Ghent · Refrigerated transport
Meat, fish, prepared dishes, dairy or frozen goods: Shippr moves what has to stay cold in Ghent, as a single drop or a night round, across the city’s 14 districts. Our Ghent partners have the refrigeration unit your temperature range calls for, take the goods as they leave your kitchen or production kitchen and hand them over to your customer.
Cold, inside the R40
Many refrigerated vans still run on diesel. In the LEZ, which covers everything inside the R40, a Euro 4 diesel gets in only with a paid permit and an older one only with a day pass, and the cameras fine €185 a day. Our rounds into the centre leave in a refrigerated vehicle that is allowed in with no pass.
Four of the five car-free areas open to registered suppliers from 6pm to 11am. A refrigerated round, collecting as production ends and delivering before opening time, therefore fits entirely inside that window. Restaurants and shops around the Korenmarkt or in the Patershol are served overnight or early in the morning, well before the window closes.
Central kitchens and wholesalers often load at night and away from the centre: in the port, on the outskirts, in neighbouring towns. We collect at those hours and those addresses, then the round heads into the city to supply restaurants, shops and supermarkets before they open to the public.
Local rules checked in October 2026.
How we run it
A Ghent cold round is prepared the day before and driven at night. Three conditions: a vehicle allowed into the LEZ, a refrigeration unit set before loading, and handovers that fall between 6pm and 11am in the car-free areas. Those are also the hours your customers take deliveries, so in Ghent the rules and the trade pull the same way.
The day before, we agree with you the packing, the loading temperature, pre-cooling the vehicle and the instructions for each handover. The partner we pick has load space sized to your consignment and a refrigeration unit set to your range. Nearly always it is a multi-drop round: restaurants, shops, supermarkets, ordered by when each one receives, and often at night. The page for our refrigerated transport describes the service itself.
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The service
The service does not change from city to city. In Ghent it works with the LEZ, night collections and the car-free areas’ 6pm-to-11am window.
Pre-cooling the vehicle, temperature at loading, handling instructions: our team agrees the necessary precautions with you and passes them on to the transport partners.
On your regular refrigerated rounds, data loggers track temperatures during transport. If there is a deviation or anything unexpected, our team coordinates the response with the carrier and keeps you informed.
Crates, boxes or pallets: Shippr brings in equipped partners for your volumes and your temperature needs, from 0–4 °C to 0–7 °C, or −20 °C for your frozen products.
One-off delivery or a round between your stores, shops and restaurants: we adapt the transport capacity, the frequency of stops and the loading arrangements to the way you work.
A carrier unavailable, a vehicle off the road or a rise in orders? The Shippr team finds a replacement that meets your temperature requirements and adjusts the organisation of your rounds.
We coordinate the changes with the partners and let you know the new times, to limit the impact on your supply and your customers.
Frequently asked questions
Chilled, from 0–4 °C to 0–7 °C depending on what you carry, and frozen at −20 °C. We give the round to a Ghent partner equipped for that range, and the vehicle is brought to temperature before loading.
With no formalities if it is Euro 5 or 6; below that it needs a paid permit or a day pass, twelve days a year at most. When a handover is inside the R40, we use a refrigerated vehicle that is allowed into the zone.
Yes, and Ghent lends itself to it: in most car-free areas the suppliers’ window runs from 6pm to 11am. A night or early-morning round hands the goods over there before opening, in a vehicle whose plate is declared for the area.
On regular rounds, an on-board recorder logs the temperature continuously, from loading to the last handover. If it drifts, our team lets you know and agrees the next step with the partner.
Tell us the products, their temperature and when each customer takes deliveries. You get the vehicle we propose and the order of the stops, fitted to the city-centre windows.