Lo­cal im­porters and ex­porters now have ac­cess to a lot more cold stor­age af­ter ma­jor­i­ty state-owned Caribbean Air­lines Ltd un­veiled a new 5,000 square feet cold stor­age unit on Thurs­day.

In a news re­lease yes­ter­day, the air­line said, "This fa­cil­i­ty was con­struct­ed with that ob­jec­tive in mind adding val­ue to our per­ish­able cus­tomers par­tic­u­lar­ly our lo­cal fish ex­porters. We pro­vide them with en­hanced re­li­a­bil­i­ty in their lo­gis­tics chain. "

The cold stor­age unit was de­signed and built for Caribbean Air­lines by lo­cal T&T man­u­fac­tur­ing com­pa­ny Mecal­fab Ltd. The unit fea­tures op­ti­mal, re­frig­er­at­ed tem­per­a­ture con­trol, to a min­i­mum of 2 de­grees Cel­sius.

Ad­di­tion­al­ly, it can store air­craft pal­lets for large all-car­go freighters. The unit is al­so equipped with a state-of-the-art roller sys­tem, the unit was built to ac­com­mo­date the easy load­ing and stor­age of up to 40 air­craft pal­lets.

Gen­er­al man­ag­er of Car­go and New busi­ness Mark­lan Mose­ley said the unit was de­signed to en­sure that per­ish­able ex­port car­go is han­dled with the ut­most care to con­tin­ue the trade and eco­nom­ic growth.

“At Caribbean Air­lines Car­go, we reaf­firm our ded­i­ca­tion to con­tin­u­ous in­no­va­tion and ser­vice ex­cel­lence, and this fa­cil­i­ty was con­struct­ed to pre­serve the in­tegri­ty of our cus­tomers’ ship­ments and pro­vide them with en­hanced re­li­a­bil­i­ty in their lo­gis­tics chain." said Mose­ley at the rib­bon cut­ting cer­e­mo­ny.

Caribbean Air­lines Car­go said this de­vel­op­ment fur­ther proved its com­mit­ment to sup­port­ing the growth and de­vel­op­ment of trade and eco­nom­ic ac­tiv­i­ty in the re­gion.