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Shadowfax to engage 250+ cold storage fleets with cold chain readiness to move the vaccine across 7000+ pin codes in India
Shadowfax, an integrated 3PL services provider, in a strategic partnership with SpiceXpress, will provide a seamless solution in transporting the temperature sensitive COVID-19 vaccine.
As per a statement, Shadowfax plans to deploy a fleet of over 250 refrigerated vehicles, which will provide a speedy and reliable transportation solution for vaccine delivery through a sustainable cold chain network by providing logistics support to cover first mile pickups and last mile deliveries through a verified network of delivery partners operating across 500+ cities covering 7000+ pin codes in India.
Giving details, Rahul Kumar, Founding team member and Head of Network Partnerships, Shadowfax, said, “We will handle ground services such as transportation to/from manufacturers, warehouses, airports and consumption points, packing, storage, and warehousing, at prescribed temperature across 500 + cities. We will deploy a fleet of refrigerated vehicles to ensure requisite temperatures are maintained throughout the delivery cycle.”
As a crowdsourced logistics platform, established in 2015, Shadowfax claims to have built specialised cold chain readiness for first-mile and last-mile logistics, capable of moving over 3000 tonnes of cargo per month pan India; currently serving across 500+ cities, covering 7000+ pin codes.