* In-house refers to warehouse space owned and managed primarily by the food producers, and also distributors, retailers and other businesses that move their own goods through the cold chain.
** Outsourced refers to warehouse space owned or managed by storage and logistics companies.
*** Data as of October 2015.
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Capacity of temperature-controlled warehouses in the U.S. by type 2005-2015
This statistic shows the capacity by type of temperature-controlled warehouses in the United States from 2005 to 2015. In 2015, there was 3.1 billion cubic feet of capacity in outsourced temperature-controlled warehouses in the U.S.
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Merrill Lynch. (January 9, 2018). U.S. temperature-controlled warehouse capacity from 2005 to 2015, by type (in million cubic feet) [Graph]. In ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ. Retrieved July 20, 2026, from /statistics/857336/temperature-controlled-warehouses-capacity-us-by-type/
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