Maersk to build Latin America’s first reefer factory
Scheduled to be operational by the end of 2013 and with an eventual output of 40,000 reefer containers and 30,000 reefer units annually, the new facility will create 1,800 jobs in and around San Antonio.
More broadly, the company says the facility will help correct a reefer trade imbalance that disfavours exporters of fresh produce, fish and meat from Western South America, which, each year, sees tens of thousands of empty containers shipped in from Asia and elsewhere.
“We position our investment on the basis of future world trade flows and we do so with
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