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Largest container ship to berth at an Irish port on its way to Cork with 7.5 million Fyffes bananas

It will take around six to eight hours to get all the fruit off the container ship.

THE LARGEST CONTAINER ship to berth at an Irish port is coming to Cork tomorrow.

The container ship MV Northern Dedication will berth at the Port of Cork’s Deepwater Berth in Ringaskiddy as part of a weekly scheduled call from Central America to Cork.

The ship is carrying over 75 containers of fresh fruit, predominantly Fyffes bananas with each container carrying more than 100,000 bananas. The ship will also discharge containers of pineapples and melons.

It has an overall length of 230m and a deadweight tonnage of 42,121 tonnes. It will take around six to eight hours to get all the fruit off the container ship.

As the Port of Cork begins their expansion phase in Ringaskiddy, it’s expected that more of these size vessels will become regular visitors to the Port of Cork.

Port of Cork Commercial Manager, Captain Michael McCarthy said, “There are very little restrictions at Ringaskiddy Deepwater Berth, so when it comes to handling a vessel of this size, the port is more than capable.

“In the future we would hope to see more of these size vessels calling, as our port expands to meet the needs of our own customers and the needs of the global shipping community.”

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    Mute Paul Gregg
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    Apr 7th 2016, 8:07 PM

    So it’s a banana boat

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    Mute Affinity
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    Apr 7th 2016, 8:35 PM

    For a banana republic

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    Mute Freebetcitydcom Mike
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    Apr 7th 2016, 9:06 PM

    Fyffes have blood on their hands. I only buy fairtrade

    http://www.btrtoday.com/read/articles/sunday-deception-week

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    Mute Eoin Sean
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    Apr 7th 2016, 11:49 PM

    its how many banana eaters are in each container is the question :p

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    Mute Richard Cynical
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    Apr 8th 2016, 8:54 AM

    ireland is one of the biggest exporters of bananas because of our tax laws

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    Mute Noel Cassidy
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    Apr 8th 2016, 10:49 AM

    Also the bigger manufacturer of banna’s as they managed to get the ripping process classed as manufacturing…

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    Mute Arthur Pewty
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    Apr 7th 2016, 8:11 PM

    that ship is bananas,

    B.A.N.A.N.A.S!

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    Mute Carmel Gill
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    Apr 7th 2016, 9:01 PM

    Best. Comment. Ever.

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    Mute Darragh O'Connell
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    Apr 7th 2016, 8:30 PM

    Its actually garlic …

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    Mute Dave Meagher
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    Apr 7th 2016, 9:29 PM

    Pears, apples , garlic, bananas it’s all the one…..

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    Mute Aldo Coffey
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    Apr 8th 2016, 2:24 PM

    You need to get your taste buds checked out…

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    Mute Rudy de Groot
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    Apr 7th 2016, 8:23 PM

    The refrigerated containers are specifically geared towards carrying fruit. Apart from temperature they also regulate the atmosphere. That enables the fruit to be picked just before it begins to ripen. That state is being maintained during the voyage so that the fruit arrives in the right condition. That is why it is possible to buy green bananas before they turn yellow. So to all intents and purposes this is fresh fruit.

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    Mute Martin Woods
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    Apr 7th 2016, 9:12 PM

    A langer load of bananas boy

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    Mute Fearghal O Regan
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    Apr 7th 2016, 8:18 PM

    It’s about time boats this size docked in ireland. It will take approx 3 weeks of the normal transit time.

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    Mute Fran Brennan
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    Apr 7th 2016, 10:08 PM

    Think of all the spiders !

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    Mute Tina Kelly Heverin
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    Apr 7th 2016, 11:05 PM

    That was my first thought!

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    Mute Oisin Scollard
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    Apr 7th 2016, 9:37 PM

    High Fyffes all round

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    Mute Paul MacNulty
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    Apr 7th 2016, 8:45 PM

    And how much cocaine?

