soft freight rates and escalating trade tensions.

Maersk Line

Ocean Ports & Carriers

US Moves Soybeans to China for the First Time in Three Weeks

The Betis is the fourth ship to carry American soybeans since mid-June.

Soybeans

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