Red Sea crisis: Fruit and vegetables from Italy are at risk with the change of routes

The extension of maritime transport routes towards the East puts the deliveries of perishable products such as fruit and vegetables at risk with the loss of important market shares which would then be difficult to recover. This is what Coldiretti states on the difficulties in navigation 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 amount to almost half a billion and are affected by an increase in transport costs estimated at ...