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    Mute Eamonn coughlan
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    Apr 7th 2016, 9:33 PM

    Not enough

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    Mute Greg Cavey
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    Apr 7th 2016, 8:45 PM

    U ain’t seen nothing till you’ve seen a ship shipping ship, shipping shipping ships.

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    Mute Dave Meagher
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    Apr 7th 2016, 9:30 PM

    A woodchuck…. Ah forget it.

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    Mute Gerard Doherty
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    Apr 7th 2016, 8:24 PM

    Bananas for all the monkeys in the dáil.

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    Mute Vinny kelly
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    Apr 7th 2016, 10:25 PM

    Bananas like these don’t grow on trees

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    Mute Carlos André
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    Apr 7th 2016, 8:12 PM

    Sure only brings bananas?

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    Mute FreeSpeech
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    Apr 7th 2016, 8:16 PM

    it would take a team of customs days to search each one, and even then, it would still be difficult to find anything.

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    Mute Mas Oyam
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    Apr 7th 2016, 10:08 PM

    Hope for everyones sake they find no garlic on board.

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    Mute Peter Fechter
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    Apr 7th 2016, 8:19 PM

    Its actually not particularly large…google Maersk Emma or Maersk McKinney Moller…thems the big girls..

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    Mute Padraig
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    Apr 7th 2016, 8:29 PM

    Mad to think that this is only half the length of the longest ship in the World.
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seawise_Giant

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    Mute Peter Fechter
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    Apr 7th 2016, 8:38 PM

    Padraig…im not certain the Seawise Giant exists anymore.

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    Mute sparky
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    Apr 7th 2016, 8:12 PM

    Bananas. .what an appropriate fruit to bring to this country of ours right now…can we send some of our own back on it.

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    Mute Maria Kissane
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    Apr 7th 2016, 9:05 PM

    Why do we need 7.5 million bananas ????? Seriously ?

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    Mute Padraig
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    Apr 7th 2016, 9:18 PM

    Maria,I’m no genius but if say 10% of our population eat 1 banana daily,then this boat load will only last 2 weeks.

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    Mute thefunnyman
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    Apr 7th 2016, 10:10 PM

    It also says a weekly call will be made by this ship, holy Banana balls, I want to see the banana farm…

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    Mute ED
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    Apr 8th 2016, 6:39 PM

    Maybe not all of the cargo is for Ireland and heading onto Europe?

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    Mute FreeSpeech
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    Apr 7th 2016, 8:07 PM

    :The ship is carrying over 75 containers of fresh fruit,”

    Really? How many weeks has it been onboard the ship? In a fridge or otherwise, fresh is a stretch.

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    Mute JJ O Riordan
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    Apr 7th 2016, 8:10 PM

    They’re picked at a not quite ripe stage so they time the arrival at their destination accordingly.

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    Mute FreeSpeech
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    Apr 7th 2016, 8:11 PM

    Fair enough. Then they are ripe. It’s still not fresh though.

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    Mute Peter Fechter
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    Apr 7th 2016, 8:17 PM

    Free…refridgerated containers.

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    Mute FreeSpeech
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    Apr 7th 2016, 8:19 PM

    I have strawberries in my fridge for the last week but I wouldn’t call them fresh.

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    Mute Tony Skillington
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    Apr 7th 2016, 8:19 PM

    Next time ask them to bring the trees they grew on as well so then..

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    Mute FreeSpeech
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    Apr 7th 2016, 8:22 PM

    No thanks. I don’t like bananas. I like strawberries. Fresh ones.

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    Mute Gene Parmesan
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    Apr 7th 2016, 8:38 PM

    Fruit that is not fresh would be what exactly?

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    Mute Cian Omahony Snr
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    Apr 7th 2016, 8:10 PM

    I knew we were a banana republic..sorry!!!!

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    Mute Brian Ellis
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    Apr 7th 2016, 8:15 PM

    When is it coming in to port?

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    Mute FreeSpeech
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    Apr 7th 2016, 8:18 PM

    Mind your own business.

