Mexican table grapes deliver late bumper crop, fueling higher reefer rates along the border
“A colder than normal spring across northwestern Mexico meant the Mexican table grape export campaign suffered a delay of several weeks, spiking demand in June for reefer trucks out of Arizona and south Texas.”- According to the article in freightwaves.com and its author
“Coupled with a record-breaking Hermosillo, Mexico-based table grape crop, this year’s export campaign has been a perfect storm of a late start, big yields and an overlap between two Mexican grape growing harvest regions, said industry insiders.” – Mahoney also wrote in his article
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Source and credits: freightwaves.com / Noi Mahoney