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August 2007: MHW Group Announces the Opening of Perryville Cold Storage

With a focus on serving the needs of the food industry, Perryville Cold Storage was designed with both bulk and pick storage racking with over 42,000 available pallet positions. Perryville Cold Storage is designed to accommodate high volume rail and truck traffic utilizing 33 truck dock doors, 8 rail doors , a railcar storage track capacity of 50 cars with a dedicated owned switch engine, a sixty foot refrigerated dock and a 100+ capacity trailer staging area. There is also a rail to truck cross dock area for those customers wanting to take advantage of the economic benefits of rail shipping but do not have a direct rail access point. The MHW Group family of companies, headquartered in Owings Mills, Maryland, operates public and dedicated refrigerated cold storages, a refrigerated rail car leasing company, Cryo-Trans, Inc. and a full service truck transportation company, Cryo-Trans Logistics. The public refrigerated warehouses are located in Perryville, Maryland and Chambersburg, Pennsylvania together with privately operated refrigerated facilities located in Darien, Wisconsin and Waseca, Minnesota. Cryo-Trans, Inc. is the nation’s largest privately owned lessor of mechanically refrigerated railcars with a fleet in excess of 875 state-of-the-art GPS-controlled, mechanically refrigerated railcars and super insulated RB railcars. Cryo-Trans Logistics, a full service truck transportation company, also operates out of the corporate offices in Owings Mills, Maryland. 

 

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