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United States Cold Storage Expands In Wilmington, Ill.

United States Cold Storage, Inc. (USCS)

This project brought 3.9 million cubic feet and 17,825 more pallet positions of additional storage in three rooms, which can be computer controlled at temperatures from -5F to +50F.

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

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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.

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

The Warehouse As A Competitive Advantage

Automation keeps adding ways to streamline inventory flow.

A worker in a cold storage facility uses the Viastore WMS via radio frequency for paperless picking.

PepsiCo And Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Close Russian Plants

Coca-Cola Company

Russia is PepsiCo’s second biggest market by revenue after the U.S., contributing about 7 percent of overall revenue

Lipton Iced Tea production at the Domodedovo facility in Russia.

Ocean Ports & Carriers

West Coast Port Woes Slam Ag Exports And Logistics Hard

Pacific Maritime Association (PMA)

Some in the food and logistics industry fear a permanent loss of overseas business.

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Striking Brazil Truck Drivers Disrupt Grain And Meat Shipments

Access to the country's main poultry exporting port of Itajai in Santa Catarina has been blocked since Friday, affecting meat packers BRF SA and JBS SA, a port spokesman said.

Brazilian truckers strike In protest of rising fuel taxes.

West Coast Ports Get Creative As Cargo Piles Up

Port of Los Angeles

All the pressure has management at the Southern California ports, which combined handle 40 percent of all containerized freight for the U.S., thinking about ways they can speed things up.

Semi trucks hauling a containers leave the Port of Los Angeles on Monday, Feb. 23, 2015. Nearly all West Coast seaports began the week with dockworkers hustling to load and unload cargo ships that were held up amid a months-long labor-management dispute.

Ben E. Keith To Accelerate Inbound Logistics Performance With ArrowStream Crossbow

By centralizing its inbound logistics information in Crossbow, Ben E. Keith will see savings drivers and will be able to attach lane-level operational and financial targets to all improvement initiatives across its network.

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Port of Quincy Seeks $16.2 M For Intermodal Terminal

The Port of Quincy Intermodal Terminal Infrastructure Expansion Project has received widespread support with dozens of shippers and organizations sending letters to the Washington State Legislature in support of the request.

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Featured In Food Logistics: Useful Insights On Global Cold Storage Capacity

Global Cold Chain Alliance (GCCA)

The Global Cold Storage Capacity Report from the Global Cold Chain Alliance offers companies looking to learn about growth opportunities in the global cold chain an excellent tool for planning their strategy.

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Farmers Turn To Robots As New Farm Hands

Harvest Automation created robots that help automate and mechanize labor in nurseries and greenhouses, navigate autonomously, and help farmers move goods and gather information within existing and some unstructured environments.

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Brazilian Truckers Strike Crimps Food Deliveries

The protests are part of a reaction to the return of fuel taxes, one of several unpopular measures that President Dilma Rousseff is counting on to shore up government fiscal accounts.

Striking truckers block a federal highway in Goiania, Brazil, Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015. Weeklong protests by Brazilian truckers demanding lower fuel and toll prices have spread, causing shortages of gasoline and other products.

Featured In Food Logistics: Changing Distribution Strategies Challenge Fleet Managers

Food and beverage shippers are responding to a push from national to regional distribution, driven partly by the demand for locally-sourced products.

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