Orbcomm powers Move to -15˚C initiative

  • October 22, 2024
  • Steve Rogerson

Orbcomm is to provide technology for the Move to -15˚C campaign to help track and share the telematics data that will help quantify the initiative’s impact.

Launched at COP28, Move to -15˚C is a coalition committed to raising the global temperature that frozen food is stored and transported at from -18 to -15˚C. This move could cut carbon emissions by 17.7 million metric tonnes and reduce energy consumption by 25TW-hours.

“We’re proud to be joining this initiative, alongside other industry leaders, to support the evolution of a decades-old frozen food standard that hurts our environment,” said Christian Allred, Orbcomm senior vice president in charge of maritime IoT. “As a supply chain visibility technology provider, data matter to us. And what the data show is that dropping the temperature frozen goods are stored and transported at by a few degrees can have a massive positive impact on the planet.”

With over 30 years of experience in industrial IoT, Orbcomm reefer telematics aid over-the-road transportation and maritime. Six of the world’s top ten shipping lines use the firm’s technology to monitor and manage cargo conditions such as temperature and humidity remotely to help reduce carbon footprint, eliminate operational inefficiencies and improve cargo integrity.

Orbcomm cold-chain customers are using telematics to help reduce spoilage, improve resource efficiency, simplify ESG reporting and increase operational transparency. With Orbcomm (www.orbcomm.com) joining, the Move to -15˚C coalition can use the same data to quantify the initiative’s effects.

Since its launch at COP 28 in 2023, the Move to -15˚C (www.movetominus15.com) has doubled its membership numbers. Today, it includes stakeholders from every stage of the frozen food cold chain, including Maersk, DP World, Hapag-Lloyd, Lineage, Ocean Network Express and Morrison’s.

It was founded following the launch of the Three Degrees of Change report (www.sustainablecooling.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/The-Three-Degrees-of-Change_Summary-Report_November-2023.pdf), an academic paper supported by global logistics firm DP World, and delivered by experts from the Paris-based International Institute of Refrigeration, University of Birmingham and London South Bank University among others.