Emergent Cold LatAm Expands With New Guadalajara Cold Storage Hub

Emergent Cold LatAm, the largest provider of temperature-controlled food logistics solutions in Latin America, has inaugurated a modern cold storage warehouse in the Guadalajara region. The facility marks the company’s entry into a new strategic area of the country and underscores its commitment to expanding cold chain capacity amid rising national demand.

“Guadalajara is one of the largest and most dynamic cities in Mexico, and it holds a privileged position for connecting our customers with the ports of Manzanillo and Lazaro Cardenas. We continue to grow rapidly in the country, and our investments reflect this commitment: we aim to provide modern cold chain solutions and high-quality logistics services exactly where the market needs them most,” says Juan Pablo Benítez, Managing Director in Mexico, Emergent Cold LatAm.

The new warehouse offers capacity for 12,000 pallet positions across 81,000m³, enabling the storage of up to 12,000t of food. Designed with future growth in mind, the site also includes sufficient land to potentially double its storage capacity. 

This new facility follows a series of expansions by the company. In March 2025, Emergent Cold LatAm opened its first ground-up warehouse in Monterrey, shortly after enlarging its operations in Villagran (Guanajuato) and Apodaca. Since entering Mexico in September 2022 through the acquisition of a local company, and acquiring a second one months later, the company has consolidated its operations, now operating 36 warehouses nationwide.

The expansion comes at a time when Mexico’s cold chain logistics sector is undergoing rapid transformation. The growing popularity of online purchases of perishable goods, coupled with the expansion of the pharmaceutical sector, is reshaping logistics needs across the country. According to the National Chamber of Freight Transport (CANACAR), this shift is increasing demand for automated warehouses, innovative last-mile delivery solutions, and advanced temperature monitoring technologies to ensure the quality and shelf life of sensitive products. Yet capacity remains limited: by late 2023, Mexico had only 92,256 refrigerated trucks, just 6.9% of the national fleet, according to the Ministry of Infrastructure, Communications, and Transport (SICT).

Maintaining temperature-controlled conditions remains a major challenge, particularly as last-mile delivery rapidly expands across Latin America. Despite these challenges, the industry is poised for growth. The Mexican cold chain logistics market is valued at US$4.06 billion in 2024 and is expected to reach US$6.06 billion by 2029, with a CAGR of 12.36%, according to Mordor Intelligence. Major investments underscore this upward trend: Emergent Cold LatAm raised US$500 million in December 2023 to expand its refrigerated logistics network in the region, while Lineage Logistics announced a US$79 million cold storage project in Laredo, Texas, driven largely by rising avocado demand.