By hiring top experts on the field, our company is able to provide cost efficient and timely packaging solutions for our production operations fitted to the needs of our customers.

HLC Specialized Goods Trading produces top-quality bananas that give you the refreshing taste and pleasure of real fruit in a fun, convenient way.

Our R&D and Agricultural Services departments are always innovating to ensure that the physical needs of our bananas are addressed in order to protect and maintain freshness of the product. Our packaging is designed for easy packing, rapid cooling and protection of the product from the rigors of transportation. Our bananas are grown in two of the most important banana producing counties in Ecuador, from where they are shipped to their global destinations in refrigerated containers. After arrival at the destination ports, the containers are unloaded and transferred ripening facilities, then they are taken to distribution centers or delivered directly to the customer by refrigerated transport. This process requires extraordinary attention to quality in both product and packaging to assure fresh arrivals.

With fresh fruits, the challenge is to design packaging solutions (primarily recyclable corrugated) that will hold up to the rigors of transport and handling while protecting the fruit from bruising when exposed to moisture, shock and vibration. In order to accomplish this objective, the experts in our packaging department work to design packaging and graphics, choosing the correct materials and also indicating pallets and loading specifications. In our operations, we are also able to use recyclable plastics. This helps BanaBay to fulfil our customers´ needs and to deliver the freshest and most visually appealing product to every one of our retailers every single day while also preserving the environment.

The careful management of our entire supply chain ensures that bananas are available to customers at the exact right point of freshness.

A key part of our logistics network is our land trucking operations that ensures all loads are carefully controlled and customers are updated of deliveries in a timely manner.

Our logistics department closely monitors the cold chain from source to customer using specialized equipment to do so, from temptales to ethylene filters.

Our land trucking operations are key to support our distribution and make sure that the product is managed within the cold chain, with associates that focus on proper product delivery, procedures and customer service. Our trucks meet strict safety and cold chain regulations; furthermore our vehicles receive regular maintenance to ensure compliance.

From the instant our bananas, Mango and Pineapples are harvested, speed is an essential step in our process.

Therefore, we quickly transport our fresh produce to markets around the world using several associated shipping companies. We move the bananas using our own refrigerated trucks to the seaports, speeding up the delivery process.

The bananas are then loaded carefully into chilled holds for safe transportation. Our products are transported by vessel to distribution facilities operated by strategically associated third parties.

Once we unload the products and carry out final quality checks, our distribution facilities, with their state-of-the-art refrigeration warehouses, move the bananas out as quickly and efficient as possible on their journey to customers.

Our company through business partners and associates has several facilities conveniently located near ports-of-entry and strategically positioned throughout many countries where we market our products.

With our extensive network, we provide fast, safe and convenient distribution of our products.

Our third-parties´ warehouses are regulated by state-of-the-art thermometers, hydrometers and pulp temperature sensors to provide our products with the best environment for storage before distribution.

We offer ripening, cold storage, sorting, repacking, pick-up and delivery services. These services allow our business customers to avoid costly out-of-stocks, to receive just-in-time delivery to maximize turns and to receive value added products such as bananas ripened to their specific colour stage.