Chiquita drops Bremerhaven and moves streams to Vlissingen

Chiquita drops Bremerhaven and moves streams to Vlissingen

Chiquita will mostly move the import streams of bananas in Europe to Vlissingen. Chiquita will send the conventional reeferships of the Great White Fleet only to Vlissingen as of this week and drop the German Bremershaven from the shipping schedule. Bananas will still arrive in the Bremerhaven through the various shipping companies.

Transshipment company Kloosterboer in the Zeeuwse port is profiting from the strategic decision. Banana producer Chiquita, which was taken over by Cutrale-Safra, a Brazilian export of fruit juices, last year, made Vlissingen an important transshipment point in Europe last year. "The volumes that is usually unloaded in the Bremerhaven, is now coming to Vlissingen. This had been known for a while, but has now officially come out," says Jack Kloosterboer. He expects a doubling of Chiquita's load supply, which comes to 400,000 pallets.

Source: Freshplaza.com