Gati Kausar inaugurates its first refrigerated express distribution center

Gati Kausar, the temperature controlled supply chain solutions vertical of Gati Ltd., an industry leader in Express Distribution and Supply Chain Management, today inaugurated its first temperature controlled warehousing facility in India near Delhi, on National Highway eight. It is a state-of-the-art facility developed with superior technology and high quality design elements, in line with ISO 22000 standards.

The new facility is spread over four acres, and currently has a capacity of more than 5000 pallets. It has multiple chambers that cater to temperature requirements ranging from -25 to +25 degrees C. This facility will serve the needs of varied industry sectors including dairy, pharmaceutical, frozen foods, quick service restaurants, ice creams, confectionaries, and fruits and vegetables.

Gati Kausar, with its fleet of 220 refrigerated vehicles along with 5000 Gati

Fleet, already provides high-quality logistic services to many popular brands in the country. This new cold store facility is part of a pan-India network that Gati Kausar is planning to develop to provide end-to-end, integrated cold chain solution for different industries.

K L Chugh, Chairman, Gati Limited said "The launch of our first Refrigerated Express Distribution Center opens up an entire new world of business opportunities for Gati. This facility is the first in a network of cold stores planned across the country. As this network takes shape in future, Gati Kausar will evolve into a formidable end-to-end Cold Chain Solutions company."

Mahendra Agarwal, MD & CEO Gati Limited said "Since the time of its inception, Gati has successfully established presence across various segments of the domestic Supply Chain business. A network of such Refrigerated Express Distribution Centers across the country will help us introduce another differentiated, logistics service innovation of time-definite cold chain services to customers across industry sectors."

Manish Agarwal, Executive Director, Gati Kausar said: Gati Kausar have adopted high technology integration in its cold-chain process design to ensure temperature integrity from factory or farm to last mile, with uninterrupted temperature visibility across the cold chain. It now has the capability to provide an assortment of value-added services in cold chain solutions including inventory management, packaging solutions, processing, blast freezing, ripening, FTL and LTL refrigerated transportation for line haul & last mile, and customized order management.