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Transportation
Spot Freight Volumes Rise in Late July Push
An unusual surge of truckload freight led to higher-than-normal volumes on the spot market to round out the month of July.
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Cold Chain
UPS Expands Alcohol Shipping Capability Globally
Using one of the UPS Express or Standard shipping services, wine connoisseurs can have their favorite cases of wine shipped directly from the vineyards to their home.
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Warehousing
Wisconsin Craft Brewer is suing World’s Two Largest Brewing Companies
Minhas Craft Brewery is alleging that AB InBev and Molson Coors Brewing Co. conspired to limit other U.S. beer companies from selling their products in Ontario.
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Ocean Ports & Carriers
Port of Charleston Looks to Barges to Reduce Truck Traffic
Barges will one day move cargo between Wando Welch Terminal and a new rail yard in North Charleston under a plan the State Ports Authority is developing to help reduce truck traffic on local highways.
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Ocean Ports & Carriers
ILWU Workers Approve Contract Extension at West Coast Ports
Pacific Maritime Association (PMA)
The union said the “unprecedented” contract extension with the Pacific Maritime Association “will raise wages, maintain health benefits and increase pensions.”
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Cold Chain
Carrier Transicold to Offer New EPA-Approved Refrigerant for North America Truck and Trailer Systems
Carrier Transicold
Developed by the refrigerant manufacturing industry to reduce environmental impact, R-452A has a global warming potential (GWP) that is almost half that of R 404A, the refrigerant used in most land-based transport refrigeration applications.
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Transportation
Yara Birkeland’s First Crewless Ship Sets Sail Next Year
The world’s first crewless, automated ship will launch in 2018, reports the Wall Street Journal, and is expected to be fully autonomous by 2020.
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Warehousing
Crown Equipment Opens New Canadian Sales and Service Center
Crown Equipment Corporation
Crown Equipment Corporation, one of the world’s largest material handling companies, is evolving its Canadian operations.
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Transportation
FedEx Freight Cuts Ties with Teamsters Union
FedEx Corporation
FedEx Freight—a subsidiary of Memphis-based FedEx Corp.—announced July 19 that city and road drivers in Croydon, Pennsylvania, voted to decertify the Teamsters union as their bargaining representative.
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Transportation
GOP Signal Trump’s Infrastructure Plan Could be Sidelined
The timing and fate of President Trump’s infrastructure plan may depend on whether the GOP enacts major tax reform.
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Transportation
Congressional Protest Unlikely to Hold Up ELD Mandate
Despite passage of a measure requiring additional study on the pending ELD mandate by a Congressional committee, chances of a major overhaul of that rule or even its stoppage is being characterized as a long shot at best.
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Cold Chain
Cargill Profits Boosted by Growing Taste for Meat
Cargill
Cargill, the world’s largest agricultural commodities supplier, has raked in its highest annual profit in years with results propelled by the world’s deepening appetite for beef, chicken and other protein sources.
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