The first refrigerator ship takes Argentine beef to Europe

Category
Trade
Place
Global
Date
1876
Reference
Excerpts from Books and Wikipedia
"In 1876, the first refrigerator ship took Argentine beef to Europe. The trade in chilled beef was vastly more profitable than the older trade in beef jerky of prerefrigeration days. By 1900 refrigerator ships numbered in the hundreds." [Born in Blood & Fire: A Concise History of Latin America, 4th Ed., p. 197]

This event is linked to the following periods

PeriodMiner
Begin
End
Category
Neo-Colonialism
1880
1910
Latin American