The World Chilly Chain Alliance (GCCA) has launched the affiliation’s annual World High 25 Record, recognizing the affiliation’s largest temperature-controlled warehousing and logistics members. Accompanying the World High 25 are regional listings of the biggest GCCA North American, Latin America and European warehouse members. The lists are decided by the whole reported capability of temperature-controlled area in GCCA membership.
GCCA warehouse members presently personal or function 8.16 billion cubic ft (231 million cubic meters), with complete capability represented by GCCA rising by over 10% in 2025. This capability was added to the World High 25 because the publication of the 2024 lists, resulting from mergers and acquisition exercise in addition to the completion of quite a few in-progress initiatives. This doesn’t counsel the final business grew at this tempo.
The World High 25 presently function 7.3 billion cubic ft (207 million cubic meters). The North American High 25 function 5 billion cubic ft (141.5 million cubic meters). The European High 10 function 1.43 billion cubic ft (40.6 million cubic meters). The Latin American High 10 function 578 million cubic ft (16.4 million cubic meters).
Areas worldwide reported elevated capability, with a number of new firms becoming a member of GCCA membership over the previous yr. Along with new entrants to the record, GCCA noticed important motion throughout areas, with the best development by each proportion and complete capability going down in North America.
The next modifications have occurred since 2024:
- World High 25 capability elevated by 640 million cubic ft
- North America High 25 capability elevated by 629 million cubic ft
- European High 10 capability elevated by 263 million cubic ft
- Latin America High 10 capability elevated by 137 million cubic ft
“Even with the upper prices of capital, the expansion within the business throughout all areas in 2024 outpaced the prior two years. Whereas the general tempo of acquisitive development appeared to sluggish, the rise in capability on the largest chilly chain operations on this planet continued. Investments in growth initiatives and greenfield developments in all areas reveals legacy operations in addition to new market entrants are nonetheless optimistic about future demand within the sector,” stated Adam Thocher, GCCA Senior Vice President, World Applications & Insights.
GCCA membership contains over 1,500 temperature-controlled services and members in over 92 international locations. Warehouse members provide a spread of logistics options, together with storage, transportation, processing, blast freezing, exports, and extra.
A whole and complimentary itemizing of all warehouse members may be discovered within the World Chilly Chain Listing.
For extra info and to entry this yr’s lists, go to www.gcca.org/useful resource/top-25-lists/
2025 EUROPEAN TOP 10 LIST
Rank Firm Capability ft (3)
1 Lineage 643,000,000
2 NewCold Coöperatief U.A. 210,922,539
3 Constellation Chilly Logistics Sarl 192,050,634
4 Americold Logistics 114,700,000
5 Dice Chilly Europe NL HoldCo B.V. 106,565,956
6 Magnavale Ltd 87,909,127
7 Nichirei 81,413,620
8 Frigolanda Chilly Logistics Group 13,000,000
9 Groupe Conhexa 11,572,616
10 Chlodnia Gdansk sp.z o.o. 3,462,071
