South African Exporters get a sneak peek into Maersk’s upcoming cold store facility in Cape Town
A key element of unbroken integrated cold chain logistics, the Belcon Logistics Park will feature a cold store with modern cooling technology, will be well connected to the seaport, multi-modal transport solutions and feature onsite depots
Cape Town: A.P. Moller – Maersk (Maersk), the global integrated logistics company, invited its existing and potential customers in South Africa to visit its Belcon Logistics Park in Cape Town for a sneak peek at the upcoming state-of-the-art cold store facility.
The Belcon Logistics Park will be part of a three-cold storage facility network that Maersk will operate in South Africa before the end of 2025. The facility will be formally inaugurated in the last quarter of the year, but it will start welcoming cargo for some of its customers as early as June.
The logistics of perishables such as grapes, citrus, oranges, etc., are highly critical. If we only investigate the exports out of Cape Town, delays and a broken cold chain in logistics have cost the South African grape industry up to 1.5 Bn Rand in a year, as estimated by the South African Table Grape Industry. Our ambition is to minimise these losses for South Africa’s exporters as much as possible by offering integrated and unbroken cold chain logistics through our upcoming cold stores in the country.
Maersk invited some of South Africa’s exporters to have a glimpse of the state-of-the-art facility in which the company is investing and to experience what they might expect from its integrated logistics solutions, which include consolidation, storage, customs brokerage, terminal handling, and both ocean and landside transportation at origin and destination.
Alongside the Belcon Logistics Park, Maersk will open another new Cato cold store facility in Cato Ridge near Durban later this year. Maersk’s new cold store facilities will align with its global ambition to achieve Net Zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040 by utilising renewable energy.
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A.P. Moller - Maersk is an integrated logistics company working to connect and simplify its customers’ supply chains. As a global leader in logistics services, the company operates in more than 130 countries and employs around 100,000 people. Maersk is aiming to reach net zero GHG emissions by 2040 across the entire business with new technologies, new vessels, and reduced GHG emissions fuels*.
*Maersk defines "reduced GHG emissions fuels" as fuels with at least 65% reductions in GHG emissions on a lifecycle basis compared to fossil of 94 g CO2e/MJ.
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