Gangseo Market needs to re-examine watermelon pallet shipments.

Calls are growing for Seoul Metropolitan Agricultural Products Corporation to re-examine its policy of making pallet loading mandatory for watermelon shipments to Gangseo Wholesale Market. The distribution costs have not decreased, providing no benefits to producers or consumers, but instead increasing logistics costs and burdening shippers, and negatively impacting consumer prices. Starting April 1st this year, Gangseo Market implemented a full-scale policy of requiring watermelon shipments to be palletized under the guise of improving the logistics system. While this administrative measure appears to be a necessary policy for logistics efficiency, distributors argue that this is not the case. Analysis shows that the shipment process has increased with external sorting stations, and logistics costs have risen. Additionally, watermelon producers who lack the necessary manpower and equipment for pallet work have avoided Gangseo Market, leading to a contraction in watermelon ...