Poland’s Kolobrzeg Fish Producers Group (KGPR) has opened a new cold storage facility in Kolobrzeg, on the Polish Baltic Sea shore, reports Jaroslaw Adamowski.
The new plant has a cold storage capacity of as much as 2,000 tonnes of fish and has a fish freezing capacity of some 30 tonnes per day, according to data released by the Polish group. The plant’s machinery will produce scale ice containing salt.
The investment is worth about USD$18.7 million. Construction of the new facility was supported by an investment grant provided by the European Fisheries Fund (EFF) under the 2007-2013 financial perspective. A grant amounting to USD$14 million covered 75% of the investment cost.
The plant can produce up to 60 tonnes of ice per day is fitted with a fish processing installation with a capacity of 1000m3, KGPR said in a statement. The facility will be operated by a workforce of 20.
“The Kołobrzeg fish cold storage facility is the most modern facility of this kind in the region of Western Pomerania,” the Polish group said.
As part of the latest investment, some 300 metres of quay were also modernised at the Kołobrzeg port. Construction works at the project were launched in 2010 following the demolition of the group’s outdated cold storage facility.
The plant’s official launching ceremony was attended by a number of senior politicians and fishing industry representatives. These included Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Kazimierz Plocke and Mayor of Kołobrzeg Janusz Gromek.
Set up in 2005 and headquartered in Kołobrzeg, KGPR consists of 16 ship owners operating in Poland’s Western Pomerania region.
