Cold Storage Supply Chain

Posted by Kumkum on January 20th, 2018

Cold chains are mutual in the food and pharmaceutic industries and also in some chemical shipments. It is also 'of import' to have a consummate chain of custody for the full life cycle of a product , so there is attested evidence as to who had control of the product throughout the lifecycle of the product , up to the concluding users consumption of the product . Unique to fresh produce cargoes , the cold chain necessitates to additionally keep product specific environment parameters which admit air quality levels ( carbon dioxide , oxygen , humidity and others ) , which makes this the most complicated cold chain to run .

Cold Storage Supply Chain is a logistics system that supplies a series of facilities to keep idealistic storage conditions for perishables from the point of origin to the point of consumption in the food supply chain ...

India is one of the world’s large consumers of food and the 3rd large producer of agriculture , harmonizing to 2015 Top Markets Report on Cold Chain by International Trade Administration . Some facts about Indian cold chain industry :

• Organized players lend only ~8 to 10 % of the cold chain industry market

• 36 % of these cold storages in India have capacity below 1,000 MT

• 65 % of India’s cold chain storage capacity is lent by the states of Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal

• At the current capacity only less than 11 % of what is produced can be stored . Initiatives to hike the cold chain infrastructure :

• 100 % FDI through government route

• Since 2011-12 cold chain has been given infrastructure status

• Viability gap funding up to 40 % of the cost

• 5 % concession on import duty , service tax exemption , strike duty exemption on respective items

• Subsidy of over 25 to 33.3 % on the cold storage project cost

• Establishment of National Centre for Cold Chain Development

• proposed fiscal outplay for cold chain infrastructure & food parks of US $ 335 million and US $ 650 million respectively

• Over 50 to 70 % capital grant on projects .

Cold Storage Supply Chain necessitate to be measured and controlled : During the distribution process one should supervise that process until one constructs a sufficient data set that clearly shows the process is in compliance and in a state of control .

Over the concluding few decades , innovators and disruptors alike have used technology to reimagine day-to-day life – the way we do work , the way we lift our families , even the way we feed is ever-impacted by the evolution of and accessibility to the up-to-the-minute advancements in technology . Cold chain logistics is dynamical , and the impact of technology on the industry continues to blossom . The challenge we confront as cold chain logistics providers is leveraging that technology to convey efficiency and optimization opportunities to our customers’ businesses. 

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The consolidation of the cold chain logistics industry that has happened during the concluding decade ( and is expected to go on in the near-term future ) also resulted in outstanding opportunities for companies to optimise the performance of their customers’ supply chains . At Crystal Group , we are constantly looking for ways to use technology and other optimization strategies to present value along our customers’ widened supply chains .

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