Transnet to meet fruit industry to avoid devastating season

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Transnet will be meeting with representatives of the stone fruit industry as ongoing strike action poses a threat to the season:

The United National Transport Union and the South African Transport and Allied Workers Union have downed tools with unions demanding double-digit wage increases.Transnet maintains be mindful of compensation costs, though it has revised its offer to a maximum range of 4.5% to 5% across the board.

“The deciduous fruit season is expected to fully commence at the end of October 2022. Transnet is working closely with industry to ensure that the perishable products, along with other cargo with a limited shelf-life, are prioritised at the ports,” the Transnet statement said. “Not all these exports are facilitated through Transnet,” he told News24. “Still, the point is that the fourth quarter of each year is a high export activity quarter.”

According to a 2022 annual report by the Foreign Agriculture Service and the Global Agriculture Information Network, South Africa was set for a record pome fruit and table grape production in the marketing year 2021/22, but this could potentially be undermined by Russia’s military occupation in Ukraine.

 

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