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Genetic Food Makes Big Progress Despite Controversy

Genetic engineering is winning the day and gradually overcoming its “Frankenfood” fear-mongering, according to a Wall Street Journal article .

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Supply Chain Visibility

Featured In Food Logistics: RFID: A Tool For Tracking Products, Assets And More

While RFID began as a tracking tool for inventory and assets, the emergence of real-time networks has since enabled RFID data to deliver insights in areas such as product status reports and inefficiencies in the supply chain.

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Featured In Food Logistics: Six Steps Toward Optimizing Wine & Spirits Operations

Warehousing and distribution for the wine and spirits industries requires tight operational tolerances to ensure safe and accurate handling, efficient inventory management, traceability and other compliance issues.

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C&S Wholesale Grocers, Inc. Acquires FreshKO Produce Services Inc. In California

The business will continue to operate under the respected FreshKO brand as a wholly-owned subsidiary of C&S Wholesale Grocers, Inc.

C&S Wholesale Grocers, Inc., the Keene, N.H.-based wholesale grocer, has acquired FreshKO Produce Services, Inc., based in Fresno, Calif.

Körber Acquires Efacec Handling Solutions

Infios (formerly known as Körber Supply Chain)

Körber technology group completed its acquisition of Efacec Handling Solutions, strengthening its presence across Portugal, Czech Republic, India, Singapore, and Spain.

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Rail & Intermodal

Canadian Pacific Revises Offer For Norfolk Southern Corp.

Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC)

Canadian Pacific has added contingent value rights (CVR) to the offer, which increase the overall value of the offer and also protect the value to NS shareholders going forward.

Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd., the second-biggest railroad in Canada, is exploring a takeover of U.S. carrier Norfolk Southern Corp. in a fresh attempt to consolidate the North American industry.

Florida: Primed For Perishables

Across the Sunshine State ports and infrastructure are ready for the expansion of the Panama Canal with hopes to become the preferred destination of perishables from the Americas.

An aerial view of PortMiami's recently completed deep dredge project that makes the port the only global trade hub south of Virginia capable of handling post-Panamax ships.

The Top 10 “Must Reads” Of 2015

Take a look at the Food Logistics articles your peers made the most popular from the past year.

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Software Solutions

RFID: A Tool For Tracking Products, Assets And More

With the emergence of real-time data networks, RFID tags provide accurate status reports and poinpoint inefficiencies in the food supply chain.

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Emerging Technologies

Are You Prepared For The Brave New World?

The Internet Of Things is changing how information travels from farm to fork.

The table's technology developed by IDEO in collaboration with Ikea suggests recipes based on ingredients pushed together on the surface, step-by-step cooking instructions, and information on healthiness, seasonality and cost. The table's inductive surface heats pans and cups to exactly the right temperature, charges your handheld devices, while the projector adds information about remaining cooking time onto pan handles.

Transpacific Container Carriers To Raise U.S. Export Rates On Feb. 1, 2016

The TSA has recommended a general rate increase (GRI) on Feb. 1, 2016 in the amount of $100 per 40-foot container (FEU) for cargo moving via the U.S. West Coast, and $200 per FEU for cargo moving via the U.S. East and Gulf Coasts.

A slowdown in Chinese economic growth has hammered the global shipping industry, which exited the Great Recession to take advantage of low interest rates to buy new ships to handle a rising amount of coal, iron ore and consumer goods. But as China’s factories scale back and the economies of Europe and North America gear down, the amount of cargo traversing the oceans has slowed.

Specialty Food Investor Arbor Investments Acquires DPI Specialty Foods

Arbor Investments is a specialized private equity firm that focuses exclusively on acquiring premier companies in the food, beverage and related industries.

Arbor Investments has completed the acquisition of a majority equity stake in Ontario, California-based DPI Specialty Foods, Inc. from Dublin, Ireland-based Ornua Co-Operative Limited.

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