Maersk Industry Container will open a factory for the container construction refrigerator in Chile


Maersk Industry Container (MCI), the intermodal society of production of container of shipowning group Danish A.P. Møller-Mærsk, has announced the takeover of own first plant in the continent American.

The factory will be constructed to San Antonio, in Chile, and will be dedicated to the container construction refrigerator, type of containers that in this period is source of worry for the harbor operators because of the outbreak of some container reefer that they took part of the fleet of primary world-wide companies of navigation, between which the Maersk Line of group A.P. Møller-Mærsk, deflagrations that would have happened because of the gas presence contaminated introduced in the cooling units subordinates to maintenance in Vietnam and that they have caused the dead women of some workers.

MCI has explained that the opening of the new Chilean factory is decided in order to answer to the question of exports from the Latin America, that is in strong increase. "This investment - the managing director of the company has said, Peter Nymand - constitutes an integration to ours important factory of reefer to Qingdao, in China, also it in expansion". The MCI objective is that to contribute to make up for to the loss of balance of the positioning of the container reefer that it penalizes the producing exporter of fresh, fish and meat of the western coast of the South America. The company in fact has explained that every year empty thousands of tens of container reaches in Latin America from Asia and other world-wide regions. "The new factory - it has emphasized Nymand - will produce to container Maersk refrigerator high tech in an area of the world where the exporter have problems to approach the reefers".

The investment previewed for the construction of the factory of San Antonio piles to approximately 170 million dollars. The new plant will at the end begin the activity of 2013 and will successively reach 40.000 a annual production of container refrigerators and 30,000 cars refrigerator. According to the forecasts, the system will appoint to a job 1,800 people.

While the International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) has launch a new alarm on the problems for the health and the safety determined from the container reefer potentially dangerous that they are in turn for the world.

Remembering that Maersk has withdrawn from the activity approximately 900 container after the three caused happened mortal incidents at the beginning of this year from the carried out intense activities of maintenance on the reefer in Vietnam, union ITF has allertato working harbor, marine and operating of the street and railway transport of the potential dangers in the phases of it recharges of the units refrigerator.

"We are pleased - the secretary of the Dockers section of ITF, Frank Leys has explained - to state that primary lines of navigation, as the Maersk, has reacted timely to this situation and would want to be associated to our American associate Longshore International and Warehouse Union exhorting all the companies or organizations that have not still adopted of the measures in order to limit this risk to follow their example quickly. We ask the harbor authorities and to the navigation companies, whereby us they can be container contaminated, to giving clear indications on as they must be managed".

The secretary of the Seafarers section of ITF, Jon Whitlow, has evidenced also the potential risk course from the marine ones: "if from a part the outbreak of a container to earth is obviously a tragic event - it has explained - we think that catastrophic effects potentially on the workers, the ships and the atmosphere could on board have a similar outbreak of a ship". "This - it has added the secretary of the section Inland Transport of the union, Mac Urata - is not a problem that regards only the marine ones and the harbor ones: the workers in all the logistic chain are potentially to risk. We wish a fast investigation and completes in order to ascertain as these tragedies have happened and in order to obtain indication on like behaving in order to guarantee safety of the workers".