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Your last item is not totally accurate: Refrigerated ships are the ones where the entire vessel is temperature controlled. What Dole needs is lots of power conn
by bkor 11y ago
Your last item is not totally accurate: Refrigerated ships are the ones where the entire vessel is temperature controlled. What Dole needs is lots of power connections ("reefer plugs"). That's uncommon but not the same as a refrigerated ship. Last I knew, other companies partly use reefer ships (bananas in bulk) combined with loading into containers.
The benefit of a big refrigerated vessel is mostly when you have a big company importing ("importers") in huge quantities and then selling it to other companies. A single container is huge, but it is way less than a whole refrigerated vessel. Part of the reason why more bananas have been shipped in reefer containers is due to companies cutting out the importers.
- SyneRyder 11y agoPossibly related episode of 99% Invisible, about the invention & design of temperature controlled containers, to speed or slow the ripening of fruit while in transit so they're in peak condition on arrival: http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/reefer-madness/ http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/reefer-madness/
- kejaed 11y agoCame here to say the same thing. Feel like this guy https://twitter.com/Andrew_Jarvis/status/674028991792070656 https://twitter.com/Andrew_Jarvis/status/674028991792070656
- HeyLaughingBoy 11y agoThat's one of my favorite 99P.I. episodes. Right behind The Sunshine Hotel Anything I can do to plug that absolutely amazing podcast...