De weg van de avocado
Groen fruit uit Kenia
Mombassa Port is the largest port eastern Africa. Maersk is the largest carrier in Africa. In Africa, we have a 35% market share of every container that goes in and out on the ocean. We are shipping beans, peas, carrots, broccoli, whatever it might be. When you look at the fruits the majority of that is the avocados. The avocado exports out of Kenya have been growing year on year significantly. Last year alone Maersk shipped half billion avocados from Kenya to Europe. 50% of that when to Holland actually. There's a lot of trees being painted, a lot of supply has to come to the market. Not only Kenya but Tanzania as well. So the future is looking bright. Het kweken van avocado's en het exporteren ervan heeft een enorme vlucht genomen. You can see now the younger fruits. What are your main export markets? Mostly in Europe, they will go to the Netherlands. Spain, Italy, some will go to the Middle East actually as well. Kenya is Africans best now in avocado export. So tells you how much volume we have compared for our neighbors and our African countries. How long does it take to Rotterdam, do know how how many days? 24, 28, depending. We enhance the shelf life and we delay ripening. So that by the time we have 30, 28 days or 24 days two transit time depending on the destination, the crops still arrives in good condition. And we make sure that we are within the optimals temperatures from here to the destination. We have a specialized container called a controlled atmosphere container which not only regulates the temperature, but it regulates the gas content as well, the carbon oxide, the oxygen. When it's exported to Europe, we bring it back into Kenya empty. We get it ready for the next shipment and then we deliver it to the farm, the cold storage pack house. Some of the bigger farms they have pack houses on their forms. We can deliver de container there and we can load directly from this.