Cold Chain Transport in India – MILKY MIST DAIRY

Milky Mist Dairy Food Pvt Ltd., Chittode, T.N, has emerged one of the most preferred brands delivering premium quality dairy products. The company has adopted uncompromising quality standards that has enabled it reach great heights in the market within a short span of time. Mr. Sathish Kumar.T, Managing Director, Milky Mist, shares his thoughts on the progress of the cold chain transport sector in the country.

Mr. Sathish Kumar .T, Managing Director

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Brief us your operations and the utilisation of cold chain for delivering products to the customers.

Being a manufacturer of dairy products, we have a fleet of reefer trucks of various capacities to take care of cold chain transport, which forms the most essential part to retain the products’ inherent properties. To further ensure the quality up to the retailer, we provide reefer containers to our distributors’ delivery vehicles.

Highlight the importance of reefer vehicle for your operations.

Reefer vehicles play a major role in our day-to-day operation to transport our products from our facility to various distributor points. In the initial stage we have transported our products through bus, train etc., where maintaining the product quality was very much challenging.

At present, our entire logistics is monitored using the latest GPS technology to ensure timely service and ambient product temperature at every stage of transport.

Apprise the reefer vehicle fleet utilized (directly or through logistics firm) for transport.

We are handling our vehicle operation by our trained team as the food industry is very sensitive and direct involvement is required to attend the issues then and there.

At present we are having the following vehicles: