Food such as grapes, citrus, and grain may be shipped to more overseas markets this year due to a drop in global sea freight rates.
abc.net.au/news/freight-rates-falling-boom-australian-producers-exporters/101965600Table grapes from Western Australia will be carefully packed into shipping containers and exported to China over the coming weeks, with improved global shipping container rates and transit times a welcome benefit at harvest time for grape growers.
Due to COVID-related ports congestion, sky-high shipping costs, and a shortage of containers, exporters of commodities including grain, fruit, vegetables, and meat have struggled to get product to markets over the past two years.In the Swan Valley near Perth, grape picking is underway while WA's largest table grape grower Fruitico has begun its harvest operations in the south of WA.
"We'll also be shipping some Celebration, our red seedless variety, to the east coast, and supplying our domestic customers in Perth." "We do need to get a lot of this product offshore. It's in demand, our brand is well known in Asia. We just hope we can get it through the system and it all flows nicely," Mr Fahl said.
"If [fruit] is held up there we pull it back to the farm and hold it here or move it to another market."Harvest is some months away for WA's citrus growers, but Joseph Ling from Moora-based AgriFresh said reduced container rates could allow the company to reinvigorate trade into pre-COVID markets such as the Middle East, Vietnam, and Indonesia.
Premium Grains manager John Orr exports grains in containers out of WA and expected global freight rates to drop, but agreed they were "not nearly" down to pre COVID levels.
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