Cool Port Rotterdam up and Running

Cool Port Rotterdam up and Running

Last week the first containers were received at Kloosterboer’s new site in Rotterdam as "Kloosterboer Cool Port” officially opened for business. The shipment, made up of pallets of pomegranates from Total Produce, arrived at Maasvlakte on the MSC container ship “Sasha" from where they were transported by barge from the Kramer Home Terminal to Cool Port for landing, control and storage.

Kloosterboer Cool Port has a storage capacity of 40,000 pallets, of which 30,000 is dedicated to cold storage and 10,000 to deep-freeze storage. On the ground floor there is a 7,500 m2 expedition area featuring 38 dock shelters and on the first floor there is a packing / unpacking facility designed specifically for the handling of fruit and vegetables, also equipped with ripening rooms.

"The Cool Port project is a big step forward for Kloosterboer. It is an innovative, logistics solution which incorporates barging, automated process management and information provision in the supply chain. The location has proved attractive and we can already conclude that Cool Port is a great success. Even before the doors were opened 80% of the storage space had already been reserved resulting in the need for and reality of Cool Port II growing one step closer,” explains Jaco Hooij, CEO Kloosterboer.

The ideal location of Cool Port at the City Terminal in the port of Rotterdam with its tri-modal connections by sea, rail and road, provides a unique financial advantage in terms of logistic services to and from the Maasvlakte.

“Following a long period of preparation and intensive cooperation with Kloosterboer Cool Port, last week we reached an important milestone when Cool Port Rotterdam received our consignment - the very first to pass through its doors. The entire team here at Total Produce Rotterdam is now looking forward to seeing the volume of our goods handled at Cool Port continue to rise as well as taking full advantage of all the possibilities that this unique location has to offer,” said Michel Jansen, Managing Director Total Produce Rotterdam.

"The opening of Cool Port represents yet another valuable expansion of the temperature controlled activities and logistics in Rotterdam's port. This new cold storage facility forms part of the former City Terminal site which is being developed into an efficient and compact multimodal distribution centre for short sea shipping, inland shipping, rail and road transport. We wish Kloosterboer the very best of luck at this fantastic new location,” said Emile Hoogsteden, Managing Director of Containers, Breakbulk & Logistics, Port of Rotterdam.