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Will pork market go hog wild over Prop 12?

Earlier this week in The Stockout CPG-focused newsletter, I discussed the impact that China’s efforts to replenish its hog population was having on corn and soybean exports as well as the related transportation challenges. Today, I dig into another pork-related issue, California’s Proposition 12, which could have a major impact on pork supply chains and prices throughout the United States in the coming year, ultimately impacting packaged food companies. For updates on issues impacting CPG...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/will-pork-market-go-hog-wild-over-prop-12

China disinfects cold chain shipments to avoid more infection

There have been growing suspicions among medical officers tracking Covid infection sources that the perishables supply chain may be providing the virus with an easy route to global markets. A new decree from the Chinese government that every imported cool chain shipment must be disinfected is further evidence for this hypothesis. According to Bloomberg: “Contaminated frozen pork from Germany may have infected a port worker in Tianjin, the local health …

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https://theloadstar.com/china-disinfects-cold-chain-shipments-to-avoid-more-infection/

Reefer volume and ship size up in North Carolina

The North Carolina State Ports Authority is celebrating a refrigerated container volume record and the expected arrival of the largest vessel ever to call the Port of Wilmington.

NC Ports said it moved 1,459 refrigerated containers — 2,918 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) — through the Port of Wilmington in April. It did not say what the previous record was. 

“Our record-setting April highlights our expanding perishables portfolio as we have quadrupled refrigerated container volume over the...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/reefer-volume-and-ship-size-up-in-north-carolina