{"id":52447,"date":"2025-11-19T08:57:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T08:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/52447\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T08:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T08:57:09","slug":"cold-storage-and-sanitizing-hub-on-the-way-for-air-and-sea-cargo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/52447\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold storage and sanitizing hub on the way for air and sea cargo"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Written by Kelly Sanchez<\/a> on November 19, 2025<\/p>\n

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A state-of-the-art hub being created as part of a partnership between Miami International Airport and PortMiami to sanitize incoming goods and provide cold storage for them is in its engineering and design phase and is expected to open in 2027.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur timetable is to have 100% approval, designs likely by early permit Q2 of \u201926, and then it\u2019ll take us about 13 months to construct,\u201d said Mandich Group Managing Partner and Cold-Link Logistics President Michael Mandich.<\/p>\n

As previously reported by Miami Today, the goal for the phytosanitary treatment and cold chain processing facility is to increase trade in products that arrive in the U.S. through South Florida, including fruits, vegetables, flowers and other plant-based and perishable items.<\/p>\n

\u201cThink of pests that come off the field \u2013 this eliminates that,\u201d Mr. Mandich said. \u201cThere\u2019s added benefits, like shelf life extension, which is huge in the produce industry, and we\u2019re also saving extraordinary time via the proximity of South Florida to South and Central America. Also, our access to Miami International Airport, the seaport, really becomes a logistical win for a lot of big producers, shippers, freight forwarders throughout South and Central America.\u201d<\/p>\n

The airport and seaport are working with cold storage investment and development firm Mandich Group and its operating division, Cold-Link Logistics, as well as Reveam, an Atlanta-based company that makes and operates food safety technology and treatment facilities, to develop the new facility.<\/p>\n

The project is estimated to cost $141 million, with Mandich Group contributing $98.5 million and PortMiami providing $9 million as well as a $33.5 million federal grant it received.<\/p>\n

\u201cCurrently this week, we\u2019re gonna hit our 60% review,\u201d Mr. Mandich said. \u201cWe\u2019re in the engineering and design phase, so we\u2019re about two-thirds of the way through our review, approvals with the county, with our team at Cold-Link and Reveam, who\u2019s also a tenant and an owner of the facility.\u201d<\/p>\n

The hub will span more than 340,000 square feet at 7449 NW 12th St. and feature refrigerated warehousing, loading docks and office space. It\u2019s \u201cexpected to support over 200 jobs and reduce spoilage and inspection delays for over 1.5 million tons of agricultural cargo annually,\u201d according to a press release.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is \u2026 a game changer for the logistics and competitiveness for the South Florida market to be able to attract these types of products to come through\u2026 Miami will create jobs, economic opportunity and volumes through the port, through the airport, and so we offer a pretty robust wage and working opportunity,\u201d Mr. Mandich said. \u201cWe have to compete against other cities, ports, industries, and this just will make us pretty much the state-of-the-art option for these users. We\u2019ll handle pretty much all warehousing services from fulfillment to storage, picking, packing, you name it, for our end customer.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Advertisement Written by Kelly Sanchez on November 19, 2025 A state-of-the-art hub being created as part of a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":{"0":"post-52447","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hialeah","8":"tag-hialeah","9":"tag-hialeah-headlines","10":"tag-hialeah-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}