A main Kenyan warehouse and logistics service supplier Cold Solutions, says it’s going to invest USD 70 million to construct the largest cold chain facility in East Africa to deal with challenges that face transportation of perishable goods.
Cold Solution’s 15,000 sqm flagship facility in Tatu City Special Economic Zone in Nairobi would be the largest, most advanced and environment friendly in the area. The chilly chain facility is flexibly designed to cater for numerous temperature ranges from +26 to -40 C and a quantity of product ranges, from contemporary fruit and vegetables, to prescription drugs and vaccines, meats and poultry, and frozen foods.
Cold Solutions Kenya is a portfolio company of ARCH Cold Chain Solutions East Africa Fund, a non-public equity fund suggested by ARCH Emerging Markets Partners Limited (ARCH).
“Cold Solutions’ one-stop-shops are designed to permit companies to maintain track of products in real-time and facilitate transportation throughout East Africa by way of temperature-controlled trucks, either within the inside city or to long-haul destinations,” mentioned Jared Irving, Managing Director, ARCH.
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The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that over 40% of meals in Sub-Saharan Africa perishes earlier than it reaches a shopper. This could be as high as 60% for contemporary produce in Sub-Saharan Africa.
ที่วัดแรงดัน , Kenya Country Head for Rendeavour, Tatu City’s proprietor and developer, says, “We are delighted to welcome Cold Solutions’ transformational chilly storage complicated to Tatu Industrial Park, which is house to more than 50 Kenyan, East African and multi-national businesses constructing best-in-class facilities in Kenya’s first operational Special Economic Zone.”
Tatu City is a 5,000-acre, mixed-use development with homes, schools, places of work, a purchasing district, medical clinics, nature areas, a sport and entertainment complex, and manufacturing area for greater than a hundred and fifty,000 residents and tens of hundreds of day visitors. Schools and businesses are already open at Tatu City, and a variety of houses suits all incomes. Tatu City represents a brand new way of living and considering for all Kenyans, creating a unique live, work and play surroundings that is free from traffic congestion and long-distance commuting.
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