As the Red Sea crisis continues to take its toll on international exporters, the Egyptian orange campaign faces the competition from Morocco and Türkiye.
According to Mohammed Fooadco-founder of the company EgyFarm, this season there are “better prospects” in Egypt than in 2023. In statements to the media confirms that “we have been able to avoid excess volumes at the national level”, which means “a great relief“.
The publication recalls that “the excessive volumes of last season, together with the difficulty in reaching Asian marketshad pushed exporters to liquidate their oranges without taking much into account prices. Therefore, “the decrease in density in 2014 has helped producers obtain larger sizes.”
“The lower density in the trees has given us a better caliber distribution and better conditions in classification and quality control,” says the Egyptian businessman, who also celebrates that “this will encourage many buyers, especially from Spainto import oranges from Egypt and then distribute them to the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
However, he regrets that the season “it’s taking a while to gain speed“, since distributors in the African country “expect their competitors to exhaust their volumes.” “Right now we face tough competition from Morocco and Türkiyewhich have a clear logistical advantage, since they can work faster transporting and distributing to Europe and Russia.”
Regarding the Asian markets, the orange distributor believes that “logistical complications remain“. “The Red Sea crisis is still with us and will make the difference between Egyptian exporters based on their ingenuity. At EgyFarm we have created an advisory team to make the best possible decisions.” In this case, he concludes that they intervene “in parameters related to the choice of insurance companies, or diverting our shipments through European ports“.
