Roundday Dalin Fresh Food Smart Logistics Park Tops Out, Setting a New Benchmark for Cold Chain Logistics in Southern Taiwan

Roundday Dalin Cold Chain Co., Ltd. invested NT$888 million to build the Smart Fresh Food Logistics Park. The topping-out ceremony was held on July 30, attended by Roundday Logistics Chairman Chen Hsu-Chu, Chiayi County Deputy Magistrate Liu Pei-Tung, and Legislator Chen Ming-Wen. Once completed, the park is expected to serve as a key hub for regulating agricultural product supply across the Yunlin–Chiayi–Tainan region.

As demand for fresh food continues to grow, increasing emphasis is being placed on product safety and quality, making cold chain logistics for agricultural products a critical factor.

Chiayi County is a major agricultural production base, but its industry is largely composed of small-scale farmers. Post-harvest handling, packaging, and transportation are often managed individually, resulting in limited scale and frequent breaks in the cold chain during distribution. In addition, agricultural products are highly perishable and difficult to schedule for production, while fragmented management leads to higher loss rates and costs. Therefore, establishing a large regional cold chain logistics center is essential. Through cold storage and supply regulation, it can stabilize supply and sales periods, ensure consistent product quality, reduce losses, address supply–demand imbalances, and enhance overall agricultural value.

The park spans 4.4 hectares and is located on the former Dalin Sugar Factory site of Taiwan Sugar Corporation in Chiayi. Upon completion, it will integrate both export and domestic demand for agricultural products, incorporating IoT technologies and advanced cold chain management systems. This will enhance handling, storage, and transportation capabilities for fresh produce, strengthen food safety, stabilize supply, improve product quality, and support the development of sixth-level industrialization in agriculture.

The Department of Agriculture stated that, under a BOO model, the park will develop three buildings featuring functions such as warehousing and logistics, pre-cooling, ripening, processing of fresh produce, as well as exhibition and agri-tourism. With a total floor area exceeding 7,000 ping, the facility will provide comprehensive cold chain services—from post-harvest handling, washing and sorting, pre-cooling and preservation, processing, and packaging to final distribution—once fully operational.

Chiayi County Deputy Magistrate Liu Pei-Tung noted that integrating cold chain logistics into agricultural distribution has become a global trend. It plays a key role in stabilizing supply and demand, improving product quality, and expanding distribution capacity.

He added that the park will establish a complete cold chain system—from production sites to distribution—ensuring stable quality and pricing. It is expected to strengthen the competitiveness of Chiayi’s agricultural products, create win-win opportunities for industry, businesses, and farmers, and drive surrounding industries and employment.

Reprinted from ETtoday