Agricultural Cold Chain & Perishables Logistics

A technical and commercial training course combining engineering content with operations, financial and policy frameworks. The trainer adapts content delivery to delegate experience and to current cold chain investments across the three regions.

By the end of this Agricultural Cold Chain & Perishables Logistics training course, delegates will be able to:

•     Design a cold chain network covering pre-cooling, storage, transport and last-mile distribution

•     Calculate cold chain economics including capex, opex, energy load and throughput pricing

•     Specify equipment requirements across temperature bands (frozen, chilled, controlled atmosphere)

•     Evaluate energy options including solar PV, ammonia and CO2 refrigerants, and grid-tied versus hybrid systems

•     Apply HACCP, ISO 22000 and Codex Alimentarius standards to cold chain operations

•     Structure cold chain investments as BOT, BOO and PPP transactions

•     Integrate cold chain with port operations, airfreight and inland corridors

•     Use IoT sensors, blockchain and data-traceability tools for cold chain monitoring

This Gulf Rowad Agricultural Cold Chain & Perishables Logistics training course is built for:

•     Cold storage operators and 3PL leaders

•     Port authority and free-zone executives with perishables mandates

•     Logistics, infrastructure and supply chain investors

•     FMCG, retail and food-service supply chain directors

•     Food and beverage manufacturing operations leaders

•     Government planners designing national cold chain programmes

•     Project finance and PPP teams handling cold chain transactions