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Help delicate produce travel farther by sea

Crop-specific preservation and controlled cold-chain handling for leafy greens, berries and cut flowers. We assess each crop and route for longer marketable life and a viable ocean-freight option.

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Designed for longer journeys
A promising storage result starts a crop-and-route trial, with its conditions made clear.
Temperature set for each cropCut flowersRed leaf lettuceRaspberriesStrawberry
Could broccoli travel by sea?

Compare current air and sea quotes with the accepted grade of a trial lot on the proposed route.

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Evidence

A promising result, checked against the route.

We distinguish storage observations, internal trials and shipment records. A new export route needs a monitored lot and an agreed arrival standard.

See the conditions behind the results
Route assessmentPlanning steps
01 · Define the crop

Variety, maturity and pack

02 · Map the journey

Cooling, handling and transit

03 · Test the lot

Record conditions and arrival grade

04 · Check selling time

Follow quality after delivery

Results depend on the exact crop and route.
Illustrative shipment view
News report
40+days
Leafy greens in long-voyage shipboard storage
Internal trial
15days
Strawberries in a documented preservation trial
Company record
2023
Broccoli shipped by sea to the Middle East
Company history
2003
Historical preservation work in company materials
Sourcing network

Plan sourcing by crop and season

This map illustrates potential growing regions, harvest windows and export gateways. Supplier availability, season and route are confirmed for each enquiry; it is not live inventory.

Cropspecific sourcing checks
Routeand season verification
Qingdao portShanghai portShenzhen portNorth America →Russia · Far East →Southeast Asia →← GCC · Europe
Growing regionHarvest season
Illustrative combined windowJFMAMJJASOND
VegetablesFruitFlowersExport port
The problem

When shelf life limits your market, freight becomes the bottleneck

Short selling window

Leafy greens, berries and flowers can lose saleable quality before they reach distant shelves.

Air-freight cost

Air keeps transit short, but it raises the landed cost of every saleable kilo.

Arrival-quality risk

Without an agreed arrival standard, rejections and claims are hard to predict.

Route economics

Compare cost per saleable kilo

Sea freight may reduce transport cost for a crop that survives the journey. A useful comparison needs current quotes, packaging and handling charges, and the share of a tested lot that meets the buyer’s grade on arrival.

01

Current route quotes

Air and sea freight, inland moves, customs and destination handling.

02

Packing and quality

Pack costs, cooling, monitoring and accepted weight at delivery.

03

Time left to sell

The post-arrival window required by the buyer, not storage days alone.

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How it works

A preservation plan for the full journey

Preservation, packing and cold-chain execution are planned together — from harvest to the buyer’s shelf.

01

Assess the crop

Variety, harvest maturity, pack format and destination set the starting point.

02

Define the protocol

Pre-cooling, modified-atmosphere packaging, temperature and humidity are matched to the crop.

03

Protect the cold chain

Temperature is controlled and recorded through packing, loading, transit and every handoff.

04

Check arrival quality

Arrival is checked against the quality standard agreed before shipment.

Every product has a fixed shelf life. The journey spends part of it.
What’s left on arrival is the time your customers have to sell it.
Illustrative — set per crop and route
Day 0 · harvestTotal shelf lifeLast day it can be sold
Route fits
Plenty of selling time left
At origin
Harvest · cool · pack · load
Ocean transit
Cold chain at set temperature
At destination
Clearance · distribution
Time left to sell
Retail · wholesale · food service
Route doesn’t fit
Too little selling time left
At origin
Harvest · cool · pack · load
Longer ocean transit
Extra days at sea
At destination
Clearance · distribution

We only recommend a sea route when the time left to sell meets what your market needs.

Products

Built around the crops that need it most

We focus on products where preservation and handling can make the biggest difference.

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Red leaf lettuce

Leafy Greens & Herbs

Handling and preservation protocols built around the crop, pack format and destination.

SpinachLettuceA-choyCorianderMint
RaspberriesStrawberryCategory photo

Berries

Programs start with variety, harvest maturity, packing method and arrival-quality targets.

Strawberries · trial dataRaspberries · under validation
Cut flowersCategory photo

Cut Flowers

Colour, petal condition, stem quality and vase life guide every shipping plan.

Varieties on requestPrograms under validation
Other produce on requestBroccoli and other brassicas, root and bulb vegetables.See vegetables
Who it’s for

One cold chain, four ways to win

Every link from farm to shelf gets something different out of a sea route that works.

Reach markets that air freight priced you out of.
Crop-specific pre-cooling and MAP pack protocols
Route check before your first container
Arrival standard agreed with the buyer
Growers & packersNew markets, same harvest
Markets

Built for cross-border supply

Our planning focus includes Saudi Arabia and the wider Middle East, Russia, North America, Southeast Asia and Europe. Carrier schedules, crop fit and market access are verified for each proposal.

Planning focusSaudi Arabia & GCCSea transitCheck scheduleArrival portJeddah · DammamLeafy greensBroccoliBerriesCut flowersAssess a GCC routePlanning focusRussiaSea transitCheck scheduleArrival portVladivostokLeafy greensVegetablesFruitAssess a Russia route
Opening next

Routes are evaluated after crop, buyer and carrier details are confirmed.

North AmericaEntry route and schedule to confirmSoutheast AsiaEntry route and schedule to confirmEuropeEntry route and schedule to confirmSchedules and destination access are checked for each proposed route.
News & insights

Notes from the cold chain

AllNewsGuidesField reports
BroccoliGuide · FeaturedTonghai broccoli: what the sea dispatch showsA company presentation reports a November 2023 sea dispatch to the Middle East. Arrival grade was not supplied.Company record · scope noted
Field reportWhat a naval leafy-greens report showsPublic report · 2010NewsHow to read a shelf-life claimCrop-specific methodGuideWhat a 15-day strawberry trial showsInternal trial · 15 daysView all articles
Route assessment

Tell us the crop. We’ll assess the route.

Share your product, origin, destination and shipment volume. We’ll tell you what needs to be tested before an ocean program can be proposed.

1We review the crop, volume, origin and destination.
2We outline what needs testing on your route.
3We propose a preservation trial or export plan.
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Our team will review the crop, volume and destination, then contact you about the next step.

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