This last season, we focused on optimising logistics at origin, maritime, and destination. We managed to be the only operators with depot, pre-stacking, and train solutions in the heart of the cherry-producing region, the fastest and most stable shipping service in the industry, and also unloading services at the destination that allowed us to reach the sales market in a few hours.
BenjamÃn Vicuña
Cold Chain Product Manager, West Coast South America at Maersk
For the Chilean cherries, the cold chain starts in Teno, the heart of Chile’s cherry production region. The cherries are carefully handled as they move from orchards to local packing houses, where they are cleaned, sorted and packaged. Maersk reefers filled with cherry boxes are transported over land by rail or truck to the San Antonio port and loaded onto an Ocean Cherry Express vessel. The transit is only 21 days to China – the fastest in the industry – with zero deviation in ETA.
The Fresh Pass team carefully pre-planned each link in the cold chain to ensure a seamless end-to-end journey. This specialised Maersk service for reefer customers features expert container logistics coordination, including booking and documentation for all parties to a perishables shipment.
All along the way, Maersk’s RCM (Remote Container Management) digital monitoring, along with Captain Peter’s data reporting, provides visibility to the conditions inside these reefers. Temperature, humidity, atmosphere and GPS location are tracked to determine product quality throughout the end-to-end process.
At their destination in China, the Maersk Customs House Brokerage team quickly clears the shipments, enabling them to move to the Port of Nansha, within 3 hours, for unloading and then off to market. These beautiful cherries will be an integral part of Chinese New Year celebrations and in the market to enjoy on other days too. Fresh, festive and delicious cherry festivities for all!
During the 2022-2023 season, approximately 70 million cardboard boxes, each with 5 kilos of cherries, in about 3,500 reefer containers, were successfully transported in peak condition. Clearly indicating that Maersk’s integrated, farm-to-table Cherry Express cold chain solution is the optimal, high-performance solution for next year’s cherry harvest.
Potential new offers for next season include getting to new markets connecting in China, and Air Product.
Follow the Cherry Express: Bringing the freshest cherries from Chile to China, learn how cherries make their way from Chilean orchards to Chinese store shelves, a journey that requires a reliable cold chain solution.
Come see us at The Global Cherry Summit: The Leading event of the cherry industry in the world.
We look forward to seeing you on 20 April 2023 at the leading cherry industry event in the world, The Global Cherry Summit, held at the Monticello Conference Center, San Francisco de Mostazal, Chile. In 2022, Over 900 exporters, importers, retailers, researchers, consultants, and others attended The Global Cherry Summit.
Our Maersk team is looking forward to seeing you at the main event. Visit us in Booth #47 and feel free to book a meeting with our teams’ representatives:
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