Seamless logistics for temperature sensitive cargoes become more and more important with a growing demand for fresh fruits, proteins as well as pharmaceutical products. Maersk is building and maintaining a global network of dedicated cold store facilties around the globe to provide reliable and safe end-to-end logistics for these perishable products. The completion of a state of the art cold store in Rotterdam (The Netherlands) marks the latest addition to this network of owned and leased specialized warehouses.

Less than 1.5 years after the official ground breaking and start of construction, Maersk has now welcomed the first fresh grapes of the South African fruit exporter Grape Alliance in its new cold store in Rotterdam. “Our cold store significantly improves the speed and reliability in refridgerated supply chains, and hence the quality of temperature sensitive and frozen products on their way to European consumers,” says Ole Trumpfheller, Managing Director of Maersk Area North Europe Continent comprising Benelux, the D, A, CH countries and Poland.

The newly opened 35,000 sqm facility is located right next to one of Europe’s most modern terminals at Maasvlakte II, operated by the Maersk subsidiary APM Terminals.