Reading, UK: The July issue of Cold Chain News is out now. In this edition, Cold Chain Federation executive director Tom Southall examines the import controls due to take effect from 31 October while journalist Nick Hughes speaks to the industry about the solutions available. Highlights from the Cold Chain Federations’s annual Cold Chain Report …
Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA: Last month Compass Cold Storage cut the ribbon on a new cold store near Fort Smith in Mulberry, Arkansas. The new cold store, built by Ti Cold, has 18,500 pallet positions with a QFM In-Rack Freezing System. Cold Chain News spoke exclusively to Bob Tippmann, owner of Tippmann Engineering about trends …
Data and monitoring are critical to the pharmaceutical cold chain, says Christopher Engel, commercial supply chain service director, World Courier “In biologics logistics, there are established ranges for refrigerating and freezing drug substances and products. Logistics partners need to be able to handle products across these ranges with flexible capabilities underpinned by robust standard operating …
Karen E. Thuermer, a contributor to the Global Cold Chain Alliance’s COLD FACTS magazine, examines the growing role of inland ports in supply chains With ever increasing pressure on supply chains to improve cost structure and better optimise processes, a major focus has been on improving efficiencies. This includes the use of inland ports. “Among …
With environmental targets looming large for the cold chain, Dean Stiles find out how operators and suppliers are adapting their fleets The demands of low carbon and now zero carbon refrigerated transport have triggered a revolution in trailer and body design. The market is increasingly demanding “sustainable, emission-free and environmentally conscious e-mobility concepts,” according to …
Star Refrigeration’s Adam Strachan looks at what the proposed F-gas Regulation revision will mean for the cold chain. We are almost at the halfway point of the planned F-gas phase-down and on 5 April 2022, the European Commission proposed new revisions to the current F-gas Regulation to support meeting 2050 climate change goals. The proposals, …
With energy prices still sky high and government support being scaled back, how will cold store operators address this challenge? Dan Jenkins finds out Soaring electricity prices place a bigger burden on energy-intensive cold stores, while the threat of blackouts poses a risk to the cold chain’s operational capabilities. Against this backdrop cold chain companies …
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