FROM NOW ON, FRUIT SHIPMENTS WILL BE MADE IN CONVENTIONAL TRANSPORTATION.

COAGRISÁN is the only tomato exporting company in the Canary Islands that continues to send fruit to the continent to fulfill the commitments made to its customers.. However, This remaining month of their harvest will involve a mess of quadrants, not being able to carry out transport on the vessels contracted by Fedex – Vinegar.

 

The ship “Cold Nagato”, one of three hired for the campaign 2012/2013, Sails to the ports of Rotterdam and Southampton with almost a thousand pallets of La Aldea tomatoes. This will be the last shipment that is made using these ships since, as there are no more producing companies exporting, Fedex – Aceto cannot cope with the extra cost of single shipments.

The only alternative that COAGRISÁN has left to continue with its shipments is through conventional transportation., i.e., Canary Islands regular lines – Cádiz and Mediterranean corridor, or ships of opportunity, those whose route passes through the Canary Islands to European ports and have some space.

The general director of COAGRISÁN, Jacinto Godoy, explains that this situation is the most complex of the entire campaign. Dispatch a significant volume of production using means of transport that do not adapt to our needs, frequencies above all as well as the logistics of the cold, becomes an added problem of very difficult fit.

Godoy indicates that the cooperative will continue sending tomatoes to the continent for approximately one more month. For us it is vital to fulfill our commitments to our clients with whom we have firm contracts until the end of June., so not doing them due to transportation problems could mean a significant blow., Jacinto Godoy points out.

This circumstance is what tomato exporting entities have been defending., FedEx and balsamic, in the dispute they maintain with the administration for the request for reimbursement of transportation compensation for the year 2002, and that already has a contrary ruling.

Exporters confirm that the use of conventional transport does not guarantee, in no way, shipment fulfillment. And FedEx – Aceto would not have made the decision to hire field ships, export activity would have disappeared many years ago, declare from both entities.

And they add, If justice does not want to understand this situation and insists, like the administration, on the indefensible thesis, They will be evicting a sector that has been suffering setbacks everywhere during the last decade.

The requiem o to salvation of this sector, more than 125 years of history, pioneer in the export of the Canary Islands, generator of wealth and employment, It is now in the hands of the Administration and Justice.