Seatrade Group and Jamaica Producers Group Limited have jointly acquired the iconic bananas and exotic fruits company operating between Europe and the Caribbean/Latin America region for more than 65 years

Fyffes banana shipments to the UK from Ecuador and Colombia are now imported through Southampton instead of the Port of Portsmouth

The UK’s Portsmouth International Port has published a report from independent specialists Oxford Economics showing that it contributed £390M to the national economy in 2017

ETE Group shipping company Transinsular has introduced the “LINCE CLASS” service, claimed as the fastest maritime connection between Cape Verde, (Leixões, Lisbon and Las Palmas. In addition, to complement Lince, ETE will provide inter-island ‘ATOBÁ’ cabotage services, connecting Praia, Mindelo, Sal and Boavista with African proximity markets such as Guinea-Bissau and Mauritania

Chiquita is reorganising its European banana business. It has cancelled a contract with MSC that brought around 80,000 tpa of bananas in its containers into Bremerhaven, its traditional port for Germany, where bananas are ripened before distribution to Germany, Scandinavia and parts of Eastern Europe. Chiquita switched to MSC container vessels in 016, having previously called at Bremerhaven with its Great White Fleet reefer ships, carrying containers and breakbulk.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Carrier’s invention of the front wall container refrigeration unit, a version of which is used in virtually every reefer container.

Seatrade Group and Jamaica Producers Group Limited have jointly acquired the iconic bananas and exotic fruits company operating between Europe and the Caribbean/Latin America region for more than 65 years

Fyffes banana shipments to the UK from Ecuador and Colombia are now imported through Southampton instead of the Port of Portsmouth

The UK’s Portsmouth International Port has published a report from independent specialists Oxford Economics showing that it contributed £390M to the national economy in 2017

ETE Group shipping company Transinsular has introduced the “LINCE CLASS” service, claimed as the fastest maritime connection between Cape Verde, (Leixões, Lisbon and Las Palmas. In addition, to complement Lince, ETE will provide inter-island ‘ATOBÁ’ cabotage services, connecting Praia, Mindelo, Sal and Boavista with African proximity markets such as Guinea-Bissau and Mauritania

Chiquita is reorganising its European banana business. It has cancelled a contract with MSC that brought around 80,000 tpa of bananas in its containers into Bremerhaven, its traditional port for Germany, where bananas are ripened before distribution to Germany, Scandinavia and parts of Eastern Europe. Chiquita switched to MSC container vessels in 016, having previously called at Bremerhaven with its Great White Fleet reefer ships, carrying containers and breakbulk.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Carrier’s invention of the front wall container refrigeration unit, a version of which is used in virtually every reefer container.