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New set-up to promote rail transport for South African, Zimbabwean fruit

new from ProduceBusinessUK.com

To me it’s a no-brainer. If you can put the fruit into a 40ft reefer box that’s as close as possible to the tree, then you stand a much better chance of controlling the atmosphere inside and controlling the cold chain," says Andy Connell.

Fitting with this philosophy, the South African fruit industry veteran has been sending fruit by rail from the country's interior to its ports since 1998. 

Zooming in on Zimbabwe

New developments in rail container shipping have come at just the right time for growers in southern Zimbabwe, who also form part of the CGA. Connell explains that as of this year South Africa has had to give importers a re-export phytosanitary certificate for Zimbabwean fruit, while the Zimbabwean Government is now also requesting non-manipulation certificates from South African Revenue Services.

These are changes that make a multi-step re-export process all the more complicated.  "It's like when South Africa exports via Maputo (in Mozambique). If we go to Maputo on a specialised reefer vessel and we land it on the ground, they’re required to give us a non-manipulation certificate to prove it wasn’t beneficiated – all that comes at a cost," Connell says. "Suddenly with these two new requirements coming in, rail is starting to take on a new look for the Zimbabwean farms.

"Historically shipping lines would not allow their reefer containers into Zimbabwe because of the risk of them evaporating, however we put a plan together through citrus growers and myself that we can control that with merchant haulage that it won’t go deeper than 65km, and that’s all you need to go and it will return on the same day." He confirms the shipping lines have given this plan the green light.