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FRIGO Coldstore Logistics opens 3rd cold storage facility in Hamburg port
FRIGO Coldstore Logistics has opened its third cold storage facility in the Port of Hamburg that is due to be fully completed in August to offer a cool capacity of 40,000 pallet positions on a 18,000-square-metres site.
The company said the storage extension was necessary due to the continuous increase in customer demand for deep freeze capacity.
The facility will provide extra office space and 12 new jobs at FRIGO. The number of staff at present is 38 including four vocational trainees, which will probably rise to 50.
By 2008, it had to increase capacity. "From the very beginning great value was put on implementing energy efficiency from insulation to cooling technology," a company statement said.
"Part of the electricity is generated by their own solar arrays on the warehouse roof, which will possibly in future be used directly in the cold storage system.
Incoming deep-frozen food will be handled on initially 20 loading ramps which will later be boosted to 30. The ramps are cooled to five degrees guaranteeing a continuous cold chain. The new building will increase the picking area facilitating optimal compilation of goods for customer orders.
The extra cold storage space has been added as for many years the per capita consumption of frozen food has risen continuously and with it the challenge to provide enough storage space.
In 2013, some 618,000 TEU, or 6.74 million tonnes of reefer boxes cross Hamburg's docks, an increase of 15.2 per cent year on year with 3.26 million tons coming in as imports.
The major areas of origin are the Far East, the east and west coast of South America, the rest of Asia, the South Seas and Indonesia as well as Norway.
The foodstuffs imported by FRIGO customers come into the Port of Hamburg from all over the world, and are transferred directly into cold storage, including meat from South America, fish from Canada and vegetables from China.
The storage temperature for most of the foodstuffs is minus -18 degrees centigrade. Customers from the whole of Europe can call up their goods on demand and they will be delivered for further processing or to the retailer by refrigerated trucks.
The current deep freeze storage capacity is around 15,000 tons, representing 75 million ready-made meals.
FRIGO Coldstore Logistics is a family company founded in 1996 with its head office in Hamburg, in the centre of Altenwerder, with direct access to the largest container terminal in Germany and the A7 motorway.
The company said the storage extension was necessary due to the continuous increase in customer demand for deep freeze capacity.
The facility will provide extra office space and 12 new jobs at FRIGO. The number of staff at present is 38 including four vocational trainees, which will probably rise to 50.
By 2008, it had to increase capacity. "From the very beginning great value was put on implementing energy efficiency from insulation to cooling technology," a company statement said.
"Part of the electricity is generated by their own solar arrays on the warehouse roof, which will possibly in future be used directly in the cold storage system.
Incoming deep-frozen food will be handled on initially 20 loading ramps which will later be boosted to 30. The ramps are cooled to five degrees guaranteeing a continuous cold chain. The new building will increase the picking area facilitating optimal compilation of goods for customer orders.
The extra cold storage space has been added as for many years the per capita consumption of frozen food has risen continuously and with it the challenge to provide enough storage space.
In 2013, some 618,000 TEU, or 6.74 million tonnes of reefer boxes cross Hamburg's docks, an increase of 15.2 per cent year on year with 3.26 million tons coming in as imports.
The major areas of origin are the Far East, the east and west coast of South America, the rest of Asia, the South Seas and Indonesia as well as Norway.
The foodstuffs imported by FRIGO customers come into the Port of Hamburg from all over the world, and are transferred directly into cold storage, including meat from South America, fish from Canada and vegetables from China.
The storage temperature for most of the foodstuffs is minus -18 degrees centigrade. Customers from the whole of Europe can call up their goods on demand and they will be delivered for further processing or to the retailer by refrigerated trucks.
The current deep freeze storage capacity is around 15,000 tons, representing 75 million ready-made meals.
FRIGO Coldstore Logistics is a family company founded in 1996 with its head office in Hamburg, in the centre of Altenwerder, with direct access to the largest container terminal in Germany and the A7 motorway.
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