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Dole Food Co. is preparing to renew its lease with the Port of San Diego, according to officials with both entities.
Media in the San Diego area may have jumped the gun, though, with reports in late January that the 25-year deal was done, said Bil Goldfield, communications manager for Dole Food Inc. of Westlake Village, Calif. He said Dole officials have looked at other options, but the San Diego location best fit the company’s needs.
“Nothing is signed yet,” Goldfield said Jan. 30. “Negotiations are going well and we are excited at the possibility of staying in San Diego.”
Port officials are excited, too.
Dole is one of the largest of 600 tenants at the port, said Marguerite Elicone, port media relations manager. Many of those tenants are not involved in maritime activities, though, such as the restaurants and hotels at the port.
“Dole has given us notice that they will be staying on,” Elicone said Jan. 30. “We expect the final negotiations to be completed by the end of March.”
Elicone said Dole is the port’s only container tenant, having sent just less than 100,000 containers through the San Diego port in the past fiscal year.
“We know they send 185 million individual bananas through here each month,” Elicone said.
Goldfield confirmed Dole ships about 20 million boxes of bananas and 3 million boxes of pineapples through the San Diego facility annually. Port officials said the Dole produce accounted for about 82% of the port’s cargo tonnage last year.
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