For the fresh produce industry, quality control has always been a thorny issue. The industry now faces additional challenges in balancing commercial pressures, consumer expectations, and increasingly urgent sustainability concerns. And traditional, manual methods can only offer diminishing returns. read more

The Warehouse has announced it will be expanding its fresh fruit and vegetable trial to a further five stores and three new regions across New Zealand. read more

Austria: SPAR’s effective measures to reduce food waste read more

Declining transport volumes and rising costs are putting forwarders and logistics companies under increasing pressure. After two economically good years, the profit expectations of the forwarding companies have fallen significantly this year in view of growing process, personnel and financing costs.
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Lidl Italia, a large-scale retail chain with 730 shops nationwide, marks an important milestone on its path of continuous innovation and digitisation of its business. The company, in fact, has begun the progressiveimplementation in all its supermarkets of
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Sources say the Mediterranean Shipping Company is up for another round of newbuilding orders. The company has reportedly asked several South Korean and Chinese shipyards for price quotes for 8,000 TEU ships to be dual-fuelled with methanol or LNG. The number of vessels the Swiss-Italian carrier
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Burro is an autonomous mobility company that provides solutions for the agriculture industry. It has announced a new partnership with Salinas-based Pacific Ag Rentals (PAR), a provider of agricultural tractor and equipment rentals in the US The partnership will add autonomous Burro robots to
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In the panorama of oblong tomatoes for green and red harvest, Kws Vegetables' Navigante F1 plays a leading role thanks to its special features: as the growers also testify, it is an early fruit with excellent production capacity throughout the cycle. read more

Australia’s potato and onion category player Mitolo Family Farms has partnered with Coles as well as global innovators in sustainable packaging solutions Detpak to create what is believed to be Australia’s first kerbside recyclable paper bag for fresh potatoes. read more

The Board of Directors of Kühne+Nagel International AG will appoint Michael Aldwell to the Executive Board with effect from 1 October 2023. Aldwell will assume responsibility for the Sea Freight division and succeed Horst Joachim (Otto) Schacht, according to the
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In Viterbo, producers are preparing for the planning of the next brassica campaign. An extremely reliable partner is Syngenta Vegetable Seeds, one of the world's leading players in the segment, which has always supported Italian farms by offering innovative varieties
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The Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) find that many challenges, especially of transportation, should be tackled guarantee the exports from Uttar Pradesh. read more

Of the world’s 570m farms, a massive 90 per cent are run by small-scale farmers. Yet discussions on topics critical to their livelihoods commonly exclude such voices. read more

AP Moller–Maersk has ordered six mid-sized container vessels, all of which will dual-fuel engines will be able to operate on green methanol. read more

The UK government’s post-Brexit border strategy risks further pushing up food prices, according to the Fresh Produce Consortium (FPC). read more

CNS, a leading digital trade solution company, is calling on freight forwarders and customs managers to use the summer months to prepare for the imminent transition in the UK Government’s customs declaration process. read more

Fruit Logistica brought together agricultural professionals on June 22 in Almería to analyse the future of greenhouses in the region, alongside the University of Almería. read more

Valls became director of Spain’s large grocery retailer on September 29, 2020, during the Covid-19 pandemic, a period in which Mercabarna was able to guarantee the distribution of food at all times. read more

Stacked Farm’s total capital raised has hit A$98m following a new injection of funding from Tayside Investments Australia. read more

The horticulture industry is on the look out for emerging technologies that can be deployed to make it easier for growers to trace their produce along the supply chain to support maximum food safety and quality and support sustainability claims. read more