MBO for Varekamp Coldstores Holland – enter Nowee Fresh Logistics
NewsFrom 1 March 2019 Varekamp Coldstores Holland BV will be independent, following an MBO from current Dutch parent company Kloosterboer Group...
Petit Forestier buys Reftrade
NewsFrance-based refrigerated vehicles rental and leasing specialist Le Petit Forestier has acquired Reftrade, the Dutch cold storage and refrig...
Costa Rican cold chain shake-up
NewsThe export of bananas, pineapples, melons and other tropical fruit from Costa Rica will never be the same again...
MMD starts 2019 with healthy new Seatrade contract
NewsMMD Shipping Services in Portsmouth, UK, the south coast’s biggest fresh fruit importer, can boast a good start to the new year, afte...
Round-up of cool moves
NewsBox ships for Dole
Dole has placed an order for two 2,500 TEU container vessels with China’s CSSC Chengxi Shipyard. Their value is unders...
GDP reefers from Braun
NewsBraun Container Handels GmbH, the Hamburg-based container trader and leasing/rental specialist, has teamed up with the European Institute fo...
Secure parking at Dunkirk ferry terminal
NewsThe new area able to provide secure parking for 225 HGVs will be managed for the port by DFDS. Meanwhile, another cold store is being built ...
Reefer box growth rate could triple in 2020
NewsCool Logistics conference hears how the IMO sulphur cap could cause a massive spike in demand for reefer container services....
New ships for Del Monte
NewsDel Monte has signed an agreement with Shanghai Merchant Ship Design & Research Institute to design six new container ships, to be built by ...
MCI takes 78% of Hapag-Lloyd reefer order
NewsMaersk Container Industry (MCI) will supply 8,600 of the 11,100 new reefer boxes HapagLloyd ordered in August....
Cold Chain Capital looking to invest
NewsCold Chain Capital LLC (CCC), a new Fayetteville, NY-based private equity firm, announced its launch in September. The company focuses on th...
Busy time for reefer container builders
NewsThe reefer manufacturing outlook continues to be very upbeat, with demand holding steady throughout this year after its earlier recovery in ...
Reefer demand to boom
NewsIn a presentation at the Cool Logistics conference in Antwerp this month, Anne-Sophie Zerlang Karlsen, head of Global Reefer Management at M...
Closing the loop on reefer monitoring
NewsEmerson’s new REFCON Portable Modem can collect data from reefer containers automatically, while connecting to existing power-line infrast...
Pineapples land at Tampa
NewsPort Tampa Bay and its cold storage tenant, Port Logistics Refrigerated Services, have announced that they received their first shipment of ...