The Banana Ship “Dole California”


Some interesting and fun Banana Facts:
Dole moved its U.S. West Coast Operations to San Diego in October 2002. The terminal is over 20 acres in size.
Dole operates three ships on the San Diego to South America Service.
Each voyage is 21 days long. Fruit is loaded in Ecuador, Peru, Guatemala and Costa Rica.
Each week, on Monday and Tuesday, one of the vessels is docked in San Diego.
Each vessel holds 491 40 foot containers. Each container holds about 1,000 boxes of Bananas, and each box holds about 100 Bananas.
That makes for about 49.1 million Bananas per shipload. Close to 2 Billion Bananas are discharged at this terminal every year, as well as about 19 million individual pineapples.
This terminal supplies the entire Western U.S. with Dole Bananas and Pineapples.
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