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Shipping containers of fresh meat, fruit, vegetables and fish across the world requires refrigerated 20’ (6 m) and 40’ (12m) containers. International container shipping of refrigerated goods has come a long way from the early days. Today you can buy a new or used (second hand) ‘reefer’ or lease one anywhere in the world, to go anywhere and even be left anywhere.

The internet and the growth of refrigerated container shipping means sizes and rates are standardized. You can be pretty confident you will get the same standard of container and service, and therefore a guarantee of your goods arriving in peak condition, using any reputable broker anywhere on the globe.

Because of the greater potential for harm coming to a refrigerated cargo the industry tends to take extra special care when building, refurbishing and supplying container units. Good companies will not only guarantee the condition of the container, they will test it before every period of service.

Reefers store goods between +25C and -25C so even frozen foods will always remain in deep freeze. Many suppliers will include butcher boxes, racks and shelving as required, turning the shipping container into a mobile cool room. Refrigerated containers come in single phase 240v and 3 phase 415v power supplies and use standard plugs that are compatible with industrial refrigeration plugs the world over.

Because these units have their own generator and refrigeration plants inbuilt, they are often used at major events and in remote mining camps as storage facilities for food and beverages. They are easily craned onto a truck bed or may even reside permanently on a trailer. They can then be trucked wherever needed, transferred to ships or trains and once again set up and operate. All the time the contents remain cooled or frozen as required.

Refrigerated shipping containers have added a new degree of versatility to our modern lives.