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8/13/2025
Americold Realty Trust yesterday marked the grand opening of its more than $120 million import-export hub in Kansas City, Missouri, that was developed in partnership with Canadian Pacific Kansas City.
The 335,000-square-foot facility is Americold’s first such hub on CPKC’s network and a key facility for the Class I’s Mexico Midwest Express, a single-line service for refrigerated goods moving between the United States and Mexico, Americold officials said in a press release.
The facility also serves as a strategic consolidation point for longer-haul shipments, including freight flows from Canada to Mexico, particularly for customers facing border inefficiencies or trucking capacity challenges, they said.
“By combining our cold storage capabilities and food flow expertise with CPKC’s rail network, we’re creating a new North American cold chain that delivers real value to our customers,” said Americold CEO George Chappelle.
The grand opening underscores what’s now a growing strategic collaboration delivering new rail service products to the market, said CPKC President and CEO Keith Creel. The Class I and Americold plan to continue working together to develop other import-export hubs for temperature-controlled products, including one at Port Saint John in New Brunswick, Canada, that’s slated to open in mid-2026.
“By combining Americold with our secure, single-line cross-border service, we have created a new refrigerated supply chain for our customers shipping food and other temperature-controlled products across Canada, the United States and Mexico,” said Creel.
To learn more about CPKC’s partnership with Americold and its other industrial development efforts, read this cover story in Progressive Railroading's July issue.