Logistics

Transport refrigeration is provided by various means as the temperature sensitive commodity is moved along the cold-chain such as from the manufacturer to a distribution centre and then to stores from where it may increasingly be delivered to a customer’s home, typically in a van or small truck.

Refrigerated trucks come in many different shapes and sizes. They range from semi-trailers capable of carrying 26 – 33 fully stacked ISO pallets to smaller vehicles specially adapted by a manufacturer from standard cars or vans, sometimes in conjunction with a third party body builder who makes an insulated compartment to be mounted on the vehicle chassis. Multi temperature, multi compartment vehicles and their refrigeration systems are becoming increasingly common. In the majority of developed countries such vehicles are subject to “ATP” regulations (UN, 20155) which require minimum insulation performance and heat extraction rates to ensure cold-chain integrity.

Air cargoes are used to transport a variety of vegetables and flowers with shorter storage lives to their destinations. Pharmaceutical cargoes are also common.

Intermodal refrigerated containers are filled with commodities at or near to the source, typically carrying either live commodities to undergo ripening before sale or frozen cargoes to be further processed by a plant based near to the destination port.

The Mobility Package consist of the 2016 Low Emission Mobility Strategy and the packages Europe on the Move I, Europe on the Move II and Europe on the Move III. All these initiatives form a single set of consistent policies addressing the many interlinked facets of our mobility system. 

Europe on the Move I consisting of initiatives in the areas of Clean Mobility, Competitive and socially fair mobility and Connected mobility

Europe on the Move II or the Clean Mobility Package consist of new CO2 standards, the Clean Vehicles Directive, an action plan and investment solutions for the trans-European deployment of alternative fuels infrastructure, the revision of the Combined Transport Directive.

The third Mobility Package delivers on the new industrial policy strategy of September 2017 and completes the process initiated with the 2016 Low Emission Mobility Strategy and the previous Europe on the Move packages. All these initiatives form a single set of consistent policies addressing the many interlinked facets of the mobility system. The package consists of: A dedicated communication on Connected and Automated Mobility, legislative initiatives on CO2 standards for trucks, on their aerodynamic, on tyre labelling and on a common methodology for fuels price comparison and legislative initiatives establishing a digital environment for information exchange in transport.