Freightainer adds reefer focus

ALAN PEAT
AS PART of its 20th anniversary year, container suppliers and customisers, Freightainer, have introduced a new focus on refrigerated (reefer) containers, according to managing member, Peter Kendall.
“We are aiming at static storage purposes,” he told FTW, “and renting these out to provide a variety of cold rooms.
“We are leasing them out for uses such as ice making plants, ice storage units and ordinary refrigerated operations like maintaining fish and sea food at -20 degrees centigrade.”
Freightainer is also offering short-term, on-site storage in reefers on its two hundred unit capacity depot in Durban.
An alternative source of business has been selling reefer containers to customers, who store perishable goods in the containers then export both container and contents to African countries.
The company’s core business still remains modifying containers into the likes of offices and accommodation units.
“Over the years we have been concentrating mostly on dry van (general purpose) containers,” Kendall said, “and we now have over 200 of these units out on lease.”