Egypt set to start seasonal exports of grapes via Port of Koper

seaborne mode, the  smooth relay (including paperwork) and the inland part, elaborating integrated door/door solutions. 3PLs in collaboration with ports, shipping lines and other cold chain players, construct through solutions from Egypt into Europe (mostly) and other countries worldwide. As a relevant Adriatic hub, the port of Koper plays a key role in this scenario. Koper is, in a way, the “gate for the Egyptian grapes into Europe”. Koper port community monitoring together with its “trouble-shooting-function”,  will be even more important this year. In fact, cited Slovenian port, like any other one worldwide, has been being severely challenged lately, given the global shortage of containers and the limited space availability on the ships. The schedule reliability has been improved rather recently, though all these issues are not well aligned with the higher sea freight costs that clients will be forced to pay. Anyhow, we all are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations. It is interesting to mention that Hapag Lloyd offers a service of 4 days transit time between Damietta and Koper. Luka Koper reports about its improved service level during the last months. Besides it, present season ZIM will start 21st of May an Alexandria to Koper direct and weekly service. Moreover this service will join others in the market (e.g. Sealand/2M). Table grapes is one of the most important fruit produced in Egypt, second only to citrus in terms of production quantities. Grape cultivation is spread geographically from Alexandria in the north to Aswan in the south, which – combined with the production of early and late ripening grapes – enables the prolonged availability of fresh table grapes in the market from May to July (core part) , though some few varieties reach even November. Source: Easy Fresh (Transporter of refrigerated fresh products)