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US Foods Acquires Save on Seafood Amid Announced Layoffs

Florida-based Save on Seafood provides frozen whole fish, fish fillets, shrimp, shellfish, lobster, octopus, and other specialty items like shrimp burgers to grocery stores and restaurants in the Southeast.

Last month, AP journalists followed and filmed trucks loaded with freshly peeled shrimp from the Gig shed to major Thai exporting companies and then, using U.S. customs records and Thai industry reports, tracked it globally. They also traced similar connections from another factory raided six months earlier, and interviewed more than two dozen workers from both sites.

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Ocean Ports & Carriers

Gulf Coast Ports Think Ahead

The process to ready Gulf Ports for the Panama Canal expansion began years ago. Take a look at what these forward-thinking ports did to ready themselves for the opening of the Panama Canal’s new locks.

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Buying Versus Leasing: Factors to Consider

The decision to own or lease rests on the operator’s specific needs; total cost of ownership is always critical.

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Ocean Ports & Carriers

IoT Technology Uplifts Container Tracking

Improving monitoring capabilities prompt ocean carriers to invest intelligent containers.

Traxens remote monitoring technology was implemented on some containers on board the Bougainville, CMA CGM’s flagship vessel.

Watch Your Back!

The comfortable truth about warehouse ergonomics.

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Amazon's Grocery Delivery Moves into Dallas

In the Dallas region, Amazon is working with area retailers through its Local Market program, which allows customers to shop from speciality stores like Local Yocal, V+V Apothicaire, Scardello Cheese and others.

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East Coast Warehouse Receives Safe Quality Food Certification from FDA

East Coast Warehouse & Distribution

This designation puts East Coast Warehouse at the forefront of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) mandate and raises its status as a best in class, organically rated, temperature-controlled, food grade logistics services provider.

New certification raises the Company's status as a best in class logistics services provider.

USDA Announces $7.6 Million in Grants to Create Jobs and Grow Economic Opportunity in Rural America

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)

The grants will support communities in at least 24 states and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, with several projects spanning communities in multiple states.

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Emerging Technologies

IBM, Wal-Mart and Chinese University Collaborate to Track Food on Blockchain

Chinese food safety practices have raised concern about contamination in China and in countries where Chinese food products are imported, and the new project aims to trace the movement of meat, vegetables and other products.

Blockchain technology, which powers the digital currency bitcoin, enables data sharing across a network of individual computers. It has gained popularity worldwide due to its usefulness in recording and keeping track of assets across practically all industries.

Walmart Invests $25 Million on Food Safety Research in China

Wal-Mart also announced three projects including one that brings U.S. and China academics together with local poultry producers Fujian Shengnong Food Co., New Hope Liuhe Co. and Guangzhou Jiangfeng Industry Co. to study safety in poultry supply chains.

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Waste Reduction

Brambles and The Global FoodBanking Network Partner to Alleviate World Hunger and Reduce Food Waste

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The agreement comes as the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization reports that the value of food lost or wasted annually around the globe amounts to roughly $680 billion in industrialized countries and $310 billion in developing countries.

Brambles has signed a three-year agreement with the international non-profit organization The Global FoodBanking Network (GFN) to provide supply chain knowledge, in-kind contributions, volunteers and donations to help finance GFN operations, in an effort to reduce hunger, poverty, malnutrition and food waste globally.

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