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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

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)

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

Warehousing Education and Research Council (WERC)

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.

Ocean Ports & Carriers

Agriculture Transportation Coalition Calls On Carriers To Waive Charges Due To West Coast Port Disruption

Federal Maritime Commission (FMC)

ATC has urged the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) to compel ocean carriers to waive all charges imposed during the period of West Coast port congestion, roughly November 1, 2014 through April 15, 2015.

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House Approves Funding Bill For U.S. Ports

The bill, which also funds energy programs, would add $36.3 million to the harbor maintenance tax revenue that the Army Corps of Engineers can use to dredge harbors at major ports in the 2016 fiscal year that begins Oct. 1.

The U.S. House of Representatives passed a spending bill on Friday that would boost funding for ports to upgrade their cargo-handling capabilities.

Spot Truck Load Rates Weaken As Capacity Increases

DAT Freight & Analytics

The national average rate for reefers stayed at $2.12 per mile, with both the average line-haul rate and the fuel surcharge unchanged.

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Food Industry Urges Congress To Add $109.5 M In Funding For FSMA

Costco Wholesale Corp., Walmart, GMA and the Produce Marketing Association joined 16 others to back FDA’s request for an additional $109.5 million in funding in the Fiscal Year 2016 Agriculture/FDA Appropriations legislation.

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Foodcareplus Launches Reefer Consolidation Service From Canada To Europe For Seafood

The new integrated reefer consolidation service from Halifax will allow the seafood community to ship deep-frozen product from Canada straight into the heart of Europe via its frozen cargo facility in the port of Antwerp.

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