London, UK: The Fresh Produce Consortium has written to ministers to put forward its members’ concerns about the UK’s post-Brexit border strategy, according to the Guardian newspaper. The FPC says that “anticipated additional costs, delay and disruption” for checks on perishable goods would “materially contribute towards consumer inflation, business on-costs, food waste, and carbon emissions”. …
Birmingham, UK: Manufacturers could be at growing risk of food fraud if they do not take the correct precautions when selecting new suppliers, warns assurance partner, LRQA. it is imperative that food manufacturers maintain factory audits and supply chain assessments to preserve food safety in the face of events, such as the conflict in Ukraine, which …
Haughton, UK: Dearnsdale Fruit’s heat recovery system has over the two years since installation saved the business £20,000 a year says , which supplied the system. The Staffordshire soft fruit farm, Dearnsdale Fruit is now saving £19,596 and over 230,000 kWh per annum by harnessing waste heat from its cold store. The recovered heat is …
Beijing, China: China’s cold chain logistics sector has expanded in the first five months of the year compared to the same period last year, according to new industry data. The total cold chain logistics amounted to 2.65 trillion yuan (about 369.11bn U.S. dollars) during the January-May period, up 4.1% year on year, according to the …
London, UK: Today is World Refrigeration Day celebrated each year on 26 June, the birthday of refrigeration pioneer Lord Kelvin. This year’s theme is Next Generation Cooling and aims to raise awareness of how the cooling industry is adapting and evolving to meet the challenges and opportunities of increasing demand for low carbon cooling and …
Reading, UK: Nearly three quarters of UK cold chain operators say the cold chain has emerged from supply chain challenges, such as Covid-19 disruption and the energy crisis, more resilient than it was before, according to a new survey by the Cold Chain Federation. When asked about the long-term effects of Covid, most survey respondents …
Singapore: Ocean Network Express is installing Carrier Transicold’s Lynx Fleet monitoring system onto its existing fleet of Carrier refrigerated containers. The monitoring includes Carrier’s Reefer Health that provides near-live reefer unit performance as well as up to a 72-hours forecasts. A centralised data stream allows fleet managers to download diagnostic information about the equipment, giving …
Halton Hills, Ontario, Canada: Conestoga Cold Storage, a temperature-controlled warehousing and logistics company, is building a greenfield site in Halton Hills, Ontario, “set to become one of the largest cold storage facilities in the world”, it says. The new site will have “cutting-edge technology, sustainable practices, and a capacity of over 96m cubic feet [2.7m …
Blackburn, UK: Electra Commercial Vehicles has funding from the European Horizon 2022 framework to build a long-haul 40-tonne temperature-controlled drawbar battery electric truck as part of the Escalate Project. Escalate is a pan-European 37-member consortium from 13 countries, coordinated by FEV Europe. The project aims to develop heavy trucks above (40 tonnes) with electric drive, …
Indianapolis, Indiana, USA: Langham Logistics has adapted half of its Arizona building to good manufacturing practice controlled space to provide more than 9,000 pallet positions. The warehouse first opened in 2020 to provide customised transport, warehousing, and fulfillment services for the West Coast’s pharmaceutical industries. It is a day’s drive from the Port of Los …
Geneva, Switzerland: The IRU has joined forces with ITF, the International Transport Workers’ Federation, to launch a three-point plan to help fix driver shortages. IRU secretary General Umberto de Pretto said: “Driver shortages are quickly getting out of control. Balancing global labour supply and demand via simple measures to ease legal immigration and stop exploitation …
Liverpool, UK: Professor Tim Lang from City University, Sophie-Kim Chapman from DFDS, and Chris Hall from Asda will deliver the keynote sessions at Cold Chain Live! 2023, the Cold Chain Federation event taking place at the ACC Liverpool on 14-15 September. The conference will focus on ‘resilience and opportunity’, with two days of discussion, insight …
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