Cold storage wind clouds: layout and game

In the modern logistics and supply chain system, cold storage, as a key node of cold chain logistics, plays a vital role in guaranteeing the quality and safety of food, medicine and other products. With the development of the economy and the improvement of people's living standards, China's cold storage market has shown a booming trend, and its distribution, construction, storage and future development trend has attracted much attention.

First, the distribution: regional differences are significant, industry and transportation-oriented obviously

The regional distribution of China's cold storage market is extremely uneven. East China, Central China, North China and South China four regions is the main gathering place of cold storage, of which East China accounted for nearly 40%, becoming the most abundant cold storage resources in the region. From the regional key enterprise revenue ranking, in order of East China > North China > South China > Central China > Southwest > Northeast > Northwest.

This distribution pattern is closely related to industry and transportation. In terms of port cold chain logistics facilities, they are mainly concentrated in important ports in East China, South China and North China, relying on the transportation advantages of the ports to facilitate the storage and transit of imported and exported cold chain products. Production-type cold storage facilities are located in and around the production areas of specialty agricultural products, providing services for the storage and pre-cooling of the “first kilometer” of agricultural products; market-type cold storage facilities are located in cities where agricultural products industries are concentrated, providing supporting storage for traders in the trading markets; and function-type cold storage facilities are located in the national logistic hubs, major logistic nodes and cities of consumption places. They undertake various functions such as storage, distribution, distribution and processing.

 Second, construction type: multi-dimensional classification, each with its own characteristics and applicable scenarios.

Classification by temperature zone: freezer accounts for about 70%, mainly used for long-term storage of goods requiring low-temperature refrigeration, such as meat, aquatic products, etc.; cold storage accounts for about 25%, suitable for preservation of goods with relatively high temperature requirements, such as fruits, vegetables, fresh milk, etc.; constant-temperature warehouses and others account for about 5%, used for storing special goods with high requirements for temperature stability.

Classification by function: functional cold storage accounts for 47%, playing a core role in the logistics system; market-type cold storage accounts for 13%, providing support for the agricultural products trading market; origin-type cold storage accounts for 12%, helping the storage of agricultural products at the place of origin; production-type cold storage accounts for 12%, serving the agricultural products production and processing enterprises.

According to the classification of building structure: single-storey warehouse structure is simple, construction speed is fast, plane utilization rate is high, suitable for small and medium-sized cold storage; multi-storey warehouse covers an area of small, cold consumption is small, but the effective utilization rate of the plane is low, large and medium-sized cold storage warehouses are mostly used; automatic high shelf single-storey cold storage combines the advantages of the single-storey and multi-storey cold storage, which is suitable for the large throughput, goods in and out of the frequent large and medium-sized cold storage.

Third, the storage situation: food dominant, pharmaceutical growth, other stable

Food dominated: food cold storage demand continues to rise, including fruit and vegetable cold storage, meat cold storage, aquatic seafood cold storage to meet the fresh food e-commerce, supermarkets, catering and other industries, as well as people's demand for fresh and frozen food to provide protection.

Pharmaceutical demand growth: pharmaceutical cold storage for the storage of drugs, reagents, vaccines, etc., with the advancement of medical technology and people's health needs increase, its demand continues to rise, and the construction and management of the technical level and professionalism requirements are more stringent.

Other categories of stable demand: chemical cold storage for the storage of chemical raw materials with temperature requirements, scientific research cold storage for scientific research experiments in the storage of samples, reagents, although the demand is relatively small, but indispensable in their specific areas.

Fourth, the development trend: scale, technology, function and environmental protection and safety and equal importance

Scale expansion and technology upgrading: under the growth of demand for cold chain logistics and the support of national policy, the capacity of cold storage will continue to expand, and the construction of national backbone cold chain logistics base will become an important driving force. At the same time, enterprises will increase investment in technology research and development, introduce advanced technology and equipment, improve automation and intelligence of cold storage, and realize more accurate temperature control and cargo tracking management.

Functional Diversification and Mode Innovation: Cold storage will change from single storage function to multi-functional integration of cold chain logistics distribution, processing, display and trading, providing customers with all-round services. Shared cold storage, cloud cold storage and other new operation modes will continue to emerge to improve resource utilization and reduce operating costs.

Environmental protection and safety become the key: driven by environmental protection policies, the cold storage industry will pay more attention to energy saving and emission reduction, using energy-saving equipment and environmentally friendly refrigerants to reduce the impact on the environment. At the same time, the safety management of cold storage will be further strengthened, establish and improve the safety management system and emergency plans, strengthen the supervision of fire safety, food safety and other aspects.

China's cold storage market presents distinctive characteristics and patterns in distribution, construction, storage and development trends. In the future, with the constant changes in market demand and the continuous progress of technology, the cold storage market will develop in the direction of more efficient, intelligent, green and safe, providing solid support for the development of China's cold chain logistics and related industries.

Shanghai KUB Refrigeration Equipment Co., Ltd.

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