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[Amid shortages and soaring food prices, Australian avocados stand out as an anomaly to the trend, evading inflation as supply continues to exceed demand.] => 在食品短缺和价格飙升的大环境中，澳大利亚牛油果反其道而行之，持续供大于求，与通货膨胀背向而行。
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[https://www.dhl.com/sg-en/home/our-divisions/global-forwarding/special-expertise/perishable-logistics.html] => https://www.dhl.com/sg-en/home/our-divisions/global-forwarding/special-expertise/perishable-logistics.html
[All that’s green is gold: The growing market for avocados in Australia] => 绿色黄金：澳大利亚牛油果市场持续增长
[Maintaining a balance between supplying domestic demand and exporting will be key, especially during the peak seasons. Traditionally, more than 95 percent of Australian avocados are consumed domestically. But as the excess supply is putting pressure on the profit margins in the domestic market, producers are turning to exports for higher profits.
“We certainly don’t want to ship off a large quantity to another country, because that would crush the market up there and devalue the product,” cautioned Cooney. “With fresh fruits, we want to make sure that we can move them in the right quantity, according to schedule, and get them to their destination in the best possible condition."] => 澳大利亚有必要平衡国内需求和出口，尤其是在旺季。按照以往惯例，澳大利亚95%以上的牛油果用于内销。但由于供应过剩，挤压国内市场的利润，种植者正转向出口以获得更高的利润。
“我们当然不想把大量产品出口到另一个国家，这会冲击他们的市场，使产品贬值，”Cooney警告说。“对于新鲜水果，我们希望确保能够按时按量运送，并尽可能保持水果最好的状态送至目的地。”
[As such, controlling the ripening process of the avocado is a crucial part of its logistics. Suppliers are heavily involved in the process of gauging and even controlling the ripening times of these high-maintenance fruits. “Avocados are very sensitive to ethylene gas, which is produced by certain fruits when they ripen. So they have to be stored separately, away from other fruits from the start to the end of the supply chain,” added Cooney.
The DHL Global Forwarding Australia team utilizes Controlled Atmosphere (CA) reefer containers, which keep the avocados frozen. By suspending the avocados in CA containers, producers can better control the supply of fruit entering the market, allowing for a steady flow of avocados fixed at a consistent price to be delivered to stores worldwide.
Adapting to local market requirements
On top of these basic requirements, the industry also has to cater to different protocols required by various markets. The Japan Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries (MAFF), for instance, requires its imports to fulfill a condition called “conditional non-host”. This means that the avocados need to be harvested before they ripen and become susceptible to fruit flies. The avocados also need to be placed in cold storage and packed separately with a pallet shroud or insect-proof packaging.
Concerns about the Queensland fruit fly have limited the Australian avocado’s expansion into Japan. Currently, only regions free of the Queensland fruit fly — Western Australia, Tasmania, and the Riverland — can access the Japanese market, which means that Australia is only able to supply avocados to Japan for half of the year.
To further expand its market in Japan, suppliers will first have to set up packing lines catered to Japanese protocol. While this is challenging, Cooney notes that it is possible to meet Japan’s market requirements, especially since the market pays a premium for Australian avocado.
“It does require some training but the procedure is not too onerous. Our facility in Perth has eight different chambers, so we are well-equipped to segregate the avocados accordingly. We understand that stopping unwanted pests coming in from overseas is very important to the agricultural systems in their country, so we just need to adapt to the Japanese market,” said Cooney.
The future of avocados
It’s clear that the upheavals of the pandemic have brought key issues to the surface that were already there. The response of producers has helped chart a long-term path forward that should benefit the industry as a whole. As the global market for avocados expands, Australia’s producers recognize that tapping into the export sector is essential to creating sustainable operations throughout the industry. While there are gaps in industrial knowledge for newcomers, experienced companies like The Avocado Collective educate new growers in finding a balance on the returns for their businesses.
According to Avocados Australia, the country’s avocado exports have increased by 350 percent, compared to the pre-Covid-19 export volume. More than 50 percent of avocado shipments out of Western Australia in 2021 were from first-time exporters.
