ORANGES

Demand proves strong for Australian citrus industry

Pictured: slices of oranges; credit: Alice Pasqual from Unsplash

Nathan Hancock, chief executive officer at industry association Citrus Australia, explains how COVID-19 has affected the citrus-growing and exporting industry in Australia. 

COVID-19 has proved disruptive to the Australian citrus industry this year but strong domestic and international demand for our world class fruit has provided a silver lining.

Seasonal workers

COVID-19 made an immediate impact, when Prime Minister Scott Morrison...

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FreightWaves Flashback 1961 – Orange juice cold chain flows from Port Canaveral to NY

The many industries that make up the world of freight have undergone tremendous change over the past several decades. Each Friday, FreightWaves explores the archives of American Shipper’s nearly 70-year-old collection of shipping and maritime publications to showcase interesting freight stories of long ago.

The following is an excerpt from the May 1961 edition of The Florida Journal of Commerce.

SS Tropicana is pipe-line from Canaveral to Gotham

When first conceived in the late 1800s, Port...

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Hapag-Lloyd penetrates attractive business

Hapag-Lloyd’s article:

Pakistan is the sixth-largest producer of (mandarin) oranges in the world, with 2.1 million tonnes of annual cultivation. The “Citrus reticulata” variety known popularly as Kinnow is the largest unique variety of citrus and is indigenous to this part of the world. According to one estimate, approximately 95 percent of all Kinnow in the world is grown in Pakistan.

The soil and climatic conditions in Pakistan have given the Kinnow a very unique flavour, which distinguishes it...

https://container-news.com/hapag-lloyd-penetrates-attractive-business/

China Railway Express delivers oranges to Europe

China Railway Express opened its first exclusive train for oranges Thursday (Nov. 8) afternoon, starting from Yichang, a city in central China’s Hubei Province, with Moscow as the destination.

According to local authorities, the train uses international standardized cold-chain containers, GPS service and remote control of humidity and temperature to ensure the fresh delivery of citruses during the 16-day trip.

The new line will enable the delivery time to be reduced by one-third to half of the...

http://container-news.com/china-railway-express-oranges-europe/