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INCORPORATING COLD CHAIN
FPT increases cold treatment
capacity for citrus exports
By Ilana Koegelenberg
When FPT Group decided to upgrade cold rooms at its facility at the Port of
Cape Town, they approached MRE to retrofit the cold rooms in record time.
A shipping vessel at the Port of Cape Town, ready to load citrus pallets.
P
rior to the upgrade, FPT’s facility in
the Port of Cape Town had eight
chambers on the ground floor and
three on the first floor that could be used
to cool and store produce before it is
loaded into containers / conventional
vessels in the port.
“We always had holding rooms on the first
floor but they were never used to cool
down fruit. We usually rented them out to
customers who export flowers and other
products,” explains Brendin
Madaramoothoo, the technical
manager at FPT.
The vessel’s crane lifting the citrus pallets onto the ship, ready for shipment to the US.
Due to the increased requirement for
cold treatment capacity in the port,
FPT decided to upgrade the cold
rooms on the first floor. The capacity
of the eight chambers on the
ground floor is 4 600 pallets, but
additional space was required to
accommodate close to 5 200 pallets
in total.
The upgrade included
recommissioning of the existing three
chambers and the addition of five
more chambers to a total of
eight chambers.
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