By Jan Lievens, senior consultant, Applied Postharvest Technologies
As you probably know, our farmers, and many other farmers around the world, grow the best possible product on their vines, in their orchards, and in their fields. Read More »Quality sells…
By Andrew Perks
I suppose like most people you wonder why we have MHIs, Site Emergency Plans, Pressure Equipment Regulations, SANS 10147… – the list just goes on, and every time we turn around there is another one to worry about.Read More »Why all the legislation concerning our refrigeration systems?
By QU Dongyu, Director-General of Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations (UN)
The FAO has expanded on a comprehensive response and recovery programme to overcome the impacts of Covid-19 through up-scaled and robust international collaboration.Read More »Building back better on food and agriculture
By John Ackermann
Why is there so much legislation governing the design, installation, maintenance and repair of refrigeration and air conditioning systems?Read More »Safety Compliance – CoC misinformation could be costly
By Andrew Dawson, commercial director of MACMobile
Line of sight is the biggest challenge for all aspects of the supply chain, from the manufacturer to the wholesaler, distributor and the reseller and even to the end consumer.Read More »Technology makes supply chain visibility and predictive analytics a reality
Maersk has suggested it is prepared to spend at least USD1-billion on a logistics company takeover as the group progressively focuses on larger acquisitions to build scale in its end-to-end supply chain around a less cyclical ocean product.Read More »Maersk eyes substantial logistics acquisitions
By ID Label
Online grocery shopping feeds the demand for cold storage.
As more consumers turn to food delivery services like Amazon Fresh and Peapod by Giant for their groceries, demand for cold storage warehouses in the United States is on the rise. Almost 2% of groceries are bought online today, but that is expected to explode to 13% over the next 5 years.Read More »How to overcome cold-storage labelling challenges
News bulletins and reports may have us believing that the world is disconnected. Read More »Building cold chains across the globe at Cool Logistics Global in Valencia
Compiled by Ntsako Khosa
The past two issues of Cold Link Africa looked at the export and import of goods globally, in this issue we look at intra-Africa trade.Read More »So, about trading continentally…
By Jan Lievens of UTE
The last 5% of your timing in your product cycle is important, yet there seems to be a problem for a lot of people to understand the importance is of this statement…Read More »Speed syndrome in cooling fruit…