Dole Chile
1999
(Bille Bi-138)
- Type: Refrigerated container ship
- Displacement: 30,560 tons
- Dimensions: 672 x 106 x 33.5 ft.
- Machinery: Sulzer 8 RTA 72U diesel;
23920 kW, single shaft = 21 knots
- Containers: 2,046 TEU
- Cranes: 2 x 40 ton gantry
- Crew: 32
- Builder: Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft AG, Kiel, Germany, 1999
- Notes: Built for Dole Fresh Fruit International Ltd., Costa Rica.
Liberian flagged. Sistership Dole Columbia. Largest cold storage
vessels in the world. Primarily employed carrying bananas from Costa Rica
to the east coast of the USA.
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