The UK’s apprenticeship system needs a radical overhaul to facilitate better staff training in the logistics sector, a new report argues. read more

A spin-out company from the University of Bristol has secured £500,000 to develop technology to help boost food production in commercial greenhouses. read more

Good fruit quality and lower freight costs have improved the fortunes of Uruguayan citrus exports this year. As the campaign draws to an end, Marta Bentancur of trade promotion agency Upefruy told Fruitnet that Uruguay’s final export volume would be similar than in 2022. read more

Lineage Logistics has announced it has partially closed a joint venture arrangement with Hanoi-based cold-storage warehouse operator SK Logistics. read more

A process that will see private sector involvement in the key South African rail network between Gauteng and the port of Durban has begun. read more

A host of partners have signed on to an ambitious new A$130m Australian horticulture trade initiative called the Fresh and Secure Trade Alliance (Fasta) with the aim of supercharging fresh produce exports. read more

Thanks to the strong connection with the market in which the UNITEC Group has been operating for 100 years, the Research & Development team has designed and developed a new, innovative solution to meet the requirements of the customer Sun Valley Packing, a leading American grower, packer and
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Rheinische Pilz-Zentrale GmbH has recently started using Reisopack 2905, the latest strapping system from Steenks. After a good decade, the mushroom cultivation and trading company decided to replace its predecessor model, the Reisopack 2901, for several reasons. In an interview, Rainer Hoegen
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The number of vessels waiting to cross the Panama Canal has reached 154, and slots for carriers to book passage are being reduced in an effort to manage congestion caused by ongoing drought conditions that have roiled the major shipping gateway since the spring. The current wait time to cross
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As Argentina’s 2023 citrus season is coming to an end, they have high demand in their main export markets, but due to the drought and many challenges they are unable to provide enough supply. “Due to the drought we as large packer could only use half of our pack house, but with the same
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Juan Tomás Cano, president of Cohorsan, was appointed in May as the new president of the Spanish Fruit and Vegetable Inter-branch Organization (Hortiespaña), taking over from Francisco Góngora. read more

A few years ago, it would seem impossible that Maersk will be in third place in the ranking of the world's largest container lines, but according to current data, this will be the reality of the industry in the next years. read more

Morocco has overtaken the Netherlands and Spain as the leading supplier of tomatoes to the UK. Also, Morocco has become the second-largest supplier of tomatoes to the EU, surpassing Italy. Experts suspect that the Netherlands will regain its production capacity and level of competitiveness next
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The "visa crisis" continues to be a serious hindrance to Moroccan citizens wishing to travel to Europe. A few months ago, intercontinental road carriers were complaining about the difficulty of obtaining visas for truck drivers, which was hampering agricultural exports. Today, the crisis is
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Precision pollination specialist BeeHero has today introduced its Pollination Insight Platform (PIP), an in-field sensing solution that measures pollinator activity in crops to improve pollination and increase yields. read more

Chile’s Chamber of Deputies has approved the project that modifies the country’s irrigation law to support small and medium-sized agriculture, communities and irrigation organisations, helping to promote fairer rural development. The law is also intended to foster greater sustainability
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Tong Engineering has unveiled a compact 1800mm wide version of its FieldLoad PRO fieldloading machine. read more

Fresh Del Monte Produce and software platform and distribution network Flowspace have announced a partnership to add 30 of Tricont Logistics’ temperature-controlled storage facilities to the Flowspace network of more than 100 fulfilment centres. read more

In July, Freshfel Europe’s General Delegate Philippe Binard took part in a European Parliament hearing on the Sustainable Use Regulation (SUR) in which he underlined the importance of the economic sustainability of the supply chain and the safeguarding of the productivity and competitiveness
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