Agroponiente, a company that produces and markets fruits and vegetables, has signed an agreement with Chep to use blue reusable pallets in their exports to Eastern Europe. Agroponiente previously employed white pallet exchange systems, which generated them significant logistical inefficiencies.
In the words of Antonio Escobar, CEO of Agroponiente, "Chep's pallet pooling system is a key logistics solution to streamline operations within the fruit and vegetable sector. We have been working with Chep for several years in the Spanish market and more recently, we have opted to also develop our international relationship. The distribution channels of Central Europe, our customers, are accustomed to the pallet pool and prefer this type of system against other alternatives."
"We're always on the lookout for innovative projects. Since its inception, our company has been at the forefront of most of the agricultural advances in Spain and Europe, and our philosophy continues to lead the way we understand the business. In this sense, Chep's service and the good work fits perfectly with our business culture," he concludes.
Agroponiente, based in Almería, and with more than 25 years production, marketing and exporting experience to almost all European markets of Spanish fruits and vegetables, has been exporting to the Baltic region for several years and considered Chep's recent expansion into seven new countries in Central and Eastern Europe a key step.
The fruit and vegetable company was already using 50,000 blue Chep pallets for their exports to Germany and now it will also use them for their operations in Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia and Serbia, in the Balkans, and in the three Baltic countries, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
Source: logistica.cdecomunicacion.es
