You may be slipping, but you're still a-peel-ing. Dan Matyola *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery <https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery>*
On Sat, Nov 6, 2021 at 7:21 PM ann sanfedele <[email protected]> wrote: > I personally loathe bananas -so was relieved to see the containers. a > pun inspiring shot, too... > > Rather showing what is in the Dole than on it... but I'm slipping.. > > ann > > > > On 11/6/2021 1:59 PM, Rick Womer wrote: > > Only about 60 million of them in this load, though. > > > > Our San Diego hotel sits between the Convention Center (and a harborfull > of billionaires’ yachts), and the 20-acre terminal of the Dole Fruit > Company. From our hotel window we could watch the activity there. > > > > Sniffing around the web, I learned that San Diego is Dole's largest > terminal, with four smaller ones on the Gulf and East coasts. Dole owns > about 20 refrigerated container ships (each container has its own chiller, > using power from the ship); each ship carries about 300 containers. Most > carry bananas, while others carry pineapples. Other fruit companies lease > container space and ships rather than owning a fleet. > > > > These are unusual for container ships, because they have their own > cranes (Central American port facilities are apparently not relaible that > way). This ship was unloading containers with the front crane at the same > time as the rear crane was loading empties. > > > > More that you ever wanted to know, right? I think I’ll have a banana > with my tea… > > > > https://rickwomer.smugmug.com/2021/October-2021/San-Diego/i-JMxJfM5/A > > > > Rick > > -- > > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > > -- > ann sanfedele photography > https://annsan.smugmug.com > https://www.cafepress.com/+ann-sanfedele+gifts > https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/annsan > https://www.createphotocalendars.com/Shop/annsanfedelecalendarsandbooks > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
