Skelmersdale, Lancashire, UK: A pair of apprentices from Climarite Refrigeration have reached the final stages in the ACR Trainee of the Year Awards 2024. Michael (Mick) Brady and Alex Forkings beat fierce competition to reach the final stage in the “refrigeration and air conditioning engineer” category. They were nominated by team leaders and course tutors …
London, UK: Tower Cold Chain has introduced a carbon calculator to help customers improve the sustainability of their logistics. The carbon calculator was developed with Cardiff University’s Business School as part of a Knowledge Transfer Partnership. By offering data on the carbon footprint of each shipment, the tool can provide actionable insights that enable customers …
Winsford, UK: Fly By Nite, which provides logistics and warehousing for the entertainment industry has for the fourth time, has taken temperature-controlled trailers from Tiger. Adding temperature-controlled trailers to its fleet for the first time enables Fly By Nite Conferences to offer orchestras transport of musical instruments by keeping the internal temperature to a constant …
Cardiff, UK: Net Zero consultancy Amber has appointed Nick Richards as its chief financial and commercial officer. He is the first chief financial and commercial officer at Amber that provides energy management services including on net zero . Richards has 30-years’ experience as a chartered accountant and was previously at Unite Students, with numerous roles …
Don’t miss any of the Cold Chain Federation’s online webinars Energy Monitoring Excellence: driving energy and cost reductions19 November @ 10am-11amAssessing where to target effort and resource to achieve energy efficiency gains can be a daunting task, but effective use of data can be a powerful tool to unlocking big savings. In this webinar, Liam …
Rotterdam, Netherlands: Carrier Transicold will be at Intermodal Europe 2024 in Rotterdam, showing its latest suite of digital and electric refrigeration. Willy Yeo, director of sales, marketing and strategy, Global Container Refrigeration, Carrier Transicold, will deliver a keynote presentation on 13 November describing the critical role of sustainability and intelligence in today’s cold chain. Yeo will …
Reading, UK: The Cold Chain Federation today sounded the alarm over a significant increase in the cost of supplying vital temperature-controlled food and drugs. This surge is directly attributed to recent National Insurance Contributions (NIC) increases announced in the recent budget. Coupled with the weekend’s news of supermarkets facing a staggering £2.5bn increase in NIC …
Peterborough, UK: DFDS has added 10 Sunswap electric fridges to its fleet. The Sunswap refrigeration system was trialled by DFDS in 2022. It uses a combination of solar and battery power and trials showed that on one of DFDS’s longest routes the systems can provide 22 hours of cooling on a single charge over two …
Reading, UK: Applications for the Cold Chain Federation’s Cold Chain Sustainability Awards 2025 are now open. The Cold Chain Sustainability Awards recognise businesses and individuals leading the way to a sustainable future. Entries are now open for all award categories and will close on the 24 January 2025, with the winners announced at the Cold …
Miami, Florida, USA The cold storage business of property investment management company BGO has added a 178,000sqft warehouse to its US portfolio. BGO Cold Chain has acquired Medley Cold, located on a 15-acre site. Medley Cold Logistics adds to BGO Cold Chain’s cold storage portfolio in Florida. This follows the joint acquisition of Miami-based SkyChefs …
Amsterdam, Netherlands: Webfleet is expanding its OEM.connect partner programme to trailers with Schmitz Cargobull the first trailer manufacturer joining the OEM.connect programme. Commercial fleet operators can now easily connect Schmitz Cargobull trailers with Webfleet via factory fitted telematics, eliminating the need for aftermarket hardware installations. This way they can access powerful trailer data to boost …
Singapore: Carrier Transicold, in collaboration with IoT and wireless technology provider Net Feasa, has launched IoTpass, a dry container telematics solution that extends asset monitoring capabilities beyond refrigerated units. Fully integrated with the Lynx Fleet platform, IoTpass allows tracking of dry and refrigerated containers within one system and expands Carrier Transicold’s digital offerings enabling more …
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