Bananas

prices for week 49/2008
Bananas
Fruits - Philippines
Class A 4,5,6 Cavendish bananas; 13.5kg net
FOB Davao City, Philippines $ 6.15
Week 49- 2008
Destination Country CNF
Aqaba Jordan $ 8.54
Auckland New Zealand $ 8.53
Bahrain Bahrain $ 8.76
Bandar Abbas Iran $ 8.76
Barcelona Spain $ 8.91
Bremerhaven Germany $ 8.87
Constanza Romania $ 9.36
Cotonou Benin Not possible
Dalian China $ 7.97
Dammam Saudi-Arabia $ 8.76
Doha Qatar $ 8.76
Felixstowe Great Britain $ 11.81
Genoa Italy $ 8.72
Gioia Tauro Italy $ 9.02
Hamburg Germany $ 8.81
Hong Kong China $ 7.71
Istanbul Turkey $ 9.32
Izmir Turkey $ 9.67
Jebel Ali UAE $ 8.86
Jeddah Saudi-Arabia $ 8.95
Karachi Pakistan $ 9.31
Latakia Syria $ 9.86
Le Havre France $ 9.47
Lyttleton New Zealand $ 8.53
Long Beach USA $ 9.22
Mersin Turkey $ 9.32
Muscat Oman $ 9.53
Napier New Zealand $ 8.53
Nelson New Zealand $ 9.16
New Plymouth New Zealand $ 9.16
Novorisisk Russia $ 10.09
Oakland USA $ 9.22
Odessa Ukraine $ 9.42
Port Chalmers New Zealand $ 8.53
Port Said East Egypt $ 9.25
Qingdao China $ 8.25
Rijeka Croatia $ 9.55
Rotterdam Netherland $ 8.99
San Pedro USA $ 9.61
Seattle USA $ 8.84
Shanghai China $ 8.20
Shuwaikh Kuwait $ 8.82
Singapore Singapore $ 7.09
Sokhana Egypt $ 9.39
Southampton United Kingdom $ 7.69
Takoma USA $ 9.22
Tauranga New Zealand $ 8.53
Thamesport Great Britain $ 10.31
Thessaloniki Greek $ 9.20
Timaru New Zealand $ 9.16
Tunis Tunisia $ 12.53
Valencia Spain $ 9.29
Vladivostok Russia $ 9.49
Wellington New Zealand $ 8.53
Xiamen China $ 8.25
Xingang China $ 7.64 Fruits - Philippines
Class A Cavendish bananas; 18.14kg net
FOB Davao City, Philippines $ 7.39
Week 49- 2008
Destination Country CNF
Aqaba Jordan $ 10.47
Auckland New Zealand $ 3.08
Bahrain Bahrain $ 10.75
Bandar Abbas Iran $ 10.75
Constanza Romania $ 11.54
Cotonou Benin Not possible
Dalian China $ 9.74
Dammam Saudi-Arabia $ 10.75
Doha Qatar $ 10.75
Felixstowe Great Britain $ 14.69
Genoa Italy $ 10.88
Gioia Tauro Italy $ 11.10
Hamburg Germany $ 10.82
Hong Kong China $ 9.40
Izmir Turkey $ 11.93
Istanbul Turkey $ 11.49
Jebel Ali UAE $ 10.89
Jeddah Saudi-Arabia $ 11.00
Karachi Pakistan $ 11.47
Latakia Syria $ 12.18
Long Beach USA $ 11.35
Mersin Turkey $ 11.49
Muscat Oman $ 11.75
Oakland USA $ 11.35
Odessa Ukraine $ 11.78
Port Said East Egypt $ 11.39
Qingdao China $ 10.10
Rijeka Croatia $ 11.78
Rotterdam Netherland $ 11.05
San Pedro USA $ 11.85
Seattle USA $ 10.86
Shanghai China $ 10.04
Shuwaikh Kuwait $ 10.84
Singapore Singapore $ 8.60
Sokhana Egypt $ 11.58
Southampton United Kingdom $ 9.38
Takoma USA $ 11.35
Thamesport Great Britain $ 12.76
Tunis Tunisia $ 15.62
Vladivostok Russia $ 11.69
Xiamen China $ 10.10
Xingang China $ 9.32
Pineapple
Fruits - Philippines
1,400 boxes per 40 footer HC RF
container on pallets, Pre-paid
Class A Golden Pineapples (MD2); 5 to 12 pcs. per box at 12.5 kg net weight
FOB Cagayan de Oro, Philippines $ 8.37
Week 49- 2008
Destination Country CNF
Aqaba Jordan $ 10.96
Auckland New Zealand $ 10.95
Bahrain Bahrain $ 11.19
Bandar Abbas Iran $ 11.19
Constanza Romania $ 11.85
Cotonou Benin Not possible
Dalian China $ 10.34
Dammam Saudi-Arabia $ 11.19
Doha Qatar $ 11.19
Felixstowe Great Britain $ 14.49
Genoa Italy $ 11.30
Gioia Tauro Italy $ 11.48
