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12 Issue One 2015 Cover Story Food is valuable. TCS Thermo Control Services offers customers to professionally safeguard their sensitive freight. Achim Bundschuh, Managing Director of TCS, explains how it works. Trust in precious goods being safe and sound TCScombinesexpertiseinsafetyandlogis- tics – how did this partnership come about? Our company is a joint-venture of two firms: TKV is from the refrigerated trans- port segment, CSM is an expert in safety transports. TCS has two key areas of ex- pertise: On the one hand, we feel at home in temperature-controlled logistics. On the other, we have extensive experience in the area of safety transports. The combination of the two meets the increased demand for solutions which actively monitor and track deliveries. We use, amongst others, systems by idem telematics to monitor vehicles from our ISO-certified food safety centre around the clock. Which goods require this kind of sophis- ticated monitoring? These are especially products from the pharmaceuticals industry, in which one load can easily be worth EUR 500,000 or more. But we are also increasingly monitoring food transports. For example, we monitor meat de- liveredbyfood-processingcompaniestodistri- bution centres. Here, one trailer may transport goods worth EUR 50,000 to 80,000, or even much more if the load is fish and seafood. If an alarm is triggered, we have several options to intervene. One of them is for TCS headquar- ters to call the forwarder or directly contact the driver. Our employees speak many languages, and some of them are even court interpreters. What are your customers' requirements? They need high supply chain safety: They Through its own trading company for high- quality food, Rungis express AG, the Cool Chain Group offers its customers "one-stop" to get professional logistics services and required supplies.