Category: News Articles

Before investing in blockchain for cold chain, understand the infrastructure models, transaction costs, and dependencies. A plain-language guide for SA operators. Read the Full Article "Blockchain for Cold Chain: Understanding the Infrastructure, Costs, and Dependencies Before You Invest"

Comprehensive guide to refrigeration optimization for South African cold chain operators. Covers altitude derating, load shedding resilience, refrigerant selection, energy management, and facility-level strategies — with real operational data, not generic checklists. Read the Full Article "The South African Guide to Refrigeration Optimization — What Generic International Advice Gets Wrong"

Practical guide to GS1 EPCIS 2.0 for SA cold chain operators. Learn how the global sensor data standard works, what the sensorElementList means for temperature monitoring, and how to start applying it to your operations. Read the Full Article "EPCIS 2.0 Explained: How the Global Sensor Data Standard Applies to South African Cold Chain"

Compare cold chain IoT architectures for SA conditions. LoRaWAN, NB-IoT, cellular, BLE — mapped against coverage, load shedding, altitude, and cost. Read the Full Article "Choosing Cold Chain IoT: A South African Operator’s Guide to Monitoring Architecture and Standards"

South Africa’s cold chain industry invests billions in commercial refrigeration. But what happens when the chain ends before it reaches the 3 million households with no freezer and the 150,000 spaza shops with no cold storage? From solar-powered freezers to containerised community cold rooms, the solutions to close the last-mile gap are emerging — and they matter more than any reefer container. Read the Full Article "From Port to Plate: The Cold Chain Gap Between Export Fruit and Township Tables"

Blockchain in cold chain — where it works, where it’s hype, and what matters for SA operators in export, retail, and cross-border supply chains. Read the Full Article "Blockchain in Cold Chain: What South African Operators Actually Need to Know in 2025"

South Africa’s cold chain operators are locked into proprietary IoT monitoring ecosystems — three dashboards, three subscriptions, zero interoperability. But global standards like EPCIS 2.0 are emerging to solve the data silo problem. Here’s where cold chain sensor standardization stands, what’s forcing the shift, and what SA operators should do now to prepare. Read the Full Article "Why Your Cold Chain IoT Sensors Can’t Talk to Each Other — And What’s Coming to Fix It"

Complete compliance matrix mapping every regulation, certification, and professional requirement to cold chain operator type in South Africa — with emerging standards. Read the Full Article "South Africa’s Cold Chain Compliance Matrix: Every Regulation, Certification, and Requirement Mapped by Operator Type"

New Stellenbosch University research documents up to 18,000 tonnes of annual wholesale produce waste from cold chain breaks, while the Port of Cape Town’s operational failures have cost fruit exporters over R350 million in a single season. These are not separate problems — they are the same infrastructure gap viewed from opposite ends of the supply chain, and the true cost runs far deeper than spoiled fruit. Read the Full Article "The Cost of Cold Chain Failure: How Broken Links Are Costing South Africa Billions"

A vendor pitches blockchain-enabled cold chain solutions. Before signing, understand what’s actually working across Africa—from Twiga Foods’ micro-lending to TradeLens’s spectacular failure—and the questions that separate genuine opportunities from expensive experiments. Read the Full Article "Emerging Tech in Cold Chain: What African Operators Need to Know About Blockchain, AI and Web3"