Kansas City, Missouri, USA: Americold has broken ground on a new $127m cold store in Kansas City, Missouri. The company plans to create nearly 190 new jobs in the region with the 335,000-square-foot warehouse, built in collaboration with Canadian Pacific Kansas City, to co-locate Americold warehouse facilities on the railway.
George Chappelle, chief executive, Americold, said: “By combining our cold storage capabilities with CPKC’s extensive rail network, Americold is poised to deliver a differentiated offering to support more customers across North America.”
Keith Creel, chief executive, CPKC. “This project is the first of many across our network and, when combined with our unparalleled cross-border service, will build a new refrigerated supply chain for our customers. Just over one year ago here in Kansas City, when we celebrated the creation of CPKC, we talked about the unique economic benefits our unrivaled network would bring to Kansas City, Missouri and beyond. We are seeing that happen today.”
The cold store will support CPKC’s Mexico Midwest Express service, North America’s only single-line rail service offering for refrigerated shippers between US Midwest markets and Mexico.
