Logistics improvements tested as Chile ships greater volumes of stone fruit
Chilean stone fruit has just begun shipping to the U.S. via vessel a couple of weeks ago. “The season was seven to 10 days early this year. We started receiving early shipments in the last week of November but about four weeks ago, we started receiving fruit by vessel,” says Franco Pruzzo of Summit Produce Inc.
So far, supplies of stone fruit have been good. “It has been a
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