Commitments and Contingencies

12 Months Ended

Dec. 28, 2018

Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract]

We lease agricultural land and certain property, plant and equipment, including office facilities and refrigerated containers, under operating leases. We also enter into ship charter agreements for the transport of our fresh produce to markets worldwide using seven chartered refrigerated ships. The remaining terms for ship charter agreements range between one to three years. The aggregate minimum payments under all operating leases and ship charter agreements with initial terms of one year or more at December 28, 2018 are as follows (U.S. dollars in millions):



2019	$	64.2
2020	31.5
2021	22.5
2022	16.3
2023	15.3
Thereafter	69.2
	$	219.0

Total expense for all operating leases and ship charter agreements, including leases with initial terms of less than one year, amounted to $84.3 million for 2018, $92.1 million for 2017 and $96.4 million for 2016.

16. Commitments and Contingencies (continued)

We also have agreements to purchase the entire or partial production of certain products of our independent growers primarily in Guatemala, Costa Rica, Philippines, Ecuador, Chile, and Colombia that meet our quality standards. Total purchases under these agreements amounted to $763.9 million for 2018, $815.0 million for 2017 and $816.0 million for 2016.

In addition, during 2017 and 2018, we entered into a definitive agreement for the building of six new refrigerated container ships for $138.9 million to be delivered in 2020. The agreement requires payments of approximately $32.4 million in 2019, $85.8 million in 2020 and $20.7 million in 2021 for these six ships.