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JB Hunt Tells Customers to Budget for 10 Percent Cost Increase

J.B. Hunt Transport Services is telling customers to budget for transportation cost increases as high as “10 percent or more,” as the peak fall distribution season and the ELD mandate intensify a driver shortage.

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Containers Sit Untouched at Puerto Rico's Ports

It's one thing to get supplies to Puerto Rico, but officials at the Department of Homeland Security say moving goods around the island is the bigger challenge.

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Software & Technology

Up Next in Food Safety: A Temperature Sensor You Can Eat

The biodegradable temperature sensor sticks to food all the way from its starting point to the inside of your mouth, cutting out the need to manually test food to keep it at a certain temperature.

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Global Outcry Stalls China’s Food Import Controls

World Trade Organization (WTO)

China has delayed enforcing sweeping new controls on food imports that would require each shipment to have an inspection certificate from a foreign government.

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Walmart Testing In-home Delivery Service

Delivery workers who drop off Walmart groceries may soon also bring them into your kitchen and unload them into your refrigerator, even if you're not home.

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US Farmers Face Dairy Surplus as Processing Capacity Fails to Keep Pace

There's a domestic dairy glut that's so bad it's led some American farmers to spill milk.

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Ocean Ports & Carriers

Plans in Motion for a Fourth Indiana Port on Ohio River Site

State officials say they've reached a purchase agreement for a former electric plant site in southeastern Indiana as a possible new Ohio River shipping port.

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Coca-Cola Bottler is Buying up Southeastern Warehouse Space

Coca-Cola Company

Valparaiso Coca-Cola, a sales center of Coca-Cola Bottling Company UNITED, opened a new $5.5 million, 24,000 square foot facility last week in Valparaiso, Florida.

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Stoughton Trailers to Unveil PureBlue Refrigerated Trailer

Stoughton Trailers

PureBlue features the company’s redesigned rear underride guard.

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Olo Teams Up with Amazon Restaurants to Simplify Online Food Orders

The partnership enables thousands of Olo restaurant customers to gain easy integration with Amazon Restaurants.

TGI Fridays Tests Food and Alcohol Delivery

The casual chain has partnered with Lash, a Dallas-based food and alcohol delivery startup, to offer food and alcohol delivery.

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Ocean Ports & Carriers

Port of Virginia Eyes Channels Deeper and Wider than Port of LA

Port of Virginia

A rough draft of a plan recommends that the port be allowed to dredge its main shipping channels to 55 feet, down from 50 feet, and to widen them to 1,200 feet from 1,000.

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