san antonio—This year will see the long-awaited opening of Maersk's new container production facility in Chile, the only factory of its kind to be located anywhere outside Asia.Oack in 2004, two executives from shipping giant Maersk scouted a bare plot of dusty land near Chile's largest port, Valparaiso, and eventually agreed the spot would be an ideal one to build the world's only reefer container factory outside Asia. Almost 11 years later and it's clear that, when the project was first proposed,neither had any idea of the obstacles and delays they would face before the multi-million dollar project could finally come to fruition.
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