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Regulations
FDA Seeks $5.1 billion For 2017, Including Funds To Implement Food Safety Law
Food & Drug Administration (FDA)
The overall request includes a net increase of $14.6 million in budget authority and $268.7 million in user fees for initiatives tied to several key areas, including the implementation of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FMSA).
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (USDA) is requesting a total budget of $5.1 billion to protect and promote the public health as part of the President’s fiscal year (FY) 2017 budget – an eight percent increase over the enacted budget for FY 2016.
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Warehousing
Amazon To Compete Directly With UPS And Fedex
Amazon
The ambitious strategy promises to turn FedEx and UPS into Amazon rivals, but also will pit the Seattle giant against Chinese counterpart Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.
The new business will locate Amazon at the center of a logistics industry that involves not just shippers like FedEx and UPS but also legions of middlemen who handle cargo and paperwork associated with transnational trade.
Transportation
Fuel Prices Keep Falling For U.S. Fleets
The U.S. average retail pump price for gasoline also declined this week by 3.4 cents to $1.822 per gallon, which is 24.6 cents cheaper compared to the same week in 2015.
The U.S. average retail pump price for gasoline also declined this week by 3.4 cents to $1.822 per gallon, which is 24.6 cents cheaper compared to the same week in 2015.
Ocean Ports & Carriers
Individual U.S. Ports To Determine Container Weight Mandate For Exports
The enforcement of the SOLAS container weight mandate for U.S. exports will be done by each port, and the U.S. Coast Guard will only get involved if it boards an incoming vessel and finds it doesn’t have verified gross mass for each box.
The mandate, under an amendment to the International Maritime Organization’s, Safety of Life at Sea, or SOLAS, convention originally approved in 2014, prevents carriers from shipping any containers without the verified gross mass of each container.
Agriculture
Chipotle Mexican Grill Pledges $10 Million To Support Local Growers
Chipotle
The initiative will provide the support and education necessary to meet the company’s high standards and help offset the costs of enhanced testing and food safety practices for some smaller farmers.
The formation of the Chipotle Local Grower Support Initiative is a new program to help smaller, local suppliers meet its heightened food safety standards.
Transportation
XPO Logistics Sues YRC Worldwide for Poaching Workers, Stealing Customers and Pricing Data
XPO, Inc.
The lawsuit pits two of the largest trucking companies in the U.S. against each other over the trade secrets
The complaint grew out of XPO’s takeover last October of Con-way Inc. and its Con-way Freight unit that is the second largest in the country offering less-than-truckload service, in which shipments from multiple customers are combined on trucks. YRC Freight is No. 3 in that market.
Transportation
Obama To Seek $10 Per Barrel Crude Oil Tax
The proposed fee, which would be paid by oil companies and phased in over five years, was quickly met with scorn by lawmakers in the Republican-controlled Congress.
Set to be officially announced in Obama's fiscal 2017 budget plan on Tuesday, the fee would provide nearly $20 billion a year to help expand transit systems across the country and more than $2 billion a year to support the research and development of self-driving vehicles and other low-carbon technologies.
Transportation
Spot Rates Firm on Stronger Demand
The number of posted reefer loads rose 6 percent and truck posts declined 3 percent, leading to a 9 percent increase in the reefer load-to-truck ratio (3.8 loads per truck).
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Transportation
Southern California Container Terminal Closes Over Driver Costs
Since shifting its business model to use company employees as drivers 16 months ago, Hub Group Inc. Chief Executive David Yeager wrote, Hub’s costs “have been unsustainable and substantially higher than our outsourced core carriers’ costs.”
Hub Group Trucking has closed its Southern California terminal serving the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach just over a year after converting its local fleet from independently-contracted drivers to full-time employees.
Cold Chain
Red Meat Sector Welcomes TPP Agreement Signing
Ground beef is under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which is assisting the state’s Department of Health and Human Services and Division of Public Health Services.
Warehousing
Hostess Turnaround Story: How Logistics Made A Difference
The resurrection of Hostess Brands Inc., producer of one of America’s favorite snacks, represents the logistics promise to today’s food industry.
In the Hostess story, all supply chain players – the manufacturer, its suppliers, its retailer customers and its logistics provider – worked together to rescue a cherished snack brand.
Cold Chain
BRF In $50 Million Takeover Of Universal Meats
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