Colombia. Emergent Cold Latin America announced the expansion of its storage infrastructure in Colombia with two projects that will add 22,000 new pallet positions to its capacity in the country.
The company will build a warehouse in Cartagena, where it already has a facility. With a capacity of 9,000 pallets for refrigerated or frozen food, this new warehouse will be located in the Parque Central Free Trade Zone. In Funza, in the Bogotá metropolitan area, a recently acquired facility will be expanded to add 13,000 new positions.
"Bogota and Cartagena are two strategic regions for our growth in Colombia. The capital, for being a large metropolitan area, and the coastal city for having one of the largest ports in Latin America. This is an important step in our expansion in the country, which represents the relevance of the Colombian market and our commitment to economic development and logistics infrastructure," said Alain Eichmann, Managing Director for the Caribbean region at Emergent Cold LatAm.
Emergent Cold LatAm began operations in Colombia in 2022 when it acquired Frigorífico Metropolitano (Frigometro), a national temperature-controlled storage network with facilities in four strategic regions of the country. That same year, it completed another investment with the expansion of a warehouse located in Girón. In 2024, it completed the acquisition of Red Polar, adding another warehouse to its operations. Currently, the company operates five warehouses in the regions of Bogotá, Bucaramanga, Buga and Cartagena.
