Huge cold store DC planned in UAE

Both entities are part of ADQ, one of the region’s largest holding companies with a broad portfolio of major enterprises.

Under the strategic agreement, Abu Dhabi Ports will deliver a state-of-the-art warehouse and inventory management solution for upstream, midstream and downstream operations as Rafed’s fourth-party logistics service provider. The new distribution centre will be the largest, most technologically advanced centre in the UAE. The partnership will provide stakeholders with streamlined services and synergies across multiple business areas, specifically enabling them to deliver pharmaceuticals, medical equipment and consumables across the local and regional supply chains.

Abu Dhabi Ports recently announced its enhanced logistics capabilities for the storage and distribution of more than 70 million COVID-19 vaccines at its dedicated 19,000 square metres temperature-controlled warehouse facility in Khalifa Industrial Zone Abu Dhabi (KIZAD). Certified by the Department of Health, the facility currently handles the G42 vaccines for the UAE vaccination program and already houses more than one million vials of the vaccine. 

The technologically advanced facility is equipped to store vaccines and other pharmaceutical products at a temperature range of 2 to 8 degrees as well as the more extreme range of -80 degrees. The facility is equipped with temperature and humidity systems monitored digitally via a control dashboard.