Chile ends the 2011-2012 exporting season of shipped fruit with a 16% raise in the tons amount.
Between November 2011 and March 2012, a total of 695,271 tons were shipped from TPS, comparing to the 596,848 tons form the same period of the previous season. A rise of 16%.
In a note, the Pacific Terminal Valparaíso South stated that the rise occurred "despite the slow start of the season in November, due to weather conditions and low exchange currency rates. Shipments started recovering as the months passed, until reaching in February a 30% raise, compared to the same period last year.
Destination markets during this season were mainly Europe and the United States, that gather 70% of the total of shipped grapes. As for Europe, Chilean apples were close to the grapes as the main exported products.
The last shipment destined to the United States before the start of the marketing order (that sets new commercialization conditions and started on the 10 of April), happened in TPS by the 27 of March, when the ship "Atlantic Erica" from the company NYK Cool, departed bound for Los Angeles.
The general manager of TPS, Franceso Schiaffino, said that "this was quite an intense season as, apart from the raise in fruit we registered a strong raise in the cargo movements in containers. Between November 2011 and March of the present year we registered a 15% rise in the ships with fruit and an average over a thousand trucks driving daily in the port terminal, adding up to a record number of transferred containers".
The same way, the executive pointed that "with all this growth performance, we can pay special attention to the ships, without halts or holds of any kind", he ended.
Source: UPI
Between November 2011 and March 2012, a total of 695,271 tons were shipped from TPS, comparing to the 596,848 tons form the same period of the previous season. A rise of 16%.
In a note, the Pacific Terminal Valparaíso South stated that the rise occurred "despite the slow start of the season in November, due to weather conditions and low exchange currency rates. Shipments started recovering as the months passed, until reaching in February a 30% raise, compared to the same period last year.
Destination markets during this season were mainly Europe and the United States, that gather 70% of the total of shipped grapes. As for Europe, Chilean apples were close to the grapes as the main exported products.
The last shipment destined to the United States before the start of the marketing order (that sets new commercialization conditions and started on the 10 of April), happened in TPS by the 27 of March, when the ship "Atlantic Erica" from the company NYK Cool, departed bound for Los Angeles.
The general manager of TPS, Franceso Schiaffino, said that "this was quite an intense season as, apart from the raise in fruit we registered a strong raise in the cargo movements in containers. Between November 2011 and March of the present year we registered a 15% rise in the ships with fruit and an average over a thousand trucks driving daily in the port terminal, adding up to a record number of transferred containers".
The same way, the executive pointed that "with all this growth performance, we can pay special attention to the ships, without halts or holds of any kind", he ended.
Source: UPI