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Fleet Management

Featured in Food Logistics: Buying Versus Leasing: Factors to Consider

PacLease Truck Leasing

For foodservice distributors, many customers have specified time windows for delivery, so on-time delivery performance is critical. So increasingly, companies are looking for flexibility in how they manage and operate their fleets.

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US Foods Acquires Save on Seafood Amid Announced Layoffs

Florida-based Save on Seafood provides frozen whole fish, fish fillets, shrimp, shellfish, lobster, octopus, and other specialty items like shrimp burgers to grocery stores and restaurants in the Southeast.

Last month, AP journalists followed and filmed trucks loaded with freshly peeled shrimp from the Gig shed to major Thai exporting companies and then, using U.S. customs records and Thai industry reports, tracked it globally. They also traced similar connections from another factory raided six months earlier, and interviewed more than two dozen workers from both sites.

Emerging Technologies

Featured in Food Logistics: IoT Technology Uplifts Container Tracking

“Intelligent” containers can provide real-time visibility of inventory, including critical areas such as temperature, humidity, vibration and air quality.

The Maersk Line remote container management system uses satellite signals for monitoring vessels at sea and cellular signals for tracking over land.

Software & Technology

Walmart Invests $50 Million on Online Grocery Delivery with New Dada in China

News of the investment comes a day after Wal-Mart and JD.com announced their collaboration on three new services -- exclusive Sam’s Club and Global Imports stores on JD.com, and two-hour grocery delivery through New Dada.

Wal-Mart CEO Doug McMillon announced a strategic investment in New Dada with Philip Kuai, CEO of New Dada.

Ocean Ports & Carriers

Feds Give the Ocean Alliance its Approval

Federal Maritime Commission (FMC)

The announcement follows an exhaustive review process by the Commission that thoroughly examined all aspects of the proposed agreement to assure that competition in the ocean transportation industry would not suffer.

The Ocean Alliance eventually will make room for Singapore’s Neptune Orient Lines Ltd., which agreed to be bought in December by CMA CGM.

Ocean Ports & Carriers

Featured in Food Logistics: Gulf Coast Ports Think Ahead

The question on everyone’s mind is: What kind of cargo share increase might the East Coast and Gulf Coast ports actually see now that the long-awaited Panama Canal locks have opened?

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Ocean Ports & Carriers

Gulf Coast Ports Think Ahead

The process to ready Gulf Ports for the Panama Canal expansion began years ago. Take a look at what these forward-thinking ports did to ready themselves for the opening of the Panama Canal’s new locks.

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Temperature Control Technology Responds to Rising Perishable Food Demand

Logistics providers tap a bevy of innovations to maintain cold chain integrity.

Lineage Logistics’ high pressure processing system uses elevated hydrostatic pressures of up to 87,000 psi to reduce overall microbiological contaminant flora and pathogens.

Buying Versus Leasing: Factors to Consider

The decision to own or lease rests on the operator’s specific needs; total cost of ownership is always critical.

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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.

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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