Warrnambool, Australia: The Midfield Group is building a Aus$15m cold store in Warrnambool that would remove 6,000 trucks from the road each year.
The reduction in commercial vehicle traffic will be achieved by reducing the volume of meat product Midfield presently trucks to a cold store in Laverton.
The company said that up to 70 trucks a week travelled from Midfield to the Laverton cold store because it did not have enough capacity at Warrnambool to store the two million head of livestock it processed annually.
Midfield production manager Dean McKenna said the new cold store would be one of the most modern in Australia.
With a 4200-pallet capacity it would require only one-tenth the power of a traditional cold store and reduce the incidence of handling damage to product.