Banana giant Chiquita Brands International Inc. will return its shipping operations to the Port of New Orleans after relocating to the Mississippi coast four decades ago, the company announced Wednesday.
Chiquita, once known as United Brands, operated in the city for seven decades before relocating in the 1970s to the Port of Gulfport. The produce giant will now ship between 60,000 and 78,000 twenty-foot-equivalent units every year through the Port of New Orleans, officials said.
Half of the shipments will be banana and fresh fruit imports, while the other half will be outbound cargo, the company said. The first shipments are expected to begin within the first quarter of 2015.
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