Area port peels ahead with a new customer

SeaPort Manatee has over a billion bananas crossing its threshold each year, but that number is about to shoot up with the newly announced contract.

  • By Amanda Postma
  • | 1:00 p.m. March 10, 2022
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Containers filled with fresh fruits are offloaded at SeaPort Manatee from the Del Monte Spirit, an energy efficient containership fleet. (Courtesy photo)
Containers filled with fresh fruits are offloaded at SeaPort Manatee from the Del Monte Spirit, an energy efficient containership fleet. (Courtesy photo)
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Knock, knock. Who’s there? Banana. Banana who? Chiquita Banana. 

The globally-known brand was announced as SeaPort Manatee’s newest non-aggregate customer during a recent Port Authority meeting. The banana giant has begun cargo delivery on a bi-weekly schedule. 

 

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