High cost and high requirements of cold chain logistics:
First of all, to do cold chain logistics need to build a cold storage used to store the goods, and then have to build supporting refrigeration and control systems, plus refrigeration trucks and annual consumption of electricity, the cost has become a geometric figure, and these are finally to be spread to the shippers, the price of cold chain logistics is naturally has been high. But now the food safety of every person, so that each food business on the food transportation degree of importance is also gradually increased, after the practice of proof, the advantages of cold storage is also step by step embodied.
Nowadays, many logistics industries have started to do some adjustments for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in order to increase their income. Originally, due to the high cost, cold chain logistics is the exclusive property of large-scale superstores, and it is only these large enterprises that can afford to do cold chain logistics. The market for convenience stores and catering companies is very large, which requires the emergence of a new low-cost cold chain logistics system to solve. With the development of the fresh food market, there are reasons to believe that the arrival of the golden period of cold chain logistics is not far away. (From Changfeng.com)
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