PORT MANATEE — A national logistics and stevedore company appears to be ready to sign up with the one of the nation's biggest names in fruit to partner in a huge, new cold-storage warehouse at Port Manatee.
Montreal-based Logistec is negotiating with Fresh Del Monte Produce to bring the fruit seller into the port's planned 200,000-square-foot chilled warehouse. Logistec would operate the warehouse, and Del Monte would be the primary tenant under an operating agreement to be finished between the companies.
If the agreement is signed, Logistec would be the private partner in the $24.6 million public-private warehouse. The company would pay approximately $12.3 million toward the construction cost. The Florida Department of Transportation would pay the other $12.3 million.
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