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Valentine’s Day supply chain dance, retail returns may never end, and avocado toast prices are here to ruin millennials’ home-buying chances.

Remember “The Love Boat”? Today, we present the Love Plane, bringing your sweetheart goodies for Valentine’s Day.

Border agents say Mother’s Day week is one of their busiest for inspecting agriculture-related imports.

The logistics of getting flowers from warm growing climates to people’s doorsteps is complex. Airlines play a big role.

If it weren’t for sophisticated cold chains, your Valentine’s Day roses could be wilting.

With Valentine’s Day just days away, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents are working hard to make sure imported flowers are pest and disease free. “CBP agriculture specialists are working hard every day preventing potentially harmful plant pests and foreign animal diseases from entering the U.S.,” Hector Mancha, CBP El Paso director of field […]

Southwest Airlines is a fan favorite in the freight forwarding community. Bar code scanning and canine inspection dogs aren’t pioneering moves, but could help keep that satisfaction quotient high.

Freight volumes continue to increase steadily with no real implications to rates yet. Mother’s Day flower season hits Miami.

FloraHolland is the world’s largest flower market, creating liquidity for flower growers all over the world.

Happy Mother’s Day! Ever wonder how all those flowers get to mom? This infographic shows how Holland does its part.

The Mother’s Day demand for reefer trucks full of flowers has stressed an already tight capacity segment that is hauling record fruit and vegetable tonnage. The result? An unprecedented spike in reefer spot rates.

In all, 35% of Americans will purchase flowers this year, says the Society of American Florists, totaling some $2 billion in sales, and the most of them get to their destinations via the trucks.