Checking out the chill chain

A global conference on cool logistics caught my eye this week in the email pile. Cool Logistics Global conference will be held in Bruges 29 September-1 october, and it is looking at the whole chain of perishable logistics, from the cold store to the retail outlet. With the ever-increasing international presence of dairy products, and movement of products from one point of the globe to the other, this is a very timely gathering. Logistics will determine the winners and losers in dairy supply. If your shipping is not up to scratch, your lovingly aged cheese will be worthless by the time it gets to the US, or to South Korea. If you think a workers’ strike on the West Coast of the US can’t affect your business, talk to some of the dairies in the western US and Japan, who have suffered as a result from the months-long dispute.

But never fear, the logistics industry is working on your behalf. New types of chilled transport and being produced and put into action. This is a good thing for export, and the expansion is helping countries that formerly couldn’t sustain a chill chain to have one of sorts. Long may it continue.

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