News / A reliable boutique service built for perishable cargo, and no banana skins

With all the talk of retailers and forwarders launching their own shipping lines, it is easy to forget that for decades in one sector, a vertically integrated supply chain, including owning and operating a fleet of ships, was the norm.

The banana business was, and to a lesser extent still is, dominated by a handful of household names and, while Lidl’s creation, Tailwind Shipping, may not be a deliberate imitation of the shipping traditions of firms such as Geest, Dole, Fyffes, ...