Bananas Quote by Rose George

Seven million ship cargo containers come into the United States every year. Five to seven percent only are inspected - five to seven percent.

— Irwin Redlener

Although more than 500 million maritime containers move around the world each year, accounting for 90 per cent of international trade, only 2 per…

— Ban Ki-moon

There are more than one hundred thousand ships at sea carrying all the solids, liquids and gases that we need to live.

— Rose George

You can now eat bananas from Chile; you couldn't do it before you had air shipping. Now, communication technology enables the shipping of labor.

— Moshe Vardi

“The container is at the core of a highly automated system for moving goods from anywhere, to anywhere, with a minimum of cost and…

— Marc Levinson

Last year, customs officials screened only five percent of the 11 million cargo containers entering the United States. That rate is both unacceptable and…

— Allyson Schwartz

“In 1961, before the container was in international use, ocean freight costs alone accounted for 12 percent of the value of U.S. exports and…

— Marc Levinson

“A single Seaway ship can hold up to six million gallons of vessel-steadying ballast water that gets discharged at a port in exchange for…

— Dan Egan

“Food transport has become a bizarre and profitable economic equation that’s no longer really about feeding anyone: in our own nation we export 1.1…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Everything in a modern container port is enormous, overwhelming, crushing.

— Rose George

The S.S. Sierra was a ten-thousand-ton vessel. Today, lifeboats bigger than the Sierra are found on the Queen Mary and other luxury liners.

— Fred Allen

Mr. Speaker, Delaware River's regional ports handle approximately 58 million tons of cargo yearly.

— Anonymous