Expanding the Transportation Channels for Imported Fruits in China: Diverse Types of Fruit Baskets for the People Special Line | Imported Fruits | Transportation
CCTV News: Since the beginning of this year, more and more imported fruits have arrived in China through sea and air dedicated lines, which not only enriches the "fruit basket" of the people, but also improves transportation efficiency and reduces transportation costs. Many places are actively expanding imported fruit dedicated lines. Recently, Dongguan Port in Guangdong welcomed its first imported fruit refrigerated ship.
At Dongguan Port in Guangdong Province, a New Zealand direct refrigerated ship loaded with over 4300 tons of kiwifruit is slowly approaching the port.
It is understood that replacing scattered refrigerated containers with refrigerated ships for transporting fruits not only reduces transportation time by half, but also significantly reduces transportation costs. This has made refrigerated ships the latest mode of fruit transportation, with Shanghai, Taizhou in Zhejiang, and Dongguan in Guangdong being the main ports of call for refrigerated ships.
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The import fruit dedicated lines at airport ports are also continuously increasing, with two new Philippine fruit dedicated lines added this year at Shenzhen airport ports alone. A large number of tropical fruits such as mangosteen, durian, and red peony from Southeast Asia are loaded, unloaded, inspected here, and transported to Guangzhou, Guangdong, Gaobeidian, Hebei, and other places.
Expanding the transportation channels for imported fruits and offering consumers a wide variety of choices
The joint efforts of sea and air transportation have increased the quantity and variety of imported fruits, providing consumers with more choices. Let's continue to watch the reporter's interview in Beijing.
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In the imported fruit section of a fresh supermarket in Beijing, several consumers are selecting Thai durians.
At present, one-third of the fruits in this supermarket come from imports, including durian, green tea, pineapple, kiwifruit, etc. The operator said that durian in Thailand and kiwifruit in New Zealand currently have the best sales.
At the International Fruit Trading Area of Beijing Xinfadi Agricultural Products Wholesale Market, Zhao Xinwen, who has been operating imported fruits for more than 20 years, is directing workers to unload newly arrived Thai durians. He said that with the continuous increase of domestic imported fruit dedicated lines, his sales of imported fruits have expanded from several varieties such as snake fruit and red grapes in earlier years to more than 30 varieties such as ruby pomelo and avocado now. The richness of varieties has also expanded his sales channels.
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