Cold Storage

Sree Ram

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• Publié par: gatiindia
• Publié le: 12 juin 2015
• Nombre de lectures: 2
• Langue: English

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The Necessity of Smart Cold Storage Solutions and in the Logistics Industry

Unique cold storage solutions are the need of the hour for smart logistics service providers. This is needed in particular when logistics is used to cater to the needs of industries like fast-moving consumer goods or consumer packaged goods such as perishable food, certain medicines, certain beverages etc. The need for smartcold storagesolutions is further highlighted in the context of distributing goods from one place to another across large geographical distances. These procedures may take time and hence need a good cold storage system operational for the preservation of goods.

Different types of cold storage facilities

Cold storage solutions are generally needed for both in transition as well as in-house or static facilities. That is because in certain cases, when the distance travelled for a particular good is longer, the goods need to be preserved in a state that is temperate. Hence, vehicles equipped with high-end refrigerators are often used to provide cold storages facilities to goods when they are in the move.

Use of cold storages within a distribution network

Cold storage services are further required for both primary and secondary distribution solutions. Cold storage solutions for primary distributions generally include long haul transportation of bulk shipments by a service provider. For secondary distribution,logisticsservice providers generally provide cold storage facilities within their intra-city vehicles that are designed to take the goods from the place of origination to the place of distribution where they are stored within large in-house cold storage facilities.

Cold storage and cold chain solutions

In recent times, cold storages have often been merged with cold chain solutions that are used by smart logistics companies for various reasons. With the help of better sync with the software model used by many of these companies, cold storages units have become integral parts of the systems

The Indian context

In a country like India, every large scale logistics service providing company must have a network of cold storage units. This is because of both the time that it takes to travel across the length and breadth of the country’s large distances, as well as the extreme weather conditions that prevails across the country, especially during the long Indian summer.

Smart cold storage facilities are part of any state of the art cold chain solution provider. Gati, with its proven expertise in providing cold chain solutions for transporting the goods of various companies across a pan Indian set up, is well equipped with cold storage facilities across its huge fleet of vehicles as well as its large network of warehousing services.