ONE growing fresh fruit
In the first of two new programmes, the container shipping alliance ONE worked with New Zealand avocado grower Avanza on CA reefer container exports for the full season running from September 2018 to January 2019. The avocado shipments were dispatched from the port of Tauranga, primarily bound for Japan and Korea.
In the second new development, ONE completed its first successful shipments of fresh mangoes from Peru to Korea using Daikin's Coolxtend CA+ solution. Similar to the New Zealand avocado exports, this tool enabled the valuable fresh mangoes to be transported by sea over very long distances by altering the atmosphere inside the container to put the produce ‘to sleep’ and ensure quality is maintained during a sea transit of more than 8,000 nautical miles. (kd)