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Palm Output Hit by Double Whammy of Floods and Scarce Labor

Palm oil production in Malaysia is being dealt a double blow from a persistent shortage of workers to harvest the crop and torrential rains that have triggered floods in key growing areas of the world’s No. 2 supplier.

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The Food Industry Needs a Shot of Resilience This Year

Food and drink companies continue to face significant carrier limitations, rising shipping costs and the challenge of integrating an omnichannel sales experience.

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C.H. Robinson Launches Consumer Brand as Robinson Fresh

Robinson Fresh, a division of global logistics company C.H. Robinson, is now offering fresh produce under its own name for the first time in the company’s 115-year history of providing and transporting fresh produce.

U.S., EU Battle Over Aircraft Subsidies, While Wine Industry Pays the Price

In the battle between the U.S. and European Union over subsidies for aircraft manufacturers, wine producers and importers have become collateral damage.

Source: Bloomberg

Global Food Prices at Six-Year High Are Set to Keep On Climbing

Global food prices reached a six-year high in December and are likely to keep rising into 2021, adding to pressure on household budgets while hunger surges around the world.

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Can Smaller Grocers Survive the E-Commerce Game?

Attempts in the early dotcom era to sell food and other grocery items over the internet sputtered. But with the coming of COVID-19, everything has changed.

A worker places groceries from an online order into a Peapod delivery bin at a Stop & Shop supermarket. Photo: Bloomberg.

Building the Food Industry’s Resilience Beyond the Pandemic

While no industry was completely immune, the food industry was hit especially hard by the pandemic, which restricted worker movement, forced production facilities to close and brought food distribution to a halt — all while consumer demand fluctuated with little predictability.

Photo: Bloomberg

Slave Labor Discovered Among Brazil’s Top Beef Supply Chains

A few feeder farms to some of Brazil’s top beef producers have used slave labor, according to a new report, adding urgency to government and corporate promises to clean up the meat supply chain.

Source: Bloomberg

Seven Shifts in Retail Logistics to Expect This Year

It’s time for retailers emerging from a shaky peak season to reflect and plan for what’s ahead.

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Brexit Is a New World Businesses Still Need to Figure Out

British businesses probably didn’t expect to start 2021 worrying about wooden pallets after a year of grappling with the coronavirus and a meltdown in the economy.

Photo: Bloomberg

To Winter-Proof Your Supply Chain, Consider These Three Factors

With the first winter weather of the pandemic bearing down across the U.S., shippers are looking to ensure their supply chains aren't further disrupted by freezing temperatures.

A U.S. Postal Service mail truck drives down a snowy street. Photo: Shutterstock.

Blockchain Gets a Boost in the Ag Supply Chain

As the fog of hype that accompanied the early days of blockchain begins to lift, the technology is beginning to yield tangible results in a variety of industries, most notably worldwide agribusiness.

Source: Bloomberg

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