Seafrigo: The cold chain specialist

©Direction de la Communication Seafrigo Group Seafrigo is a logistics company specialized in the global food logistics chain. It is specialized in handling frozen, chilled and ambient products with reefers and refrigerated warehouses. Through its global network of offices and variety of services it provides – ocean freight, air freight, warehousing, hinterland modalities, and customs brokerage – they are experts of the food supply chain. In this interview, the AIVP explores Seafrigo’s knowledge in relation to goal 7 of the AIVP Agenda 2030, “Quality food for all”. Interview with Stéphane Desseigne, Group Development Director. Global food supply chain company AIVP – Seafrigo has ports of call all around the world and is involved in many of the logistical aspects along the transportation route. As a global company, what do you believe is your role in the maintenance of the food supply chain? Technically, freight forwarding around the food supply chain is our specialty. That is the reason we are very specialized. You need specialists to manage products that are under temperature control. The most important thing with food products is to maintain the temperature, track it, and be sure that while moving the products from one port to another you can guarantee the food safety. It also guarantees the consumer that the food has been handled with care. Therefore, it is extremely important for two reasons. First, it is vital for the health and security of the consumer. Second, it helps avoid waste because, if we do not respect the cold chain, products are spoiled. This would generate a waste of product and money, which we would like to avoid. Already, a lot of products that are handled with care between the producer and the consumer go to the garbage. Seafrigo has decided to be part of the chain to help avoid this waste of food as much as possible. Therefore, our role in the food supply chain as specialists guarantees that the food being shipped arrives from port to port safely. It is what we guarantee our customers and consumers. We are the middlemen. © Seafrigo Centralising services and reducing waste AIVP – Seafrigo offers food processing services, including e-commerce fulfillment and re-packaging. Does the centralization of this process into your company aid to combat food waste? Yes, for one main reason. You have two ways in which you can transport products from point A to point B. If you imagine that at the origin point you start to customize the products with brand labels it limits where the goods can go. For example, a good that is produced in France and is labeled with “Walmart” at the point of departure, it can only go to Walmart. However, if the consumer does not acquire the entirety of the product or does not want it anymore, the product is wasted as it will be destroyed. This is because it costs too much to repack the products at…