To strengthen its transportation and logistics capabilities, Iowa Cold Storage LLC, Altoona, Iowa, said it has formed a collaborative partnership with ICS Logistics Corp.
China Merchants Americold Logistics Company Ltd. (CMAC), a 51-49 joint venture between China Merchants Holdings Co. International Ltd. (CMHI) and Americold Realty Trust, Atlanta, said it acquired a 70-percent stake in China Merchants International Cold Chain Co. Ltd.
Officials say a new refrigerated intermodal container rail and
distribution service between Quincy, Wash. and Chicago is quickly
growing in popularity with produce shippers in the Pacific Northwest.
Great Dane Limited Partnership said it plans by 2012 to build and open a 450,000-square-foot plant in Statesboro, Ga., to manufacture more than 5,000 refrigerated trailers per year.
Global material handling equipment supplier Dematic, Luxembourg, said it agreed to purchase North American competitor HK Systems Inc., New Berlin, Wis.
Global public refrigerated warehousing giant Versacold, Vancouver, B.C., said it earned awards for outstanding supplier service from Unilever United States, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., The Dannon Company, White Plains, N.Y., and Danone, Inc.
Global logistics services provider Preferred Freezer Services will move its corporate offices from Newark, N.J., to Elizabeth, N.J., "for growth and greater opportunities to service both international and North American business."
It's a third-party logistics company with a four-part new product package. Greatwide Logistics Services, Dallas, says there are four distinct components to its new Managed Transportation Services (MTS) offering.
There are new leaders at two of the nation's largest public refrigerated warehousing associations -- the International Association of Refrigerated Warehouses (IARW) and an educational affiliate, the World Food Logistics Organization (WFLO).