Colombia. Two new cold rooms are available in the Colombian port of Santa Marta and will function as transfer and inspection points for port authorities in the different import and export products that need to remain refrigerated.
With an investment of 350,000 dollars, the rooms have an area of 65 square meters, temperature between -10 and 7 degrees Celsius, modern monitoring and inspection systems, four sliding sectional doors, truck leveler, LED lighting for 24-hour work and electronic control board, among other novelties, W Radio reported.
With this, the port of Santa Marta adds 4 cold rooms to move refrigerated cargo, in addition to an infrastructure in the container terminal that consists of gantry cranes and RTG, as well as the possibility of connecting more than 600 containers to electricity and monitoring systems to the cargo.
The National Infrastructure Agency of Colombia has reported that the Santa Marta Regional Port Society is able to store up to 11 thousand tons of palm oil and palm kernel, equivalent to 332 tank cars, in a new plant for the receipt and dispatch of liquids that recently entered into operation in its facilities.
Source: Logi News.
