Brazil loses US$ 50 million in fruit exports since July

Brazil stopped shipping around US$ 50 million dollars in fruit in the second half of this year due to the increase in maritime freight and the container shortage affecting the global market. The estimate is by Luiz Roberto Barcelos, institutional director of ABAFRUTAS (the Brazilian association of fruit and derivative exporters) and partner at Agrícola Famosa, the country’s largest producer and exporter of melon, which was also affected.

Barcelos says that the problem affecting agribusiness exports is even more serious in the case of fruit and perishable products with weekly production and deliveries. “If there is no fruit this week, the consumer won’t buy twice as much fruit next week. It really is a lost sale.”

“In negotiations with buyers from the United Kingdom this year, we had to explain that Famosa’s production is far from the Amazon Forest and that we take many measures to protect the environment during production. But the subject does not scare the market that much when it comes to fruit production,” he added.

Guilherme Coelho, president of Abrafrutas,  agrees. According to him, the shortage of containers is creating a huge problem for exports from all countries, because the loaded ships are on the US-China route and, when there are suspicions of Covid in the port, they are parked in Chinese terminals for up to 22 days instead of the normal seven. “A freight that used to cost US$ 4,000 now costs no less than US$ 8,000. In addition, the pandemic has stopped the production of large ships in China and new ships are not expected to go into the water until 2023.”

Source: Globo Rural

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