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Clean Energy To Fuel Bimbo Bakeries First Heavy-Duty Natural Gas Trucks

Clean Energy Fuels Corp.

Clean Energy and approximately 40 competitors have opened nearly 100 public heavy-duty truck-friendly stations so far in 2014, according to the U.S. Department of Energy, Alternative Fuels Data Center.

Transportation Investment To Grow Rapidly In South Africa

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC)

Infrastructure spending is expected to grow to more than $9 trillion annually by 2025, up from $4 trillion in 2012, according to a new report issued by PwC, “Capital Project and Infrastructure Spending: Outlook to 2025.”

Jonathan Cawood, PwC Head of Capital Projects and Infrastructure for Africa.

Ocean Ports & Carriers

Port Tampa Bay Signs Agreement With Cartagena, Colombia Port

This signing is the latest in a string of similar agreements between Florida’s largest port and other key Latin American ports such as Quequén, Argentina; Barranquilla, Colombia; Veracruz, Mexico; JAPDEVA, Costa Rica and the Panama Canal Authority.

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Risk/Compliance

Report Examines Food Fraud And Safeguarding The Supply Chain

NSF International

Effective implementation of the report's recommendations will require industry and government coordination as well as expert support to protect consumers.

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IARW-WFLO Publish Pre-Employment Assessment Template For Refrigerated Warehousing And Logistics Companies

Global Cold Chain Alliance (GCCA)

Developed by the IARW-WFLO Supply Chain Operations Committee, the assessment provides a brief overview of best practices in pre-employment assessments and contains two sample templates for warehouse and administrative candidates.

U.S. Growers Cold Storage Presents Sam Perricone Memorial Scholarship

Sam Perricone, who passed away in 2011, was one of the founding partners of U.S. Growers.

Featured In Food Logistics: Refrigerated Trailers Get Lighter And Longer Lasting

Trucking firms are generally more conservative when it comes to new equipment purchases right now because other costs – compliance with various regulations, driver and employee costs – are taking precedence.

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Carbon Footprint

Mondelez to Outline Sustainability Progress

Mondelez set a number of goals in areas such as the environment and sustainable sourcing that it hoped to hit by 2015

Instacart To Launch Grocery Delivery In Boulder, Colo.

The Boulder region would be the 15th market for the San Francisco-based company that developed an on-demand service that allows customers to order groceries from different stores and have those items delivered in some cases in under an hour's time.

Fleet Management

Omnitracs To Acquire XRS Corp.

Omnitracs | Solera Fleet Solutions

Both Omnitracs and XRS have been pioneers in developing fleet management and compliance technology, so the combined company will continue to provide products and services that help fleets stay safe and improve productivity.

Postal Service To Deliver Fresh Food For Amazon

U.S. Postal Service (USPS)

The agency will deliver orders to members of the AmazonFresh online grocery service between 3 a.m. and 7 a.m., when postal trucks typically would be idle.

Anheuser-Busch Converts Houston Trucking Fleet To Compressed Natural Gas Vehicles From Ryder

Ryder System, Inc.

The CNG conversion comes as the 2014 football season kicks off one of the company’s busiest shipping periods of the year – with 17 million cases of beer shipped by the Houston fleet during third quarter.

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