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    Mute damien o brien
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    Apr 7th 2016, 8:21 PM

    About 3am tomorrow. Would be worth a trip to Camden to see it heading out.

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    Mute Peter Fechter
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    Apr 7th 2016, 8:26 PM

    Damien…well worth a trip to see it up close.

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    Apr 7th 2016, 9:09 PM
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    Mute Gerry Fallon
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    Apr 7th 2016, 9:25 PM

    Camden st? Didnt know they had a port up there! Hmm.

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    Mute Darragh Joyce
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    Apr 7th 2016, 10:43 PM

    Fyffe o clock

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    Mute tally ho
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    Apr 7th 2016, 8:50 PM

    Hope there’s no slip ups

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    Mute John Cassin
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    Apr 7th 2016, 11:59 PM

    These ships are the worst polluters on the planet . Just one of them puts as much pollution into the air as 50 million cars. The 15 largest of them produce more pollution than all the cars in the world. The fuel that they use is so thick that you can walk on it. It is the gunge that is left over from refining the lighter oils. The USA is in the process of a banning them from all of their ports. Look it up on Google.

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    Mute Darren Norris
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    Apr 8th 2016, 7:37 AM

    USA won’t ban them. They are looking at ways to make it less polluting

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    Mute Sean D
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    Apr 8th 2016, 12:54 PM

    Well John that is simply not true. Nowhere close to being true. Care to reference that?

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    Mute Nomis Andrews
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    Apr 7th 2016, 9:34 PM

    bunch of bananas with some low fat yogurt costs about a euro. cheap nutritious meal

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    Mute Alan Plunkett
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    Apr 7th 2016, 9:13 PM

    Lots of banoffe pie ..mmmm

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    Mute Alfie Bonney
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    Apr 7th 2016, 9:44 PM

    Coming from Central America, sounds like the summers supply of flake is on the way, the place be flooded

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    Mute eastsmer
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    Apr 8th 2016, 12:41 AM

    My wife’s uncle had a job as a docker in Cork before containerisation.
    When asked what his work was he used to say
    ” I straighten out all the bananas that come in on the banana boats” :)

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    Mute Ulick McGee
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    Apr 7th 2016, 9:32 PM

    There’s cocain in it. I mean bananas.

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    Mute tally ho
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    Apr 7th 2016, 8:53 PM

    90 year old buying green bananas……an optimist.

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    Mute Thosj Carroll
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    Apr 7th 2016, 8:16 PM

    Phew……I thought Ireland was a banana republic!!

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    Mute Mike O'Neill
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    Apr 7th 2016, 9:55 PM

    It might not be too far fetched that in thirty or forty years Chinese container ships sail through an ice free Artic to dock in Ireland.

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    Apr 7th 2016, 10:54 PM

    Go cry to Al Gore

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    Mute ben
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    Apr 7th 2016, 9:07 PM

    You know that sharp crippling pain u get in ure leg when you don’t eat enough bananas that’s a better way to spend ure evening than reading this article

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    Mute Rashers Tierney
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    Apr 7th 2016, 10:51 PM

    I don’t eat any bananas. Don’t get any sharp crippling pain in me legs at all.

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    Apr 7th 2016, 9:46 PM

    For all our monkeys?

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    Apr 7th 2016, 10:28 PM

    Politics again. Another ship lost to The Port of Waterford

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    Apr 8th 2016, 7:37 AM

    Big tin of fruit salad

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    Apr 8th 2016, 5:54 AM

    Maybe this will finally shut them up.

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    Mute Kizzi Yeates
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    Apr 9th 2016, 1:11 AM

    Put Endas gang and all the junkies in the empty containers and wave them all goodbye :)

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    Mute Greg McGarry
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    Apr 8th 2016, 11:37 AM

    How many massive spiders lurking on that hulk of tropical fruit! Yikes!

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    Apr 9th 2016, 3:10 PM

    Do spiders survive weeks of refrigeration?

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