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IARW announces 2015 list of largest refrigerated warehouses
1. IARW announces 2015 list of largest refrigerated
warehouses
The International Association of Refrigerated Warehouses (IARW) has released its annual Top 25
Lists of the largest temperature-controlled warehousing and logistics providers in the world.
Accompanying the Global Top 25 is the IARW North American Top 25 List. For the first time, IARW
has also compiled a list of the largest operators in Latin America and the Caribbean and Europe,
reflecting the strength of the cold chain in both regions. The lists are determined by total capacity of
temperature-controlled space.
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The index ISM uses to measure non-manufacturing growth--known as the NMI--was 56.5 in March,
which was 0.4 percent below March and also 0.6 percent below of the 12-month average of 57.1.
Economic activity in the non-manufacturing sector has grown for the last 62 months, according to
ISM.
Roughly six weeks after the International Warehouse Longshore Union and the Pacific Maritime
Association (PMA) reached a tentative five-year labor agreement, following nine months of often
acrimonious negotiations that led to myriad supply chain and logistics disruptions, the ILWU said
late last week that steps are being taken to make the tentative agreement a done deal.
The global list's combined space under management up 6.5% from last year, North American list up
4%.
A vessel backlog constricting containerized trade since January has eased at the Port of Oakland.
The port said today there are no vessels in San Francisco Bay or outside the Golden Gate awaiting
berths.
The United States Department of Transportation said yesterday that the seventh round of its TIGER
(Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery) competitive grant program was rolled
out with $500 million available for national transportation projects.
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