Ifco now offers a reusable fish crate for transporting fish and seafood. The reusable packaging was developed together with the fish industry and is precisely tailored to its requirements. The fish crate is also digitally networked.
Marina was developed in close co-operation with the fishing industry and brings greater Protection, greater efficiency and sustainability in the supply chain for fresh fish and seafood. The Fischsteige Marina is equipped with ‚Bluetooth Low Energy‘ tags for shipment tracking and QR codes. This enables the collection of Real-time data and improves cold chain management of fresh and chilled products throughout the entire fish and seafood supply chain, from the fishing boat to all points of sale.
Stricter regulations for EPS
Disposable boxes made from expanded polystyrene (EPS) can break down into microplastics, contaminate the marine food chain and harm human health. This is why governments around the world are increasingly tightening their regulations and imposing EPS bans. Many manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers in the fishing industry are therefore striving to eliminate polystyrene crates and the Switch to sustainable packaging on. The Ifco SmartCycle pooling system ensures that marina can be used easily, smoothly and sustainably.
In order to ensure greater logistical efficiency and sustainability for the fishing industry and its wholesalers and retailers in the long term, Marina is exclusively available via the SmartCycle cycle pooling system from Ifco and ensures long-term logistical efficiency and sustainability for wholesalers and retailers in the fishing industry. Ifco fish crates are efficiently reused up to 120 times. Empty containers are returned, reused and sustainably recycled when they are no longer usable. Above all, the company ensures that the Rise washed and efficiently pooled according to international standards for food safety and hygiene and reused.
„Marina is the result of intensive collaboration with the fishing industry. We have incorporated the special requirements of the fresh fish and seafood supply chain into our product development.“
Francesca Amadei, Vice President Southern Europe at Ifco
The Ifco fish ladders are nested when empty stackable and can be safely stacked when full. Marina saves space on fishing boats and ashore, reduces CO2-emissions during transport and improves handling. Its dimensions are compatible with existing supply chains, automated logistics systems and the Ifco Dora plastic pallet.
Like all reusable packaging containers (RPCs) from Ifco, Marina consumes less energy over the course of its entire life cycle. natural resources than disposable packaging. And unlike conventional fish crates made of expanded polystyrene (EPS), which end up in landfill or pollute the oceans after use, Marina is 100 per cent recycled into new products at the end of its long service life.
„We see it as our responsibility to improve the environmental sustainability of every category in the fresh food supply chain. Our Fischsteige Marina is an innovative packaging solution that will have a long-term positive impact on the fresh fish and seafood supply chain. We are proud to have developed a sustainable and more efficient alternative to harmful polystyrene containers.“
Inigo Canalejo, Vice President ESG & Strategic Marketing at Ifco
Source: Ifco
