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Your Transport Packaging Impacts Your Sustainability. Are You Measuring It?

ORBIS Corporation

Today’s food companies can actually prove the value of their sustainability if they look closely enough at the numbers behind the supply chain.

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UPDATE: U.S. West Coast Labor Unrest Hits Perishables Hard

The time- and temperature-sensitive reefer cargoes that have been delayed on vessels sitting outside the breakwater in LA/LB are deteriorating quickly and shippers are counting their losses by the hour.

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Interstate Warehousing Expands Indianapolis Cold Storage Facility

Interstate Cold Storage Inc.

The 309,000-square-foot expansion will be the largest expansion at one time that this facility has ever seen, and it will add more than 48,000 pallet positions in order to provide more storage opportunities for customers.

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Hanson Logistics Expands Chicago Consolidation Center

Hanson Logistics

This expansion provides additional space for the Velocities Multi-Vendor Consolidation program, a distribution solution for food manufacturers who consolidate multiple SKU frozen food orders shipping to major retail, wholesale, and foodservice DCs.

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DO & CO Chicago Catering Inc. Completes Facility Renovation Near Chicago O’Hare Airport

The 112,065-square-foot renovation of an existing building has transformed it into a comprehensive food preparation facility for DO & CO Chicago Catering, Inc.

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United States Cold Storage Adds Warehouse In Quakertown, Pa.

United States Cold Storage, Inc. (USCS)

This new location enables USCS to continue to grow its multi-vendor consolidation program and, in turn, drive down shipping costs for current customers.

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Volvo Near Deal To Deliver Parcels To Parked Cars

Volvo Car Group

Deutsche Post AG’s DHL unit is in talks with Volvo Car Group on a partnership that would allow the parcel-delivery service to remotely open autos made by the Swedish manufacturer.

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Mobile Grocery Shoppers Fill Brand Data Gaps

Infoscout, a shopper-research firm fueled by mobile shopping apps plans to use some of their recent funding to buy grocery shopping app Out of Milk to bolster its access to supermarket purchase data.

E-Commerce Solutions

Walmart Stores Inc. To Invest $1.2-1.5B In E-Commerce And Digital Initiatives

Total capital spending for fiscal year 2016 is projected to range between $11.6 and $12.9 billion, including approximately $1.2 to $1.5 billion for e-commerce and digital initiatives.

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Software Solutions

How Important Is Net Neutrality To Supply Chain Innovation?

President Obama invigorated the debate on how the Internet should be regulated when he called for clear network neutrality protections and reclassifying Internet broadband as a telecommunications service under Title II of the Telecommunications Act.

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Maines Paper & Food Service Reduces Tractor Fleet Repair And Maintenance Costs

Maines first partnered in 2010 with Fleet Advantage to study the feasibility of a paradigm shift from 6- to 8-year full-service truck leases to the EXchangeIT operating lease model using 4-year lifecycles combined with contract maintenance.

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Mondelez Invests $200 Million In Sustainable Coffee Farming

Over time, data collected across Coffee Made Happy projects will “help build the world’s largest database of coffee farm metrics,” according to Mondelēz.

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