Maersk completes construction and welcomes first customer in its new cold store in Rotterdam

4 2월 2025

Rotterdam – 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.

This guarantees seamless processes and optimal, friction free handling of reefer containers. The proximity to the terminal allows us to offer more integrated and thus more resilient supply chain solutions right at our logistics hub in Rotterdam.

Ole Trumpfheller

Managing Director of Maersk Area North Europe Continent comprising Benelux, the D, A, CH countries and Poland

A capacity of more than 34,000 pallet positions will make the cold store a key component of Maersk’s integrated reefer and cold chain logistics offering for pharmaceuticals, fruits, meat or fish in North-West Europe. Furthermore, the empty reefer equipment can be returned in Maersk’s owned and newly expanded Star Depot next to the cold store. That reduces potential additional D&D costs for customers.

More insights and a 3D model of the cold store including virtual reality tours in the warehouse will be provided to fresh produce customers on the Fruit Logistica trade fair in Berlin (5-7 Feb. 2025) at the Maersk booth H-41 in hall 26.

Facts about the cold storage warehouse:

Customs bonded facility
Inhouse veterinairy inspection point
Low emission facility with BREEAM Excellent certification and renewable energy

About Maersk

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 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2040 across the entire business with new technologies, new vessels, and reduced GHG emissions fuels. (Maersk defines reduced / lower 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)