As part of the Genoa Shipping Week, taking place in Genoa, The fifteenth edition of the conference "Cool Logistics Global" in which experts and maritime professionals discuss sustainability, Innovation, risks and prospects of the logistics world of cold. On the occasion of the conference, brought for the first time in the Ligurian capital by the International Container Studies Center (C.I.S.Co.), we take stock of a market, that of reefer ships, which is recovering, positive development that has brought this year a return to year-on-year growth across all major Perishable goods trade routes, with cargo volumes transported by sea that should increase by +1.5% by End of the year. In addition, it is expected that the containerized trade of reefer will expand further, quickly overtaking the overall demand for containerized cargoes which is remained flat.

The conference is attended by expert speakers such as Martin Dixon of the Drewry Group that will bring important figures and statistics concerning reefer containers and their evolution; Kelly Hobson, founder and senior sustainability consultant Shape Tomorrow, who will participate in the Sustainability Panel - Netzero for talk about the challenges and prospects of companies in the sector; Annika Kroon, Head of Unit Maritime Transport and Logistics of the European Commission, which will open the day's work concluding with a speech of high technical value concerning the EU regulatory and standardisation role in the field of Multimodal transport.