Orange Juice Tankers: How Your Breakfast Sails the Seas | The Shipyard
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Her precious cargo – orange juice. Yes, our favorite dose of morning freshness does not drop from the tree straight into the glass. Grown in colossal farms

Wonder what kind of environmental damage would happen if one crashed. Are they properly prepared for a captain having one too many screwdrivers?

  • roguetrickOP
    7•11 months ago

    Pretty wild! I suppose it’s efficient or they wouldn’t be doing it.

    Seems to be, considering they are running several juice ships pretty much constantly. I imagine well handled frozen juice concentrate has a lower chance to spoil than whole fruit and takes up a lot less space, but packaging it in Brazil just to transport it to Australia isn’t worth it compared to shipping the juice, putting it on trucks, and letting Australia package it.