Glendale, California, USA: Avery Dennison has launched an active temperature-logging sensor which uses Bluetooth and Near Field Communication technologies. The new product is designed to automate temperature data collection in cold chain logistics, such as the transport and storing of agricultural goods, seafood, frozen food or pharmaceutical products. The sensor is a cost-effective and system-agnostic temperature-logging …
Brussels, Belgium: Fraikin Group has expanded its rental fleet with electric-powered MAN E-TGE vans refrigerated with Thermo King E-200 units. Fraikin is the first in Belgium to operate the Thermo King-refrigerated electric MANs. Fraikin is now able to give its customers the opportunity to experience the zero-emission, electric vans and test how the latest innovations …
Burnley, UK: CoolKit has started work to upgrade AAH Pharmaceuticals’ 950 reefer van fleet. CoolKit has expanded its team and added additional shifts to fulfil the additional production demand of 20 converted Ford Transit vehicles per week for AAH. Rupert Gatty, chief executive, CoolKit, said: “AAH is a long-standing customer of CoolKit. We worked closely …
Milton Keynes, UK: Dawsongroup Temperature Control has launched Polarstore Natural, a more sustainable refrigeration solution. The development is in partnership with Carrier Transicold. Polarstore Natural is based on the standard Polarstore Natural coldroom model but fitted with a Carrier refrigerator which uses CO2, in place of conventional refrigerant. This means the lowest possible Global Warming …
Ahmedabad, India: Peli BioThermal has opened a service centre in Ahmedabad, India. The new site is a full service network station offering conditioning and refurbishment services for Peli BioThermal’s Crēdo Cargo and Crēdo Xtreme bulk shippers to meet the region’s rising requirement for the company’s Crēdo on Demand rental program. “This is the latest development …
London, UK: The government is boosting the number of places available on its skills scheme to try to address a chronic shortage of lorry drivers. Government funding for the HGV Skills Bootcamps has risen from from £17m to £34m, allowing them to offer 11,000 places instead of 5,000. But driver training firms warn that they …
London, UK: ‘Tis the season to be merry despite coronavirus and Brexit! Global Cold Chain News wishes the very best for our readers celebrating the festive season. The weekly e-news sent by e-mail from Global Cold Chain News will take a short break from next week, 15 December, and re-appear on Wednesday, 12 January 2022. …
Welwyn Garden City, UK: Tesco distribution staff at centres in Antrim, Belfast, Didcot and Doncaster have voted to accept an improved pay offer, averting the prospect of strikes in the run-up to Christmas. Tesco’s original offer had been 4% rise but now the workers have been offered a minimum of a 5.4% increase, backdated to …
Prestwick, Scotland: Family-owned haulier Inverdell has added a new Daf tractor to its fleet to cope with rising demand for general and temperature-controlled freight. Asset Alliance Group supplied the Daf XF FTG.480 6×2 tractor unit on a three-year full-service contract.The new vehicle will operate six days a week, carrying out the company’s general haulage work …
Lelystad, Netherlands: Amex and Baas Warehousing, two Dutch operators, are the first in the country to take Krone’s Celsineo refrigeration system. Krone delivered the trailers to Amex in Lelystad and Baas Warehousing and Transport in Bunschoten. Both companies are long-term Krone customers. Amex has a fleet of 40 trailers and operates a coldstore. The trailers have …
Annan, Scotland: GSM Transport has taken delivery of two new refrigerated trailers from Gray and Adams, each with a Carrier Transicold Vector 1550 fridge. The trailers distribute milk in the UK for one of the company’s dairy customers, and join a 24-refrigerated trailer fleet that has been Carrier-cooled for more than 20 years. The two …
Tunbridge Wells, UK: Driver pay jumped 10% on average in the nine months to October 2021 in order to retain existing staff and attract new drivers, according to Logistics UK’s Skills and Employment Report 2021. The report reveal that, there were 44,000 fewer HGV drivers by this autumn compared to the same time in 2019. …
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