The event featured an academic congress, with technical conferences focused on areas such as productivity, quality, markets and exports around avocado, showing trends and advances in terms of sustainability, innovation and technology. There was also a series of AvoTalks by leading companies in
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GreenV is establishing GreenV Mexico and has appointed Mauricio Revah as Managing Director. Mauricio Revah explains: "There is no doubt about the importance and potential of the Mexican market. The main advantage for Mexican growers and investors is that GreenV Mexico combines the strength of
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Shipping bottlenecks experienced during the Covid shipping bubble brought much of the North American supply chain into disarray. “Capacity restraints and port slowdowns crippled the transpacific tradelane,” says Jane Colazzo with UWL. “It drove us to rethink the traditional carrier model,
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"After 35 years of trading mushrooms and 40 years of growing them, it's time to look to the future. I've decided to hand over my business to my brother Mari's three sons, Bart, Roy, and Mike. Bart will take care of logistics, planning, and some sales. Roy will be responsible for cultivation, and
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Air-freighted Chilean cherries arrived this week, and are very popular in the market. According to information from merchants, there are lots of buyers coming to check the fruits, but not purchasing many orders. The price of cherries continues to fall but is still higher than before. A 2.5kg
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The International Rootstock Symposium (IRS) makes its debut at Macfrut 2024 as part of an area entirely dedicated to genetic innovations in the rootstock sector. An international symposium with four in-depth seminars on the latest results of worldwide public and private research. Together with
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,Internationalisation, logistics, 24-hour services, sustainability and social relevance within and for the community are some of the challenges that wholesale markets will have to face in the years to come, as could be seen from the event 'Fresh is good. The role
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As far as digital payments are concerned, the key word is simplification: this is what emerged at the eighth edition of the Salone dei pagamenti, a convention that took place in Milan at the end of November and that focuses on all the innovations in the payments sector. As reported by
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The Agrion Foundation organised a meeting on 'Research and Innovation in Fruit Growing'. During the focus, held last Friday at the Foundation's headquarters in Manta (CN), crucial issues for the future of apple-growing were discussed; in particular innovation
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The UAE is set to invest up to $25 billion in various sectors in Pakistan, as indicated by recent multi-billion-dollar investment agreements signed during Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar's visit to the Gulf nation. The UAE Consul-General in Karachi, Dr. Bakheet Ateeq Al-Remeithi, highlighted
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The President of Assolombarda Alessandro Spada visited in recent days, together with Cesare Ferrero, President of Sogemi, the construction site of the new Milan Food Market 'Foody 2025'. After the inauguration in February 2023 of the first logistics platforms, it will be inaugurated
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Logistics researcher Andrew Morgan is embarking on an ambitious new project to understand how fresh produce supply chains are adapting to new trading environments and regulatory regimes post-Brexit. read more

Logistics researcher Andrew Morgan is embarking on an ambitious new project to understand how fresh produce supply chains are adapting to new trading environments and regulatory regimes post-Brexit. read more

There has also been an 11% increase in container throughput so far this year compared to the same period in 2022, mainly due to a 23% increase in exports of products from the fruit-growing regions of Pernambuco, Bahia, Ceará and Rio Grande do Norte.
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Costa Group’s mushroom operation Costa Mushrooms has harnessed the power of live supply chain data from Escavox to satisfy the cold chain specifications of the company’s supermarket customers and maintain trust with consumers. read more

At the International Table Grape Symposium commercial director of Capespan, Charl Dubois, told attendees that the port of Cape Town really challenging at the moment. read more

The new Bennet Sustainability Report has been published on the website (click here). The update, now in its fourth edition, reports on the actions taken in 2022 by the company to grow strategically and sustainably at the same time; read more

DP World, a global leader in end-to-end supply chain solutions, announces its first export operations at its new air cargo logistics hub in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. The new facility, which was announced earlier this year, enhances the Dominican Republic’s position as the largest trade
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A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S settled a Danish lawsuit against the companies behind a ship that blocked the Suez canal in 2021. The Ever Given was stuck for six days in March 2021. However, the event disrupted global shipping for months. Maersk controls about 15% of the world’s container fleet, while
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MeetingPack, the biennial meeting organised by AIMPLAS and AINIA that brings together the entire value chain of the agri-food barrier packaging, will count in its sixth edition with the participation of some thirty specialists who will analyse, around eight thematic blocks, the perspectives of the agri-food barrier packaging sector.
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