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Design Considerations For Refrigeration And Cooling

Companies that rely on refrigeration and cooling—and the mechanical systems that power them—should focus carefully on feasibility planning and strategic growth projections when evaluating their facility needs.

Todd Heine is a Principal at Avison Young Corporate Food Services Group that focuses on working with food manufacturing and food distribution companies throughout North America.

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Tales from the Former VP of Fleet Operations for Coca-Cola

RTA

Join fleet hall of famer Steve Saltzgiver, RTA’s senior fleet management consultant, as he shares lessons from his time as VP of Fleet Operations at Coca-Cola and reveals how the four pillars of fleet success can transform your operations.

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Trying To Make Sense Of A DIM Situation

New dimensional weight charges will affect most food and beverage shippers.

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American Trucking Associations Slams FMCSA Over Hours Of Service Changes

American Trucking Associations (ATA)

The ATA chided the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration for ignoring the bulk of the Government Accountability Office’s report on the agency’s 2013 hours-of-service (HOS) changes, choosing instead to cherry pick a handful of points.

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Software Solutions

Infor To Acquire GT Nexus For $675 Million

Approximately 25,000 businesses rely on GT Nexus, including six of the top 10 logistics service providers and 30 global financial institutions, all managing more than $100 billion in goods each year using its cloud-based business network.

Alibaba Invests $4.5 Billion In Logistics

The deal is the latest in a wave of big spending in China by Alibaba and its rivals as they compete to hook up China’s masses of smartphone users with services ranging from food delivery to movie ticketing to hitching rides.

Ocean Ports & Carriers

Tacoma And Seattle Ports Launch Northwest Seaport Alliance

Federal Maritime Commission (FMC)

The Northwest Seaport Alliance unifies the two ports’ marine cargo terminal investments, operations, planning and marketing to strengthen the Puget Sound gateway and attract more marine cargo to the region.

Electrification

Quiet Revolution: U.S. Farms Rapidly Adopt Self Driving Tractors And Data Gathering Technology

Data-centric companies with Silicon Valley pedigrees, like 2 1/2-year-old Granular and aerial surveillance startup DroneDeploy, that have the ability to tap into all this machinery and run farms as efficiently as Google runs its data centers.

John Deere has been selling self-driving tractors for 15 years.

BluWrap Delivers China’s First Fresh Seafood Shipment From Chile

BluWrap’s technology is a strategic advantage to countries like China because it ensures food security from remote food sources while considerably reducing carbon emissions and the use of polystyrene.

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E-Commerce Solutions

China’s Internet Giants Harness Order/Delivery Apps To Battle Western Food Chains

Wooing customers with discounted dishes and the choice of thousands of restaurants, startups backed by the likes of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Tencent Holdings Ltd. are enjoying brisk business as more diners opt to order in.

The growing fleet of motorbike couriers on Chinese roads is the latest challenge to long-established but struggling Western companies such as McDonald’s Corp. and Yum Brands Inc., which owns KFC and Pizza Hut outlets.

2015 Food Logistics 3PL & Cold Storage Providers List

Bill Seeks To Double Federal Fuel Tax

U.S. Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.) is introducing legislation that would nearly double the 18.4-cents-per-gallon federal gas tax to help pay for road and transit projects around the nation.

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Coca-Cola Enterprises Teams With Coca-Cola Co. And Coca-Cola Iberian Partners, Creates Largest Bottler Organization

Coca-Cola Company

With more than 50 bottling plants and approximately 27,000 associates, Coca-Cola European Partners will serve a consumer population of over 300 million in 13 countries across Western Europe.

Muhtar Kent, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, The Coca-Cola Company, Sol Daurella, Executive Chairwoman of Coca-Cola Iberian Partners and John Brock, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Coca-Cola Enterprises, Inc. toast the creation of Coca-Cola European Partners.

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