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Southern California Container Terminal Closes Over Driver Costs

Since shifting its business model to use company employees as drivers 16 months ago, Hub Group Inc. Chief Executive David Yeager wrote, Hub’s costs “have been unsustainable and substantially higher than our outsourced core carriers’ costs.”

Hub Group Trucking has closed its Southern California terminal serving the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach just over a year after converting its local fleet from independently-contracted drivers to full-time employees.

Supply Chain Visibility

Hostess Turnaround Story: How Logistics Makes a Difference

The Hostess story demonstrates the role that logistics can play in meeting customer needs in a changing market

Hostess Turnaround Story: How Logistics Made A Difference

The resurrection of Hostess Brands Inc., producer of one of America’s favorite snacks, represents the logistics promise to today’s food industry.

BRF In $50 Million Takeover Of Universal Meats

China Seeks To Strengthen Its Food Security With $43 Billion Syngenta Takeover Bid

The largest ever foreign purchase by a Chinese firm, announced by both companies, will accelerate a shake-up in global agrochemicals and marks a setback for U.S. firm Monsanto, which failed to buy Syngenta last year.

China, the world's largest agricultural market, is looking for ways to secure food supply for its population. Syngenta's portfolio of top-tier chemicals, fertilizers and patent-protected seed varieties will represent a major upgrade of its potential output.

Burger King And Tim Hortons Commit To Cage-Free Eggs By 2025

Restaurant Brands International (RBI), the parent company of Burger King and Tim Hortons, has committed to cage-free eggs by 2025.

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China Sentences 10 U.S. Poultry Supplier Workers In Safety Scandal; OSI Group To Appeal

The Shanghai Jiading People’s Court said in a statement Monday that it fined two of OSI’s units—one in Shanghai and another in Hebei province—2.4 million yuan ($365,000) and sentenced 10 people to prison.

Shortly after the ruling, the Aurora, Ill.-based OSI Group said it planned to appeal. It said the Chinese authorities unjustly held OSI employees for 17 months and barred OSI’s senior leaders and reporters from attending the trial.

Ocean Ports & Carriers

Traffic Delays Clog New York And New Jersey Port After Strike

International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA)

About 200 trucks were waiting in half-mile lines outside the gates of the Port Newark Container Terminal and Maher terminals on Monday.

With about 60,000 containers passing through the port’s terminals each week, even small delays can cost retailers, manufacturers and other importers thousands of dollars.

Truck Drivers Sue Flowers Foods Inc. Over Independent Contractor Status

Several trucking companies operating at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach—including, most recently, three subsidiaries of XPO Logistics Inc. —are engaged in similar litigation with independent-operator drivers.

The lawsuits come as independent drivers in various sectors have successfully challenged their status in courts around the country.

Ocean Ports & Carriers

Striking Workers At Ports In New York And New Jersey To Return To Work

International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA)

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said Friday night that operations would resume and the International Longshoremen's Association told its members to return to work as it continues working on their concerns.

During the year, the port handled 6,371,720 20-foot equivalent units (TEUs) (or 3,664,013 cargo containers), an increase of 10.4 percent over 2014 when the previous annual record was established.

DHL and Compass Group U.K. & Ireland Partner On Providing Catering Services

DHL will deliver end-to-end supply chain solutions, overseeing the flow of product and management of waste.

DHL and Compass Group U.K. & Ireland will partner on providing catering services to customers in the public sector, airline, rail and facilities management industries.

Amazon Defends Rising Fulfillment Costs As Stock Price Tumbles

Some analysts were struggling to understand what they saw as lower profitably than they would like, including gross profit margin and rising fulfillment costs.

Brian Olsavsky, Amazon CFO, defended the company’s fulfillment business in a call with analysts following the company’s quarterly profit report Thursday, which was its largest ever but not big enough to meet investors’ expectations, according to Barrons.

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