A Citrosuco North America vessel delivers orange juice from Brazil to a Port Manatee berth, part of a total annual throughput of 57 million gallons of the commodity.
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For consumers of Southwest and Central Florida and beyond, Port Manatee serves as a vibrant ships-to-shelves gateway for myriad commodities, furnishing a vital global supply chain link for everything from tropical fruits and juices to appliances and lumber to fuel for filling gas tanks.
When, for example, families throughout Florida and as far north as Canada delight in bananas bearing that signature red “Del Monte” sticker, they are more than likely savoring a fruit imported into Port Manatee from Latin America on a Fresh Del Monte Produce vessel and expeditiously moved via the firm’s on-port regional distribution center.
In addition to handling bananas at a pace of more than 1 billion a year, the Del Monte hub annually moves imports of…
