Welcome to this week’s Seeka grower and stakeholder update on the latest Seeka and Industry news. Monday 21 June signalled the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year, while the days will get longer the coldest part of the year is yet to come. The South Island is about to have a polar blast while we continue to have the wet weather which so often interrupted harvest this year.
The teams are now focusing on kiwifruit inventory management. Fruit quality has been ok and offshore quality good. It is still early days and the team has just completed their first round of pressure testing. With the challenges from harvest we are generally cautious. So far so good but we are carefully watching the fruit to ensure we load the fruit out in the right order.
With strong Asian demand, there has been a late shipping schedule change the Baltic Pearl (originally a European scheduled vessel) to load in week 26 and discharge kiwifruit in Japan and China. This late change was possible as there is inventory coolstored in Europe shipped via the Advanced Movement mechanism. Europe is in a position where reducing a vessel out of the schedule will not impact on the market sales rates because the market has the flexibility of using the inventory that was shipped earlier in the season. With the supply chain disruptions in shipping this is an example of the benefit of having fruit stored in the market.
Operationally the loadout teams continue to work hard to supply to the ever changing shipping schedules. Seeka has now shipped 55% of the packed crop, with 15.7M trays in total remaining to ship.
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The kiwifruit growers After 5 meetings are scheduled to start on Monday 19 July, where the team are looking forward to catching up with you. Click here to view dates and register.
Kind regards
Michael
Seeka Key
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