Was reading on shipping news when I come across this:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-29...eight.html
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Transport using refrigerated containers is expected to increase to 212 million tons in 2016 from 172 million tons in 2011 because global population is forecast to increase to 7.45 billion by then, according to shipping consultant Drewry.
“This forecast will have a direct effect on worldwide perishable reefer demand, particularly in the high-volume import regions such as Western Europe, North America and Asia,” said Rahul Kapoor, a Singapore based analyst at Drewry. Moving goods in cooled boxes gives companies more margins, he said.
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UTC Climate, Controls & Systems, a unit of Hartford, Connecticut-based United Technologies, has developed a new container-cooling system that uses greenhouse gas to keep fruit and meat from getting spoilt.
That will replace industrially produced hydrofluorocarbons, one of the biggest causes of global warming, John Mandyck, the company’s chief sustainability officer, said in an interview in Singapore May 14. UTC -- the world’s biggest maker of reefers -- expects to start selling the new product called NaturaLine in the second half of this year.
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United Technologies is the parent company of carrier, the major customer of Nam Lee. If demand for reefers are expected to increase, Nam Lee should benefit too, unless Margin is further squeezed in order for Nam Lee to continue with the contract.
Given that the NaturaLine is expect to go on sales in this second half of the year and they have a contract with Carrier until 2014, it means NamLee is already producing the casing for NaturaLine, and hopefully, Carrier will renew their contract with Nam Lee with another 5 years, instead of risking their production with a new supplier