Italy: Red Sea crisis, 200 million euros of fruit and vegetables at risk

The extension of maritime transport routes towards the East puts at risk the deliveries of over 200 million kilos of fruit and vegetables, from apples to kiwis, shipped to Asia last year, with the loss of important market shares which would then be difficult to recover . This is what Coldiretti states in reference to Confartigianato's analysis of the navigation difficulties caused by the attacks of the Houthis of Yemen against ships in the Red Sea with the difficulties in maritime transport through the Suez Canal and the need to circumnavigate the African continent. A change that has caused the sharp increase in transport costs which on the Mediterranean - China route have practically quadrupled from the beginning of the year to today, while to get to India circumnavigating the African continent it takes more than forty days compared to twenty-eight through the Suez Strait. National exports of Made in Italy fruit and vegetables to the Middle East, India and South East Asia are now ...