All Cool Chain Association articles – Page 2

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    Perishables 'hard truth' discussed by Cool Chain Association

    2017-12-15T12:04:37Z

    The Cool Chain Association has discussed a “hard truth” about perishables cargo which sees one-third of all food in the US either wasted or lost.The association says that it is now, more than ever, time to act on standards and care in transporting perishables and pharma.Cool Chain Association’s chairman Stavros ...

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    Stavros Evangelakakis new chairman of Cool Chain Association

    2017-06-28T14:58:18Z

    Stavros Evangelakakis is the new chairman of Cool Chain Association (CCA), taking over from Sebastiaan Scholte who has served in the role for five years.Evangelakakis, global product manager of Cargolux Airlines, has been a board member of the CCA since 2012.Scholte, chief executive of Jan de Rijk Logistics, said: “The ...

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    Call for closer cooperation along the air cargo cool chain

    2016-09-20T08:31:48Z

    A rapidly growing market for global pharmaceuticals, already worth an estimated $1.1trn per annum, will require closer cooperation along the partners in the air cargo cool chain.That was one take-away from the Cool Chain Association (CCA) pharma and biosciences conference in Dubai, along with a heads-up that pharma shippers are ...

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    Supply chain transparency is non-negotiable

    2015-03-03T08:55:19Z

    FULL transparency throughout the whole airfreight supply chain – facilitated by digitised data flow – is the only way to tackle inefficiencies and arrest modal shift, a conference has heard.Whereas integrators have full control over their supply chains and therefore operate efficiently, air cargo does not, because individual supply chain ...

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    Cool-chain handling two-tier warning

    2013-10-25T09:06:59Z

    INCONSISTENT investment in technology and infrastructure among air cargo firms handling pharmaceutical and healthcare products is resulting in a two-tier supply chain, a conference on ground handling has heard.There are those companies who invest and those who do not, explains Marcel Fujike, senior vice-president of products and services, global air ...