From sunny Mexico to snowy Ukraine. How M&M Ukraine delivered 17 tons of avocados as soon as possible on the eve of the New Year holidays.
The leading Ukrainian supplier of culinary trends, authentic products and ingredients for various cuisines of the world in the HoReCa segment, which has been operating on the domestic market for 20 years and has more than 1,000 items in its assortment, turned to the logistics company M&M Ukraine, which carries out international sea freight transportation , with a request for the delivery of a delicate cargo: it was necessary to transport 17 tons of avocados from Mexico to please Ukrainian gourmets on New Year and Christmas days.
Avocado is supplied in the form of puree, pieces and halves, which are frozen and require special temperature conditions during transportation: minus 20 degrees Celsius. The cargo was transported in a 40-foot refrigerated sea container, and the starting point was the small city of Altamira in northern Mexico.
M&M Ukraine, through its agents in Mexico, provided the customer with a unique and convenient service: the customer did not have to worry about how to transport the goods within the country, the freight forwarder made ground delivery from Mexico City to the port of destination (supplier’s warehouse – port of shipment in the country departures) on EXW terms.
A container of deli cargo was accepted on board the 300m container ship SEALAND ILLINOIS on December 19, 2018.
Having made a sea voyage across the Atlantic, a 40-foot container of avocados successfully arrived at Yuzhny port, and from there to the customer’s warehouse. And Kyiv restaurants received a valuable ingredient for exotic dishes in time!
The SEALAND ILLINOIS (IMO: 9197545, MMSI: 229487000) was built in 2000 by the South Korean shipyard Hyundai Heavy Industries Ltd. Co. and flies the flag of Malta. The TEU of a container ship is 4826.
Altamira is one of Mexico’s three main ports on the Gulf of Mexico, in the city of the same name, located near the southeastern tip of the state of Tamaulipas. It has established close links with 125 ports around the world through several shipping lines that handle bulk and containerized cargo. There is an industrial park with an area of 4,000 hectares.Yuzhny is a deep-sea trading port on the Maly Adzhalyksky (Grigorievsky) estuary in the northwestern part of the Black Sea, which is located 30 km east of the city of Odessa. In 2017, he set a record, showing his highest cargo turnover – 44 million 889 thousand tons. This is one of the three largest ports in Ukraine in terms of cargo turnover.
Main directions of cargo flows: Black Sea and Mediterranean basin, USA, Latin America, Middle East, Southeast Asia.
In 2018 SE “STP Yuzhny” was awarded with commemorative signs “Absolute Growth” and “Record of the Year” of the National Annual Maritime Rating of Ukraine. According to the results of cargo handling volumes, it ranked second among port operators and received a special award for loading the largest vessel in the country.
International sea freight transportation in Ukraine is successfully carried out by M&M Ukraine (head office in Kiev, subdivision in Boryspil and Odessa) in all promising and popular global destinations. “M&M Ukraine” provides high-quality and safe cargo transportation from China to Ukraine, from Ukraine to China, to Europe, to the USA, etc.
Prepared based on the materials of the company “M&M Ukraine” and data from open sources.