New shipping record for Zespri

In a New Zealand kiwifruit industry first, 160 refrigerated containers, containing 832,000 trays of ZESPRI® Kiwifruit, have been loaded and delivered to the Port of Tauranga for export in a 12-hour period.

This new shipping record for the industry meant that over the 12-hour period on Saturday, 4 June a container was loaded with kiwifruit every four-and-a-half minutes.

“The industry made the most of the fine days and really worked hard to get the fruit picked when the weather allowed it. This means we have now almost finished picking ZESPRI® GOLD Kiwifruit and are 85 % through the harvest of ZESPRI® GREEN kiwifruit,” Ms Gardiner said.

During the 2011 season ZESPRI will fill 63 chartered vessels as well as a further 7000 containers with over 100 million trays of New Zealand kiwifruit to be shipped to 55 countries around the world.

source : zespri