Each to his own trade

A tight-knit distribution network so that our meat can be delivered on time, anywhere.
Large trucks in Amsterdam’s city centre are problematic and so for urban distribution our transporter uses city-oriented transport options.
Just in time; our transporter uses block times so that we can guarantee our delivery times within a 2 hour window.

Our transporters are HACCP certified. An uninterrupted refrigeration chain is guaranteed using air-conditioned loading docks. The temperature control system logs temperatures and we check it by continuously adding ‘lockers’ to the orders. Properly trained drivers know how to deal with temperature-sensitive products.

Better distributors use the crossdock system i.e. they collect shipments from as many suppliers as possible at a single location and redistribute these across multiple trucks enabling a single truck to supply a client with multiple products, from multiple suppliers in a single visit. The advantage is that the client only has to unload a single truck which saves time and annoyance. Nothing is more annoying than having to interrupt your work to unload a truck after you have just done so for another supplier.

Trucks are fuller thanks to the crossdock system and they no longer ‘repeat each other’s routes’ which cuts CO₂ emissions considerably and that, in turn, benefits the environment. Electric or natural gas-powered transport is increasingly used for urban distribution as this also massively limits CO₂ emissions.
Vitelco thinks in ‘food miles’; it wishes to transport food as little as possible out of respect for both humans and animals.