Carrier Refrigeration

4 Charting the Cour PICTURE THIS: In the heart of the United States, a shopper in a Kansas City supermarket pushes a food cart with his usual staples, which include organically grown bananas from Ecuador, Gouda cheese from the Netherlands, tilapia imported from Indonesia and ginger root from China. Yet at a supermarket a half a world away, in Singapore, the shelves are stocked with apples from Washington, U.S.A., oranges from Australia, chicken, pork and beef from Brazil, and French brie. Although considered ordinary today, scenes such as these, with their international cornucopias, were implausible just a half century ago – prior to the rising tide of the container shipping industry and, in particular, the extraordinary convenience and practicality of the refrigerated and frozen segment. Now picture this: 45 years ago Carrier rolled out the first full frontwall or "picture frame" container refrigeration unit. The integrated self-contained system, as tall and wide as the front end of the insulated steel shipping box on which it fit, quickly defined the shape of the generations of marine refrigeration systems to come. In our family album of container units, that innovative 1968 Frostmaster® is the grandfather of today's ThinLINE®, PrimeLINE® and NaturaLINE™ models. That picture frame design made practical refrigerated trade via containership, helping spawn a global industry that has simply never stopped growing. As the marine industry's preferred brand for refrigeration, Carrier Transicold has maintained a leadership role over the years, helping move shippers toward more environmentally sustainable refrigerants and bringing further innovations in system efficiency and cargo protection along the way. This brings us to the next anticipated image in our collection: Our one-millionth unit. For some perspective, one million 40-foot refrigerated containers could fill the world's largest container ship, capable of carrying 18,270 TEU, 110 times. Or if you prefer, one million Carrier refrigeration units stacked one above the other are as tall as 2,719 Burj Khalifas, the tallest skyscraper in the world at 830 meters (2,722 feet). That's the equivalent of extending 2,250 kilometers (1,400 miles) into space. Thanks to Carrier Transicold's long-standing leadership in transport refrigeration, the steady growth of our container business is virtually a mirror image of the rise in containerized refrigerated trade through the decades. Today, 52 percent of world seaborne trade is delivered efficiently and economically by container vessel, and 65 percent of refrigerated products are transported in containers, the majority of which are efficiently and reliably temperature-controlled by Carrier Transicold systems. "On any given day, the value of cargo protected by Carrier Transicold units alone is valued at $6 billion," said David Appel, president Carrier Transicold. "Indeed, Carrier Transicold systems and our global service and support network play a significant role in assuring the well-being of a growing global population, by providing the safe, reliable transport of produce, meat, seafood, vaccines and medicine from hemisphere to hemisphere, 24 hours a day, every day of the year." The accompanying timeline provides historic snapshots into Carrier's commitment to the marine shipping industry and the events that have helped chart the present course to one million units. And we can't wait to get started on the second million! 1970 Carrier Corp. acquires Transicold Co., forms Carrier Transicold. 1966 1902 Willis H. Carrier's invention of modern air conditioning changes the way we live, including how we travel and what we eat. Dr. Carrier was awarded his first patent in 1906, and with six associates formed the Carrier Engineering Corporation in 1915. First transatlantic containership operates between ports on the U.S. East Coast and Europe. Carrier tests prototype front-wall container unit. 1969 First Carrier generator sets introduced. 1956 Container shipping is born! The Ideal X, a converted tanker, carried 58 trailer vans from Newark, N.J. to Houston, Texas. Carrier begins development of its first container refrigeration machine, a splitsystem unit mounted to the front of an insulated box. 1902 1956 1968 Carrier debuts first full front-wall or "picture frame" container refrigeration unit for marine shipping. 1967 1969 1971

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