Seaboard Company Description
With pork from Oklahoma, flour from Haiti, and sugar from Argentina, Seaboard has a lot on its plate. The diversified agribusiness and transportation company has operations in some 30 countries in the Americas, the Caribbean, and Africa. Seaboard sells pork in the US and foreign markets. Overseas it trades grain (wheat, soya); operates power plants and feed and flour mills; and grows and refines sugar cane. Seaboard operates a shipping service for containerized cargo between the US, the Caribbean, and South America; it owns shipping terminals in Miami and Houston and a fleet of 40 vessels (12 owned, the rest chartered) that ship worldwide to some 40 ports. The descendants of founder Otto Bresky own 72% of Seaboard.
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