Americold Realty Trust, Inc., a provider of temperature-controlled logistics and real estate, broke ground on a new $127 million cold storage facility at Canadian Pacific Kansas City’s (CPKC) IFG Terminal in Kansas City, Missouri.

The new 335,000-square-foot facility in Kansas City is part of a strategic collaboration to co-locate Americold warehouse facilities on the CPKC network. Americold expects to create nearly 190 new jobs in the region.

The new facility will support CPKC’s Mexico Midwest Express (MMX) service, North America’s only single-line rail service offering for refrigerated shippers between U.S. Midwest markets and Mexico.

“This facility is the first to be built as part of our strategic collaboration with CPKC,” said George Chappelle, CEO of Americold. “By combining our cold storage capabilities with CPKC’s extensive rail network, Americold is poised to deliver a differentiated offering to support more customers across North America.”

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