What are the characteristics of cold chain logistics? Talk about this emerging industry.

With the higher quality of life, the demand for cold chain logistics is increasing. Many people don't know what cold chain logistics is and what are its characteristics? In fact, we can literally understand that cold chain logistics actually means that frozen products are kept at a low temperature from production to sales to ensure product quality. Next, let's take a look.

Three main characteristics of cold chain logistics:

(1) timeliness: because the products carried by cold chain logistics are not easy to store and perishable. Therefore, cold chain logistics must be completed in a short time to ensure that the products will not have any problems.

(2) Complexity: Compared with normal temperature logistics, cold chain logistics involves refrigeration technology, heat preservation technology, temperature and humidity detection, information system and product change mechanism research, and some products even involve the constraints of laws and regulations, and each product has its corresponding temperature and humidity and storage time requirements. Once the chain is broken, the previous efforts will be in vain, which greatly increases the complexity of cold chain logistics.

(3) High-cost nature: the cost of cold chain logistics is much higher than that of normal temperature logistics. First of all, the equipment cost is high. The cost of cold chain logistics center warehouses and cold chain vehicles is generally several times that of normal temperature warehouses and vehicles, and it needs a lot of capital investment because it involves special facilities and equipment such as food. Secondly, the operation cost of cold chain logistics is high, and the cold storage needs continuous refrigeration to ensure the temperature is in a constant state, which leads to high power cost of cold storage; Refrigerated trucks also need uninterrupted cooling to ensure the constant temperature of products, which requires more fuel costs. The capital recovery period of cold chain logistics is long, which is not affordable for ordinary enterprises.

Nowadays, with the progress of technology, China's cold chain logistics has become more and more mature, gradually meeting everyone's demand for fresh food and greatly reducing the loss of products before production and sales. Although there are still some problems, I believe that the development conditions and technologies in various places can still cope.