KW:
We also transport it from right next door to our depot in Borgloon,at Tropicana Looza.
Here the stuff arrives by road tankers,mainly Italian.It used to be delivered by H&S Transport from Barneveld who used to load it at the juice terminal in Rotterdam or Amsterdam.
The Orange Sky is moored for discharge at the Juice Terminal in Rotterdam, straight from Brazil.
And all these and many more will deliver the juice all over Europe
That Adami Scania behind the Alaine tanker are the ones who usually bring it in to Tropicana in Borgloon.
The discharge point is actually in the corner of our yard at Borgloon so I often see them parked there,as well as Felix Troll,who were part of the P&O Tankgroup the same as H&S were.
Quite a few English and Irish drivers are on for Adami.
Used to load drums of frozen juice at the terminals at Rotterdam and Amsterdam regularly and take it to Frigoscandia in Staffanstorp,Sweden.
sammy dog:
funnily enough mate of mine on containers tipped in somerset yesterday tank in back of container lift suspension on unit drop on trailer piped out of back container fron felixstowe.
The juice business is huge, there are places all over who process, bottle package, filter and transport the stuff, as a tanker driver we visited many of them, with juice, sugar or glucose. And never a shortage of a nice cold drink in the cab, but I would avoid the concentrate
H&S Transport in Gent would often load Tropicana Juice at the Fruit Terminal on the Docks for the Plant at Beauvais. I think I remember Heritage loading there in the happy days before the communists came.
The Juice (with bits) is pure to drink direct from the Ship. I’m sorry to admit that I just assumed that it was from Brazil. The loading staff were careful and very little was spilt.
We collect from a site in Llantrisant, they do a lot of own brand juice products, just past the royal mint called fruitapeel if my memory serves correctly. Usually get the offer of a carton or 2 but always decline as it isn’t worth the hassle of getting a receipt, call the office to advise, all body cavity search lardee dah dee dah.
We collect from a site in Llantrisant, they do a lot of own brand juice products, just past the royal mint called fruitapeel if my memory serves correctly. Usually get the offer of a carton or 2 but always decline as it isn’t worth the hassle of getting a receipt, call the office to advise, all body cavity search lardee dah dee dah.
Your link is a bit misleading as though the oranges are shipped to Tropicana plants and squeezed straight into the cartons, some companies do make juice straight from fruit, but that is not one of them
sammy dog:
funnily enough mate of mine on containers tipped in somerset yesterday tank in back of container lift suspension on unit drop on trailer piped out of back container fron felixstowe.
Probably gerber or framptons then.
iirc Stobarts do a lot for Gerber in Bridgwater
Gerber was bought by Coca Cola in the last couple of years! Still use their own p/work but are owned by CCE!! That’s why Stobbies are hauling it!! Danone Waters was taken over by Unilever recently too!!
countykev:
It is bottled in Suffolk at Boxted for sure, as one of the bottling plants anyway, as my stepson works there as an engineer and keeps the machines working 24/7.
Not always bottling orange juice as they do apple and other juices and stuff depending on what comes in.
Copella, Tropicana, all owned by pepsico.
You are right boxford is owned by pepsico but no way could they handle the tropicana volume. Boxford site is basically a very large field with apples growing everywhere and a building that bottles all the juice.
I want to know more about tropicana it says fresh on the carton but wheelnut posted a boat? Is that freshly squeezed over in brazil then packaged in northern france. Then it goes to culina at Milton Keynes is this process? Or do the oranges get shipped from brazil the squeezed in northern France?
I think its the Merwehaven in Rotterdam that handle the concentrated juice boats that come from sunnier climes, ie the one in the picture and others like her.