Bananas and Pineapples

Strong partnerships create great solutions

Donatella, an Ecuadorian exporter to more than 7 countries worldwide, has worked with Maersk for over 18 years to bring fresh bananas to your table.

For Donatella´s operation, it is crucial to minimize the risk of contamination and have traceability of operational flow and container handling inspection by expert and qualified staff. Working with Maersk has given visibility, integrating reefer data and optimizing transparency on reefer cargo has meant efficiency and growth opportunity for our customers.

Take a look at the story of Donatella Fruit and Maersk, a great example of how a strong partnership creates great solutions.

I think that the key elements of a fruitful partnership of Donatella and Maersk are that we are both caring about the time delivery, especially for our fresh products.

Ugur Hafizoglu

Owner of Donatella Fruit

We started with land transportation with Donatella; then we managed to start them on a reservation service.

Johan Bacigalupo

Head of Bananas and frozen, West Coast of South America Maersk

Now, automate banana ripening on the move

StarRipe™, our latest cold chain innovation, lets you configure banana ripening during their journey so that you can receive them in optimal condition for your destination market. How does our container technology make this possible? What are the other advantages it offers for banana producers and transporters?

Find out more from Michaela Steineker, Senior Cold Chain Excellence Manager, Maersk, in this video.

Female picking up a bunch of ripe bananas in a store

Track your goods at every step

Visibility of the smallest detail matters when you ship bananas and pineapples. Captain Peter with Remote Container Management provides visibility on temperature-humidity, O2 and CO2 levels, not to mention location and status of your precious and delicate cargo.

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Innovative cold chain logistics

Refrigerated logistics is a highly demanding business. The pressure to respond to changes increases year after year. Thus, innovation is at the heart of cold chain logistics. It could mean removing a stop from your cold chain journey to improve time to market, focusing on improving variable delivery speeds, or even finding a solution to open a new market for your product.

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Cold chain solutions

Considering your fruits spend most of its journey in a container, it becomes imperative to ensure that they are kept in optimum condition. Therefore, the level of care and innovation that goes into a Maersk container is of paramount importance to us.

Products with a high level of respiration are transported in StarCare+ containers. These special containers regulate the balance of O2, CO2 temperature and humidity to help maintain outstanding cargo quality for longer shipping and storage periods of up to 50 days. StarCare+ is ideal for transporting fruits like lychees, plums, organic grapes, blueberries, red currants, nectarines, and peaches.

Introducing StarRipe CR (Controlled Ripening), a fresh addition to our reefer fleet. This innovative solution combines the benefits of StarCare CA (Controlled Atmosphere) with ripening functionality, revolutionizing the cold chain. With StarRipe, our customers can now effortlessly attain their preferred banana colour & ripeness stage enroute, ensuring longer shelf life, flexibility and cost efficiency.

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Delivering fresh San Carlos pineapples to Montreal

By sourcing directly from farms and understanding the business of exporting pineapples, we helped a pineapple export client Agroprecuarios, to reduce wastage and optimise speed to market.

Enabling fresh pineapples harvested every week in Costa Rica to reach stores in Montreal in perfect condition. A 6000 km reefer journey that optimised cold chain processes with unmatched visibility tools.

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Meet our Bananas and Pineapples expert

Borja Pelayo Fernandez Arche

Global Head of Bananas & Pines • Cold Chain Vertical

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