Hamburg Germany $ 11.25
Hong Kong China $ 10.06
Izmir Turkey $ 12.18
Istanbul Turkey $ 11.80
Jebel Ali UAE $ 11.31
Jeddah Saudi-Arabia $ 11.40
Karachi Pakistan $ 11.79
Latakia Syria $ 12.39
Long Beach USA $ 11.69
Mersin Turkey $ 11.80
Muscat Oman $ 12.02
Oakland USA $ 11.69
Odessa Ukraine $ 12.05
Port Said East Egypt $ 11.72
Qingdao China $ 10.65
Rijeka Croatia $ 12.05
Rotterdam Netherland $ 11.44
San Pedro USA $ 12.11
Seattle USA $ 11.28
Shanghai China $ 10.59
Shuwaikh Kuwait $ 11.26
Singapore Singapore $ 9.39
Sokhana Egypt $ 11.88
Southampton United Kingdom $ 10.04
Takoma USA $ 11.69
Thamesport Great Britain $ 12.87
Tunis Tunisia $ 15.26
Vladivostok Russia $ 11.98
Xiamen China $ 10.65
Xingang China $ 9.99
About Pinapple
The pineapple spread from its original area (central South America) through cultivation, and by the time of Christopher Columbus (1492) it grew throughout South and Central America, southern Mexico and the Caribbean (West Indies). Columbus may have taken a sample back to Europe. The Spanish introduced it into the Philippines, Hawaii (introduced in the early 19th century, first commercial plantation 1886) and Guam. The fruit was successfully cultivated in European hothouses, and pineapple pits, beginning in 1720. Commonly cultivated varieties include Red Spanish, Hilo, Smooth Cayenne, St. Michael, Kona Sugarloaf, Natal Queen, and Pernambuco. Canned pineapple is almost always Smooth Cayenne.
Pineapple cultivation in the USA began in the early 1900s on Hawaii. Dole and Del Monte began growing pineapple on the island of Oahu in 1901 and 1917, respectively. Maui Pineapple Company began pineapple cultivation on the island of Maui in 1909. In 2006, Del Monte announced its withdrawal from pineapple cultivation in Hawaii, leaving only Dole and Maui Pineapple Company in Hawaii as the USA's largest growers of pineapples. Maui Pineapple Company markets its Maui Gold® brand of pineapple and Dole markets its Hawaii Gold® brand of pineapple.
In the USA in 1986, the Pineapple Research Institute was dissolved and its assets were divided between Del Monte and Maui Land and Pineapple. Del Monte took 73-114, which it dubbed MD-2, to its plantations in Costa Rica, found it to be well-suited to growing there, and launched it publicly in 1996. (Del Monte also began marketing 73-50, dubbed CO-2, as Del Monte Gold). In 1997, Del Monte began marketing its Gold Extra Sweet pineapple, known internally as MD-2. MD-2 is a hybrid that originated in the breeding program of the now-defunct Pineapple Research Institute in Hawaii, which conducted research on behalf of Del Monte, Maui Land & Pineapple Company, and Dole.
Southeast Asia dominates world production: in 2007 Thailand produced 2.7 million tons, the Philippines 2.62 million tons while in the Americas, Brazil 1.61 million tons. Total world production in 2007 was 16.2 million tons. The primary exporters of fresh pineapples in 2007 were Costa Rica, 422,000 tons; Côte d'Ivoire, 288,000 tons; and the Philippines, 235,000 tons. In commercial farming, flowering can be artificially induced and the early harvesting of the main fruit can encourage the development of a second crop of smaller fruits.
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