This week, Ukraine discovered the possibility of exporting cherries to the People’s Republic of China. The starting commercial batch of berries flew on June 27 this year with a cargo plane from Boryspil.
On June 27, the first batch of cherries from Ukrainian producers went to China by cargo plane from the Borispol airport near Kiev.
This berry has become one of the latest projects of FF Cargo Service Ukraine LLC. Her initial batch weighing 2 tons, shipped to the PRC a few weeks earlier, can be called a trial one.
On June 27, a full-fledged consignment of sweet cherry weighing 10 tons was dispatched from Kiev, said Alexey Penkauskas, CEO of the company.
This morning, June 28, Ukrainian sweet cherries will arrive in China. She will arrive by Turkish Cargo, a division of Turkish Airlines' cargo transport.
It is planned to ship the same volumes of berries through the Borispol airport to China three times a week for three months.
According to Alexey Penkauskas, the supply of domestic sweet cherries from Ukraine to the People's Republic of China in 2019 was made for the first time. Before, the berry for the Chinese consumer was mainly supplied from countries such as Chile and Turkey.
