Southern US east coast ports building new cold store facilities to grow market share

Investment in refrigerated goods handling facilities at US east coast ports is building up to almost frantic levels as those in the south Atlantic look to win market share from their northern competitors.

At Florida’s port of Tampa, work is under way on a 134,000sq ft cold storage on-dock facility, which will have over 9,000 pallet positions and 96 reefer container plugs, and is due to open next summer.

Also in 2017, a new cold storage building is slated to come on stream ...