Carlos Chuit, the director of Portar, stated that "Last week we shipped the first three containers with more than 20 tons of lemons per container, and expectations are very promising." "The shipment departed from Porting. The containers were checked by customs in Portar and were sent to the port where they were loaded in a ship of Hamburg Süd that stopped in Brazil with final destination to Europe," he added.
This traditional cargo from the port of Rosario, which is also its natural terminal because of its logistics advantages for such loads in northern Argentina, had not been shipped through said terminal in the last 8 years. The main reason shipments of this citrus were stopped was the lack of regularity in traffic, the high union conflicts, and the infrastructure problems the port used to have. Things have changed and the three main shipping companies (Hamburg Süd, Maersk, and MSC) have regular departures, thereby ensuring social peace, operating know how, and infrastructure.
With this new scheme, JAS-the forwarder got his clients (about 8 citrus producers in northern Argentina) to approve shipments from the Port of Rosario, which is more competitive than the terminals in Buenos Aires. Estudio Sosa was the customs agent that was involved in the shipment.
"The first containers of the eight customers that JAS has just departed. Each of these customers moves between 1,500 to 1,800 containers per year, so expectations are there will be a very important increase in shipments," noted Chuit. "They are also negotiating with the industry's largest company," he added.
Citrus exports have reactivated following the Argentine government's decision to remove the 5% withholding they used to have. In addition, negotiations so that these products can also be exported to the US have also advanced after the visit that Barack Obama made to the country.
Source: Biz Point