Refrigerated haulage & cold storage · Jos · Kano · Kaduna · Makurdi → Lagos · Abuja · Port Harcourt
Frostline runs reefer trucks down Nigeria's food corridors and keeps cold rooms in Ikorodu and Kuje. Pick what you move and see the temperature it rides at.
Below 10 °C tomatoes get chill injury and go mealy. Above 13 °C they ripen and soften on the road.
Why the cold chain matters
Commonly cited estimates put post-harvest losses for Nigerian tomatoes near half the crop, much of it in the hot, slow run from northern farms to southern markets. Chilling produce right after harvest and keeping it cold on the road stops most of that.
of tomatoes lost between farm and market in open trucks (industry estimate)
typical midday air temperature inside an open lorry on the Lokoja road
average loss on Frostline produce loads, Jan–Aug 2026
between temperature readings on every truck and cold room
Spoilage savings calculator
Put in one of your regular loads. The example below is a 10-tonne tomato run from Jos to Mile 12 market, six times a month.
Net saved per month
Route planner
Prices are per trip, one way, including fuel, driver, reefer unit and a live temperature log. Loads that need an overnight stop park in a guarded Frostline yard with shore power.
Price per trip
Shipment tracker
Enter a Frostline reference to see where the truck is, what the cargo temperature has done, and when the doors opened.
Cold-room storage
Four temperature-mapped chambers at each site. Book by the pallet, by the day. Minimum two days.
Fleet
Every unit has a diesel reefer with electric standby and two independent probes. The readouts below are a sample from the fleet, updating as you watch.
Pharma & vaccines
Our pharma service follows Good Distribution Practice: validated vans on validated lanes, calibrated loggers, and a signed temperature report with every delivery.
Tick what you already have. We handle the rest at booking.
| Lane | Transit | Pack-out hold | Last run |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lagos → Abuja | 11 h | 72 h | In band |
| Lagos → Port Harcourt | 10 h | 72 h | In band |
| Abuja → Kano | 7 h | 48 h | In band |
| Abuja → Makurdi | 5 h | 48 h | In band |
For farmers & aggregators
You do not need a full truck. Share one with your cooperative, or pay by the crate and we consolidate loads at our Jos, Kano and Makurdi pre-cooling sheds.
Pay per crate
Cooperative plan
Aggregator contract
Get a quote
Customers
"We used to lose one crate in three before Mile 12. Now our tomatoes sit in the Ikorodu cold room and we sell when the price is right, not when they start to go soft."
"The Enugu stretch was the scary part for fresh tilapia. When a compressor tripped last month, their control room called me before I even saw the SMS. Fish came in at 1.4 °C."
"Our auditors ask for the temperature report on every consignment. Frostline sends it signed, the same evening. That is why we moved our Abuja lane to them."
"Ice cream forgives nothing. At −24 °C from our factory to Kuje, not one pallet has come back with ice crystals this year."
Questions
Anything else, call the control room. It is staffed 24 hours.
After 10 minutes out of band the logger raises an alert. The driver checks the unit, the control room can switch the reefer to electric standby or divert to the nearest yard, and you get an SMS with the reading. Every excursion shows on your temperature report.
Yes, both ride well at 8–12 °C. We do not mix ethylene-sensitive leafy greens with ripening tomatoes, and we never mix food with pharma.
Yes. Our sheds in Jos, Kano and Makurdi pull field heat out of crates in 4–6 hours before loading. Loading warm produce into a reefer wastes most of the benefit.
Bank transfer, card or USSD at booking. Cooperatives can pay 30% at pickup and the rest within 7 days of the market sale.
Goods-in-transit cover up to ₦25 million per load is included. Higher values can be added at 0.35% of declared value.
Control room · 24 h
Ikorodu cold rooms
Plot 14, Agbede Industrial Layout, Ikorodu, Lagos
Gate open 05:00 – 22:00
Kuje cold rooms
Km 6, Kuje–Gwagwalada Road, Kuje, FCT Abuja
Gate open 06:00 – 21:00
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