Rosslare, Ireland: Stena Line will bring forward the use its Stena Foreteller ferry on the Rosslare-Cherbourg service to Tuesday 22 December, ahead of its original date of 4 Jan. The freight-only Stena Foreteller will join the Stena Horizon which already operates on the route, doubling the freight capacity as well as the frequency of …
Suwanee, Georgia, USA: A&M Cold Storage is making 90 Carrier pods available for vaccine distribution. Each of the 90 pods has Carrier’s TripLink data management platform, which provides remote monitoring of the state of the refrigerated container and cargo and integrated with the Lynx digital platform. These units have been adapted for use in the field with …
Le Havre, France: The Normandy channel ports of Le Havre Caen-Ouistreham, Cherbourg and Dieppe have joined forces to help businesses meet the Brexit challenge come 1 January. The ports have produced a series of handy fact sheets and are organising site visits for operators. The border crossing process will rely on the smart border system, …
SIngapore: SeaCube Containers has acquired 200 Carrier pods in anticipation of demand for refrigerated vaccine distribution. The systems offer deep-frozen container refrigeration performance with telematics, data analytics and cargo monitoring capabilities. “With the rush to get billions of vaccines distributed and administered globally, the cold chain is expected to face some challenges for pharmaceutical companies, …
Novi, Michigan, USA: Lineage Logistics has expanded in Europe acquiring Pago; Poland’s largest cold storage and logistics provider. The move marks Lineage’s entry into the Polish market and adds six warehouses assets to Lineage’s network of temperature-controlled sites. The combined company will have over 1.9 billion cubic feet of temperature-controlled capacity across more than 330 …
Dublin, Ireland: Stena Line has taken ownership of its newest ferry, Stena Embla, following a handover ceremony in Weihai, China. The vessel is the third of five new vessels commissioned by the company.The new Stena ships are larger than today’s standard RoPax vessels at 215 metres in length and freight capacity of 3,100 lane metres, …
Brussels, Belgium: Luca Quaresima, Europe logistic and operations manager, NewCold Advanced Cold Logistics, has been awarded the 2020 GCCA European Cold Chain Future Leader Award. The award was presented at the GCCA European Cold Chain E-Conference. “I am immensely proud to be recognised as a future leader in an industry that plays such a critical …
Paris, France: Gérald Cavalier, president of the Science and Technology Council of the International Institute of Refrigeration (IIR), has shared his perspective on the pivotal role that the cold chain will continue to play in the battle against the Covid-19 pandemic and the race to provide a vaccine worldwide. In a detailed article. Cavalier said: …
Singapore: Carrier Transicold’s EverFresh atmosphere system for refrigerated containers has a new carbon dioxide (CO2) injection option to better preserve low-respiring, high-value perishable cargo. The new option allows the container to be charged with CO2 at the start of a voyage and automatically add more over the course of the trip. “The option is beneficial …
New York, USA: Pfizer has launched pilot programmes in Rhode Island, Texas, New Mexico and Tennessee to test the distribution of its Covid-19 vaccine, which has to be kept at temperatures well below freezing. Pfizer’s vaccine candidate has to be shipped and stored at up to minus 80C. Moderna’s vaccine, by comparison, can be stored …
Burtenbach, Germany: Growth in telematics use by operators has been boosted by open access to systems. Kögel Telematics has offered open interfaces to all conventional telematics portals as standard since 2018. Now, operators using Schmitz Cargobull and Krone telematics systems can also access each of the systems regardless of the telematics hardware installed or the …
Roosendaal, Netherlands: The Cool Chain Association has launched the Covid-19 Distribution Change Management Matrix, aimed at supporting airports to prepare their logistics for vaccines. The Matrix looks at adherence to temperature requirements, packaging, forecast and quantity, and timeframe across different stages in a vaccine’s journey through an airport. The Cool Chain Association will share the …
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