This is a viable business". He claimed there were more than 600 jobs on his piers, unloading containers, as well as cocoa, coffee, lumber and steel.
"We grew this pier from no cocoa to the largest cocoa port in the U.S.," Mr. Catucci said, adding that the port also receives coffee, lumber and other goods.
Besides bananas, the port handles pineapples, citrus fruits, coconuts, abacá fibre, fish, meat, coffee, and lumber.
In addition to shipping, Mbandaka's economic activities centre on agriculture and forestry (rubber, coffee, rice, lumber).
River steamers and hydroplanes utilize the facilities at the town, which ships such goods as tobacco, cacao, coffee, sugar, lumber, and cattle.
Diriamba is a major commercial and manufacturing centre; its hinterland is known primarily for its coffee, but lumbering is also significant.
San José still handles exports of molasses, coffee, cotton, sugar, lumber, and honey.
Sabato F. Catucci stalks the piers on the Red Hook waterfront in Brooklyn, where he has built a thriving business handling cargo containers, lumber, coffee and cacao beans.
Downtown merchants sold the filmmakers everything from coffee and bagels to lumber.
Exports include paper, phosphate, fertilizers, and citrus, while major imports include oil, coffee, limestone, cars, and lumber.
Puerto Plata's port handles principally tobacco, coffee, cacao, rice, sugarcane, bananas, and lumber.
