Frozen storage & freezer warehouses in Australia
1 facility states frozen storage across Australia.
Frozen storage keeps food and other products at −18 °C or colder in freezer warehouses and cold stores, usually on pallets in racking. Meat, seafood, ice cream, frozen vegetables, bakery products and ready meals are typical stock. This page lists facilities that state frozen storage across Australia; compare temperature ranges, total pallet capacity, minimum storage periods and services such as blast freezing and pick & pack.
How to choose frozen storage
- Temperature: the setting your product needs; some goods are kept colder than −18 °C.
- Blast freezing: if product arrives chilled or warm, look for a facility that states blast freezing.
- Dock and handling: a refrigerated dock limits temperature rise during loading and unloading.
- Monitoring and alarms: ask how room temperatures are recorded and who responds to an alarm out of hours.
- Terms: minimum storage period, short-term or contract, and handling fees per pallet.
Frozen storage temperatures by product
Ranges from the Australian Cold Chain Guidelines; your product specification takes precedence over any of them.
- Frozen food in general: never warmer than −18 °C in storage, transport and handling, the guidelines’ benchmark.
- Ice cream and ice confection: preferably −22 °C to −30 °C in storage, because warmer or fluctuating temperatures grow its ice crystals.
- Export meat: its producer can set a different limit, and the guidelines give −12 °C as an example for export meat in transport.
Blast freezing services before storage
Product that arrives chilled or warm needs freezing before it goes into frozen storage. The Blast freezing filter on this page lists the facilities that state both, so freezing and storage can happen at one site.
Frozen storage by city
Freezer space near each capital, filtered to the facilities that state a frozen range.
Frozen transport
To move frozen goods in or out, filter refrigerated transport by Frozen for carriers that state frozen capability, or compare interstate refrigerated carriers for line-haul between states.
Frozen storage FAQs
What temperature should frozen storage be?
Frozen food is normally stored at −18 °C or colder, the benchmark in the Australian Cold Chain Guidelines, and some products are kept colder, as the table above shows. The right setting is the one in your product specification. Each facility here shows the temperature range it states, so check that it covers your product and ask how the room temperature is logged before you book.
What is the maximum temperature for accepting a frozen food delivery?
The Food Standards Code sets no temperature for frozen food: potentially hazardous food meant to arrive frozen must be frozen when accepted, and partly thawed food does not count as frozen. The Australian Cold Chain Guidelines recommend −18 °C or colder. Agree the acceptance limit with your carrier and receiver in advance, check product temperature on arrival and keep the logger record with the paperwork.
What is the difference between deep freezing and blast freezing?
Blast freezing is a process: very cold, fast-moving air freezes warm or chilled product quickly, which limits ice-crystal damage. Deep freezing usually means keeping already-frozen goods at very low temperatures over time. Product is often blast frozen first and then moved into frozen storage. Use the service filter to find facilities that state blast freezing.
How should frozen food be stored?
In a cold store, frozen food stays at −18 °C or colder in its packaging, usually on pallets in racking, with the room temperature logged and an alarm if it rises. Stock is rotated first-to-expire, first-out, the rule in the Australian Cold Chain Guidelines, so the earliest expiry date leaves first. Ice cream, more heat-sensitive than other frozen food, is loaded last and unloaded first.
Need product kept cold but not frozen? See chilled and refrigerated storage.