{"id":23902,"date":"2025-12-01T09:10:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T09:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.selinawamucii.com\/news\/?p=23902"},"modified":"2025-12-01T09:17:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T09:17:14","slug":"lush-strawberry-harvest-in-egypt-overflows-into-charter-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.selinawamucii.com\/news\/2025\/12\/01\/lush-strawberry-harvest-in-egypt-overflows-into-charter-flights\/","title":{"rendered":"Lush strawberry harvest in Egypt overflows into charter flights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It\u2019s strawberry harvest season in Egypt, whose start a fortnight earlier in November has occasioned glut and prompted additional fresh cargo flights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some traders have cited that their production in 2025 has increased by 50% year-on-year, pressuring market prices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The surplus is headed for Europe – and Egypt is turning to extra charter flights and extending traditional carriers to meet high demand there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to\u00a0Iaqaba<\/u><\/a>\u00a0news, the Hahn airport in Germany is helping transit the pouring in excess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although Egypt leads worldwide frozen strawberry shipments that clock above 200,000 tonnes yearly, it resorts to them only after exhausting fresh exports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thus the current concern of growers is to ship the fresh portion of their harvest as soon as possible to reduce perishability losses. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sellers, Charters and Buyers  <\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Producers count on the adrenaline rush of freighters regularly flying out of the country for \u00a0expeditious dispatch of their produce.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iaqaba cites that the industry has contracted AirMaster to expand the flights departing Cairo to Hahn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each Boeing 737-800BCF aircraft from Cairo en route Hahn is fetching 22,000 kg of the perishable cargo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some 60% of fresh strawberries that arrive here end up in Germany\u2019s grocers such as Rewe, while the rest penetrate regional European markets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Egyptair Cargo is also adding its Airbus 330F fleet to the tally for biweekly flights to Hahn and Ostend (Belgium) airports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Owing to such booming business from strawberry and other freight, national cargo flights had amassed a market value of $958.2 million in 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buyers of this fresh cargo include DHL Food Logistics, alongside Belgian Tulpin Group that operate in Germany and Belgium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The two supply Western Europe\u2019s wholesale stores, a distribution method that promotes stable handling of early season rush hour arrivals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For now, producers are concentrating on fresh exports before later switching to\u00a0individually quick-frozen<\/u><\/a>\u00a0(IQF) shipments when\u00a0strawberry prices\u00a0<\/u><\/a>reduce. And as the following stats reveal, frozen berries have more markets for Egypt than those from the fresh harvest.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Egypt Strawberry <\/strong>Statistics <\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Egypt is Africa\u2019s strawberry production leader and the 5th<\/sup> biggest globally, with harvest volumes totaling over 470,913 tonnes<\/u><\/a> annually. The country manages a harvest equal to 5%<\/u><\/a> of worldwide production, as of 2020. All this is thanks to the introduction of the UF\/IFAS cultivars in end 1990s. These varieties helped raise yield rates from 5 to 8 tonnes an acre to over 10-15 tonnes<\/u><\/a>\/acre. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The figure below interpreted from the FAOSTAT<\/u><\/a> illustrates a four-year national production history:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Year<\/strong><\/td>Production [tonnes]<\/strong><\/td>Acreage [Ha]<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
2023<\/td>731,145<\/td>21,033<\/td><\/tr>
2022<\/td>689,013<\/td>19,236<\/td><\/tr>
2021<\/td>663,659<\/td>17,164<\/td><\/tr>
2020<\/td>438,730<\/td>11,850<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>
Fig:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong>Strawberry production in Egypt, 2020-23<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Alternative data by the Ministry of Trade & Industry, General Organization for Export and Import Control (GOEIC) shows registered acreage at 40,000 acres <\/u><\/a>(2022).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where does Egypt export strawberries?<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2023, Egypt exported strawberries to 75 nations<\/u><\/a> in frozen form and 55 others in fresh condition. Most of the recipients are in Europe (especially France, Germany, UK and Belgium), while the rest in the Middle East\/Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How big are Egypt\u2019s frozen strawberry shipments?<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The North African country however leads in frozen strawberry shipments totaling 200,000 tonnes<\/u><\/a>, worth $0.4 billion. This sale represents between 1\/2 and 1\/3rd<\/sup> of annual production, depending on particular years. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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