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Embracing the Chill: How the Consumer Shift from Fresh to Frozen Effects Cold Chain Transportation

Blue Grace Logistics

According to the Food Industry Association, 15 percent of consumers are buying more frozen meat and seafood products, and 21 percent are buying less fresh meat and seafood products. The shift from fresh to frozen alternatives in the food and beverage industry has had significant implications for cold chain transportation.

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Cold Storage Warehouse Fire Safety

Logistics Business Magazine

While it may seem counterintuitive that fire is even a risk in spaces designed to maintain cold temperatures, cold storage in fact presents a huge fire hazard for warehouse designers and builders, life safety installation companies and facility owners. So as the demand for refrigerated products grows, so does the need for better fire safety.

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Delivery: A New Moment of Truth

Talking Logistics

Author’s Note: The following is an excerpt of what I presented recently in a webinar organized by Descartes Systems Group (a Talking Logistics sponsor) focused on “ Delivery – The Moment of Truth.” If you’ve been in the industry for a while, you probably remember “ the moments of truth ” that former P&G President and CEO A.G.

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Cold Robots for Cold Chain Logistics

Logistics Business Magazine

This has become critically important given how issues such as Brexit, the pandemic, war in Ukraine and the weather have each highlighted the role chilled and frozen warehousing has in creating resilience in our food supply chains; not forgetting of course how Covid revealed the centrality of low temperature storage in medicine and pharmacology.

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Trucking Regulation Tweaks for 2020

LandLink

Most in the logistics industry consider trucking deregulated. While this perspective is accurate in a financial sense, the truth is trucking is among the most regulated industries in the country. It is important to understand government regulations add significantly to the cost of operations which, of course, is reflected in the rates.

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Crisis-proof, customer-centric logistics in times of global pandemic

Forto

In China, trucks are at a standstill, goods are stranded in the country’s transhipment centers, and (refrigerated) containers are missing. The more than 200 million migrant workers who have been sent into quarantine are slowly returning to their jobs, but an end to the crisis for the logistics industry is far from in sight.

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How IoT is the next step in tracking automotive components

Automotive Logistics

What, historically, has the automotive industry done to mitigate parts damage throughout the supply chain? mpu_ad]More than 20 years later, the automotive industry is poised for a revolution in its materials handling practices, to which Tri-Wall can attest as a provider of packaging and logistics services to OEMs such as BMW, Toyota and JLR.