Guangzhou, China: The provincial capital of Guangzhou has stopped imports of frozen meat and seafood from countries with a high number of coronavirus cases, state media reported on August 16. Over the last few weeks, Chinese authorities have reported at least 10 incidents of imported goods or their packaging testing positive for coronavirus, according to …
Rotterdam, Netherlands: Cool Logistics Global 2020 has been postponed to spring 2021, with preliminary dates of 18 – 19 May 2021 set. This year’s event will take placed as a virtual conference on 13 – 15 October. Rachael White, Cool Logistics director said: “Nothing beats the power of a face to face meeting. Under current …
Arlington, Virginia, USA: Global coldchain capacity grew 16.7% from 2018 to reach 719 million cubic meters in 2020, according to the GCCA’s 2020 Global Cold Chain Capacity Report. The increase in reported capacity since 2018 was largely from North America and China. The United States, at 156 million cubic meters, was the single largest country …
Auckland, New Zealand: Imported refrigerated freight is at the heart of a New Zealand probe into how four family members acquired Covid-19. One of the four people who tested positive for Covid-19 works at a cold storage site that is now being tested for traces of the virus, according to an article in the Financial …
Grover City, Ohio, USA: Carrier Transicold is helping the Mid-Ohio Food Bank, the anchor of the Mid-Ohio Food Collective, deliver fresh food to a widening base of people in need throughout the 20-county region that it serves With the demand for aid from food pantries spiking, the gift of a Carrier trailer fridge is part …
Wognum, Netherlands: Simon Loos is to trial Mercedes-Benz’s electric 25- tonners with Schmitz Cargobull reefer swap bodies. The trucks will deliver to shops in stores in Rotterdam and the Hague. Mercedes-Benz has been testing its 18- and 25-tonne electric trucks since 2018. Simon Loos is the first in the Netherlands to test the E-Actros on …
Arlington, Virginia, USA: The US Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has recognised the Global Cold Chain Alliance as an Alliance Program Ambassador in recognition of the association’s long-standing work raising safety awareness in the cold chain. “Since the establishment of OSHA nearly 50 years ago, and especially over the past 10 …
Brussels, Belgium: Shecco, a natural refrigerant marketing company, has partnered with German publisher VDE Verlag to translate its popular 2019 German textbook on natural refrigerants into English. It will be available in print and digital form from October. The book is written by the top academics and is a practical guide to working with natural refrigerants, …
Singapore: Carrier Transicold has added features to TripLink, its refrigerated container data management system. The system can better be adapted to suit specific customer requirements. Added functions include: Custom Notifications based on user-created parameters to show unit status, alarms or location. Geofencing combined with notifications for real-time insights as to when units enter or exit …
Greenwich, Connecticut, USA: XPO Logistics’ revenue for the second quarter of 2020 was down from $4.24bn to $3.5bn. Bradley Jacobs, chairman, XPO Logistics, said, “The ramifications of Covid-19 dominated the second quarter. Nevertheless, we beat expectations on revenue, adjusted Ebitda and adjusted EPS, and generated notably high cash flow from operations of $214m and free …
Plymouth, Minneapolis, USA: Nearly half of all respondents to a biopharma survey say they always factor sustainability into cold chain purchasing decisions, according to temperature-controlled packaging company Pelican BioThermal. The findings were revealed in Pelican BioThermal’s 2020 Biopharma Cold Chain Logistics Sustainability Survey. “Biopharma companies work every day to manufacture and distribute drug products all …
Berlin, Germany: For the sixteenth year running readers of German transport and logistics publications voted Thermo King as the Best Brand for fridges. Thermo King was voted Best Brand 2020 in the Refrigeration Units category of the ETM Awards organised by publisher ETM Verlag. Jorge Estelle Caro, regional director for central and northern region, Thermo …
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