Cold Chain

I´ve been recently interested in understanding how some products can get from a point A to point a B, which is basically what logistics is all about. But this time, the products I was thinking about were the kind of products that need specific conditions to preserve their properties, I´m talking about food, vaccines, or even organs from donors that passed away far from a hospital.

There is a specific name for this kind of temperature controlled supply chain, the cold chain; an uninterrupted series of storage and distribution activities which maintain a given temperature range to avoid getting the products mentioned above spoiled.

If the task of moving a product which doesn´t need any specific storage or transport conditions from a given point to another is sometimes a headache, think about moving the kind of delicate products that need some of the strictest temperature conditions to a remote place. Well, it seems challenging and it certainly can be an ordeal even if you have the right resources. Imagine now delivering the much needed vaccines to some of the most remote places in the world, impossible you think? Watch the next set of videos staring world famous actor Ewan McGregor on a run against the clock to maintain the cold chain when trying to reach some of the most isolated places in the world to deliver pharmaceutical drugs.

It´s worth watching these videos to understand the setbacks that can come up when carrying on actions that in any other cases would be done routinely but when working with these products can be somewhat challenging to the most!


Cold chain mission part 1 

Cold chain mission part 2 

Cold chain mission part 3 

Cold chain mission part 4 


Don´t miss out the next episode, where Ewan and his team will be attempting to travel to central Africa to continue with their cold chain mission!