“Education is key here, especially since the avocado export sector is growing so quickly. Each grower has to understand the market and find a sustainable balance for their operations so that when new markets are available to them, they can adapt accordingly,” said Cooney. ] => 因此，控制牛油果的成熟过程是其物流的关键环节。鉴于牛油果难保存的特点，供应商花费大量的精力来测量甚至控制牛油果的成熟时间。“牛油果对某些水果成熟时产生的乙烯气体非常敏感。所以供应链从头到尾都需要把牛油果与其他水果分开储存，”Cooney补充说道。
DHL Global Forwarding澳大利亚团队使用可控气氛（CA）冷藏集装箱，将牛油果冷冻运输。通过CA集装箱运输，种植者可以更好地控制牛油果的供应，保证牛油果以一致的价格稳定地输送到世界各地的商店。
显而易见，新冠疫情带来的剧变让一些关键问题浮出了水面。种植者的应对有助于制定一条有利于整个行业长期发展的道路。随着全球牛油果市场的扩大，澳大利亚的种植者认识到，出口外销对整个行业的可持续经营至关重要。虽然新种植者在行业知识方面有所欠缺，但经验丰富的公司，比如The Avocado Collective，会教会他们如何找到种植收益的平衡。
据Avocados Australia称，与新冠肺炎疫情前的出口量相比，澳大利亚的牛油果的出口量增长了350%。2021年西澳大利亚州出口的牛油果中，有50%以上来自首次出口的种植商。
Cooney表示，“由于牛油果的出口增长迅速，教育培训变得十分重要。种植者应该把握市场脉络，找到可持续发展的平衡，以便适应新市场。”
[Covid-19 has had a profound impact on every industry. But understanding how to gauge that impact and its longer-term implications is not so straightforward.
Take the avocado as an example: From one perspective, it was hailed as the pandemic-proof fruit, an extraordinary success story. But on the other hand, it is also a cautionary tale about understanding the nuances of getting the green gold from tree to table.
The global avocado trend
High in healthy fats and oils, avocados are known for having a plethora of nutritional benefits. The fruit grew even more popular during the pandemic when consumers became more health-conscious.
Avocados’ crop value rose exponentially as consuming countries became more willing to pay high prices. Farmers in East Africa and Nigeria dubbed the fruit the ‘antidote to poverty. Chinese farmers have begun growing avocados to cope with the rising domestic demand, and cartels in Mexico are even robbing avocado farmers of their crops.
According to the OECD FAO agricultural outlook report 2021, global production has matched the growing demand. 2020 saw global output at 8.06 million metric tons, having tripled compared to 2.71 million metric tons in the year 2000.
However, growing avocados is a strenuous task. They are delicate fruits that bruise easily, and take a long time to ripen, with only a narrow window of time before they turn bad. Avocados are also notoriously expensive to grow, consuming an average of a million gallons of water to produce 100,000 pounds of avocados per acre.
Meeting the global demand for avocados, therefore, does not come without challenges.
Overcoming challenges during the pandemic
The Covid-19 pandemic amplified these challenges. But its impact, both short-term and long-term, differs from country to country. For Australia, the past two years have been tumultuous.
Before the outbreak, flight capacity for Australian avocado shipments could be easily secured, even during peak harvest seasons. But port congestions and grounded flights during the lockdown significantly reduced capacity to move products to markets out of Australia.
As such, the market had to rely on domestic consumption to absorb its avocado supply. This proved challenging, primarily because of an influx of new producers joining the market prior to the pandemic.
“Particularly in Western Australia and the east coast, more farmers are putting avocado crops and trees on the spare land they have. The rapidly rising demand and return on avocados have meant there're almost double the number of producers in the market now compared to five years ago,” said Bernie Cooney, National Perishable and Livestock Manager, DHL Global Forwarding Australia.
The years 2017 and 2018 in particular saw an over-optimistic tree planting of avocado trees, increasing production by over 100 hectares each year. This will likely affect prices in the next decade, as an avocado tree takes six years to mature.
At the same time prices are falling as producers reap the benefits of economies of scale. This is good news for consumers: In 2022, each Australian household consumes 31.2 percent more avocados, and pays 29 percent less on average, compared to the previous year.
Growers, on the other hand, are suffering from an avocado glut, which has kept trade prices as low as 47 percent less than the five-year average.
