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Chilled transport – a special challenge for courier services serving the food industry

It sound simple, but transporting items that are temperature sensitive requires specially equipped refrigerated vehicles, fully trained drivers and excellent support staff. Whether it’s chilled food, medical or veterinary products time and temperature are our biggest challenges.

Hamilton Logistics Services is able to deal with a variety of transport temperatures, including a variety of options for chilled commodities. Through our work through with the food, medical, pharmaceutical, hazardous material and veterinary sectors, we understand the importance of a chilled distribution option that you can rely on to transport your goods safely, securely and on time.

We will cover other industries in future blog posts but there are particular challenges in transporting food products such as sandwiches and other chilled items.

Chilled cabinet in supermarket

These items are presented for sale on supermarket and local shops and must be picked and delivered on the same day. We have also worked with catering companies to deliver food at the right temperature to events.

This hot summer has been a particular challenge but we have managed to keep our vehicles on the road and working to the right temperature. They are modern and well-maintained.

If needed we can also provide multi-drop courier services so we can deliver to multiple destinations. See our full range of services here – temperature controlled courier services – or call us on 0116 286 2000 or use our enquiry form to get a quote: quotation form.

 

 

 

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Temperature controlled courier services but also larger loads

Here at Hamilton Logistics Services we pride ourselves on being able deliver efficient, timely courier services for all our clients. We specialise in temperature controlled courier services and mainly work for the following industries:

Food and catering industryHamilton Logistics Services refrigerated vans

We take great pride in supporting clients in this industry. Anyone who need temperature sensitive and perishable items such as sandwiches and ready meals transported from ambient or down to -21oC should get in touch with us. Our drivers and support staff are very experienced and we know the importance of getting these products picked up and delivered to time and budget. We serve clients in the UK for delivers in UK and Europe.

Health and pharmaceuticals

Our temperature controlled vehicles, fully trained drivers and support team can transport your medicines, samples and other items wherever they need to be. These items are often both temperature sensitive and time-sensitive so fully appreciate the importance of providing a reliable and efficient service.

Manufacturing and other industry

As well as temperature controlled distribution we do courier and distribution work for manufacturing and other industries. We can provide multi-drop, same day deliveries, pallet deliveries, small and large loads up to 44 tonnes. Again our drivers are fully trained and the vehicles are modern and equipped and maintained properly.

We are based in the Midlands so have excellent access to main UK roads, M1, M6, A1 and A14.

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New website now live

Hamilton Logistics Services is pleased to announce the launch of our new website at http://www.hamiltonlogisticsservices.co.uk.

The website pages describe our main services in more detail, showing and explaining our services in more detail:

Please get in touch with us on 0116 286 2000 for more information.

New website home page - HLS

The website developed and is hosted by Midlands based web design company Web Growth Consulting. They developed a modern, responsive website and also manage the web hosting including website and email accounts for staff and general enquiries.

 

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British frozen food market sales top £6 billion

Following on from the news that the UK Food and Grocery Market is set for rapid growth, July saw the announcement that sales in the frozen food sector have now reached £6.1 billion.Frozen peas

Recent statistics released by Kantar Worldpanel show that over the past twelve months the retail sales of frozen foods in the UK have grown by 5.4%, bringing them up to £6.1 billion.

Savoury foods that have been particularly big drivers of the market, especially frozen pizza, and frozen bread and savoury bakery goods. These market elements altogether now have a combined increase of more than £100 million, year on year, representing 16% of the total value of the frozen food market.

Similarly, ice cream did particularly well in the 52 weeks up until June 2018, representing 7.7% of the frozen food market’s value. As you might expect, the recent heatwave did wonders for the sales of ice cream, which saw a recent spike in the summer months, with volumes still expected to rise further before the end of the year.

Hamilton Logistics Services – temperature controlled courier

Hamilton Logistics Services is proud to be play a role in this growth. We have a fleet of temperature controlled vehicles that can transport your goods at temperatures from ambient to -21oC. Our vehicles are modern and reliable, our drivers are fully trained and experienced. They are backed up a team of support staff who will ensure your temperature sensitive goods are picked up and delivered on time. We are centrally based in Leicestershire with excellent access to both the M1 and M6 motorway networks. We also can supply drivers and vehicles for larger roads. Get in touch with us on 0116 286 2000 or use our contact form to supply more information about your courier needs.

 

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