How big is a seafood plant's cold store compared with its monthly output, and why does the power split differ between clusters?

In the profiles' text and tables a Veraval category C plant holds 800 tonnes against 250 tonnes a month, about 3.2 months of output. A Bhubaneswar category C plant holds 750 against 750, one month. Cold storage takes 40% of power at Veraval and 20% at Bhubaneswar.

The figures side by side

• Veraval category A: storage about 200 tonnes, output 50 tonnes a month, 4.0 months.
• Veraval category B: 450 tonnes against 150 a month, 3.0 months.
• Veraval category C: 800 tonnes against 250 a month, 3.2 months.
• Bhubaneswar category A: 150 tonnes against 50 a month, 3.0 months.
• Bhubaneswar category B: 450 tonnes against 150 a month, 3.0 months.
• Bhubaneswar category C: 750 tonnes against 750 a month, 1.0 month.

Power by use

Veraval: cold storage 40%, freezing 30%, ice making 13%. Bhubaneswar: freezing 38%, cold storage 20%, ice making 18%. Both profiles say products are generally dispatched within three months. Shelf life in store is given as about twenty months at Veraval and about ten months at Bhubaneswar. Typical set points are minus 24 degrees Celsius and minus 23 degrees Celsius.

Our reading, not the profile's

The profiles do not explain the difference in cold-store share. The one big gap in the table is category C, where Bhubaneswar's largest plants hold far less store for their monthly output. That fits a lower cold-store share, but the profiles do not tie the two together. Treat it as a pointer on what to measure. The profiles also do not say whether tonnes a month is peak or average output.

What to record for a buyer figure

• Cold-store capacity and average stock held in tonnes, month by month.
• The set point, and the diesel used to keep the store cold in a power cut.
• If the store is rented, the rented cold storage page below says which scope the rent falls in.

What Senseible does here

Senseible reads fuel invoices and electricity bills into monthly records, so the plant's power and its generator diesel show up month by month; a cold store on its own meter shows separately. Senseible does not know how much stock sits in the store, so keep the tonnage in your own log.

• Seafood kWh per tonne and flake ice
• Bhubaneswar shrimp plant kWh per tonne
• Rented cold storage: which scope
• Share of stored goods by volume

Sources: Cluster profile of Veraval seafood processing industries, The Energy and Resources Institute (capacity, storage and energy tables), Cluster profile of Odisha (Bhubaneswar) seafood processing industries, The Energy and Resources Institute (capacity, storage and energy tables)

Last reviewed 2026-11-06. The months of output are our division of a table column by a text figure. Update if a newer profile is published.