The influx of new producers
To develop solutions for both immediate and longer-term challenges, producers need to understand and anticipate the trends in the market. But this was where many inexperienced producers have faltered.
“A lot of new growers that enter the market in a good year expect the same returns every year thereafter, but unfortunately, that’s not always the case,” said Cooney, who explained that avocados usually have a good yield in one year, followed by a weak one for the next.
“When the season has a bumper crop and large excesses of fruit leftover from the Australian consumption go into export, the returns are always going to be a bit lower, which will be tough on the farmers,” explained Cooney. However, he added that biennial bearings mean that the amount of fruit harvested won’t be as high the following year, and more returns will go to the farmers because the prices will be higher.
To better manage and anticipate these fluctuations, the DHL Global Forwarding team worked closely with both farmers and shippers to tighten their planning ahead of the different seasons. Now, well before the start of each season, farmers are giving forecasts into their capacity for each country’s export markets.
“The pandemic hasn’t just changed the way we operate. The shippers also have to plan their space a lot more stringently, which means we now need to forecast our required space four to six weeks ahead of time, which we haven’t needed to do in the past,” said Cooney.
Indeed, the pandemic has prompted some deeper changes in the industry. Some avocado growers and packers, for example, used the downtime during the pandemic to review their supply chain and upgrade their equipment. The Avocado Collective, Australia’s biggest avocado packing company, put in AUD $1 million on a sealed cold-docking facility at Manjimup to fulfill the growing export demand.] => 新冠疫情的肆虐冲击着各行各业，但我们很难直接评估该冲击及其长期影响。
以牛油果为例：一方面，它被称为预防新冠的神果，广受消费者喜爱；另一方面，它也警示着绿色黄金从种植到餐桌的微妙差别。
牛油果种植者需要把握和预测市场趋势，才能应对当前和长期的挑战。但这也正是许多经验不足的种植者所欠缺的能力。
“很多在好年景进入市场的新种植者希望之后每年都能获得同样的高收益，但遗憾的是，现实并非总是如此，”Cooney说道。如果牛油果上一年的产量高，那么下一年的产量就会相对较低。
“如果遇上大丰收季节，澳大利亚内销剩下的大量水果只能外销，但外销的收益相对较低，果农的利润空间就会缩减，”Cooney解释说道。“但是果树存在大小年现象，这意味着次年牛油果的产量会缩水，价格会变高，农民就会获得更高的收益，”Cooney补充道。
过量种植牛油果树致使牛油果过剩，导致果农利润减少。
为了更好地把握和预测市场波动，DHL Global Forwarding团队与果农和承运商密切合作，在每年牛油果收获之前加强规划。现如今，早在收获季节开始之前，果农就开始预测牛油果出口各国的情况。
“疫情改变的不仅仅是我们的运营方式。承运商还必须更加严格地规划运输舱位，这意味着我们现在需要提前四至六周预测我们所需的舱位，但之前我们并不需要这样做，”Cooney说。
事实上，新冠大流行促使行业内发生了一些更深刻的变化。例如，一些牛油果种植者和包装商在疫情停工期间审查了自己的供应链并升级了设备。The Avocado Collective是澳大利亚最大的牛油果包装公司，投资了
100万澳元在满吉姆建造了一个密封的冷对接工厂，以满足日益增长的出口需求。
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[Our full range of services ensures the optimum conditions and proper compliance for perishables across the supply chain.] => 我们提供全方位的服务，确保了整个供应链中易腐品的最佳条件和适当合规性。
[Read more] => 阅读更多
[DHL Global Forwarding's new international cold chain facility in Brisbane airport] => DHL Global Forwarding在布里斯班机场的新国际冷链仓库
[In response to the tremendous growth of Australia’s perishables export sector, DHL Global Forwarding is building a new green international cold chain facility at Brisbane airport. It is the first and only freight forwarder facility to have exclusive airside access within Brisbane airport and is strategically located within a 20km distance from the Port of Brisbane.
George Lawson, Managing Director, DHL Global Forwarding Australia said, “Brisbane’s economy is predicted to surge by 2031, and with the expansion of our facilities at Brisbane airport, we are ready to support our customers' growth.”
