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A new container for keeping products cool under transportation has been developed. It works basically as a mobile refrigerator and is run by electricity, which ensures a constant temperature over a long period of time.
With this new cooling container we are able to offer customers with temperature sensitive shipments another high quality product. It guarantees a constant temperature all over the container from the moment it leaves the shipper and until it reaches the consignee, says Kenneth Marx, President of SAS Cargo Group.

Scania, the world’s only manufacturer of ethanol-powered commercial vehicles, is supplying the city buses for use in the BEST consortium’s field trials of ethanol as a vehicle fuel. The initial trials will take place in La Spezia, a coastal city in north-western Italy.

In an interview published in the Spring edition of the TNT Logistics Benelux magazine Hans van Grieken, corporate innovation officer at Capgemini, says that the future of supply chain management (SCM) will certainly be vibrant. He discusses a number of innovations including adaptive networks, integrated Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), sensor networks, grid computing and agent technology.