Refrigerated cargo distribution center opens at Port of Mobile
MTC Logistics has opened a major refrigerated cargo distribution center at the Port of Mobile, expected to employ about 75 people.
A refrigerated cargo distribution center officially opened Wednesday in Mobile, billed as one of the largest facilities of its kind in the Southeast.
Baltimore-based MTC Logistics expects to eventually employ about 75 people at the warehouse, located between APM Terminals and the Mobile Aeroplex at Brookley on property formerly owned by the Alabama State Port Authority. The building holds more than 12.6 million cubic feet of refrigerated space, capable of storing more than 40,000 pallets of frozen vegetables, meat and seafood.
Products arriving at the Port of Mobile through APM Terminals can be stored there for distribution, and MTC can also quick-freeze Alabama poultry for export out of Mobile. The company says the new facility will help lower transportation costs and ensure steady availability of frozen food products.
“The ‘perishable food supply chain’ is front page news these days, and our timing to develop an ‘out of the box’ solution for this sector of the nation’s food supply chain in partnership with the Mobile community is very rewarding,” said MTC President Andy Janson.
The Alabama State Port Authority, APM Terminals, the City of Mobile, the Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce, Mobile County and the State of Alabama all worked to secure the project.
“MTC Logistics’ facility will greatly increase port capacity, directly enhance trade opportunities for our local industries, provide jobs and help solidify Mobile County as a premier logistics hub within the Southeast,” said Mobile County Commissioner Merceria Ludgood.
About the site
APM Terminals operates the Port of Mobile’s container terminal, which opened in 2008 on land leased from the Alabama State Port Authority. The neighboring Mobile Aeroplex at Brookley occupies the former Brookley Air Force Base, which closed in 1969, and is home to Airbus’s U.S. commercial aircraft final assembly line, among other tenants.