Cold chain logistics applications include.

Primary development agricultural products: vegetables, fruits; meat, poultry, eggs; aquatic products, floral enterprise products.

Processed food: Frozen food, poultry, meat, aquatic products and other packaged delicatessen, ice cream and dairy products, chocolate; Fast food ingredients.

Special commodities: pharmaceuticals, so it is a huge systematic project with higher and more complex requirements than the general room temperature logistics system and much larger construction investment. As the timeliness of perishable food requires higher organization and coordination of each link of the cold chain, so the operation of food cold chain is always associated with energy cost, and the effective control of operation cost is closely related to the development of food cold chain. Domestic consumption of meat products will grow from 2.5 million tons to about 13 million tons in 2010, with huge space for future growth.

China's meat processing industry has gone through the market start-up stage, is a growth period. This stage is to have attributes of the rapid growth of consumer groups, production and sales continue to grow. Per capita consumption of major meat is at the world's advanced level, and per capita consumption of meat products is far below that of developed countries. In the next decade, meat packaging will enter a new period of rapid development. The growth potential of meat consumption in rural areas is greater than that in cities, where there is room for expansion. With the accelerated urbanization of China's rural areas and the improvement of farmers' income level, meat consumption will continue to grow in the longer term.

By 2010, the per capita annual consumption of domestic meat products will reach 10 kilograms, and the proportion of meat products in the total meat production will rise to about 13%, but it will only reach the level of 1/3 of the meat conversion rate in developed countries.

Analysis of quick-frozen food

Quick-frozen food is the use of China's modern company quick-frozen products technology, between minus 25 degrees Celsius for rapid freezing, and then at minus 18 degrees Celsius or lower environmental conditions can be stored and long-distance transportation, the long-term development of preservation of a social emerging countries food, common frozen dumplings, frozen dumplings, frozen steamed buns and so on. From 1995, China as the annual output of frozen food has been 20% per year gradually increasing, the annual output has been close to 10 million tons. According to incomplete information statistics, the Chinese market existing research all kinds of frozen food safety production equipment manufacturers nearly 2,000, annual sales of 10 billion yuan. Since 1999 for three consecutive years, the national economic chain of supermarkets in the sale of food supplies, frozen food industry sales are ranked first in the world.

Frozen food storage and transportation requirements are very strict. It must be kept below -18 degrees Celsius. The frozen food cold chain logistics distribution system that is specialized, socialized and able to continuously adapt to market changes has not yet been formed.

Analysis of Dairy Products

Since 1990, China's dairy products have entered a period of rapid development. the 10-year average growth rate from 1990 to 2000 was 12.1%, the highest in the world. in 2003, the output was 16.25 million tons, with a per capita share of 10.4 kilograms.

Generally speaking, the fresh milk produced needs to be transported to the dairy plant for processing, and belongs to the commodities with strict requirements for freshness, which should be distributed every day. Improper transportation can lead to deterioration of fresh milk, resulting in significant losses. In order to ensure the quality of fresh milk, the transportation of fresh milk has special requirements: in order to prevent the temperature of fresh milk from rising during transportation, especially in the summer, the transportation is usually carried out in the morning, evening or night; cold chain deliveryin order to shorten the transportation time, stopovers are strictly prohibited; the transportation capacity must be strictly sterilized during transportation to avoid contamination; and the containers must be tightly covered during transportation to prevent heating or overflowing due to vibration.

Because of this, in order to ensure quality, most professional dairy companies want to transport their own, logistics outsourcing willingness is not very high. Even if outsourcing, most of the short-distance distribution in some areas and route transportation outsourcing, the technical and quality requirements are relatively high.