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Embracing the Chill: How the Consumer Shift from Fresh to Frozen Effects Cold Chain Transportation

Blue Grace Logistics

They are adapting their strategies to meet the increasing demand for frozen alternatives, ensuring the supply chain remains seamless and the transition from manufacturer to freezer aisle is as efficient as possible. The increased reliance on refrigerated transportation and storage has prompted a focus on energy efficiency and sustainability.

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Diesel Van Turns Electric at Press of Button

Logistics Business Magazine

refrigeration units, bespoke fitouts, minibuses etc), to retain those vehicles for longer while still transitioning to an electric future. But electric vans today don’t meet the needs of the market and even Euro VI diesel vans are still responsible for a disproportionate amount of carbon emissions.

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Why the U.S. is a Global Leader in Grapes

MTS Logistics

It is thanks to reefer containers and international shipping of course. but also many other parts of the world, all moved in refrigerated containers known as Reefer Containers. All grapes not meeting the requirements shall not be imported during those dates, serving to protect the U.S. How can that be? from South America.

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Cold Storage Warehouse Fire Safety

Logistics Business Magazine

From a feasibility point of view however, cold storage is substantially more complicated and more expensive than dry storage because of the regulations around refrigerated freight. So as the demand for refrigerated products grows, so does the need for better fire safety. With special attention paid to vulnerable areas.

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Robots Revolutionize Cold Chain Logistics

Logistics Business Magazine

Therefore, the cold chain turns to automation to meet internal productivity needs and customer expectations and that’s where mobile robots play an essential role. Fixed mechanization, such as conveyors, takes up refrigerated space that isn’t being used to store the goods. from 2023 to 2030. The typical maximum speed is 1.7m/s

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Cold Robots for Cold Chain Logistics

Logistics Business Magazine

This has become critically important given how issues such as Brexit, the pandemic, war in Ukraine and the weather have each highlighted the role chilled and frozen warehousing has in creating resilience in our food supply chains; not forgetting of course how Covid revealed the centrality of low temperature storage in medicine and pharmacology.

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Delivery: A New Moment of Truth

Talking Logistics

Of course, delivery has always been part of the order fulfillment process, but it’s only been in recent years that it has emerged from the shadows, from being a cost center and a back-end process to becoming a competitive differentiator and a key driver of customer experience. Last year we bought a new refrigerator.