News / Pandemic accelerates cool chain flows, but pushes up costs, reveals survey

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Global cool chains are poised to get faster and shorter as e-commerce rapidly comes to the fore in the Covid-19 era.

A survey published by the Global Cold Chain Alliance (GCCA) finds the pandemic has turbo-charged online sales and direct deliveries to consumers of chilled or frozen food, accelerating flows.

At the same time, however, scepticism about global supply chains and business opportunities is on the rise.

Even though more than half of the respondents (54%) reported lower revenues in the first two ...