Award Winner Fresh Logistics
sector to become an Accredited Living Wage Employer we are pleased to support them as a market leader.” Fresh Logistics remain one of the highest payers within the region. Its commitment to staff via the living wage
and training has helped them win several awards over the last few years, including the Food and Drink iNet 2010 Innovation Award (FL created a new refrigerated parcel network in Lincoln), Refrigerated Courier of the Year Award in 2013 and of course the SHD Logistics Award. “The SHD Logistics Awards can do a lot for a business,” Alan tells us. “I’m absolutely sold that the Award secured us fi nance with our bank. It helps the fi nancier decide.”
TEMPERATURE REQUIREMENTS So how does FL manage consistently different products, with different temperature level requirements? Alan explains: “Our capital cost is 20-30% more than our competitors, because we pay for top quality kit for our vans and lorries, and devote a full-time staff member to this. Vehicles are kitted out to our specifi cation from frozen, chilled to heated. On some vehicles we can have both -30°C and +25°C temperatures. Not many companies can provide a heated service. We can also print off reports easily, to monitor vehicle temperature.”
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The SHD Logistics Awards 2015, aim to recognise, celebrate and reward the best companies within the intralogistics and supply chain sectors. The Awards will take place on Thursday 19th March 2015, at the London Marriott Hotel Grosvenor Square.
Companies can enter the following categories: Corporate Social Responsibility, Environment/ Sustainability, Innovation, Multimodal, New Facility, Operations (Large), Operations (SME), Return on Investment, Safety and Warehouse Effi ciency.
Entry offi cially opens the 1st of September 2014. Go to
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Quicker and fresher is what consumers will demand in the future according to Alan, and the conduct of your driver will matter more than the big brand behind them. He also expects compliance to drive through the industry: “The FSA need to tighten legislation on transporting food. At the moment anyone can buy a van and transport food products.” The team has previously been involved in transporting body parts for the training of medical professionals at Nottingham University, one of the best medical universities in the world, and Alan tells us FL aim to support and service the NHS further in the next fi ve years, transporting pharmaceuticals. It also aims to do more experiential marketing, which in the past has involved delivering 200 chocolate taste samples to households across the UK. Fresh Logistics are also developing the East Midlands Logistics Training Centre which is currently in its embryonic stage, supported by the regional CILT. Its aim: to develop apprenticeships and also act as a consultancy to the industry. Alan and his team, including Kelly Osborn who collected the SHD Logistics Award on behalf of Fresh Logistics alongside her managing director, will continue to operate an agile supply chain for its range of customers – the more abstract the better. n
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AN EELY UNIQUE PROJECT
Fresh Logistics undertook a logistical project to collect, pack, freeze down and transport conger eels over to Tokyo for a Japanese programme.
The programme begins off the Plymouth coast, where a fi sherman assists the TV crew in catching the eels. The plan was for the production company to fi sh two eels weighing around 20kgs each, then a third ‘giant’ weighing 30kg.
Fresh Logistics’ (FL) involvement in the project starts with the collection of the eels from Plymouth . FL had previously asked the fi sherman, the best way to collect these ‘snakes’. It was agreed that a ‘Dolav’ (a plastic pallet with a crate attached to the top) should be used, lined with plastic sheeting to prevent water seepage.
The eels were loaded inside the Dolav and then onto one of the company’s brand new high specifi cation refrigerated Ford Transit vans. The eels were then covered with salt water and brought back to the FL depot in Nottingham to store refrigerated overnight. The following day saw the production company arrive
at FL’s site to fi lm the packaging process. The congers were packed into black polythene tubing, sealed to make water tight, then shaped into a circle for ease of transport on a pallet.
Once all three congers were packaged, they were placed into a separate Dolav, and taken to its onsite frozen storage area to gently freeze down due to the tenderness of the fi sh.
The pallet and case for the long haul fl ight to Tokyo was made by Bampton Packaging. The packaging was designed to have a pallet base, a wooden cover, insulated polystyrene lining and foil for each side, along with two small shelves to stack the eel’s inside the box. Once the eels had been placed individually, each layer was covered with a small amount of dry ice, followed by a larger amount for the top layer. It was an overnight fl ight, and the eels arrived in
Tokyo at 15.20pm the following day and placed in storage, awaiting collection by the production company. Over the next few days the eels were de-frosted, ready to be used as ingredients for the Japanese programme.
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