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Costco Helps Farmers Purchase Land And Equipment To Boost Organic Offerings

While other retailers have loan programs for suppliers to upgrade equipment and offer financial incentives such as advance payments or long-term contracts, helping farmers buy land to grow organics appears to be unusual in the industry.

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U.K. Health Group Advocates Activity Labels On Food Products

The "activity equivalent" labels would tell consumers how many minutes they would have to engage in several types of exercise, such as walking and jogging, to expend the calories in specific food items.

The Royal Society for Public Health, an organization of health care professionals in the United Kingdom, is advocating 'activity equivalent' labels, according to CNN.

The Case For Integrated Informatics: Regulatory Compliance, Defensible Data, Traceability, Brand Protection

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The complexity and scale of today’s food supply chain demands an integrated informatics solution.

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Air Canada And Cargojet Airways To Launch Dedicated Freighter Service To Latin America And Europe

The new Air Canada Cargo flights will provide 52 tons of net cargo capacity and are scheduled to begin June 9, 2016, subject to obtaining the necessary regulatory approvals.

Under the arrangement, Air Canada Cargo also plans to introduce dedicated freighter service to Europe from Toronto in the second half of 2016.

Hyster-Yale Group, Inc. Acquires Speedshield Technology’s Telematics Business In U.S. And U.K.

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Speedshield Technology, located in Melbourne, Australia, provides telematics technology for material handling equipment, as well as other fleet vehicle applications.

Speedshield Technology is the sole authorized provider of telematics products to Hyster-Yale customers, under the Yale Vision and Hyster Tracker telematics product offering.

Software & Technology

US Foods Acquires Data Analytics Provider Food Genius

Food Genius is a foodservice data provider specializing in collecting, analyzing, and delivering granular foodservice data and analytics.

Food Genius is a foodservice data provider specializing in collecting, analyzing, and delivering granular foodservice data and analytics,

Ocean Ports & Carriers

Global Ocean Shipping Alliances Press Forward

The European Commission, the EU’s regulator, has set April 29 as its deadline to decide on the merger of CMA CGM and NOL.

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Ocean Ports & Carriers

Ports To Invest $154.8 Billion In Infrastructure Improvements Over 5 Years

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The combined $155 billion, 5-year investment that U.S. ports and their private sector partners are planning represents a more than three-fold increase over the combined $46 billion figure obtained from the same survey five years ago.

Economist John C. Martin, Ph.D., president of Lancaster, Pa.-based Martin Associates, said U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis formulas show that investing nearly $155 billion in capital projects at U.S. ports would create about 1.6 million direct, indirect and induced domestic jobs, accounting for approximately 3.3 billion person-hours of work over the period of the investment.

USDA To Strengthen Local Food Supply Chains

The project, dubbed “Food LINC,” will connect demand for local food in in those 10 urban areas with supply from farmers, strengthening each region’s local food business sector and increasing consumer access to local food.

Food LINC is part of USDA's Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food Initiative (KYF2) supporting the Obama Administration's work to strengthen economic bonds between rural and urban areas, creating sustainable wealth for rural communities and putting more money into the pockets of rural producers.

CMA CGM Petitions EU To Acquire Neptune Orient Lines

The CMA offer resulted in the EU competition authority extending the deadline for its decision on CMA CGM's NOL takeover to April 29 from April 15 to examine the package, according to the Commission website.

CMA CGM, which ranks behind No. 1 Maersk Line and Swiss peer MSC in global shipping, submitted the concessions recently, a filing on the European Commission website showed. CMA is expected to withdraw NOL from competing shipping alliances to allay concerns, people familiar with the matter said.

2M Alliance Asia Cargo Service Adds Miami, Fla. Stop

The 2M Alliance, comprised of Maersk Line and Mediterranean Shipping Co., recently announced the launch of a new service, the "Lone Star Express," between Asia and the U.S. Gulf and East Coasts which includes a weekly rotation at PortMiami

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Investor Group Pushes Big U.S. And U.K. Restaurants To Cut Antibiotic Use

The move follows warnings from the World Health Organization that the world is moving towards a post-antibiotic era in which many infections would no longer be treatable because of the overuse of antibiotics.

Eighty percent of antibiotics produced in the U.S. are given to livestock, the coalition said in a statement, adding that failure to confront their 'irresponsible' use threatens both health and investor returns.

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