Maintaining the cold chain for 20 hours, supplying 102 stores every day from a single warehouse, without any cold rooms in store and using non-refrigerated trucks — this is the exceptional logistics challenge that Colruyt France successfully tackled with Olivo Cold Logistics. Here is a closer look at a customer case that is reshaping temperature-controlled food distribution.
19 March 2026
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In many organizations, the choice of an insulated container supplier is still...
26 February 2026 by Edina GÁLFI
In cold-chain logistics, the term “eutectic cooling” is often used as if it referred to a single, homogeneous solution. In reality, this label covers very different products whose performance, autonomy, quality of cooling delivery, and even operational safety depend directly on one key factor : their chemical composition.
12 January 2026 by Edina GÁLFI
Transport under controlled temperature is a major logistical challenge, especially for companies that need to ship large volumes of food, pharmaceutical, or temperature-sensitive products. How can we optimize mass transport while ensuring profitability, speed, and safety?
18 November 2025 by Edina GÁLFI
In the foodservice sector, respecting the cold chain is a strict obligation to guarantee food safety. Poor temperature management can lead to serious health risks, financial losses, and regulatory penalties.
14 October 2025 by Edina GÁLFI
Maintaining the cold chain is essential when transporting sensitive goods, whether they are food items or pharmaceutical products. Any breach in temperature control can jeopardize the safety or integrity of the cargo. Even brief temperature excursions can deteriorate product quality, shorten shelf life, and pose health risks.
16 September 2025 by Edina GÁLFI
The transportation of frozen products is a key link in the cold...
16 July 2025 by Edina GÁLFI
Temperature-controlled transport refers to the movement of temperature-sensitive goods using cold chain logistics solutions. The goal is to preserve the quality, sanitary safety, and organoleptic properties of sensitive products throughout the logistics chain, from production site to point of consumption.
2 July 2025 by Edina GÁLFI
Supply chain management in large-scale retail is essential to ensuring product availability on store shelves—especially for fresh and frozen goods, which require strict cold chain control. The challenges of cold logistics are numerous, and optimizing supply chain processes remains a top priority for industry players.
4 June 2025 by Edina GÁLFI
As part of the 2025 edition of SITL, transport and data management professionals gathered at a conference dedicated to the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and the eFTI (Electronic Freight Transport Information) protocol. The event was hosted by IN GROUP, experts in logistics data, with contributions from public and private players involved in the digitization of transport.
12 May 2025 by Edina GÁLFI
Implementing Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) principles is crucial for ensuring food safety, particularly in the distribution of perishable goods requiring temperature control. HACCP focuses on identifying, evaluating, and controlling significant hazards to food safety.
7 April 2025 by Edina GÁLFI
The pro cycling logistics Forum, held in Lyon on January 22, 2025, brought together experts, businesses, and public officials to discuss the advancements and challenges in this rapidly growing sector.
13 February 2025 by Edina GÁLFI
In the sector of transporting temperature-sensitive products, maintaining a continuous specific temperature is crucial for ensuring product quality and safety. Eutectic plates are thermal devices that use the principle of latent heat to regulate the temperature inside containers. This article explores the role of eutectic plates, their operation, and best practices for using them effectively.
9 January 2025 by Edina GÁLFI
The Agreement on the Transport of Perishable Foodstuffs (ATP) sets the requirements for equipment and vehicles used in transporting temperature-sensitive products. This article explores the main features of the ATP, the requirements for insulated equipment, and the certification and compliance procedures for users.
15 December 2024 by Edina GÁLFI
Rigorous temperature monitoring throughout the distribution process helps prevent non-compliance, reduce food waste, and ensure consumer satisfaction. With strict regulations and rising expectations, it is necessary to implement effective solutions for temperature monitoring.
5 November 2024 by Edina GÁLFI
Whether through internal testing activities, outsourcing, or full delegation to a testing center, it is crucial to ensure compliance with temperature standards to guarantee the quality and safety of the transported perishable goods.
9 October 2024 by Edina GÁLFI
Learn how to enhance your equipment's performance through effective maintenance practices and tailored training.
26 September 2024 by Webqam
Are you planning to start up a new food distribution business? Home...
28 August 2024 by Edina GÁLFI
Prior reaching our cabinets, medicines and medical supplies need to go through a long journey from international pharmaceutical laboratories, producers of these medicines to drugstores, where you can buy it, via wholesalers-distributors or pharmaceutical depositaries. A pharmaceutical shipping according to pharmaceutical shipping regulations with a strict temperature control. On these grounds, pharmaceutical industry has a proper handling procedures.
28 August 2024 by Edina GÁLFI
Starting a new activity in the food distribution sector requires a minimum...
30 July 2024 by Edina GÁLFI
Self-contained cooling is a term you often hear used to talk about...
22 February 2024 by Edina GÁLFI
Implementing an efficient and cost-effective cold logistics system is a project that...
14 February 2024 by Edina GÁLFI
Musculoskeletal disorders are particularly common in the logistics sector and represent an...
2 November 2023 by Edina GÁLFI
Today, city delivery constraints are intensifying with the deployment of ZFE. We...
4 October 2023 by Edina GÁLFI
Since 2020 the food retail sector has seen a real upheaval fuelled...
9 September 2023 by Edina GÁLFI
Logista. Now there’s word that tells us something about the history of...
15 June 2023 by Edina GÁLFI
OLIVO is proud to raise the French FAB banner, like 3800 other...
19 February 2023 by Edina GÁLFI
Le froid autonome est une expression communément employée afin de désigner une source de froid indépendante dont le fonctionnement n’est tributaire …
2 December 2022 by Edina GÁLFI
Le froid autonome est une expression communément employée afin de désigner une source de froid indépendante dont le fonctionnement n’est tributaire …
7 October 2022 by Edina GÁLFI
The figures are staggering and uncontested. In spite of today’s over-optimised mass...
25 March 2022 by Edina GÁLFI
An explosion in ultra-urban deliveries 2021 will have been marked by the...
26 January 2022 by Edina GÁLFI
