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Running on Ice: Triple-cooled cold chain

This year’s Future of Freight Festival takes place Nov. 19-21 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. But it’s not your average conference. Sure, there are wonderful speakers and fireside chats. But that’s only half the fun. F3 is set up with half-days of speakers and amazing content. The other half we take over downtown Chattanooga, and there are events, networking and a lot of fun to be had by all. This year, subscribers to Running on Ice get a promo code exclusive to us! You can register with this link...

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Information fog hinders air cargo readiness for COVID vaccine

Refrigerated containers get lifted onto a light blue cargo plane for Korean Air.

The airfreight supply chain is nervous it won’t be ready to support a massive global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines that could begin within months.

A fast-track development process, the complexity of handling medicines with stricter temperature requirements and lack of clear shipping specifications from pharmaceutical companies make it difficult for logistics providers to plan for vaccine delivery under expedited conditions, freight transportation experts say.

Cold-storage infrastructure, special...

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Cold chain provider FreezPak Logistics announces Port Elizabeth site

New FreezPak Logistics facility near Port Elizabeth

Third-party food logistics company FreezPak Logistics has announced plans to build a 140,000-square-foot facility near Port Elizabeth in New Jersey.

The Carteret, New Jersey-based company said its fifth location, located approximately five miles from the Port Newark–Elizabeth Marine Terminal, will be its first with an automated storage and retrieval system. The plans announced in a press release Monday call for the location to be outfitted with 12 robots, which can automatically store and...

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Career Tracks: Virgin Hyperloop hires CFO

Mass transportation innovator Virgin Hyperloop has hired Raja Narayanan as chief financial officer.

Narayanan most recently was a senior vice president for the Hyundai-Aptiv autonomous driving joint venture. Prior to that, he was with OneWeb, leading “the creation of a financially compelling offering for commercial aviation,” Virgin Hyperloop said. 

He also was a vice president at Panasonic and led the deployment of a strategic plan for the Internet of Things-based automation of the appliances...

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