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Seaboard Marine Supports the Fight Against Cancer
Seaboard Marine is pleased to continue its long-standing tradition of giving back to Liga Contra el Cancer’s fight against cancer. We recently joined La Liga El Cancer's annual fundraising broadcast and presented a $10,000 donation to further their cause. For the last 20 years, Seaboard Marine has supported the [...]
Seaboard Marine Enhances Refrigerated Cargo Container Fleet
Seaboard Marine has added 1,370 new state-of-the-art refrigerated cargo containers to our dynamic equipment fleet over the past two months. Built to Seaboard Marine's exacting specifications, the new forty-foot containers will meet our refrigerated import and export customers' growing needs across the Americas. Executive Vice President Bruce Brecheisen said, [...]
Seaboard Marine Supports Jamaica Cancer Society
Seaboard Marine recently gifted the Jamaica Cancer Society with a refurbished cargo container in collaboration with the Jamaica Producers Group, a long-time customer. Serving as many as 20,000 Jamaicans yearly, the Jamaica Cancer Society was facing a challenge in their screening clinic. The organization was quickly running out of [...]
Seaboard Marine Receives Highest Quest for Quality Award
Logistics Management recently released its list of winners for its annual Quest for Quality Awards, which are viewed by industry professionals as the gold standard for measuring customer satisfaction and performance excellence for carriers, ports and logistics providers worldwide. Seaboard Marine has always performed well, receiving recognition in different [...]
Improved Transit Time from Colombia to PortMiami
Seaboard Marine is pleased to announce beginning August 23, 2020, we will initiate an enhancement to our Miami, FL – Colombia service. The transit times for this weekly service will be reduced by two days from Barranquilla, Cartagena, and Santa Marta. “The fast, northbound sailing to PortMiami from Colombia [...]
Seaboard Marine Launches New Direct Service Between the Port of Savannah and Colombia
Seaboard Marine is pleased to announce a new direct service connecting Colombia with Savannah, Georgia. Beginning on August 19, 2020, weekly service will be initiated for both northbound and southbound cargoes between the Port of Savannah, Georgia and Barranquilla, Cartagena, and Santa Marta, Colombia. Piero Buitano, Seaboard Marine Vice [...]
Seaboard Marine Delivers First Hass Avocados from Santa Marta, Colombia, to the U.S. via PortMiami
Today, Seaboard Marine delivered its first shipment of Hass avocados from Santa Marta, Colombia, to South Florida's market. The recent certification of Hass avocados by the Colombian Agricultural Institute provided a new opportunity to supply this Colombian fruit to American consumers. With the use of Seaboard Marine's fast transit, [...]
Seaboard Chairman Steve Bresky Passes Away
It is with deep sadness that Seaboard Corporation, parent company of Seaboard Marine, announced today that Steven J. Bresky, Chairman and CEO, died July 10, 2020 in Kansas City. He was 67. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Steve was the third generation of his family to lead Seaboard in its [...]
Seaboard Marine Donates Service to Deliver Fire Truck to Guatemala
Recently, Seaboard Marine donated the transportation of a Miami-Dade County surplus fire truck to Guatemala. The donation, sponsored by a resolution of approval from Miami Dade County Commissioner Jose "Pepe" Diaz, was a specialized foam and water dispensing truck from Miami International Airport's Aviation Fire Rescue Division. The truck [...]
Keeping American Grocery Stores Stocked is a Team Effort
Most of us, by now, have found while visiting or ordering from our local supermarkets that despite the COVID-19 pandemic, aisles remain stocked with fresh fruits and vegetables. It may surprise some to learn that nearly half of all U.S. produce is imported from other countries. Some of the [...]