Emergent Cold Acquires New Orleans Cold Storage, Expands Portfolio

  Based in New Jersey, Chris Jamroz serves as the executive chairman of STG Logistics, North America’s biggest chain of container freight station facilities. Chris Jamroz is also the executive chairman of Emergent Cold, where he guides a globally networked company that combines integrated transportation and cold service solutions.

In August 2019, Emergent Cold entered the US market through the acquisition of New Orleans Cold Storage (NOCS). Through the deal, vital port facilities spanning New Orleans, Charleston, and Houston were added to the Emergent Cold portfolio.

With its strategic presence on the Gulf of Mexico and Southeast seaboard, NOCS has a track record spanning 23 years. It meets the needs of international food corporations, as well as global food traders and processors, for temperature-controlled import and export facilities.

The acquisition provides Emergent Cold with a blueprint toward developing a regional distribution network that will encompass import/export port locations spanning North America. The CEO of the company described NOCS as perfectly matching Emergent Cold’s objective of meeting the needs of global customers who can benefit from having a unified cold chain across several continents.

Lineage Logistics Acquires Emergent Cold, Expands Global Cold Chain

  An established presence in the container freight station logistics sphere, Chris Jamroz serves as the executive chairman of STG Holdings, LLC, and a member of the Board of Emergent Cold. With the latter firm, Chris Jamroz has played an integral role in driving the expansion of a temperature-controlled service provider with a major cold chain footprint spanning the world.

In November 2019, Lineage Logistics Holding, LLC, acquired Emergent Cold for approximately $900 million as part of a strategy to expand market presence across the Asia-Pacific region. With the transaction, growth-focused Lineage expanded its overall capacity by 8 percent and added 46 facilities spanning Australia, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, and the United States.

Lineage’s president and CEO described the deal as furthering his company’s aim of being a cold chain partner able to meet fully the end-to-end temperature-controlled logistics needs of food manufacturers, producers, and retailers across “every corner of the world.” Through expanded capacities, bottom line efficiencies can be achieved that improve profitability and bring the firms’ customers new opportunities.

In Acquiring Emergent Cold, Lineage Logistics Expands Global Capacity

As the executive chairman of STG Holdings, LLC, Chris Jamroz has an acquisition-driven vision that has consolidated container freight station capacities across North America. Chris Jamroz has also driven cold chain growth across the Asia-Pacific region as a member of the Board of Emergent Cold, which was established in 2017.

Reflecting two years of sustained expansion, Emergent Cold emerged as what has been described in BusinessWire as a “globally significant cold storage company” with operations spanning Australia, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, New Zealand, and the United States.

Lineage Logistics Holding, LLC, which is seeking to create a globally integrated temperature-controlled logistics network that provides end-to-end solutions to customers ranging from General Mills to Walmart, recently acquired the firm in a $900 million deal.

Lineage’s CEO welcomed Emergent to the “Lineage family” and described the move as enabling core strategic goals that include global network optimization and mitigation of tariff impacts, as well as flexibly adapting to consumer preference shifts.

With the addition of 46 temperature-controlled facilities, Lineage now has capacity that encompasses 260 facilities spanning 10 nations. A new Dallas-Fort Worth distribution center and port facility locations that include Houston, New Orleans, and Charleston are among the major U.S. facilities that have been added.