Airfreight is fast, which logically means it can deliver the freshest flowers to market, right? Not necessarily. An unbroken cold chain is critical to the freshness and market life of flowers. Airfreight requires many transfers and handlers, allowing for countless chances of breaking the cold chain and degrading flower quality.
Through marine transport in refrigerated containers, the TransFresh® Service Network helps retain consistent temperature and atmosphere conditions for your flowers – adding days or even weeks of market shelf life beyond airfreight. This allows you to sell more flowers that would have previously been discarded and to increase your potential for profit.
- We visit your growing area and provide postharvest advice on disease control, cold chain management and proper processing techniques.
- TransFresh coordinates directly with shipping lines on your behalf to secure marine transport. Because we’re not shipper-owned, we’ll help you choose the carrier that best meets your needs.
- Your flowers are prepared, packaged in our proprietary ClO2 (chlorine dioxide) paper and sealed inside a seavan which has been prepared and leak-tested by the TransFresh® service network.
- At port, we set a customized temperature, CO2 and O2 atmosphere to match flower type being shipped and length of transport. This ensures the highest quality on arrival.
- At sea, the system’s microprocessor monitors, controls and adjusts CO2 and O2 levels for optimal environmental consistency throughout transit.
- Upon arrival at a distribution center, our receiving point inspectors download the trip record – then report that data to you to help continually improve your shipping practices and our service techniques.
- If directed, the Fresh Flower Solutions™ Network will provide arrival quality and condition inspections of your flowers through out FFS report website
TransFresh® offers you an end-to-end shipping solution, providing higher quality, reduced freight costs and more potential for profit.
Only Fresh Flower Solutions™ Service Network:
- Consistently reduces transport costs by more than 30% over air freight.
- Provides postharvest advice, starting at the farm and extending throughout the supply chain.
- Extends vase life through the use of controlled atmosphere, proprietary ClO2 (chlorine dioxide) paper, specific loading guidelines and transported in ocean containers under TransFresh® environmental controls.
- Offers a global network to provide value-added logistics to the flower industry.
- Offers a system that monitors and controls both CO2 and O2 concentration and temperature to optimize freshness and extend market life.
- Provides a quality team that inspects containers upon arrival and reports on product quality, appearance and temperature.
- Provides complete logistical service from the consolidation warehouse to the distribution site.
- Provides departure/arrival reports and vase life test reports for continuous performance feedback.