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Ocean Ports & Carriers

Pacific Maritime Association Makes 'All In' Offer To End Port Dispute

Pacific Maritime Association (PMA)

The PMA issued an ultimatum of “continued slowdowns or gold-standard wages and benefits,” offering a three percent year-on-year wage increase for ILWU full-time workers, following three months of port slow-downs across the US West Coast.

Companies that handle billions of dollars of cargo at West Coast seaports said they will hire far fewer workers this weekend, the latest escalation in a contract dispute with dockworkers that threatens to shut down a vital link in U.S.-Asia trade.

Sysco/US Foods Merger Hits Standstill: Customers Are Okay While Competitors Are Lovin’ It

Foodservice operators are generally optimistic about the merger.

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China Lowers Tariff On U.S. Pecan Imports

Around 80 percent of the world’s pecan production comes out of the U.S., with the primary production state Georgia exporting around 75 percent of its pecans to China.

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Ocean Ports & Carriers

West Coast Ports On 'Brink Of Collapse' Over Labor Contract

National Retail Federation (NRF)

A work stoppage could drain $2 billion a day from the U.S. economy, according to the National Retail Federation, National Association of Manufacturers and U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

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Alibaba Drones Fly Over Beijing While Amazon Pleads for U.S. Tests

Asia’s largest Internet company is partnering with Shanghai YTO Express Logistics Co. to deliver ginger tea packets to 450 Chinese customers who volunteered for the one-time drone tests.

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U.K.'s Waitrose Taps Primafruit For Sourcing Imported Fruit

As part of the new agreement, Waitrose and Primafruit will be packing all imported core fruit in a single pack house in Evesham, creating a number of jobs.

A fruit and produce aisle in a Waitrose supermarket.

ORBIS Corp. Opens Manufacturing Plant In Mexico, Employs 140

ORBIS Corporation

The new plant is also the first ORBIS facility to offer injection and structural foam molding, as well as dunnage fabrication, all under one roof.

The entire team at the new ORBIS facility in Silao, Mexico.

Bill To End Container Freight Charge Heads To New York State Assembly

The Port Authority of PANY/NJ is the only port in the U.S. to impose a cargo facility charge on all containers, including empties, according to Maersk Line.

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Obama Seeks 14% Tax On Foreign Profits For U.S. Infrastructure

The tax revenue would be used to fund bridges, roads and other projects in America’s aging infrastructure system and to provide revenue for America’s sagging Highway Trust Fund.

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.

Friopuerto Opens Cold Store Facility In Veracruz, Mexico

Friopuerto Veracruz is designed to streamline the processes of imports of perishable goods through the Atlantic coast of Mexico and, in particular, from Spain.

The opening ceremony was chaired by Ramón Gómez Barquín and Edgar López, respectively president and general manager of Group Inversor Veracruzano as well as by Francisco Romeu Loperena, president of Friopuerto and the Romeu Group.

J. M. Smucker Co. To Acquire Big Heart Pet Brands

Big Heart Pet Brands is the largest stand-alone producer, distributor, and marketer of premium-quality, branded pet food and pet snacks in the U.S.

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Sysco/US Foods Merger Hits Standstill Despite Agreement To Sell 11 DCs To Performance Food Goup

Sysco’s agreement with rival Performance Food Group Co. to sell 11 U.S. Foods distribution centers with a combined $4.6 billion in annual revenue was more than double the $2 billion in revenue that Sysco originally planned to divest.

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