Fruit Logistica: a concentrate of vitamins!

Marfret invites you to join us in Berlin, from 5th to 7th February 2020, for the Fruit Logistica business meeting. This trade fair, dedicated to the fruit sector, attracts 3,200 exhibitors and 78,000 visitors each year.

The Marfret delegation, composed of no less than 16 people, will be multinational: the reefer specialists at Marfret’s Marseilles headquarters will be joined by the worldwide representatives of the destinations from/to which the company transports fruit in reefer containers: Costa Rica, Colombia, Mexico, Perou, Brazil, Dominican Republic, England, Italy, Spain…

Meet us at Fruit Attraction in Madrid from 22 to 24 October

Starting today, the Madrid IFEMA Centre welcomes 1,800 exhibitors and some 90,000 visitors from 130 countries for the eleventh edition of Fruit Attraction.

Our experts wait for you – Hall 10 Stand 04B.

The fruit and vegetable sector trade fair is an unmissable event for Marfret, which continues to develop the transport of refrigerated cargo on all its lines: pineapples from Costa Rica, avocados from Colombia, melons or mangoes from Brazil…

On the agenda are dozens of B2B meetings with importers, exporters and traders from all over the world. In the age of digitalization and digitization, fairs and exhibitions are privileged places to maintain a personalized relationship with our customers – a priority for Marfret!

 

IMO 2020: here we are!

Shipowners have not waited to make maritime transport less polluting: since 2008, while the commercial fleet has increased by 60% in capacity to transport 35% more goods, its carbon footprint has decreased by 20%.

The new regulation aims at further reducing air pollution by requiring the use of fuel oil with a maximum sulphur content of 0.5%, compared to 3.5% today, in all maritime areas (ECA areas retain their obligation not to exceed 0.1%). It will enter into force on 1 January 2020.

The cost of implementing this regulation will be significant and will increase the cost of freight.

For several months, Marfret’s technical services have been preparing for this deadline: all the 3.5% HFO present in the tanks of our vessels must have been consumed by 31 December. By then, each of these tanks must have been thoroughly cleaned and the fuel system of the ships adapted to manage the different specifications of the new product. We will therefore have to start well before the date to pump the new fuel oil as the tanks are ready in order to guarantee the compliance of our vessels on 1 January.