DHL Global Forwarding, the freight specialist arm of Deutsche Post DHL Group, has opened its newest facility in Brisbane to meet the surging demand for Australian perishable goods export, with an investment of A$17m over ten years. read more

In a recent interview, Dr Babar Ijaz, person in charge of overseas projects, Shandong Rainbow Agricultural Technology Co., Ltd, stated: “Most of the potato seeds in Pakistan highly depend on imports, hence the price of local high-quality seeds is expensive, unaffordable for many low-income
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Carbon Robotics, a prominent player in the field of AI-powered robotics, has been named to Fast Company’s prestigious annual list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies for 2023. read more

Reefer floor covers enable fruit exporters to maintain the quality of their products, reduce food waste and have fewer financial losses due to claims during transportation read more

AMFRESH is one of the few family companies left in the sector. It has headquarters in both hemispheres and integrated companies dedicated to research and the production of varieties, such as Genesis Innovation Group for citrus fruits, pomegranates, kakis, and blueberries, as well as the SNFL
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Patatas Meléndez recently opened a brand new, fully automated plant in Valladolid, Spain. Deprez Construct, from Belgium, and Wyma, an international company, supplied most of the fully automated washing and sorting line. "It's a first for us, too, to have combined all automatic aspects in this
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The timely implementation of additional capacity and the installation of a massive on-site power generation capacity have enabled Hexkoel to maintain operations in the cold storage facility even with up to eight hours of power outage at a time. With a full capacity of 2.5 mio
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DHL Global Forwarding, the freight specialist arm of Deutsche Post DHL Group, opens its newest facility in Brisbane to meet the surging demand for Australian perishable goods export, with an investment of AU$17 million (11 million EUR) over ten years. read more

Trends in fresh produce processing change constantly, mainly because there are so many factors that drive innovation and new product development: consumer demand, market conditions, technological advances, and many more. However, certain longer-term patterns and trends remain. read more

Kuehne and Nagel said it closed the 2022 financial year with an “exceptionally strong result”, seeing growth in net turnover and earnings. read more

Albanian agricultural exports to the European Union reached a record €473m in 2022, according to the country’s agriculture minister, Frida Krifca. This represents an increase of 15.6 per cent in volume and 18.1 per cent in value compared to 2021. read more

After two years of virtual meetings, Chileprunes, the Association of Dried Plum Processors and Exporters of Chile, will be hosting a face-to-face event, in which the world of production, industry suppliers, logistics and export of dry plums meet in order to learn about new commercial and
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New data released by Hort Innovation has revealed the value of Australian horticulture grew in 2021/22 (12 months to 30 June 2022), maintaining a trend that has seen value grow A$6.15bn (US$4.14bn) in the last decade. read more

ldi, Asda, Co-op, Lidl GB, Marks and Spencer, Morrisons, Sainsbury’s, Tesco and Waitrose have joined forces to commit to a living wage for banana workers in their international supply chains. The nine major UK retailers are working collectively to close the living wage gap within their supply
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At the height of the pandemic, Ethan Rublee and his family left California's high-tech area Silicon Valley for a small plot of land in Watsonville, California, where they started a new life in farming. Inspired by his background in robotics and the local growers he met, Rublee soon set out to
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The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Agricultural Statistics Program is moving to new data sources to meet the demand for more timely agricultural statistics with greater regional detail. read more

To realize the administration’s food security targets, the Department of Agriculture-Agribusiness and Marketing Assistance Service (DA-AMAS) has announced it will secure direct transportation links between onion growers and buyers. The DA said this is part of efforts to improve the logistics
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Researchers have discovered how to advance mango trade in  Australia by using hot water treatment to meet market entry protocols for fruit fly disinfestation in Australian mangoes. read more

MSC CEO Soren Toft gave an overview of the company's ongoing development, economic recovery expectations, and attempts to achieve sustainable shipping, speaking at this year's Transpacific Maritime Conference, known as TPM23. read more

Sea-Intelligence has published issue 138 of the Global Liner Performance (GLP) report, with schedule reliability figures up to and including January 2023. As the report itself is quite comprehensive and covers schedule reliability across 34 different trade lanes and 60+ carriers, this press
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