Eskilstuna, Sweden: Varubud Åkeri has upgraded its fleet with the new Thermo King V-1000 vehicle-powered fridges. Varubud’s makes deliveries in collaboration with local municipalities, schools and retirement homes, and its distribution fleet needs to be carbon neutral. For its new Volvo FLs, they were looking for a powerful direct-drive unit as a sustainable alternative to …
Tilburg, Netherlands: The highest cold store in the Benelux is being built in Tilburg for Agristo. The 47.5 metre high warehouse with space for 42,000 pallets has a surface area of 7,000 square metres and will store frozen potato products. Agristo is building the coldstore after running out of capacity: it currently stores product at …
Stuttgart, Germany: Mercedes-Benz Trucks expects to trial its E-Actros LongHaul soon with prototypes now truck built for testing. Mercedes-Benz Trucks UK is taking orders for electric right-hand drive E-Actros variants at 19 and 27 tonnes gross. The E-Actros LongHaul, with a range of around 500 kilometres on one battery charge, is scheduled to be ready for …
Paris, France: Carrier Transicold has supplied a Syberia 11 unit for France’s first electric-hydrogen powered reefer. The truck is the focus of the CathyOpe consortium, a programme to designing and build a 44-ton reefer with electric fridge all powered a hydrogen fuel cell. CathyOpe was set up in 2016 by GreenGT Technologies, Transports Chabas and …
New York, USA: The global cold chain market is expected to grow 12.3% from $239.67bn in 2021 to $269.1bn in 2022. Longer term, the market is expected to grow by 8.7% to $376.06bn in 2026, according to a report, Cold Chain Global Market Report 2022 by the Business Research Company and available on Reportlinker. Growing …
Stockholm, Sweden: Electric commercial vehicle manufacturer Volta Trucks has confirmed that Carrier Transicold will be the sole supplier of refrigerated equipment for the full-electric 16-tonne Volta Zero. The new agreement comes on the back of a project in which Carrier Transicold engineers worked closely with the Volta Trucks development team to integrate engineless ‘Iceland’ all-electric …
Geldermalsen, Netherlands: Simon Loos has expanded its electric vehicle fleet with seven Mercedes-Benz E-Actros trucks using Frigoblock refrigeration. The 27-tonne rigids will be used for urban deliveries by supermarkets and temperature-controlled food distribution in the Netherlands. “It’s an important achievement for us to see Frigoblock technology enabling our customers like Simon Loos to lead the …
Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, USA: Carrier is hosting a free webinar on electric transport refrigeration technologies that advance a sustainable cold chain. The one-hour webinar on May 25, 2022 is part of Carrier’s Healthy, Safe, Sustainable and Intelligent Cold Chain Program. Carrier has several low-emission transport refrigeration products for trailer, truck and light commercial vehicle …
Palm Beach, California, USA: Carrier’s Lynx digital platform, a finalist in the Edison Awards, has won a silver ranking for excellence in the supply chain innovation category. The Edison Awards are a globally respected leader in honoring the highest levels of new product and service development, marketing, human-centered design and innovation. The Lynx system, co-developed …
Long Beach, California, USA: Carrier Transicold used the Advanced Clean Transportation Expo to show its range of electric transport refrigeration and cooling products as part of the E-Cool series, which help lower emissions for customers across the cold chain. “Our eCool portfolio encompasses solutions for a wide range of applications to fulfill our customers’ need for …
Chicago, Illinois, USA: “Digitization will enable us to gain operational efficiency for both labor and physical space and monitor operations more accurately,” says Gary Teleky, operations manager, Reliable Healthcare Solutions. The company has installed warehouse management software from Mecalux that will send operators detailed instructions on how to perform each operation, from goods receipt to …
Los Angeles, California, USA: Electric truck maker Xos and Thermo King are to develop an all-electric, multi-temperature, refrigerated truck. Xos will use Thermo King’s units on the Xos Hub mobile charging station and Thermo King will use Xos’ Lyra Series battery systems on its electric trailer fridges and trucks fridges,
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