Cedrob invests in cold storage facility at Polish port

Cedrob, Poland’s largest poultry producer, signed a preliminary agreement with the Port of Gdansk Authority to build a cold storage facility at the port, located on Poland’s Baltic coast.

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Cedrob, Poland’s largest poultry producer, signed a preliminary agreement with the Port of Gdansk Authority to build a cold storage facility at the port, located on Poland’s Baltic coast.

The company plans to invest PLN100 million (US$26 million) in the facility, and the related construction is expected to be completed in the second half of 2021.

According to the port authority, the Cedrob facility will have a capacity of about 30,000 pallet capacity and will be located near DCT Gdansk SA, which is the largest container terminal in the Baltic Sea and the primary transshipment hub for central and eastern Europe and Scandinavia in Euro-Asian nations.

The fully automated cold storage facility will hold meat intended for export. It is expected to feature the latest technological solutions that will make optimal use of the available space, increase efficiency and ensure high competitiveness. It will be operational 24 hours a day, seven days a week, enabling loading and unloading containers there to occur at any time of day.

The facility will not only serve Cedrob and its customers, but also external producers, according to the port authority.

Cedrob, in addition to being Poland’s largest poultry company, is the 13th largest poultry company in Europe, according to the Poultry International Top Companies survey. It slaughters 191 million broilers annually, and is also involved in the production of duck meat, goose meat and pork.

Presently, Cedrob, which was founded 28 years ago, exports its products to more than 60 markets across the world.

The cold storage facility construction project follows an earlier investment from Cedrob, in which the company built a new feed mill in Ligota Dolna, which will enable it to increase its feed production capacity by 30,000 metric tons per month and push its annual feed output to beyond 1 million metric tons annually.

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