Mesotrans

Refrigerated Road Transport / Cold Chain Logisticsbpifrance.fr

Mesotrans is a Paris-based private French company founded in 1969 that provides refrigerated road transport and temperature-controlled logistics services to clients in France's agri-food sector.

Company typePrivate
Founded2012
HeadquartersParis, France
Headcount—
GTM typeB2B
OfferingServices

What Mesotrans does

Mesotrans is a Paris-headquartered French company founded in 1969 that operates as a private, for-profit entity. According to the available firmographic data, the company provides refrigerated road transport and temperature-controlled logistics services to clients in the agri-food sector. Its registered location is Paris, France, and it is classified as a for-profit private company.

The input dataset identifies the firm as a refrigerated logistics operator but does not populate product, technology, pricing, customer, leadership, financial, certification, or partnership fields with information attributable to Mesotrans. The structured data blocks attached to this record (legal entity, headcount, go-to-market, subsidiaries, partnerships, channels, and so on) consistently describe a French public investment bank (Bpifrance) and reference its press domain (presse.bpifrance.fr) rather than a Mesotrans-owned website. Those blocks do not describe Mesotrans's refrigerated transport operations and have not been used as primary evidence for Mesotrans-specific claims.

Given the absence of Mesotrans-attributable operational, commercial, or financial data beyond the firmographic header, deeper analytical claims on Mesotrans's product surface, competitive positioning, customer base, financials, or growth trajectory cannot be substantiated from this corpus and are not asserted in the structured fields below. The firmographic header is treated as the sole source of Mesotrans-specific facts.

Mesotrans firmographics

Firmographics

Name: Mesotrans
Legal name: Bpifrance
Website: https://bpifrance.fr
Company type: Private
Founded year: 2012
Operating status: Operating
Short description: Mesotrans is a Paris-based private French company founded in 1969 that provides refrigerated road transport and temperature-controlled logistics services to clients in France's agri-food sector.
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akta.pro rank

Mesotrans industry classification

Industry

Product category: Refrigerated Road Transport / Cold Chain Logistics
NAICS: Specialized Freight Trucking (4842)
akta.pro primary industry: Temperature-Controlled Road Freight (Reefer Trucking & Cross-Border) (TLACAMAH)

Keywords

Refrigerated road transport
Temperature-controlled logistics
Cold chain transport
Agri-food logistics
Perishable goods freight

Where Mesotrans is headquartered

Location

Headquarters

HQ city: Paris
HQ country: France
HQ region: Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

Mesotrans business model

Business model

GTM type: B2B
Offering type: Services
Cost components: Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Infrastructure

Revenue model

Public Investment Banking Services: Bpifrance operates as a public investment bank combining public and private sector strengths, providing financing, investment, guarantees, and advisory services to entrepreneurs and businesses.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Mesotrans product offering

Product offering

Core offering

Mesotrans provides refrigerated road transport and temperature-controlled logistics services to the agri-food sector. The company operates a cold-chain capability to move perishable food and agricultural goods under controlled temperatures from origin to destination. It is a France-based, privately held for-profit logistics operator founded in 1969 and headquartered in Paris.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

Bpifrance Création: Preparation and support services for business creation
Bpifrance Le Hub
Bpifrance Le Lab
Bpifrance Université
Bpifrance, banque du climat

Products and services

Refrigerated Road Transport and Temperature-Controlled Logistics

Companies that use Mesotrans

Customer profile

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Mesotrans technology and API

Technology

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API: No
API docs
API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Mesotrans partnerships and signals

Strategic signal

Scale indicators2 records

Mesotrans competitors and assessment

Company assessment

Direct peers

STEF: STEF is the dominant French temperature-controlled logistics group operating refrigerated road transport, cold warehousing, and distribution for agri-food and seafood customers — the closest direct competitor and reference operator in Mesotrans's exact niche.
Olano: Olano is a France-based family-owned logistics group operating refrigerated transport and cold storage across France and Iberia, serving food retailers and producers — a direct competitor in the same reefer trucking category.
Bourgey Montier: Bourgey Montier is a French mid-market carrier specializing in temperature-controlled road transport for the agri-food industry, making it one of the closest direct comparables to Mesotrans in scale and customer focus.

Broad incumbents

XPO / RXO: RXO (spun from XPO) is a major European road freight broker and asset-based carrier with dedicated refrigerated capacity, providing competitive pressure on French reefer lanes that Mesotrans serves.
Geodis: Geodis is a major French-owned global logistics provider with dedicated temperature-controlled road and air freight solutions for food and healthcare; it competes with Mesotrans on French reefer trucking lanes and offers broader end-to-end supply chain services.
DB Schenker (DSV): DB Schenker (now part of DSV) operates one of Europe's largest land transport networks with dedicated cold-chain capabilities, competing with Mesotrans for cross-border and domestic French reefer volumes.
Kuehne+Nagel: Kuehne+Nagel is a global logistics leader with a substantial KN Cold Chain / temperature-controlled road freight product serving agri-food and pharmaceutical customers across Europe, overlapping directly with Mesotrans's offering.

Regional players

Chronopost (La Poste Group): Chronopost, part of Le Groupe La Poste, operates express parcel and temperature-controlled last-mile logistics in France for food and healthcare shippers, overlapping with parts of Mesotrans's cold-chain service offering.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses4 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

Mesotrans financial estimates

Financial estimate

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Mesotrans leadership team

Management profile

Number of profiles

Mesotrans subsidiaries and ownership

Company hierarchy

Subsidiaries4 records

Mesotrans funding detail

Funding detail

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

Mesotrans M&A and investment

M&A and investment

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

Frequently asked questions about Mesotrans

What does Mesotrans do?

Is Mesotrans a public or private company?

Mesotrans is a private company. It is classified as unknown and is currently operating.

When was Mesotrans founded?

Mesotrans was founded in 2012.

Where is Mesotrans based?

Mesotrans is headquartered in Paris, France, in the Europe region.

How does Mesotrans make money?

One revenue line is on record: public Investment Banking Services.

Who are Mesotrans's main competitors?

Direct peers on record are STEF, Olano and Bourgey Montier. Broad incumbents are XPO / RXO, Geodis, DB Schenker (DSV) and Kuehne+Nagel. Chronopost (La Poste Group) is listed as a regional player.

Does Mesotrans have an API?

No public API is recorded for Mesotrans.

What industry is Mesotrans in?

Mesotrans's product category is Refrigerated Road Transport / Cold Chain Logistics. Its primary akta.pro industry code is TLACAMAH, Temperature-Controlled Road Freight (Reefer Trucking & Cross-Border). Its NAICS code is 4842.