Maersk begins construction of Russia's first state-of-the-art cold store in St Petersburg

Maersk is set to build the first state-of-the-art cold store in St Petersburg designed to handle fresh food imports into Russia.

A ground-breaking ceremony took place earlier this week at the PNK Park Sofiyskaya KAD in St Petersburg on the three-chamber facility, which will cover 23,700sq metres offering over 30,000 pallet locations, with 35 docks able to serve a daily throughput of up to 200 trucks.

The maximum storage capacity will be more than 50,000 tonnes and the fully Maersk-operated warehouse will ...