With a decline in potato prices in India this year, cold storage facilities in the country are being used to store potatoes long-term until prices recover. Potato consumption had increased last year due to increased demand from the COVID-19 outbreak and a smaller-than-usual crop in 2019. This raised profits and encouraged farmers to expand production…
Cold storage facilities in Shanghai, the world’s busiest port, can’t handle any more imports, having reached full capacity, according to multiple sources. Roadblocks, quarantines and driver shortages attributed to the coronavirus in China are largely responsible for the logjam. China’s trucking capacity is running at about 60 percent, according to The New York Times, keeping…
Just like its neighbor, China, Japan is now experiencing an unprecedented shortage of cold storage space due to an increase in imports. In particular, an increase in beef and pork shipments have been a key cause of the lack of space. Officials started noticing the shortage in mid-August, and by September’s end, storage at climate-controlled…
China is reportedly importing as much pork as they can to combat the loss of millions of pigs to African swine fever. Because so much meat is being imported, cold storage facilities at China’s ports are nearly out of space as the country tries to stockpile the expected demand for pork. Suppliers will have to…
Let’s hear it for Washington cold storage — the state, that is. Cold storage capacity in Washington state increased by a mammoth 28 percent in a recent two-year period and catapulted Washington from No. 7 to No. 2 in the nation, behind only California, according to the biennial Capacity of Refrigerated Warehouses report released by…