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Food Logistics' 2015 Top 3PL & Cold Storage Providers

The trend reveals more providers are expanding their portfolio of services to meet industry demands.

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Material Handling Equipment

How Robots Will Tackle Changing F&B Demands

As smaller SKU quantities challenge the food supply chain: robots and automation have a role.

A Wynright robotic truck unloader palletizes in a warehouse.

Temperature Control: The Ongoing Quest In The Food Supply Chain

Technologies create more options, ranging from satellite-based tracking to new refrigerants

Carrier Transicold's NaturLINE uses natural refrigerant carbon dioxide, which can lower carbon emissions by 28 percent compared to previous systems,

Foodservice Industry Actively Shaping Safety Regulations and Standards

McLane Company Inc.

In this excerpt, Syndee Stiles, vice president of operations support at McLane Foodservice, discusses the regulatory environment surrounding food safety, the GS1 US Standards initiative and more…

The IFDA Food Safety Committee works to ensure regulators understand foodservice distribution.

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.

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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