A leading Kenyan warehouse and logistics service provider Cold Solutions, says it’s going to invest USD 70 million to assemble the biggest chilly chain facility in East Africa to handle challenges that face transportation of perishable items.
Cold Solution’s 15,000 sqm flagship facility in Tatu City Special Economic Zone in Nairobi will be the largest, most advanced and environment friendly within the region. The cold chain facility is flexibly designed to cater for numerous temperature ranges from +26 to -40 C and multiple product ranges, from contemporary fruit and vegetables, to pharmaceuticals and vaccines, meats and poultry, and frozen foods.
Cold Solutions Kenya is a portfolio firm of ARCH Cold Chain Solutions East Africa Fund, a private fairness fund advised by ARCH Emerging Markets Partners Limited (ARCH).
“ เครื่องมือที่ใช้วัดความดันคือ ’ one-stop-shops are designed to permit businesses to keep observe of merchandise in real-time and facilitate transportation across East Africa by way of temperature-controlled vans, either throughout the inside metropolis or to long-haul destinations,” said Jared Irving, Managing Director, ARCH.
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The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that over 40% of food in Sub-Saharan Africa perishes before it reaches a consumer. This could be as high as 60% for contemporary produce in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Chris Barron, Kenya Country Head for Rendeavour, Tatu City’s proprietor and developer, says, “We are delighted to welcome Cold Solutions’ transformational cold storage complicated to Tatu Industrial Park, which is house to greater than 50 Kenyan, East African and multi-national companies constructing best-in-class facilities in Kenya’s first operational Special Economic Zone.”
Tatu City is a 5,000-acre, mixed-use growth with houses, colleges, places of work, a shopping district, medical clinics, nature areas, a sport and leisure complicated, and manufacturing space for greater than 150,000 residents and tens of thousands of day visitors. Schools and companies are already open at Tatu City, and a spread of properties suits all incomes. Tatu City represents a new way of life and pondering for all Kenyans, creating a singular stay, work and play setting that’s free from site visitors congestion and long-distance commuting.
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