The Panama Maritime Authority granted permits to a private development group for the construction and operation of a new container terminal to be built at the Atlantic entrance of the Panama Canal.
Seattle's Seafreeze / City Ice, a leading cold storage provider on the Port of Seattle, said it hired Bonnie Geise as vice president of business development.
One of the nation's largest public refrigerated warehouse operators, Millard Refrigerated Services, Omaha, Neb., said it simplified its brand identity and now will known as Millard.
Global warehousing and logistics services provider VersaCold, Vancouver, B.C., said it plans in July to open a 196,000-sq.-ft. public refrigerated storage and distribution center in Tacoma, Wash.
Inland Cold Storage (ICS), Riverside, Calif., said it opened its sixth facility, a 4.5 million-cubic-foot frozen warehouse at the Port of Stockton in Stockton, Calif.
Southeast public refrigerated warehouse operator Nordic Cold Storage LLC, Atlanta, said it opened its 13th location, a 3 million-cubic-foot frozen distribution and import/export center in Wilmington, N.C.
The International Refrigerated Transportation Association (IRTA) announced that it elected Stephen J. Galati, Esq., shareholder of the law firm of Mattioni, Ltd., as its Chairman for 2008-2009.
