Keywords
food cold chain
supply chain
logistics infrastructure
logistics flow
vegetable store
food warehouse
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Abstract
Perishable products fall under the category of essential products, and the challenge is to bring them to the public at affordable prices and of high quality.
The purpose of the work is to assess the current state and problems of development of the cold chain infrastructure for the supply of perishable products (PP) and food products (FP), to develop recommendations for improving the efficiency of functioning and development of the cold chain infrastructure. When carrying out the research, statistical and analytical methods of generalization and comparative analysis, and an expert survey were used.
The article provides an analysis of the cold supply chain of the agro-industrial complex (APC): production and consumption volumes, transportation of the ASP and PP, the state of storage facilities and warehouses. An assessment is made of the production volume of SPP, which requires compliance with the temperature regime; An analysis of the transportation of perishable goods in the Republic of Kazakhstan by all types of transport in the context of communications was carried out, an analysis of the carrying capacity of refrigerated vehicles in the Republic of Kazakhstan was carried out. Problems of storage and transportation infrastructure in NGN supply chains have been identified, and directions for their development have been determined.
Based on the results obtained, recommendations have been developed to improve the cold chain supply chain infrastructure for NGN. Recommendations are given for business and government to improve the areas of the NGN cold chain. First of all, to solve existing problems, an authorized state body should be created, which will be entrusted with the authority to develop the food chain, to resolve issues of regulating the cold chain market; adoption of new regulations to improve the turnover of NGN; investments in the running chain, personnel training.