APM Terminal bags CII Cold Chain Awards 2021

Chennai-dependent APM Terminal India has bagged CII Cold Chain Awards 2021 for fantastic functionality in cold storage, when other awardees consist of Adani Agri Clean, Cold Male Warehousing and Distribution, Magnus Farm Clean, Aimijay Agri Clean and SK Cold Storage.

Announcing the awards on Thursday, CII mentioned that it has released the Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs) as a different segment for the awards from this calendar year to inspire this most essential segment of the agri source chain.

Tamil Nadu Banana Producer Firm received the award for fantastic functionality among the FPOs. At the identical time, Vizhuthugal Agricultural Farmers Producer Firm, Hunagunda Horticulture FPC, Shri Amaranarayana Horticulture FPC, Amrita Dhara Milk Producer Internet marketing Cooperative Society and Gaukaran FPC are a couple some others who also gained the awards.

This calendar year, the jury for the awards was chaired by Ashok Dalwai, CEO of Nationwide Rainfed Region Authority and co-chaired by Pawanexh Kohli, previous CEO of Nationwide Centre for Cold Chain Enhancement.

“A perfectly-developed sustainable cold chain community will enable in the reduction of wastage, make improvements to price addition, advertise crop diversification, ensure far better return to the farmers, and also deal with crucial concerns of foodstuff security and foodstuff inflation,” Amrit Lal Meena, particular secretary (logistics) in Ministry of Commerce mentioned when addressing a plenary session, organised by CII.

Ensuring shipping and delivery as a result of multi-modal logistics is essential to fortify the publish-harvest management across all the source chain touchpoints, mentioned B Thiagarajan, controlling director of Blue Star.

P Ravichandran, president of Danfoss Industries, mentioned that an efficient cold source chain would also immediately effect the economic system. “Refrigerated source-chain logistics is crucial in direction of attaining sustainable enhancement targets of cleanse climate and is a key enabler for attaining the 5 trillion-greenback economic system,” mentioned Ravichandran, who is also chairman of CII Process Power on Submit-Harvest and Logistics.