Maritime lawyers for the Packer Avenue port say the crane on the right -- and the Del Monte business -- needs to come back to Philadelphia. Click on the image to read the Philadelphia Inquirer article.
Longshoremen aren’t the only ones crying foul over Del Monte Fresh Produce Co.’s leaving Camden for a competitor terminal in nearby Gloucester City.
The Del Monte container business rightfully belongs at Packer Avenue Marine Terminal in South Philadelphia, and not Gloucester, under a 1991 provision in the Packer Avenue lease, says the Philadelphia Regional Port Authority.
Maritime lawyers for the port have notified Packer Avenue lessee Astro Holdings Inc. and its president, Thomas Holt Jr., that they have until Oct. 24 to send the Del Monte business to Packer Avenue – along with a cargo crane in Gloucester that the port authority says should be in Philadelphia.