According to the Green Building Council of Australia, the new facility is a five-green star rating, featuring solar panels, reusable batteries to power warehouse operations, rainwater harvesting systems, and EV charging stations. The team also plans to introduce carbon off-setting and in-setting for a carbon-neutral supply chain for customers.
Set to be ready by early 2023, the 4,880 square meter facility will meet Brisbane’s growing demand for international cold chain services, as well as the growth of general cargo in Queensland.] => 为了满足澳大利亚易腐品出口行业的巨大增长需求，DHL Global Forwarding正在布里斯班机场建设一个新的绿色国际冷链仓库。这是布里斯班机场内第一家也是唯一一家拥有专属空侧通道的货运代理仓库，地理位置优越，距离布里斯班港仅20公里。
DHL Global Forwarding澳大利亚公司的董事总经理George Lawson表示，“布里斯班的经济预计在2031年会大幅上升。扩建布里斯班机场仓库可以让我们更好地满足增长的客户需求。
布里斯班新仓库的模型。
据澳大利亚绿色建筑委员会称，新仓库为五星级绿色建筑，配置太阳能电池板、可重复使用的电池（为仓库供电）、雨水收集系统和电动汽车充电站。DHL团队还计划为客户的碳中和供应链引入碳抵消措施。
仓库占地4880平方米，将于2023年初交付使用，届时将满足布里斯班对国际冷链服务日益增长的需求以及昆士兰州普通货物的运输增长需求。
[Amid shortages and soaring food prices, Australian avocados stand out as an anomaly to the trend, evading inflation as supply continues to exceed demand. Covid-19 has had a profound impact on every industry. But understanding how to gauge that impact and its longer-term implications is not so straightforward.
Take the avocado as an example: From one perspective, it was hailed as the pandemic-proof fruit, an extraordinary success story. But on the other hand, it is also a cautionary tale about understanding the nuances of getting the green gold from tree to table.
The global avocado trend
High in healthy fats and oils, avocados are known for having a plethora of nutritional benefits. The fruit grew even more popular during the pandemic when consumers became more health-conscious.
Known for their versatility, avocados are typically served on toast, in salads, and mashed or blended to make dips and milkshakes. Avocado seed oil is also growing popular as a healthier alternative to cooking oil.
Avocados’ crop value rose exponentially as consuming countries became more willing to pay high prices. Farmers in East Africa and Nigeria dubbed the fruit the ‘antidote to poverty. Chinese farmers have begun growing avocados to cope with the rising domestic demand, and cartels in Mexico are even robbing avocado farmers of their crops.
According to the OECD FAO agricultural outlook report 2021, global production has matched the growing demand. 2020 saw global output at 8.06 million metric tons, having tripled compared to 2.71 million metric tons in the year 2000.
By 2030, avocados are expected to become the world’s most exported tropical fruit.
However, growing avocados is a strenuous task. They are delicate fruits that bruise easily, and take a long time to ripen, with only a narrow window of time before they turn bad. Avocados are also notoriously expensive to grow, consuming an average of a million gallons of water to produce 100,000 pounds of avocados per acre.
Meeting the global demand for avocados, therefore, does not come without challenges.
Overcoming challenges during the pandemic
The Covid-19 pandemic amplified these challenges. But its impact, both short-term and long-term, differs from country to country. For Australia, the past two years have been tumultuous.
Before the outbreak, flight capacity for Australian avocado shipments could be easily secured, even during peak harvest seasons. But port congestions and grounded flights during the lockdown significantly reduced capacity to move products to markets out of Australia.
As such, the market had to rely on domestic consumption to absorb its avocado supply. This proved challenging, primarily because of an influx of new producers joining the market prior to the pandemic.
Notorious for being a high-maintenance fruit, avocados are difficult and expensive to grow due to the large amount of water they consume.
“Particularly in Western Australia and the east coast, more farmers are putting avocado crops and trees on the spare land they have. The rapidly rising demand and return on avocados have meant there’re almost double the number of producers in the market now compared to five years ago,” said Bernie Cooney, National Perishable and Livestock Manager, DHL Global Forwarding Australia.
The years 2017 and 2018 in particular saw an over-optimistic tree planting of avocado trees, increasing production by over 100 hectares each year. This will likely affect prices in the next decade, as an avocado tree takes six years to mature.
