Skycooler: A promising development in cool-chain logistics?

October 31, 2006 by SwizStick  
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Via Air Cargo News:

The UK-based company enters the increasingly important cool-chain air cargo sector offering airlines its SKYcooler temperature control containers on medium and long-term leases at highly favourable rates. Skycooler thus provides airlines with a greater choice of options as temperature controlled containers are currently primarily available on a short-term lease and ownership basis.

Don’t know too much about Skycooler or the market for temperature-controlled air containers, but speaking from experience I can tell you that the cool-chain air cargo sector is pretty much hit and miss. Too many stations don’t have warehouses equipped with temperature control facilities, handling instructions are often not followed, and sometimes the cargo does not fly as booked or, even worse, left on the tarmac somewhere in Southeast Asia or the Middle East in the middle of summer.

Hopefully this will be a promising development for the air cargo industry.

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