NEW ORLEANS - New Orleans Cold Storage (NOCS), the oldest cold storage company in North America, completed the Port of Charleston expansion project on November 23rd, 2015, which not only increased blast capacity by greater than 50%, but also more than doubled the size of its previous storage space at the port.  "We are looking forward to offering even more services to our clients at the Port of Charleston, where we have been for almost 30 years. This expansion will help us continue to be one of the largest logistics and cold storage suppliers to the poultry, pork, beef, seafood, vegetable, and international refrigerated food industries." said Mark Blanchard, President and CEO of New Orleans Cold Storage.  In addition to the blast capacity expansion which will help the export protein industry, the expansion will also further benefit the import meat trade that originally brought NOCS to the Port of Charleston in 1986, particularly that with Australia, New Zealand, Central America and South America. For over 128 years, NOCS has been one of the world's leading providers of comprehensive logistics services for the efficient handling of time and temperature-sensitive cargoes. NOCS expanded its services to include the port of Charleston in 1986. The NOCS South Atlantic Facility at the Port of Charleston was built in 1987, and has been an integral part of the NOCS operation ever since.