Register for the FREE Makers & Movers Cold Chain 2021: Global access and distribution Covid-19 Vaccine virtual summit, taking place 4th February from 08:00 CET. Cool Logistics is the Organizing Partner for this key international event, working with hosts Alcott Global. With an estimated 15 million deliveries needed over the next two years to deliver 10 billion doses of vaccine around the world, this is one of, if not the, biggest peacetime logistics and supply chain challenge the international community has ever faced. Read More

As traces of Covid-19 are found in Chinese ice cream, questions are once more being asked about the risks of catching the disease from frozen food.  Although the World Health Organisation has advised that the possibility of catching Covid-19 from frozen food is low, China has stepped up frozen food import inspections significantly since late 2020, after a truck driver was infected with the disease after handling pork imported from North America, according to Chinese authorities.

Emergency measures are being planned at ports to prevent feared fresh food shortages in British supermarket chains as a result of Brexit. Plans include allowing empty lorries to skip queues at key ports to expedite their return from the UK to the EU to speed up restocking with supplies. Such a scheme could see up to 300 lorries being fast-tracked outside Dover and Folkstone for the largest supermarkets only. Supermarkets are already reporting gaps on the shelves in fresh produce aisles whilst industry bodies have highlighted that the new Brexit agreement is ‘pretty much unworkable’, leaving the fresh food supply chain seriously at risk of disruption. Read More