Contributors from business, engineering, packaging, and economics survey the current state of food logistics, describe new technologies and intelligent systems designed to improve the efficiency, that is reduce the cost, of moving food products over vast distances, and present real-life case studies of such technologies in action. Their topics include food and drink manufacturing and the role of information and communication technology, telemetrics for the efficient transportation and distribution of agrifood products, evidence from the wine sector on applications of electronic business in the European food and beverage business, and visibility in a dairy distribution network enabled by radio-frequency identification. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)