Transnet met with deciduous fruit exporters to develop contingency plans to prevent its strike from ruining the upcoming grape and stonefruit seasons. | News24_Business
According to Francois Hugo of Pomona Fruit in Robertson, the Transnet strike has, so far, not yet impacted fruit exports too significantly, because it is the end of the citrus export season and the stone fruit season is only starting.
Now, exporters are worried about the threat posed by the strike. Eddy Kreukniet of growers' organisation Exsa Europe said it was a"good point" that the strike had caught the tail end of the citrus season, but raised concerns over the upcoming grape and stone fruit seasons. Kreukniet warned that the strike would be another burden for exporters to bear on top of high container prices and disruptions to power supply.
Sihlobo said South Africa also typically imports a range of food products in the fourth quarter of the year, with wheat, palm oil, rice, spirits, poultry meat, sunflower oil, and soybean oilcake making prominent appearances in South Africa's fourth quarter imports last year.
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