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Ocean Ports & Carriers

IoT Technology Uplifts Container Tracking

Improving monitoring capabilities prompt ocean carriers to invest intelligent containers.

Traxens remote monitoring technology was implemented on some containers on board the Bougainville, CMA CGM’s flagship vessel.

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Reefer Modes Are Draining Your Wallet

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Improved Cold Chain Management is Key to Reducing Food Loss

Carrier Global Corporation

A robust cold chain is the single best way to preserve perishable food, and by effectively harnessing the data it already provides, the potential to reduce food losses and extend food supplies is extraordinary.

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Watch Your Back!

The comfortable truth about warehouse ergonomics.

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Maersk Container Manufactures 4,000 New Integrated Reefers for Seatrade

Maersk Container Industry (MCI)

Seatrade monitored shipments with chilled banana loads from Ecuador to Germany, during which energy consumption and cargo condition were measured, and the results confirmed Star Cool’s higher performance, lower operating costs and CO2 emission levels.

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.

Amazon's Grocery Delivery Moves into Dallas

In the Dallas region, Amazon is working with area retailers through its Local Market program, which allows customers to shop from speciality stores like Local Yocal, V+V Apothicaire, Scardello Cheese and others.

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USDA Announces $7.6 Million in Grants to Create Jobs and Grow Economic Opportunity in Rural America

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)

The grants will support communities in at least 24 states and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, with several projects spanning communities in multiple states.

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Survey: $3.00 Price of Diesel Will Cause Fleets to Seek Fuel-Saving Technologies

Nearly all fleet managers also feel that new EPA heavy-duty emissions regulations starting in 2017 will lead to higher truck operating and truck purchase costs.

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Freight Volumes Continue to Slide

September data is once again signaling that overall shipment volumes (and pricing) continued to be weak in most modes, marking the nineteenth straight month of year-over-year decline.

Data within the Index includes all domestic freight modes and is derived from $25 billion in freight transactions processed by Cass annually on behalf of its client base of hundreds of large shippers.

Ocean Ports & Carriers

Port of Virginia Continues to Set New Container Volume Records

Port of Virginia

September was the eighth month in a row the port has experienced gains in container volumes, moving up 2 percent over last year's record-setting volumes in September.

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Zombie Dispatch: Omnitracs Creates Video Game to Show Importance of Human Truck Drivers

Omnitracs | Solera Fleet Solutions

Driver Dan has to make his way across a 500-mile trek to deliver valuable medicine that will save mankind and ward of the Zombie Apocalypse.

Can you get life-saving medicine across the country in order to save the World from the Zombie Apocalypse?

Ocean Ports & Carriers

U.S. Commerce Secretary Calls Out Port of L.A., Long Beach on Shipment Tracking

“We need to continue to up our game, we are not at the kind of world-class level that we need to be at,” said U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker.

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Port of Oakland Terminal Operator to Expand

Port of Oakland

TraPac handles 20 percent of the containerized cargo moving through the Port of Oakland and manages two vessel berths and 66 acres of land. The new deal would give it four berths and 123 acres, much of which would be used for cargo handling.

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