Orange Juice Tankers: How Your Breakfast Sails the Seas | The Shipyard
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Her precious cargo – orange juice. Yes, our favorite dose of morning freshness does not drop from the tree straight into the glass. Grown in colossal farms

Wonder what kind of environmental damage would happen if one crashed. Are they properly prepared for a captain having one too many screwdrivers?

  • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    7 months ago

    Pretty wild! I suppose it’s efficient or they wouldn’t be doing it.

    As to environmental damage? Probably a small blast radius. OJ is mildly acidic, but like sulphric acid, citric acid is highly soluble in water (what’s the chemistry term for that?!). If there’s any water movement, it’s going to disperse with the quickness. Be a bad scene if it got in a bay or somewhere where the water is relatively stagnant, but still, it dilutes fast.

    Plus, marine life can be tougher than we think. It’s not comparable to a sensitive 55G tank in your living room. OTOH, fish kills are a thing. Crazy sardine kill on Hokkaido day before, probably from the earthquake.

    No idea how the fructose dump would work out. 🤷🏻‍♂️

    • roguetrick@kbin.socialOP
      7·
      7 months ago

      Pretty wild! I suppose it’s efficient or they wouldn’t be doing it.

      Seems to be, considering they are running several juice ships pretty much constantly. I imagine well handled frozen juice concentrate has a lower chance to spoil than whole fruit and takes up a lot less space, but packaging it in Brazil just to transport it to Australia isn’t worth it compared to shipping the juice, putting it on trucks, and letting Australia package it.