The Cyprus Chilled, Frozen and Temperature Controlled Foods Environment

• Cyprus is an island and as a result, the continental short and efficient trucking transit times and costs are not achievable. Sea freight and Air freight services are used to affect the transit time and the cost respectively

• It is a favoured seasonal destination for more than two million tourists, three times the local population, which creates demand variations stretching to as much as 3:1 in monthly comparisons in specific areas

• 98% of the businesses in Cyprus are small and medium size enterprises. This fact is also reflected in the chilled, frozen and temperature controlled foods supply side as well as at the POS (Point of Sale) side. Additionally, part of the Cyprus market is consisted by local producers of chilled goods. As a result, the supply chain has more orders of lower values to many POSs thus adding to the logistic costs

• Electronic ordering and invoicing is not yet developed in Cyprus. For this reason, the overall administration cost to both suppliers and retailers is getting increased

GAP Logistics for Chilled, Frozen and Temperature Controlled Foods

The complexity of maintaining a continuous cold chain for chilled or frozen goods, has been beacon towards which GAP develops its temperature controlled services.
 

Services Offered:

  International Multi-modal Transport
  International Multimodal Transport
 Consolidation
 Deconsolidation
 Cross docking
 Receiving
 Palletisation
 Re-palletisation
 Put away
 Storage
 Replenishment
 Inventory Control
 Electronic POS – DC order platform
 Order Picking

  Repacking
  Labelling
 Repacking
 Distribution Routing
 Distribution Throughout Cyprus
 Payments collection
 Merchandising at POS
 Returns of Sellable Goods
 Returns of Damaged Goods
 Returns of Expired Goods
 Disposal of Damaged Returns
 Recalling
 Reporting