Hamburg Sud buys 3,000 reefer boxes from Carrier Corp

CARRIER Corp says German container shipping line Hamburg Sud has upgraded its reefer fleet through the purchase of 3,000 container boxes fitted with Carrier's PrimeLINE refrigeration units.

"With the increase in fuel prices over much of the last two years, the industry changed a lot," said Martin Schoeler, deputy director of logistics technology at Hamburg Sud.

Energy consumption issues "got more important from the cost side, from the environmental side and from the customer side, because they are looking at that in more detail," he said in a report from American Shipper.

According to Carrier Corp, the 3,000 units will eliminate about 70,000 tons of carbon emissions over their operational life span, an amount equivalent to removing more than 1,000 cars from the road over the same period, the report added.

Source: www.schednet.com