Products needing refrigeration include fruit, vegetables, seafood and meat.
Cool stores have been an essential part of the shipping industry since the late 19th century.
Christian Salvesen expanded from a small Scottish whaling company when they established a cold store in Grimsby, then a major fishing port.
[1] Nine Elms Cold Store, constructed in 1965, could hold 16,000 tons of meat, cheese and butter.
A thirty hectares (74 acres) cold store with 200,000 tonne capacity was planned for Wuhan, China.