Del Monte adding container shipping vessel to Port Manatee, FL
He stated that the company would bring in container vessels “periodically in a controlled growth,” Buqueras said.
Del Monte isn’t completely switching to containerized cargo but will use container vessels at Port Manatee roughly every three weeks. Container vessels can hold 350 containers, compared to 96 containers on a breakbulk ship, according to Buqueras.
“That will grow our container volume exponentially,” Buqueras said. “Hopefully in the next 12 months we could see as much as a 30 to 40 percent increase in our container growth, which would be dramatic.”
source: bradenton.com
