The first ship to the mainland campaign up more than one million kilos of tomatoes.

The ship left last Thursday from the La Luz and Las Palmas docks with a load of 1.400 pales.

With this first shipment of tomatoes using field vessels hired in the international market, FEDEX and ACETO start the harvest 2014/2015 hoping to reach the same figure as last season and that the market offers stability and good prices.

For now, It is still too early to assess the effect that the Russian veto will have on Canarian productions, especially when the shadow of the conflict between the EU, EE. UU. and Japan versus Russia, is only affecting the first.

As volume increases and supply increases, It will be time to measure the possible impact and study the compensation formulas with the mechanisms that have been articulated from the European Union itself.

For now, the condition of the fruit that has started to be shipped is excellent, counting on very good quality and the sizes that customers have been demanding since mid-October.. It should be remembered that due to the failure of the administrations with the sector, this campaign started a month later than usual.

This fact has conditioned the present harvest to the point of qualifying it as the ‘harvest of uncertainty’, both for its atypical beginning and for the skepticism that hovers over its continuity, if the administrations do not comply with the agreed agreements.

Sixteen are the companies of Gran Canaria, Tenerife and Fuerteventura that will try to reach the 82,7 million kilos with which they closed the previous campaign, and of which two companies in Gran Canaria that have not been able to overcome the crisis that hit the sector have caused, mainly, to breaches of administrations.

With 135 meters in length, The Nagato Reefer ship left last Thursday from the ports of La Luz and Las Palmas with a contingent of more than one million kilos, that have arrived this morning at the port of Southampton to unload the rest in the port of Rotterdam tomorrow.