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Rail & Intermodal

U.K.’s CDC To Invest $25M In Prime Logistics In India

Pristine Logistics is a growing Indian company that develops and operates vital infrastructure to transport and handle railway freight in rural and under-served parts of the country.

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Winter Storm Juno Pounds The Northeast

Several locations in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Long Island and Rhode Island have picked up over two feet of snow, while amounts in New York have ranged from 9.8 inches at Central Park in New York City to 30 inches on Long Island.

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KeHE Distributors To Open DC In San Joaquin Valley

KeHE Distributors joins Walmart and Macy's in announcing they will have hundreds of job openings in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Valley area.

Tyson Foods Inc. To Upgrade Vienna, Ga. Poultry Plant, Add Over 500 Jobs

Tyson Foods purchased the Vienna plant in 1995. The facility currently employs about 700 people, generating an annual payroll of more than $15.6 million.

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Ocean Ports & Carriers

Snow Storm Closes Port Of New York And New Jersey Maritime Terminals

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Total snow accumulation is likely to exceed two feet throughout the port over a 36-hour period.

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Five Ways Drones Will Affect How We Get Our Food

This month, the Federal Aviation Administration issued the first permit for agricultural use of unmanned aerial vehicles, allowing Idaho-based ADAVSO to use a lightweight, fixed-wing drone to survey fields of crops.

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Dimensional Weight Pricing Boosts Shipping Costs This Month

Endicia surveyed 700 businesses and found that 28 percent of online businesses hadn't heard of dimensional weight pricing that will hit the rivals of the U.S. Postal Service.

UPS explains dimensional weight packaging on its website. Divide the cubic size in inches by 166 to determine dimensional weight in pounds.

Chattanooga Supermarkets Open Doors To Local Suppliers

The Bi-Lo chain one year ago launched its "Bi-Local" program, which has put products from 19 Chattanooga-area businesses in its stores.

Currency Fight Snags U.S.-Pacific Trade Agreement

Skeptics fear that any gains U.S. companies get from lower tariffs negotiated in trade agreements could be reduced if foreign countries weaken their currencies, making their products more competitive.

The measure closing the loophole from the Tariff Act of 1930 was included in a wider trade enforcement bill, which Obama signed into law at the White House in Washington.

Policy Expert: U.S.-Cuba Trade Boom Coming

What’s at stake is the re-establishment of a thriving trade and investment relationship between the two countries that was interrupted by Castro’s revolution, and then aided and abetted by the embargo according to international trade policy expert.

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Chinese Fruit Importer’s Arrest Alarms Global Suppliers

Liu Zhi, chairman of Dalian Yidu, a major importer and logistics and cold storage operator, and his younger brother, who is involved in the meat division of the business, were reportedly arrested by China Customs on Jan. 16.

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Panama Canal Shipping Boom To Let Loose

Drewry Maritime Research says it expects transhipment activity through Panama to grow strongly once the expansion of the Panama Canal is completed, which is due to be completed next year.

This is an artist's impression of the Panama Canal Expansion on completion.

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