Industry Solutions

E-Commerce Cold Storage & Delivery

Scale your online food business with temperature-controlled last-mile delivery. From meal kit startups to established grocery platforms.

Last-Mile Cold Delivery

Temperature-controlled last-mile delivery for meal kits, groceries, and perishable e-commerce orders.

Multi-Temp Flexibility

Chilled (+2°C to +5°C) and frozen (-18°C) in the same vehicle for mixed-category orders.

Same-Day & Scheduled

Support both same-day on-demand delivery and scheduled recurring delivery routes.

Live Tracking & Proof

Real-time GPS tracking with temperature-stamped proof of delivery for customer transparency.

HACCP Compliant

Meet marketplace and regulatory food safety requirements with certified vehicles.

Scale On Demand

Add vehicles during peak seasons (Ramadan, holidays) and scale down during quieter periods.

Built for E-Commerce Scale

Dubai's e-commerce food delivery market is booming, but the last-mile cold chain remains the biggest challenge. Customers expect their meal kits, fresh groceries, and frozen items to arrive at the perfect temperature — and a single failed delivery can lose a customer forever.

DegreeZero provides flexible, on-demand cold chain vehicles that scale with your business. Start with one chiller van and grow to a fleet of 50+ during peak seasons like Ramadan and holiday periods. Our vehicles come equipped with real-time IoT tracking, giving you and your customers complete visibility into delivery temperatures.

Whether you're a meal kit startup, an online grocery platform, or a D2C frozen food brand, we provide the reliable, compliant cold chain infrastructure your business needs to grow.

Ready to Scale Your Cold Chain?

Flexible daily, weekly, and monthly plans with no long-term commitment required.

Online grocery and meal-kit platforms in the UAE promise narrow same-day slots on chilled and frozen items. DegreeZero rents chiller and freezer vans from AED 349 per day for last-mile cold delivery, with fast-recovery bodies built for 30+ drops, GPS tracking and per-order temperature evidence.

Last-Mile Cold Is a Door-Opening Problem

A distribution route opens the doors ten times. A last-mile grocery route opens them forty times, often in residential towers where the driver is away from the vehicle for six to eight minutes per drop. The refrigeration unit is barely the limiting factor; door discipline and body recovery speed are.

Our last-mile configuration uses compartmentalised bodies with small access hatches so the driver removes one order without opening the main aperture. Across a forty-drop evening route in July that difference is the gap between a compliant load and a load that spends two hours above setpoint.

Compartment hatches for single-order picks
Fast-recovery high-airflow evaporators
Frozen and chilled zones in one van
Live GPS for customer ETA feeds
Per-order temperature evidence
Weekend and evening peak cover

Meal Kits, Dark Stores and Micro-Fulfilment

The UAE market has moved quickly to dark stores and micro-fulfilment nodes in dense residential areas — JVC, Business Bay, Al Barsha, Dubai Marina — with vans shuttling between a central cold store and those nodes several times a day, and separate vans doing final delivery.

These two legs need different vehicles. The shuttle leg wants payload and few door openings; the final leg wants compartments, agility and parking practicality. Mixing the two on one vehicle type is the most common cost mistake we see with growing platforms.

Proving Temperature to the Customer and the Platform

Cold chain disputes in e-commerce are customer-facing. A shopper claims the ice cream arrived soft; the platform issues a refund; nobody can prove anything either way. Over thousands of orders that becomes a real margin line.

Because our logging is continuous and GPS-matched, a platform can pull the vehicle temperature for the exact minute an order was delivered. That resolves disputes factually, and platforms that surface it in their support flow generally see refund rates on chilled and frozen lines fall.

Scaling Fleet With Demand Curves

Grocery e-commerce demand is spiky in a predictable way: weekend evenings, Ramadan, public holidays and weather events. Owning enough refrigerated vans to cover the Friday evening peak means idle capital every Tuesday morning.

Most of our e-commerce customers hold a monthly core fleet and add daily or weekly units for peaks. A 1-ton chiller van is AED 349 per day or AED 7,499 per month, so flexing three extra vans for eight peak days a month costs far less than owning them.

E-Commerce Cold Fleet by Leg

Leg	Vehicle	Why	Rate
Cold store to dark store shuttle	3-Ton Refrigerated Truck	Payload, few door openings	AED 599/day
Dark store to customer (chilled)	1-Ton Chiller Van	Agility, compartment hatches	AED 349/day
Frozen last mile	Freezer Van 1-Ton	−18°C through 40 drops	AED 599/day
Mixed chilled + frozen last mile	1.5-Ton Multi-Zone	One vehicle, two bands	AED 449/day

Frequently Asked Questions

Can a chiller van hold temperature across 40 residential drops?

Yes, with the right body. Our last-mile configuration uses compartment hatches so the driver removes a single order without opening the main aperture, plus high-airflow evaporators that recover quickly — which is what keeps a forty-drop July evening route inside setpoint.

Can one van carry both chilled and frozen orders?

Yes. Our 1.5-ton multi-zone vans hold a frozen compartment at −18°C and a chilled compartment at +2°C to +5°C simultaneously, at AED 449 per day, which removes the need for two last-mile vehicles.

Can we prove temperature for a specific customer order?

Yes. Logging is continuous and GPS-matched, so you can pull the vehicle temperature for the exact minute an order was delivered and resolve a refund dispute factually rather than by default.

How do we cover weekend and Ramadan peaks?

Most platforms keep a monthly core fleet and add daily or weekly vans for peaks. At AED 349 per day versus AED 7,499 per month, flexing three extra vans for eight peak days is far cheaper than owning them.

Do you support dark store and micro-fulfilment shuttles?

Yes. Shuttle legs between a central cold store and dark stores in areas like JVC, Business Bay and Al Barsha are best served by 3-ton trucks at AED 599 per day, with smaller vans handling final delivery.

Is live tracking available for customer ETAs?

Yes. Every vehicle has live GPS, and the feed can be surfaced in your own customer ETA and dispatch tooling alongside the temperature data.