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At one time I read an article about Guinness moving bulk product from Lagos, Nigeria via tanker ship, where they own a large Guinness brewery. I am unsure of the details, however.

Orange juice is still transported in bulk from South America to USA, Europe, and Asia:
https://www.marineinsight.com/types-of- ... e-carrier/

Shipowner website:
https://www.atlanship.eu

Dole operates a fleet of refrigerated container ships specially designed for transport of bananas, pineapples, and other fresh whole fruit from Central America which trade worldwide.

Dole Reeferships website (currently under maintenance):
https://www.dole-reefership.com

The Québec Liquor Corporation, a part of the Québec provincial government, imported wine from France, Spain, and Italy by tanker through the 1970s into the 1990s, at least, using dedicated wine tankers flagged in Europe. The QLC bottled the wine itself and distributed it to wholesalers. Guinness had another fleet not mentioned in the Freightwaves article. Guinness expanded its original brewery to the banks of the Liffey in 1873 and had constructed a fleet of small, narrow steam barges that brought barrels of Guinness from the brewery dock to Dublin harbor for export and returned with empty barrels, a distance of a little over a mile, through downtown Dublin. Such barge traffic ended in 1961 and Guinness began using large stainless steel tanks transported aboard its own vessels rather than kegs or barrels. Its first "stout" tanker appeared in 1973 when Guinness's The Lady Patricia was so converted at Bristol.

Most rum and other alcohols are now shipped either via intermodal tank containers or bottled at origin and shipped via container.

i believe at one time 1 or more of the branch line tankers use to carry wine, from france i assume. perhaps someone else can elborate more to this story. brancl line tankers were from sorel, quebec owned by the simard interests. they had a shipyard that built mostly tankers and also railway freight cars. all are now are now just memories. the only thing left of simard is a factory in baie st paul, quebec where they manufacture front stearing parts for trucks, mostly ready mix trucks. i believe it is still going strong.

Here is an article about hauling alcohol by ship. Towards the end it talks about the tanker you mentioned.

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/bulk- ... 1-the-past

Very interesting article...

Years ago there used to be at least one tanker (the Jo Spirit) that brought bulk rum from the Caribbean to Canada. Do any tankers still bring bulk rum into Canada, or have they been replaced with other means of transport, like intermodal containers? Thanks.