Samskip trials new flora containers for multimodal shipments
Multimodal innovation: The flora container allows plants and flowers to be transported cost-efficient in a sustainable manner
Samskip and the VGB – the Dutch Association of wholesalers in Floricultural products – have set up and successfully completed the first rail freight transports of plants by reefer container from the Netherlands to Sweden.
The so-called flora container has been developed by Unit45 to enable plants and flowers transport by multimodal rail. With an internal width of 2.50 meters and internal height of 2.78 meters the unit loads 43 flower trolleys, equalling conventional reefer trailer capacity.
During rail transport of the flora container from Duisburg to Sweden an integrated diesel generator supports active temperature control of the plants. The container is equipped with real-time tracking and temperature monitoring.
Samskip operates one of Europe’s largest multimodal container logistics systems. It has over 13,000 containers at its disposal, ranging from 20ft to 45ft pallet-wide high cube containers including reefers, curtain-siders and flat-racks. The reefers enables temperature-controlled transport for temperature-sensitive or perishable products; e.g., fruit & vegetables, dairy products, meat, fish, flowers, plants, frozen foods, sweets and pharmaceuticals.
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