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Sherwood Food Distributors announced it selected Fr8Hub to help move loads out of Laredo, Texas.

Fr8Hub’s digital freight marketplace directly matches cross-border shippers throughout the United States and Mexico, to and from border cities like Laredo, with available carriers and drivers.

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“Our brand promise to customers depends on the quality and freshness of our meat, so we wanted the efficiency, flexibility and visibility of a digital freight broker,” Ari Stern, logistics director at Sherwood Food, said Sept. 24. “The visibility and tracking that Fr8Hub provides, knowing where a truck is and when it will arrive, is invaluable for perishable products and customers that depend on maximum shelf life.”

Detroit-based Sherwood reported it ships more than 20 million pounds of food products weekly through a network of distribution centers in Atlanta, Cleveland, Detroit, Miami and Orlando, Fla.

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It operates distribution centers totaling more than 1 million square feet of refrigerated warehouse space, it said.

Ohad Axelrod, co-founder and CEO of Fr8Hub, said: “Expanding our network’s capacity for refrigerated loads has been a focus for us in 2019, to prepare for leading distributors like Sherwood.”

Sherwood is celebrating its 50th year in business. — Transport Topics