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Southern California Container Terminal Closes Over Driver Costs

Since shifting its business model to use company employees as drivers 16 months ago, Hub Group Inc. Chief Executive David Yeager wrote, Hub’s costs “have been unsustainable and substantially higher than our outsourced core carriers’ costs.”

Hub Group Trucking has closed its Southern California terminal serving the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach just over a year after converting its local fleet from independently-contracted drivers to full-time employees.

Red Meat Sector Welcomes TPP Agreement Signing

Ground beef is under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which is assisting the state’s Department of Health and Human Services and Division of Public Health Services.

Hostess Turnaround Story: How Logistics Made A Difference

The resurrection of Hostess Brands Inc., producer of one of America’s favorite snacks, represents the logistics promise to today’s food industry.

BRF In $50 Million Takeover Of Universal Meats

China Seeks To Strengthen Its Food Security With $43 Billion Syngenta Takeover Bid

The largest ever foreign purchase by a Chinese firm, announced by both companies, will accelerate a shake-up in global agrochemicals and marks a setback for U.S. firm Monsanto, which failed to buy Syngenta last year.

China, the world's largest agricultural market, is looking for ways to secure food supply for its population. Syngenta's portfolio of top-tier chemicals, fertilizers and patent-protected seed varieties will represent a major upgrade of its potential output.

PortMiami Prepares for Daily Shipping to Cuba

Interest in Cuba-bound ferries has been high enough that officials are looking for ways to create temporary terminals

Planning for a new passenger-and-cargo route to Cuba is detailed in hundreds of emails and internal documents obtained by The Miami Herald through Florida’s open-records laws.

Ocean Ports & Carriers

Oakland Port Terminal Files For Bankruptcy

Port of Oakland

In a Chapter 11 petition filed in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware, Outer Harbor Terminal, which operates part of the Oakland port, listed both assets and liabilities of between $100 million and $500 million.

Outer Harbor Terminal LLC, which operates part of the Oakland, Calif. port, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Monday, two weeks after terminating its lease held in a joint venture with Ports America.

Ocean Ports & Carriers

Traffic Delays Clog New York And New Jersey Port After Strike

International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA)

About 200 trucks were waiting in half-mile lines outside the gates of the Port Newark Container Terminal and Maher terminals on Monday.

With about 60,000 containers passing through the port’s terminals each week, even small delays can cost retailers, manufacturers and other importers thousands of dollars.

Tesco Probe Raises Concerns That Retailers Dominate Food Supply Chain

Tesco says it has mended its ways and Tacon acknowledges “improvements to its handling of payment disputes,” but the investigation has reignited concerns about the gulf that exists between retailers and their suppliers.

Christine Tacon, UK Groceries Code Adjudicator

Truck Drivers Sue Flowers Foods Inc. Over Independent Contractor Status

Several trucking companies operating at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach—including, most recently, three subsidiaries of XPO Logistics Inc. —are engaged in similar litigation with independent-operator drivers.

The lawsuits come as independent drivers in various sectors have successfully challenged their status in courts around the country.

Ocean Ports & Carriers

Striking Workers At Ports In New York And New Jersey To Return To Work

International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA)

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said Friday night that operations would resume and the International Longshoremen's Association told its members to return to work as it continues working on their concerns.

During the year, the port handled 6,371,720 20-foot equivalent units (TEUs) (or 3,664,013 cargo containers), an increase of 10.4 percent over 2014 when the previous annual record was established.

DHL and Compass Group U.K. & Ireland Partner On Providing Catering Services

DHL will deliver end-to-end supply chain solutions, overseeing the flow of product and management of waste.

DHL and Compass Group U.K. & Ireland will partner on providing catering services to customers in the public sector, airline, rail and facilities management industries.

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