News / Chilean cherry exporters leverage new tech for rampant China exports

This season’s cherry shipments from Chile to China are going through the roof, as shippers use improved technology to control the ambient conditions to send much of their crop by ocean carriers.

Decofrut, a Santiago-based quality control service provider to the fruit business, has seen an 85% surge in cherry exports to China this season, which, typically, kicked off in late October and runs through January. By the end of December it had clocked up 96m cartons ...