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25-SEP-2017

September 25

Bananas!

The M/V Dole Atlantic and her three sister ships make weekly calls at the 10th Avenue Marine Terminal, arriving every Monday or Tuesday.
Each ship carries 491 40foot refrigerated containers. Each container contains 100 boxes of Bananas. Each box has 100 Bananas in it. This makes for about 4.9 million Bananas per ship load.
Each year over 2 billion Bananas and 16 million Pineapples are discharged at this pier.
If you live in the Western United States or Western Canada and you eat a Dole Banana or Pineapple, it was discharged here.

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Sam Rua02-Oct-2017 02:24
Fun facts. I remember watching one of these being unloaded during one of my visits to the area.
Ton T.30-Sep-2017 17:58
Amazing but also a bit frightening: that company is too big in my opinion.
Nevertheless a fabulous image of this ship with a superb POV! V
Julie Oldfield29-Sep-2017 20:18
That is so cool. Well captured. V
Mieke WA Minkjan27-Sep-2017 11:58
impressive ciphers and a mighty ship, like the perspective
larose forest photos27-Sep-2017 02:40
Pretty amazing sight, beautifully photographed. I love both pineapples and bananas, but I guess ours come in somewhere else. V
LynnH27-Sep-2017 00:53
How funny that it's yellow too! V
Pierre26-Sep-2017 14:41
Une très belle vue de cet imposant porte-conteneurs! V
danad26-Sep-2017 13:10
Superb POV and light ! V.
John26-Sep-2017 11:45
Well executed shot. Great angle enhances the feel of it. V
Yvonne26-Sep-2017 11:27
What an amazing story and fabulous cargo ship! v
pkocinski26-Sep-2017 11:20
Now that's a real banana boat!
Raymond26-Sep-2017 10:56
They must also come on the East coast since we too go bananas on Dole's stuff!
marie-jose wolff26-Sep-2017 10:08
great image of this huge ship filled with bananas and pineapples! V
Ton, Ben & Rob Nagtegaal26-Sep-2017 05:59
What an impressive ship, fantastic capture. V
globalgadabout26-Sep-2017 05:27
an impressive ship bearing a popular cargo...intriguing to get a picture of such a key link, as opposed to the cascade of fruits at the local produce store..
Bryan Murahashi26-Sep-2017 05:00
Wonderful photo of this giant ship full of bananas. Amazing numbers, here.
Pieter Bos26-Sep-2017 03:43
Great container ship. Well captured, Walter. ~V
Dennis Hoyne26-Sep-2017 02:37
A neat photo of this spectacular ship, it makes me appreciate what it takes to get the produce we love into the country. V
1moremile26-Sep-2017 01:26
So that's what a banana boat looks like. Pretty cool photo of it. V.
Jean D26-Sep-2017 01:19
A sleek transport ship with lots of bananas. Great shot and thanks for the captioned info. ~V
Jean Chiasson26-Sep-2017 00:42
Beautiful perspective details Walter V
Gill Kopy26-Sep-2017 00:36
Wow ! I will pay more respect to my daily banana - neat that they're transported in such an elegant ship :) Love your shot V
Neil Marcus26-Sep-2017 00:32
This is a magnificent looking ship and after reading about the cargo I am going bananas about the quantity it can deliver. Fascinating info, Walter "V"
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