Owens Cooltainer

Company History: 1967 | Cooltainer was established in Dunedin by Capt. Brian McGowan and Dick Little. Using locally designed and built George & Ashton integral refrigerated containers Cooltainer moved the first New Zealand coastal “reefer” and then in conjunction with Union Steamship Company, the first trans-Tasman refrigerated container.
2014 | Kuehne + Nagel purchase remaining 25% of shares in Cooltainer, now own 100% of the company.

Brief History: Australia is a country and continent surrounded by the Indian and Pacific oceans. Its major cities – Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide – are coastal. Its capital, Canberra, is inland. The country is known for its Sydney Opera House, the Great Barrier Reef, a vast interior desert wilderness called the Outback, and unique animal species like kangaroos and duck-billed platypuses.