Cool Chain as a Culture
We’re the warmest cold people you’ll ever meet.
Our mindset 24/7 is about ensuring products in our care are kept clean, at the right temperature, and handled properly. Commodity Forwarders offers a complete cool chain focus for your perishable shipments, with a monitoring sensor option, and absolute visibility for your cargo’s entire chain of custody through our track-n-trace feature. By implementing CFI’s layered approach to cool chain, every shipment is checked, reported, and protected. You can trust in CFI’s time-tested cool chain strategy to reduce temperature excursions and deliver your product to market as intact, fresh, or frozen as possible. We have a sense of urgency in everything we do. From timely movement of shipments to proactive communication, we have you covered.
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It all starts when product hits the dock of one of CFI’s refrigerated facilities. Our receiving team inspects packaging, looking for any damages, conducting a piece count check, and takes core temperatures. Once received, product is put into the appropriate temperature storage, the crew check the packing for markings such as sizing or use by dates as needed, then a receiving report is forwarded or available via customer CFI’s customer portal.
Commodity Forwarders takes our layered approach to air cargo cool chain very seriously. By combining our unparalleled perishable logistics experience and a vast worldwide network of strategic partnerships, our state-of-the-art layered approach to cool chain with cutting-edge coolant solutions, our dedication to protecting the temperature integrity of your perishable cargo is unmatched. For items being tendered for domestic or export air freight services, CFI operates as a TSA approves Certified Cargo Screening Facility (CCSF). This provides the control needed as we prepare shipments for departure using air cargo using a perishable mindset.
Traditional bubble foil is not recyclable, reflects light, heating up its metalized portions, putting heat into the overpack system more quickly. CFI’s CoolSkysTM concept with TempEdure for overpacking on air cargo movements uses a recyclable overpack material that acts as a “refractor” of infrared light, meaning it scatters light back out, absorbing less heat, allowing colder airflow longer around the product being shipped. Because less heat is radiating into the cargo itself, less water loss or less melting, the shipment retains more moisture and stays cooler long than traditional metal bubble foil wrap strategies. Our team customize overpack based on the commodity, adding other recyclable packing materials to promote air flow with specialized coolants based on the routing and weather. Tendering as close to flight departure and continuous tracking are additional layers withing our cool chain strategy.
Combining a sense of urgency and CoolSkys overpacking with gel packs and dry ice prolongs the life of the coolant to keep the shipment safer than traditional strategies.
CFI uses a HACCP based corrective action strategy in that if anything arrives out of specification, we report it and conduct several corrective actions that help to minimize loss and maximize ROI.
With refrigerated docks, dry, cold, chill, and frozen storage, regular shipments, and deliveries in refrigerated trucks, CFI keeps it cool, even on the hottest days.
