Banana box

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Banana box

A banana box (also known as a banana box, banana box ) is a resilient, two-part container made of corrugated cardboard for the transport of bananas . For better ventilation, it is open at the top and bottom and usually lined with a thin cardboard box.

Until the 1950s, the banana was transported as a perennial in a refrigerated ship . Since the fruit is sensitive to pressure, packing houses were built on the plantations from this time on to pack the individual banana hands in protective cardboard boxes. These were loaded individually into the reefer ships manually or partially automatically. From the mid-1960s, refrigerated containers were increasingly used to transport the banana boxes.

The usual dimensions of a banana box are: height 24 cm, width 54 cm and depth 39 cm. Thus, one box has a volume of approx. 0.05 m³, 20 boxes correspond to about 1 m³.

Due to the standardized form, the high load-bearing capacity (> 50 lb = 22.68 kg) and high power (up to ten boxes above the other) as well as inexpensive procurability these containers are in a second function particularly for archiving , as a moving box , for humanitarian transports and Antiquariat bookstores popular .

Occasionally, poisonous spiders of the genus Phoneutria find their way to Europe unintentionally in banana boxes on cargo ships.

  • Dutch film about the harvest of the banana in Suriname; from 1:33 min filling the banana box and transport to the refrigerated ship (April 1968)

  • View into the hold of a reefer ship with bananas, space is made for the elevator , so that the boxes are cleared.

  • Transport of the banana boxes in a refrigerated container at 13.5 degrees Celsius (2006)

literature

  • Friedrich Hirsefelder (= Rainer Theobald): The banana box as the basis of the antiquarian book trade. An economic study , in: From the antiquarian bookshop, supplement to the Börsenblatt für den Deutschen Buchhandel no. 34 of April 29, 1994, pp. A 154–156 ( online version )

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl-Heinz Hochhaus: 200 years of international banana shipping. Retrieved May 4, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Friedrich Hirsefelder: Banana boxes as an antiquarian base . In: Börsenblatt . December 10, 2009.
  3. ↑ Günter Schmidt: On the importance of the arachnids brought in with shiploads in Germany , Journal of Pest Science, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, Volume 26, Number 7 / July 1953, pp. 97-105.
  4. ↑ Deadly spiders shopping for bananas , November 4, 2013.
  5. ↑ Shopping in London: Killer Spider in the Fruit Crate , October 20, 2014.