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...The European Medicines Agency recently approved the transport of the Pfizer vaccine at minus 15C, an easier task than at the original minus 25C....
...From mobile phones to refrigerated vaccines, goods are transferred between jets for onward journeys to distant airports such as Bahrain and Singapore, or sorted for transport by road or rail within Europe...
...And to source the right lettuce another local partner set up a special cold chain – from refrigerated transport to distribution centres....
...He cautions that regulatory requirements such as keeping vaccines refrigerated limit the scope for using commercial supply chains for medicines....
...All of the refrigerated containers needed to transport such produce from Latin America are made in China, and tens of thousands have to be shipped empty halfway round the world first every year, jacking...
...According to Simon Bird, the port group’s chief executive, not a single traditional reefer vessel – a ship with refrigerated, below-deck holds – has called in the past year at the quay alongside the cold...
...Sweden’s Nordea Bank last week announced it had sold 13 ships seized from Eastwind, a refrigerated ship operator, to Monaco-based Sammy Ofer, one of the world’s most powerful shipowners....
...The gas would need to be both refrigerated, as happens on LNG carriers, and kept under pressure, as is LPG. “It’s a natural move for us,” Mr Fruergaard said....
...The company pays slightly more than the market price – an “incentive for quality”, one technical adviser says – and handles all the transport costs, unlike market traders, who pay nothing for transport....
...According to AT Kearney, there are only 30,000 refrigerated trucks in the whole of China, a country with a similar area to the US and with four times the population....
...While the geography of the UK means transport times are far shorter than those in the US, part of the efficiency lay in forecasting techniques....
...Location is especially important for Chinese retailers because access to public transport is crucial – only 2 per cent of shoppers use a car....
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