OV Fruit should receive its first shipment of South African Williams Bon Chrétien pears tomorrow. "The season started slightly early, but due to port delays, they're only arriving this week," says Victor van Turenhout. This season, the Dutch importer boasts a comprehensive pear range from South
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Within the frame of the Suez Canal Authority’s keenness to open lines of communication with its clients, H.E. Admiral Ossama Rabiee, Chairman of the Suez Canal Authority, met today, Wednesday, with Mr. Soren Toft, CEO of the “MSC” Group, in the presence of Mr./ Tarek Fahmy, Chairman of the
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The Spanish orange and mandarin campaign is underway with fierce competition from third countries in this latter half of the season, especially from Egypt and Turkey. read more

The Cape Town Container Terminal recorded the highest number of refrigerated containers ever loaded on a single vessel at 1,726 when Vessel Santa Rita sailed off to Europe with South Africa’s deciduous fruit exports. The previous record was 1,711 in the year 2021. read more

In the Netherlands, the current price level is considerably hindering smooth potato sales. "The market is rather sluggish, both for exports and local sales," says Kees Schouten of Altena Potatoes. read more

The outer row of a Packham orchard in Wolseley was scorched during a recent fire, one of many fires across the Western Cape this season, but the damage was kept negligible by the efforts of the firefighters and regional fire associations, says Christo Strydom of Wolfpack. read more

At the Novorossiysk port in Russia, authorities have uncovered the presence of the Mediterranean fruit fly (Ceratitis capitata Wied.) in shipments of oranges, that arrived from Egypt. This discovery occurred during the quarantine phytosanitary control conducted by specialists from the Southern
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The ongoing crisis in the Red Sea has caused tremendous hardship for Egyptian citrus exporters. Not only has it cut them off from their markets in Asia, but it has also led to a fall in prices in European markets. Kareem Al-Shorbagy, Managing Director of Al-Kareem in Egypt, takes stock of the
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With two months to go before the start of the Egyptian grape harvest, it is becoming clearer which volumes and quality can be expected. Grape production consultant Salem Ghonim shares his thoughts on the development phase. read more

Kenyan avocado producer-exporter Kakuzi has announced continuing plans to bolster and enhance the firm’s Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) standards, while calling for sustained national compliance and branding to maintain global competitiveness. read more

The crisis in the Red Sea will have a big effect on the movement of citrus this season with some Northern Hemisphere countries finding it very challenging to get fruit to Asia. read more

Jordi Ametller, co-owner of the Catalan group Ametller Origen, said that "not only are Egyptian oranges sold at a lower price, but they are also introduced into the European market without having undergone the same checks as the foods produced on the continent." read more

In the underwater city of Heracleion near Alexandria, Egypt, divers recently discovered fruit baskets, more than 2,200 years old, with fruit still inside. This city, a key Mediterranean trade hub in the Hellenistic era, sank in the second century BC due to earthquakes and tidal waves. The
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Morocco restored its banana imports in 2023 after a significant slump in the previous year, reports EastFruit. By August 2023, Morocco has already imported more bananas than in the whole of 2022, when the global trade of this product faced a severe crisis due to natural disasters, adverse
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At Macfrut 2024 the great news of the Agrivoltaic Exhibition. Realised in partnership with KEY - The Energy Transition Expo, the IEG (Italian Exhibition Group) event of reference in Southern Europe, Africa and the Mediterranean basin on energy transition, the Exhibition puts
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Hexkoel, the cold store for a good quarter of South Africa’s grapes, describes itself as a co-op still, the way they started forty years ago. Today the Western Cape facility has become indispensable, cooling and storing three-quarters of the grapes coming from 250 packhouses in the Hex and
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The major service disruptions due to the round-of-Africa routing naturally leads to the question of how this has impacted deployed capacity. Using their Trade Capacity Outlook database, Sea Intelligence looked at the differences in offered capacity between the immediate pre-crisis and the
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According to EastFruit, Egypt broke its own record of table grape exports to the Saudi Arabian market in 2023, as it shipped more than the entire previous year in just the first 10 months. Saudi Arabia had become the top importer of grapes from Egypt in 2022, and it further consolidated its
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The World Apple and Pear Association (WAPA) has released the Southern Hemisphere apple and pear crop forecast for the upcoming season in Berlin. According to the forecast, which consolidates the data from Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Chile, New Zealand, and South Africa, apple production is set
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The Citrus Growers Association of Southern Africa (CGA) welcomes the announcement that a leading global liner shipping company, Hapag-Lloyd, is now offering its services in exporting citrus from the ports in Durban and Gqeberha. The new service will be active by the end of May, in time for the
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