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PepsiCo’s Massive, Complex, and Difficult Greenhouse Gas Initiative

Logistics Viewpoints

PepsiCo is a very big company, the second largest food and beverage company in the world. PepsiCo generated $79 billion in net revenue in 2021, with 23 food and beverage brands that generate more than $1 billion each in retail sales. Those brands include Pepsi, of course, but also Lay’s, Quaker, Doritos, Cheetos, and Gatorade.

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Rotterdam Food Hub Project Unveiled by Port of Rotterdam Authority

Logistics Manager

The Port of Rotterdam Authority who operate Europe’s biggest port recently announced the launch of the Rotterdam Food Hub. This new hub will strengthen their position as Western Europe’s biggest transit port for agricultural, horticultural and fishery products.

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What is Supply Chain Resilience?

GlobalTranz

COVID-19 triggered an unprecedented surge in panic buying of food, beverages, hand sanitizer, toilet paper, and other essentials. Of course, toilet paper and paper towels were in short supply as well. COVID-19 exposed vulnerabilities in food supply chains. Panic Buying Challenged Retailers and Suppliers.

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Low cost, high impact?—?World Food Programme (WFP) pioneer recounts his work in Mongolia, a new…

World Food Programme Logistics

I’ve been with WFP on and off since 2009 when I joined as a Food Security Analysis Intern in The Gambia. This has an indirect but very real effect on food security and nutrition in the country, and the recurrent nature of the Dzud means vulnerability is chronic among many pastoralist communities. Two boys I met on a field visit.

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Nicaragua: ‘It’s scary to listen to the sounds of nature’

World Food Programme Logistics

WFP teams assist hard-hit indigenous communities as Hurricane Eta courses across the Caribbean People salvage wooden beams to rebuild destroyed structures. Livelihoods drawn from fishing and subsistence agriculture are disrupted on Bilwi. WFP is helping with telecommunications as well as supplying food to people in distress.

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Looking Back at the Thanksgiving Supply Chain: How Turkeys Were Delivered to Millions of Americans

Locus

What would Thanksgiving be without any fresh food and turkeys? If there is a special acknowledgement, it should definitely go to the field agents who delivered turkeys and fresh food before that special day. US Department of Agriculture, Aug 31, 2021. – US Department of Agriculture Turkey market news report, Nov 26, 2021.

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UK government changes red diesel consent

Logistics Business Magazine

The UK Material Handling Association (UKMHA), the trade body representing all aspects of the UK’s material handling industry, has alerted lift truck operators to important changes in the permitted use of rebated fuels, such as red diesel. The changes are intended to incentivise users to improve the energy efficiency of their operations.