Monday, February 02, 2004

"The use of CA for transporting plums to the Far East from Chile has become the norm because transit times vary between 35-40 days. The CA technology is considered as an "insurance" for the fruit because it reduces the amount of claims and allows for the a

TransFRESH Corporation Chile manages over 85% of the CA market to the Far East moving almost 400 containers.

There are many different shipping lines offering the TransFRESH service out of Valparaiso and Santiago to the Far East with very competitive transit times and services. Carriers like P&O Nedlloyd, CCNI, Kien Hung, CSAV, Hamburg Sud, K-Line and TMM have seen the CA technology growing every season.

TransFRESH is offering "as part of their service" all the technical support and information related to the behavior of 23 different plum varieties, maximum transit times per variety and the optimum maturity stage of the product focused to obtain the maximum benefit from Controlled Atmosphere.