Glasgow · Refrigerated transport
Your chilled and frozen products are ready before daybreak, as they leave your central kitchen or your production kitchen, or at your wholesaler. Our partner couriers in Glasgow collect them then, chilled or frozen, and deliver them to restaurants, caterers, shops and supermarkets across the Glasgow City Region before they open their doors.
Our refrigerated rounds in Glasgow
Our partner arrives with a body already at temperature and loads when your order is ready: at the end of your production, or at the door of a trader at the Glasgow Wholesale Market in Blochairn, which opens in the middle of the night. Your products go straight from your door, or the wholesaler’s, into the refrigerated body, then leave for your customers with no depot in between.
The Low Emission Zone applies at night too, 24 hours a day, all year round, to every vehicle entering the city centre. For restaurants and shops between the M8, the Clyde and Saltmarket, we send a Euro 6 diesel or Euro 4 petrol refrigerated vehicle, at no cost to you, whatever time the round runs, night or day.
In the pedestrianised parts of Buchanan Street and Sauchiehall Street, vehicle access is restricted every day from 10am to 7pm. For a café or a shop on those streets, we place each handover on your refrigerated round, from the moment you book, in the window the address allows; if we cannot keep to it, we tell you at that point.
Local rules checked in October 2026.
How we work
In Glasgow, a refrigerated round starts when your order is ready: at the end of production in your central kitchen, or at your wholesaler at the Glasgow Wholesale Market in Blochairn, open from 2am on weekdays. It ends when your customers open to the public. In between, the round needs a vehicle compliant with the Low Emission Zone for city centre addresses, and handovers timed around the access hours of the pedestrianised parts of Buchanan Street and Sauchiehall Street.
We first agree with you the temperature range of each product, its packaging and what the courier must do at each address. For each round, we choose a partner for their refrigerated vehicle, reserved for your goods and set to your temperature range before loading. They then drive from your site to your customers, with no depot in between, chaining the stops of a round, most often at night with our night couriers. The temperature ranges, temperature logging and vehicles are described on the page of our refrigerated transport: it is most of our work.
A customer who cannot be reached when they open, a street closed for roadworks in the morning: the courier calls our team, which chooses the best solution with them. Meanwhile, the refrigeration unit keeps running and your products stay at their temperature. We then let you know what was decided, and you do not have to phone your customers back one by one.
For goods that travel at ambient temperature, see instead our same-day delivery in Glasgow, across the eight council areas of the City Region.
The service
These three commitments apply wherever we deliver. In Glasgow, they are organised around night collections at your wholesaler or central kitchen, the Low Emission Zone and the access hours of the pedestrianised streets.
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, between 0 and 4 °C or between 0 and 7 °C depending on your products, and frozen, at −20 °C, for your frozen goods. The body is brought down to temperature before loading. On a regular round, a logger records the temperature continuously and we tell you of any deviation.
Yes. The fish merchants at the Glasgow Wholesale Market work Tuesday to Saturday, from 3am to 9am. On a Saturday, only a few fruit and vegetable merchants open, for a shorter day: tell us when you book which trader has your order ready and at what time.
Yes. The courier can let themselves in with the codes or keys you entrust to us and put your products away inside before you arrive. It is common practice for us on night rounds.
Yes, if it is Euro 6, and that is the one we send. The Low Emission Zone applies at all hours, and the council does not normally grant exemptions for routine goods transport: a non-compliant vehicle would receive a £60 penalty, which doubles each further day it is driven in the zone within 90 days, up to £480 for a van.
Yes, when your volume calls for it, though it is not guaranteed: we tell you at the quote stage whether such a truck can take your round.
Tell us what you carry, at what temperature, where your products leave from, your central kitchen or your wholesaler, and when each customer takes deliveries. We will come back to you with a vehicle, an order of stops and a time for each one.