End of the campaign for the expedition of kiwis in Nouvelle-Zélande

Zespri announced that part of the last volumes of the kiwifruit harvest left the port of Tauranga bound for Tokyo and Kobe in Japan. The vessel, containing 158 tonnes of Zespri SunGold kiwifruit and 2,231 tonnes of Zespri Green kiwifruit, is expected to reach Tokyo by the end of the month. The last expeditions of the season due to end in the next few weeks.

 

In total, Zespri used 4 chartered vessels to Northern Europe, 8 to the Mediterranean, 4 to the west coast of North America and 41 to Asia, as well as nearly 17,000 reefer containers to ship more than 160 million trays of Zespri kiwifruit grown in New Zealand.

 

This season has been complicated and difficult, according to Alastair Hulbert, Zespri's Global Sourcing Director. With container shortages and closures or congestion of a number of ports, but the efforts of the whole industry, the support of partners and the new maritime routes put in place have made it possible to avoid a large part of these problems.