Cold Chain

Verigo CEO Adam Kinsey describes how the Gainesville company's sensor technology can reduce waste by bringing the Internet of Things to logistics and supply chain management, and after 4 years of R&D, they have launched a leading “pod quality” analysis monitoring device for the perishable supply chain.

The largest ocean cargo gateway for U.S. agricultural exports on the West Coast has announced a major upgrade, as Port of Oakland Commissioners last week approved an $11 million rail spur to Cool Port Oakland.

Food supply chain startup Verigo has launched a new quality analysis platform that enables pallet level monitoring to provide real-time analysis of fresh products, allowing growers, wholesalers, and retailers to increase quality and reduce losses of produce in transit.

This introduction paper provides everything you need to know about Pod Quality, including how it works, features, and benefits.

This comprehensive presentation provides an in-depth look into Pod Quality and covers the value proposition, product life models, current solutions, and the Verigo solution.

This auditing guide details the perishable supply chains for growers, distributors, and retailers, and how using Pod Quality as an auditing tool makes complex supply chains less daunting to analyze with unprecedented insight and control.

While Amazon’s recent bid to purchase Whole Foods made mainstream headlines, the e-commerce giant will still need to adhere to time-tested realities. Any way you slice it, the integrated U.S. cold chain requires optimized service from existing ports, 3PLs, cold storage warehousing, transportation providers and high-value vendors.

This consumer-focused “cold chain”—temperature controlled supply chain—is only a recent example of a decades-long push to perfect a global system of item level tracking in supply chain management.

Descartes Systems Group, a global leader in uniting logistics-intensive businesses in commerce, announced that it had acquired MacroPoint, LLC, earlier this month, LM learned that there would be implications for shippers reliant upon the cold chain chain.

Amazon's play for Whole Foods is a game changer for logistics managers who are still coping with the urgency of e-commerce demands.

FoodLogiQ survey finds consumers have exceptionally high expectations for food transparency, discover how to earn a customer’s trust, loyalty and purchasing power through supply chain visibility and transparency.

C.H. Robinson and Robinson Fresh recognized one of its employees who did something few people in the world have done – John Stenderup, Manager, Grower-Shipper Supply Chain Services, conquered not only the tallest mountain in the world, Mount Everest, but also the fourth tallest mountain in the world, Lhotse, within a 24 hour period.

As John Stenderup, Manager, Grower-Shipper Supply Chain Services, with C.H. Robinson recently learned during his journey to tackle two of the tallest peaks in the world, the logistics of it all is a primary and critical challenge, and as with any supply chain, success requires a multimodal approach.

The recent Global Cold Chain Alliance report shows that temperature-controlled warehouse space has experienced steady growth since 2014. Emerging markets, including those with undeveloped transport infrastructure, played a key role in this trend in spite of lingering challenges. Cold Storage Transportation News, Trends in cold supply chain tranportation

SeaLand, the Intra-Americas regional ocean carrier of the Maersk Group, today introduces the Port of Hueneme, California as a new port call on its West Coast Central America (WCCA) Service.