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CMA CGM To Operate Logistics Platform In Cuba’s Mariel Harbor

CMA CGM has been present in Cuba since 2000, one of the only three shipping companies to call the country, and is the first international company to sign such a logistics development agreement in Cuba.

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Grocery Giants Ahold and Delhaize Explore Merger with U.S. Focus

Dutch grocer Ahold, which owns Peapod and several U.S. supermarket chains, and Belgian rival Delhaize, which owns Food Lion in the U.S., are exploring a merger which has sent their shares soaring, though analysts were split over the merits of any deal.

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Performance Food Group Executive Testifies In Favor Of Sysco/US Foods Merger

Holm said that after the Sysco-US Foods merger and the divestitures to PFG, his company would be ready at the outset to compete for business from large national customers. PFG would be a competitor “that will be taken seriously,” he said.

George Holm is President and Chief Executive Officer of Performance Food Group.

McDonald’s Tests Postmates Direct Delivery In New York City

Customers can go to Postmates.com or download the Postmates mobile app (available for iOS and Android) to order their favorite McDonald's food for delivery within an hour from 88 select McDonald's restaurants in Manhattan, Queens and Brooklyn.

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Mondelez International Partners With ChannelSight To Accelerate E-Commerce Growth

Mondelez will continue to add "Buy Now" buttons to owned, earned and paid media platforms across 25 markets, linking to over 130 retailers' websites, to make it easy for consumers to both find and buy Mondelez International products online.

Murphy Logistics Triples Square Footage in Kansas City

Murphy's two new Kansas City facilities will allow the company to continue to grow in this important transportation center.

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Whole Foods Market To Target Millennials With New Chain Offering Value Orientation

The plan is to begin opening stores next year, and given the more standardized design and product assortment, the company expects a fairly rapid expansion from there.

FAA Partners With Commercial Drone Firms On Package Delivery

The U.S. aviation regulator also announced on Wednesday a partnership with cable television news network CNN to test news gathering in urban areas that have been largely off limits for commercial drones.

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WERC Conference: Lease Financing Offers Solution To Automation Costs

Finding ways to overcome cost concerns with automation was addressed during a session, “Financing and Leasing Automation” during the Warehousing Education and Research Council (WERC) Conference Program held this week in Orlando, Fla.

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Sysco/FTC Court Battle Over Sysco/US Foods Merger Begins

In opening arguments by Sysco's Richard Parker of O'Melveny & Myers and the FTC's Stephen Weissman, the two sides disagreed on whether there was a national market for food distribution.

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Research: HOS Restart Provisions Bring More Crashes

American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI)

The truck GPS data analysis identified a shift of truck traffic from nighttime to daytime and a shift of truck traffic away from the weekends to more congested weekdays, with the biggest decreases in truck activity occurring on Sunday nights.

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WERC Conference: Collaborative Robots Address Labor Shortage And More

The key advantage to what has been termed “collaborative” robots is their ability to perform a variety of tasks, as opposed to the large, industrial robots used for high-speed, repetitive motions in assembly lines.

Chris Harbert of Rethink Robotics explains the benefits of “collaborative” robots at the WERC Conference.

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