Danish shipping company Maersk has inaugurated a multi-country consolidation (MCC) center in Shanghai, enhancing the city's global shipping hub reputation. The center, located in the Lingang New Area of the Shanghai Free Trade Zone, began operations recently. The initial import containers hailed
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Konispoli tangerines are one of Albania’s emblematic fruits that appear on the international market at this time of the year. read more

Interko has announced advances to its Ultimo ripening rooms that ”reconfirm their position as the world’s most energy-efficient ripening solution”, while opening up the technology to the pre-cooling market. read more

Since the coronavirus-related record growth of 5.4% in 2020, the statisticians report that real turnover fell continuously in the following three years (2021: -1.6%; 2022: -4.6%). In contrast, nominal (not price-adjusted) turnover in 2023 was 5.9% higher than in 2022.
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The agricultural sector in Europe and in Spain is plunged into growing frustration and unease due to the difficult conditions and suffocating bureaucracy generated by EU regulations. "Farmers are struggling in the face of a deregulated market that imports agricultural products from outside the EU.
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In this edition, UNICA is the only Spanish company nominated for the prestigious Fruit Logistica Innovation Awards 2024. "This is the first time we have entered the 'Product' category. It is a stimulus for innovation, which is perhaps lacking in Spain", he explains.
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The range of new plant-based protein products continues to grow. The first plant-based piadina, La Supergreen, arrives in Italy. The limited edition is the result of a collaboration between the Swiss food-tech company Planted and La Piadineria, the first and largest chain
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MSC (the world's leading shipping company and winner of the Port of Valencia's northern expansion) has improved connectivity between South Africa (the main commercial competitor in the southern hemisphere of Valencian oranges) and Germany by including a direct stop in Bremerhaven in its current
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Maritime charter leaders are adjusting their services in response to Algeria's prohibition on transshipment via Moroccan ports for Algeria-bound goods. CMA-CGM has declared an immediate redirection of all cargoes intended for Oran, Mostaganem, and Ghazaouet in Algeria. These will now transit
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The high demand for goods following the exit from covid-19, the adjustment difficulties of global supply chains and the continuation of disparate measures across countries to combat post-financing surges, led to a sudden and sharp price spike, without
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The agricultural sector in Europe and in Spain is plunged into growing frustration and unease due to the difficult conditions and suffocating bureaucracy generated by EU regulations. "Farmers are struggling in the face of a deregulated market that imports agricultural products from outside the EU.
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China's Pagoda Industrial Group has launched the sale of its first batch of persimmons from Spain, following an easing of import regulations. The Spanish fresh produce supplier, The Natural Hand, has shipped the fruit to China, following the update of the Chinese customs list in the first half
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Grupo Alcoaxarquía's motto is 'We market what we produce'. They are present in Spain, Morocco, Peru and will soon announce expansion into another Latin American country, a "Caribbean" one. A new subsidiary that will allow them to offer a continuous supply of
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Inflation and the difficult international situation have led the country to close 2023 with a 0.33% drop in GDP and an average inflation rate of 5.9%. The Germans have entered recession. The unrest in the countryside has exploded, taking over the big cities and the capital as
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According to EastFruit, a lot of onions from Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, and possibly other Central Asian countries have appeared on the Polish wholesale markets in recent weeks. In most cases, traders name Uzbekistan as the country of origin of onions. However, some market participants
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Ginés García Benzal (Torre Pacheco, Murcia, 1961) speaks Polish, Czech, Serbo-Croatian, some Russian and of course English. Two years ago he returned from the East, from Eastern Europe, and now he can really say he lives in Murcia because he has been staying in the city for more than two days in a row. He

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Grupo Caliche has acquired a stake in EGD Logistics, a boutique logistics operator with operations in Spain and the UK. The operation will allow the company based in San Javier (Region of Murcia) to gain size, incorporate new services and strengthen its presence in Spain and the United Kingdom.
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On 11 and 12 January, the CIV (Consorzio Italiano Vivaisti) team participated in the 12th International Soft Fruit Conference, the most important international conference in the small fruit sector, held in `s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands.   read more

Work has recently started on the new Trops production centre in Tavira (Portugal). A new project that is part of the company's "natural development" in an area where they have many partners with increasing production. "Until now we had 4,000 m2 for
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Following record performances in 2023 in Italy, France, Ireland and Spain, with an overall growth of more than 20 per cent in Europe, Joya® apples are preparing for a new phase in their development in 2024, establishing themselves as the leading European origin brand in the third part of the
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