DP World handled 19.5 million TEUs across its global portfolio of container terminals in the first quarter of 2023, with gross container volumes increasing by 1.4% year-on-year. read more

There are still two days to go to book a meeting with the delegation of buyers and producers from Eastern Europe, mainly former USSR countries. The delegation includes 50 companies and is led by Evgeniya Kravchenko. read more

UK: Asda opens landmark 150th Asda On the Move convenience store read more

In the second instalment of the #freshtalks series, after talking about radicchios, we explore the cherry sector with Chiara Gaiardoni, saleswoman for La Grande Bellezza Italiana. They are located in Puglia and Piedmont, the two reference areas in the cherry sector that the
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On April 12, China’s Ministry of Commerce announced that it had opened an investigation into tariffs and other unilateral restrictions on 2,455 Chinese items banned by Taiwan, including agricultural products, textiles, minerals and petrochemicals. In doing so, Beijing is following the
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While the recent California rains have partly pushed back the start of the organic blueberry season in the state, that may just be a good thing. “We’re probably 10 days to two weeks away from getting started,” says Stephen Paul of Homegrown Organic Farms, noting color break is starting now
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Ukraine cannot avoid the influence of external factors on the cost of fruits in the country. This summer promises to be challenging for Ukrainian fruit consumers. As a result of Russia's occupation of parts of southern regions, Ukrainians have lost access to early vegetables, sweet cherries, and
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A cross between two species of the Vitis genus, Kyoho grapes are famous for their size, appearance, and exceptional flavor. As of 2017, the International Organization of Vine and Wine reported that the large, flavorful grapes were the most widely grown variety in the world — but since
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As this season’s first shipment of Zespri kiwifruit lands in Japan, Zespri has announced its expectations that the shipping environment will improve this year. Zespri will use 53 charter vessels to deliver around 72 million trays of New Zealand-grown Green, SunGold and RubyRed kiwifruit to
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Agroforestry Group has announced it is expanding its Musang King durian plantation in Johor, Malaysia, adding an additional 1,500 trees. read more

At one of the bases in the Yekaterinburg region of the Russian Federation, seven tons of kiwi infected with the mulberry shield were discovered. The insect came from kiwis imported from Iran. read more

Farmers from the village of Kunicha, one of the largest export-oriented berry clusters in Moldova, hope to maintain and even expand the supply of strawberries to Romania this year. In 2022, the berry producers of this village sent almost 300 tonnes of strawberries to the Romanian market, which
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On Tuesday, Saudi Arabia’s General Directorate of Narcotics Control (GDNC) announced it had foiled an attempt to smuggle over 12 million amphetamine pills. The GDNC thwarted an attempt to smuggle 12,729,000 tablets of amphetamine concealed in a shipment of pomegranate fruit passing through the
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A Queen Victoria Market (QVM) lobby group has made a submission to a federal parliamentary inquiry highlighting the importance community markets play in Melbourne’s food security. In their submission to be considered by a parliamentary inquiry that aims to strengthen and safeguard
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Indian mango exports to Europe are now slowly but surely gaining momentum. "Our conventional mangoes from our own contract farming are flown in exclusively, as the produce is too fragile to survive shipping. We usually offer our mangoes under our own brand "ASHLEY's Fruits and Vegetables" until
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The El Niño oceanographic phenomenon forecast to return in June 2023, following three years of La Niña. Dry weather conditions are expected in key cropping areas of Central America, Southern Africa and Far East Asia, while excessive rainfall and possible flooding are foreseen in Near East Asia
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Russia's occupation of southern Ukraine has disappointed Crimean officials who hoped to increase supplies of agricultural and other products to the occupied Crimea, the Rostov region, and other regions of Russia. However, their hopes did not materialize, and there are now significantly fewer
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A meeting of the Kazakhstan government, chaired by Prime Minister Alihan Smailov, was devoted to discussing a complex of measures to control and reduce inflation for 2023-2024. These measures include steps to increase the production of domestic products, control pricing, antitrust, and foreign
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The mango season in India has developed positively in April, says Yashwant Chakve Patil, director of Indian fruit exporter AA Reyach International: “Over the past month, the demand for our product has been huge. It’s great, as we also have a huge production capacity when it comes to the
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The first results are positive and encouraging, both nationally and in Trentino, from the classic biological control programme based on the use of insects to sustainably combat, by reducing the use of plant protection products, the Asian bug and Drosophila suzukii, two
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