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the Dole group invests 165 million dollars in order to acquire three frigorifere container vessels
Carter: we have I take advantage of a moment in which these specialistic ships they can be constructed to very competitive costs
May 30, 2013
The group Dole Food Co., world leader in the producing production and distribution of ortofrutticoli, has decided to invest 165 million dollars in order to acquire three frigorifere container vessels of new construction that will be taken in delivery between the end of 2015 and the beginning of the next year. The new units will be employed along the western coast of the United States.
"The potenziamento of our ability to marine transport on West Coast - it has explained the president and managing director of the Dole, Michael Carter - is strategically a lot important for the future perspectives of increase and the competitive differentiation of the company. These ships will have an age 27-year-old at the moment of their substitution. The new ships will be more efficient in the fuel consumptions and will second be constructed precise progettuali detailed lists of the Dole, with a 770 ability to container feu (regarding the 491 feu of the ships replaced) and will be equipped of crane".
Carter has specified that Dole has decided to use destined economic resources from the company to the investments "in order to take advantage of this opportune window in the field of the marine transports, in a moment in which these specialistic ships can be constructed to very competitive costs".
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