Cargolite ® , the innovational packaging concept for impertinent - cut flowers , which has hit quite a lot of popularity in Kenya , is now expire outside . From January 2022 , it is also full available to Ecuadorian growers and will soon be uncommitted in Colombia as well .
Cargolite XL
Proven resilience to crushing , an increased pack rate , and built-in pile ability with depleted merchant vessels price are only some of the benefit that call on the Cargolite conception into a winning organization and make it the optimized resolution for the ever - increasing shipping costs and lack of air distance , explains John Kowarsky , Cargolite ’s chief operating officer . " The office regarding airfreight space has become more pressing for the farms and client . It seems that airway are reduce the availability of flights , and therefore it has become more important today to rule ways to increase the amount of flowers in the space uncommitted , and this is what we do at Cargolite : we make it all more efficient and cost - efficacious . "
XL Kraft packing Ecuador
How it ’s done?Every Cargolite box seat has a patented frame . The skeleton , consisting of two skeletal frame made of plastic or cartonful , reinforces the structure of the boxful . This room , the load of the cartons above is plump for by the frames and not by the carton wall or the flowers . The frames are designed to deduct a weight of up to 1000Kg . " In brusk , the packing materials now librate considerably less than what is being used today ! "
" In other word of honor , " say Amnon Zamir , R&D coach for Cargolite , " the box seat do not mash , so we do not need the toilsome wrapping around the crew to protect them . remove the wrapping , such as " SFK " in Kenya and " Lamina and separators " in Ecuador , and replacing them with softer alternative allows for more space in the carton . This way , we can compact more flowers and hold open on airfreight by packing more stem in the loudness of the box , and the farm , we can also save on packaging materials . This way , both the AWB payer and the farm save a lot . "
XL Ecuadorian backpacking
to the full available in EcuadorIn 2021 , the Cargolite concept was extensively tried in Ecuador , and since January 2022 , it is in full commercial and available to local farms and international guest bribe in Ecuador . The first guest to accommodate the organization in Ecuador was Agrotropic , a Swiss buyer who also uses the Cargolite box for exports from Kenya . Agrotropic were able to well reduce their airfreight cost , and furthermore , the farm were themselves capable to save up to 1,5 cents per stem on packaging materials . This was achieve without compromising the quality of the heyday .
Recently a go - down was set up in Tabacundo , Ecuador , which append farm between Cayambe and Cotopaxi areas . Cargolite also team up with the High Control Group to supervise and check the quality of initiation , visitation , and dispatch from Ecuador . Amnon , who has just render from Ecuador , said : " After Expo Flores in Quito last month , we visited a lot of farm , and there has been a with child interest in the concept . After a few farm visit , the worldwide reaction from the farm managers to the potential savings was one of shock , surprise , and disbelief ! The Pack rate grew by 9%-30 % , and now , it is up to us to keep an eye on up and show them how it works . "
Sea cargo pallets load
Sea freightThe lack of melody space and the arise toll are pushing exporter to consider the sea freight option with mature interest . Colombian and Ecuadorian exporters have been using ocean loading to export to the US , but for the Kenyan flower manufacture , it is still a challenge , especially because of the four weeks it take ships to cross the distance to Europe . Kuehne and Nagel , and Maersk have been shipping full containers for over a yr now , but the chief vault remains sustain the correct temperature of the blossom firm during the whole journey .
Since June this year , Cargolite has been participating in the sea shipment test , " The answer look very promising , " say Kowarsky , " The temperatures in the Cargolite boxes stayed stable because of the inherent ventilation in the Cargolite organization . The frame of the sea payload loge are international , so when the boxes are placed next to each other on the brake shoe , a blank is shape between the boxes that give up for the air flow to circulate from the bottom upwards , this way each corner in the container is exposed to air flow from its four sides and keep the temperature stable during the whole trip-up . So far , we have been exporting our ocean freight box successfully to Holland and the UK , where our boxes are tested for a large supermarket Sir Ernst Boris Chain . In Holland , the unpackers confirmed that there was no acute difference between the flowers sent in Cargolite boxwood and the same heyday arriving by air travel . "
Sea Freight
Partnership with FlowerWatchTo further improve our performance in sea cargo , adds kowarsky , Cargolite has now partner with FlowerWatch , and together with leading party in the industry , we are work on towards an efficient and sustainable supply chain . " FlowerWatch is also very much demand with other basal stakeholders in Kenya , and together , these partnerships will enable good consequence when shipping tailor peak in reefers .
exposit grocery and increase rangeWhen looking at the future tense , there are a lot of plans in the pipeline . Within the year , Cargolite is looking to take up supply growers in Colombia . However , change in the Cargolite cartonful seems to be require . " The growers are interested about the sizing of the cartonful . Currently , we apply quite large cartonful , but some markets require small selling social unit . "
This was also require when open up the mart to exporter from South Africa , said Amnon . " We are always aware while recrudesce Modern items to adapt our products to the pauperization of the markets . We will exhibit the smaller cartons at our kiosk in IFTF ( D1- 38 ) . "
Cargolite go down at JKIA
Improved logistics at JKIACargolite has also recently opened a new build go down in cooperation with Signion in the load village at JKIA . " It is very commodious , says Martin Kabaka , Cargolite sales manager in Kenya , now after offload boxes of flowers at the forwarders , the raiser can place their truck to foot up Cargolite promotion materials at the airport alternatively of trade in the engorged roads of Nairobi ’s industrial area . It carry through a bunch of time , and everything runs more efficiently " .
deal booth with Afrex at IFTFCargolite will be displaying their construct at IFTF 2022 from November 9 - 11 in Vijfhuizen , the Netherlands . They will partake their kiosk , number D1 - 38 , with Afrex of South Africa and Kenya , who will be display Cape botany flowers and decorative edible blossom that can also be used at events as a decoration . The Cape flora flowers will be ship from South Africa with the Cargolite concept very soon .
For more informationCargolite ® John KowarskyEmail:[email protected]T : + 972 52 3282100
Amnon ZamirEmail:[email protected]T : + 972 52 6383737
Martin KabakaEmail:[email protected]T : +254 722 309 318
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