Peru: Cargo transport stoppage has the cold rooms in the north at full capacity and forces the suspension of work in fields and processing plants

The road to the Port of Paita, in northern Peru, from where a good part of the grape and blueberry harvest leaves for international markets, has never been so clear. This is the clear sign of the strong crisis that the Peruvian fruit industry is facing: a strike by transporters that has no movement of trucks in full harvest of fruits that are key to the dynamism of Peruvian agro-exports. Redagricola Team In this complicated scenario, the general manager of Provid (Association of Table Grape Producers of Peru), Alejandro Cabrera said that this Friday most companies in the north stopped their harvesting work, "there are no more refrigerators to store their fruit ”. And he added that the cold rooms are full of cargo that has not been able to leave the packing plants since the day the strike began, last Tuesday the 22nd. In this way, he maintains, there is no possibility of transporting the containers to and from port. "Therefore, the fruit remains in cold storage waiting to be able ...