THE THIRD – PARTY LOGISTICS (3PLS) IN EMERGING MARKETS The cold storage industry in most developed countries has envolved from vertically integrated cold chains to true third-party logistics (3PLs) companies, focusing on providing logistics services as a core business focus. However, in developing and emerging markets, the reverse is often…
Managing Last Mile Logistics of Refrigerated Goods
MANAGING LAST MILE LOGISTICS OF REFRIGERATED GOODS Improvements in last mile logistics are as much about how you prepare for the last mile as what happens during the last mile. As pressure increases to fulfill more deliveries, the pressure to maintain the integrity of the cold chain also increases. Maintaining…
Increasing Energy Efficiency & Transportation Practices
INCREASING ENERGY EFFICIENCY & TRANSPORTATION PRACTICES Refrigerated warehouses (cold storage facilities) have one of the highest electric energy consumption rates in the commercial building sector. After personnel, energy is usually their second highest operating expense. Cold storage facilities consume an average of 25 kWh of electricity and 9,200 Btu of natural gas…
Structure Building Capacity the National Cold Chain Industry
Business in cold chain industry for storaging and distributing perishable products is still have a good challenge in the future. Indonesia still face some problems to provide a competitive condensing unit (low price with good quality) with having a good after sales service (parts preparation and its repairs, special in…
Postharvest Loss Problem is an Opportunity for Indonesia to Develop Its System
Indonesia faces food losses of up 50%. Faced with reduced local availability and affordability of nutritious food and malnutrition in particular in more vulnerable population groups a consortium of partners is taking steps to tackle this problem. Reducing postharvest food losses is an important contribution to improving local availability and…