News / A chill settles over perishables shippers as reefer shortage persists

30/09/2019

Concerns over a shortage of reefer containers are still riding high, amid fresh warnings that supply is due fall well short of demand towards the end of the year, and into 2020.

The warning came from global head of seafreight reefer logistics at Kuehne + Nagel Frank Ganse, while Thomas Eskesen, founder of Eskesen Advisory, also envisages no improvement next year.

He pointed to the fact that orders for new reefer containers currently stand at about 60,000 – against a need for 140,000.

The ...