Argentina-based Axionlog, a global restaurant supplier, is moving ahead on permitting for its proposed $15 million North Jacksonville warehouse designed for expansion to almost 105,000 square feet of freezer and dry storage space.
JaxPort announced Feb. 25 that Axionlog chose it as the port of choice to ship its U.S. manufactured exports bound for Latin America.
It said Axionlog intends to open the warehouse by early 2021 and that the 38,000-square-foot facility is expected to expand to 100,000 square feet and create 60 jobs within five years.
The city and the St. Johns River Water Management District are the latest to review civil site plans and an application for the proposed warehouse on almost 9 undeveloped acres at Faye and New Berlin roads.
Land owner Faye Road Associates LLC, associated with V. Paulius & Associates, is the land owner and applicant. The group is based in Allendale, New Jersey. AVA Engineers Inc. of Jacksonville is the civil engineer.
Plans show that Axionlog intends to start with a 37,220-square-foot project and expand with more than 67,000 square feet of freezer storage and dry storage space.
The city and JEA reviewed preliminary project requests in January, after JAX Chamber announced Dec. 10 that the logistics company would establish a consolidation/distribution facility in Duval County and start with 25 jobs.
JaxPort said Axionlog is a full-service logistics provider that consolidates and manages the transportation of restaurant supplies, including food, flatware, and paper and plastic products for some of the world’s largest fast-food chains.
JaxPort said Axionlog recently broke ground on the facility near the port’s Blount Island Marine Terminal. The distribution center will be used to consolidate, sort and store products to be exported through JaxPort.
JaxPort said Axionlog plans to start importing products for domestic distribution by 2022.
“Axionlog uses advanced technology, including live cargo tracking, to plan, implement and control the door-to-door logistics processes for more than 30 restaurants in eight countries including Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Colombia, Peru, and more,” JaxPort said.
Axionlog Chief Operating Officer Alvaro Carretero said in the release that supply chain efficiency and dependability are a must in the restaurant industry.
“Jacksonville provides the location, connections and services we need to provide on-time delivery for the customers who depend on us to get their product where it needs to go quickly and efficiently,” Carretero said.
Axionlog.com says it is a global supply chain manager with more than 30 food-market customers in seven countries in Latin America. It says it operates 11 distribution centers with more than 1,000 employees.
It lists McDonald’s, Quiznos, Subway and Dairy Queen among its customers.
Its website shows offices in Argentina, Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, Chile, Uruguay, Peru and Ecuador.
The V. Paulius & Associates website says it has designed and built more than $1 billion of storage, distribution and manufacturing facilities throughout the United States, Canada and Eastern Europe for clients that include Fortune 500 companies.