Maersk Air Cargo has idled several leased cargo jets and dialed back flight activity in response to deteriorating demand in the airfreight market. And a planned route between China and the U.S. is on hold. read more

Two years ago, the Escobar-Castañeda family, owners of the brands King Courgette and Queen Aubergine, decided to completely transform their business to include their farmers under a common project of transformation towards sustainability and digital transition. read more

Robotic order fulfillment company Cimcorp is unveiling its latest retail solution for retrofitting distribution centers with automation. Headquartered in Finland with a North American office in Grimsby, Ontario, Cimcorp provides a range of automated storage and order picking systems designed to
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The topic of sustainability remains on the agenda. For the consumer, however, sustainability is often an overwhelming challenge, as the term is not particularly sharply defined. read more

AgroScout, a provider of precision agriculture technology, has announced its collaboration with potato growers in the US, bringing a comprehensive solution for collecting and analyzing data throughout the entire potato growth cycle. The technology leverages the latest in drone, satellite, and
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The Sorma Open Days took place last Thursday 2nd and Friday 3rd at the company's facilities in the Valencian town of Puzol. The demonstration events were attended by numerous customers and friends of the company. read more

Dubai-based global port operator DP World is investing £12m in two new rail mounted gantry (RMG) cranes at its London Gateway port to meet fast growing demand for rail connections from customers at the smart logistics hub, which it says will increase the port’s capacity by a third when a new
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The packaging features a linen net to provide product visibility and was launched on the market at the beginning of March. read more

A new report published by the Fairtrade Foundation, which includes analysis by independent advisors 3Keel, has exposed the environmental risks that could threaten some of the UK’s favourite foods. The report notes that the supply chains for bananas, coffee, and cocoa originate from countries
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Wonderful Pistachios has released its newest commercial as part of its Get Crackin’ campaign featuring Spot®, an agile mobile robot from Boston Dynamics engineering and robotics design company.  read more

Planning and controlling processes effectively are two of the most important things when it comes to fresh food. In reality, however, many companies struggle with insufficient networking of their plants, manual entries in confusing Excel spreadsheets and planning errors based on this. read more

CMA CGM has revealed its 2022 annual financial results. The highlights are: Revenue and operating profit up year-on-year. A year of accelerated development for the Group, driven by strategic acquisitions across the shipping and logistics value chain. Investments aimed at accelerating the
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DP World is planning to invest USD $38 million in 2023 to expand and modernize its facilities located on the left bank of Brazil’s Port of Santos. The port is one of the largest and most modern private multipurpose port terminals in the country. read more

Group A. De Witte has begun the considerable expansion of its Starpack site. This exotic fruit site was bustling last week with the delivery of seven 45-meter-long wooden trusses. "That had some logistics involved with extraordinary transportation needed to get them here," says this Belgian
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A melon whose rind changes color to signal its ideal harvest, storage, and consumption time? That's the new melon line developed by Syngenta Vegetable Seeds. The patent-pending technology was presented at this year's Berlin trade fair, where it won the Fruit Logistica Innovation Silver Award 2023. read more

Apeel Sciences has promoted Ryan Fink to senior vice president of the Americas and Marius du Plessis to chief commercial officer in EMEA. Du Plessis and Fink will leverage the company’s produce supply chain experience to strengthen Apeel’s core commercial business, improve supply network
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With the opening of the new Food Fulfillment Centre, a specialised delivery service warehouse in Bochum, around 1.6 million households can now also use the Rewe delivery service in the Ruhr region. This means that customers in 15 cities benefit from fast deliveries and a large assortment. To
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In the paper packaging sector, a price reduction can currently be observed, while the shortage of materials and the associated delivery times are also tending to decline. "However, falling material prices are only one factor because, at the same time, all other costs, whether logistics, energy,
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The Sociedad Agraria de Transformación (SAT) Del Campo, located in the town of Villacañas (Toledo) and dedicated to the production and processing of pistachio nuts, has received the quality and food safety certificate of the international quality and food safety standard 'International
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Cao Phong oranges from the northern province of Hoa Binh are now officially put up for sale in the UK. This marks the return of this specialty to the global market after over 40 years. The nearly 7 tons of Cao Phong orange, exported via the official channel by the Hoa Binh-based RYB Joint Stock
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