Maersk Industry Container announces the closing of the factory of container reefer to San Antonio, in Chile



The producer of Maersk container Container Industry (MCI) of shipowning group Danish A.P. Møller-Mærsk has announced to surprise the decision to stop the activity in own plant to San Antonio, in Chile, that refrigerator was specialized in the container production (inforMARE of 11 November 2011), and to consolidate such production to Qingdao, in China, near the factory Qingdao Maersk Container Industry Co. that it is active from 1998 and has been the first plant of the Danish company to construct to containers refrigerators. The closing of the factory, that it had opened the clappers in 2015, means the loss of the job for beyond 1.200 dependent of the Chilean plant.

"After a careful appraisal - the managing director of the society has explained, Sean Fitzgerald - we consider that integration of the activity of production of containers in a single plant will increase uses it of the ability and will simplify the structure of the costs, allowing us to supply better services to our customers and to concentrate to us on the technological innovation in order to satisfy the increasing ask of the customers of technologies for the container reefer".

Remembering that "from the 2015 plant of the Maersk to San Antonio, in Chile, it has supplied container Star Cool Integrated to the customers of all the world through its hub for the exports on the western coast of the Latin America", the Danish company has specified moreover that "during the last few years the situation of the market of the container reefer has quickly an important transformation that has involved a serious situation of ability excess. Meanwhile Maersk Industry Container - it has emphasized the society - has had to face also the challenge of the development of a logistic chain for the raw materials and main the member necessary to
this factory. Consequently the activity of production of container cooled in the Chilean plant turns out to be not competitive in the total market".

"The hard truth that we must face - has added Fitzgerald - it is that if we want to remain competitive we must constantly adapt our activities. The fundamental ones of the market are changed. Therefore we must be adapted to the changes of the market and grow with the market. Ill-fatedly this decision will interest ours 1,209 qualified dependent that work in the plant of San Antonio. We will supply they quickly it aid and the support that deserve and - she has assured Fitzgerald - adempieremo to our obligations".