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Kloosterboer Terminal Rotterdam the first cold store with MSC
Kloosterboer Terminal Rotterdam BV is the world’;;s first public cold store that has been MSC certified. The cold store, in Rotterdam since 1991, mainly handles fish entering the European Union via Rotterdam.
According to manager Jan Bouman, production companies with added cold storages have been certified before, but as 3rd party cold store, KTR is the world’;;s first.
The Rotterdam cold store has a storage capacity of 14,000 tons, in six temperature zones, varying from -21 to -25. On an annual basis, KTR handles 75,000 tons, of which 75% is fish.
Bouman: “Since this was a completely new trajectory, also for the MSC organisation and our auditor IsaCert, we had to establish the processes and the procedural guarantees from scratch, where our BRC and ILS procedures gave us the guidelines and boundaries”
KTR almost exclusively handles imported fish arriving in containers from overseas and is distributed from the cold store by truck and containers to the clients. Bouman names the following examples: Pangasius, Salmon, Pacific Cod, Whiting, Saithe, Atlantic Cod, Herring, Monk fish etc. “A large part of our clients trades MSC products and values the traceability of these products, physically and administratively. These clients are working with retail organisations. MSC Registration in our systems guarantees the product’;;s MSC numbers appearing in our stock administration and transport papers.”
Bouman estimates that 25% of the fish going through the cold store has an MSC label. According to Bouman other cold stores within the group are also to be MSC certified soon l, the first being Kloosterboer Ijmuiden within 2 months.
