Sri City gets cold chain facility  

Hyderabad: Mumbai-based warehousing & distribution company Coldman Logistics Pvt Ltd on Wednesday laid foundation stone for its state-of-the-art temperature-controlled warehouse in Sri City special economic zone in Chittoor district. The company proposes to build a large cold chain warehouse in a plot of 5 acres at an investment of about Rs 60 crore.

The facility which is expected to be ready by April 2017 will have five variant temperature zones along with dry warehousing and vegetable processing area. It can cater to the storage needs of food, pharma, processing of pre-cut vegetables for export and domestic consumption and other industrial products. The facility is expected to provide jobs for about 50 people.

Commenting on the occasion, Dev Anand, Director, Coldman Logistics Pvt Ltd, said that Sri City was an ideal location, offering impeccable opportunities and great infrastructure which were the prerequisites for a business. It has superior connectivity to Chennai, Ennore and other ports, he added. "We will be expanding our network to other ports and major cities on pan India basis by building state-of-the-art temperature controlled warehouses, which will cater to food, pharma and other industrial products in next two years", he further said.