At the same time prices are falling as producers reap the benefits of economies of scale. This is good news for consumers: In 2022, each Australian household consumes 31.2 percent more avocados, and pays 29 percent less on average, compared to the previous year.
Growers, on the other hand, are suffering from an avocado glut, which has kept trade prices as low as 47 percent less than the five-year average.
The influx of new producers
To develop solutions for both immediate and longer-term challenges, producers need to understand and anticipate the trends in the market. But this was where many inexperienced producers have faltered.
“A lot of new growers that enter the market in a good year expect the same returns every year thereafter, but unfortunately, that’s not always the case,” said Cooney, who explained that avocados usually have a good yield in one year, followed by a weak one for the next.
“When the season has a bumper crop and large excesses of fruit leftover from the Australian consumption go into export, the returns are always going to be a bit lower, which will be tough on the farmers,” explained Cooney. However, he added that biennial bearings mean that the amount of fruit harvested won’t be as high the following year, and more returns will go to the farmers because the prices will be higher.
The over-planting of avocado trees has contributed to the avocado glut that is narrowing the profit margin for producers.
To better manage and anticipate these fluctuations, the DHL Global Forwarding team worked closely with both farmers and shippers to tighten their planning ahead of the different seasons. Now, well before the start of each season, farmers are giving forecasts into their capacity for each country’s export markets.
“The pandemic hasn’t just changed the way we operate. The shippers also have to plan their space a lot more stringently, which means we now need to forecast our required space four to six weeks ahead of time, which we haven’t needed to do in the past,” said Cooney.
Indeed, the pandemic has prompted some deeper changes in the industry. Some avocado growers and packers, for example, used the downtime during the pandemic to review their supply chain and upgrade their equipment. The Avocado Collective, Australia’s biggest avocado packing company, put in AUD $1 million on a sealed cold-docking facility at Manjimup to fulfill the growing export demand.
DHL Global Forwarding's new international cold chain facility in Brisbane airportIn response to the tremendous growth of Australia’s perishables export sector, DHL Global Forwarding is building a new green international cold chain facility at Brisbane airport. It is the first and only freight forwarder facility to have exclusive airside access within Brisbane airport and is strategically located within a 20km distance from the Port of Brisbane.
George Lawson, Managing Director, DHL Global Forwarding Australia said, “Brisbane’s economy is predicted to surge by 2031, and with the expansion of our facilities at Brisbane airport, we are ready to support our customers’ growth.”
A model of the new facility in Brisbane.
According to the Green Building Council of Australia, the new facility is a five-green star rating, featuring solar panels, reusable batteries to power warehouse operations, rainwater harvesting systems, and EV charging stations. The team also plans to introduce carbon off-setting and in-setting for a carbon-neutral supply chain for customers.
Set to be ready by early 2023, the 4,880 square meter facility will meet Brisbane’s growing demand for international cold chain services, as well as the growth of general cargo in Queensland.
Maintaining a balance between supplying domestic demand and exporting will be key, especially during the peak seasons. Traditionally, more than 95 percent of Australian avocados are consumed domestically. But as the excess supply is putting pressure on the profit margins in the domestic market, producers are turning to exports for higher profits.
“We certainly don’t want to ship off a large quantity to another country, because that would crush the market up there and devalue the product,” cautioned Cooney. “With fresh fruits, we want to make sure that we can move them in the right quantity, according to schedule, and get them to their destination in the best possible condition.”
RELATED ARTICLESDHL Perishables LogisticsOur full range of services ensures the optimum conditions and proper compliance for perishables across the supply chain.As such, controlling the ripening process of the avocado is a crucial part of its logistics. Suppliers are heavily involved in the process of gauging and even controlling the ripening times of these high-maintenance fruits. “Avocados are very sensitive to ethylene gas, which is produced by certain fruits when they ripen. So they have to be stored separately, away from other fruits from the start to the end of the supply chain,” added Cooney.
The DHL Global Forwarding Australia team utilizes Controlled Atmosphere (CA) reefer containers, which keep the avocados frozen. By suspending the avocados in CA containers, producers can better control the supply of fruit entering the market, allowing for a steady flow of avocados fixed at a consistent price to be delivered to stores worldwide.
Adapting to local market requirements
On top of these basic requirements, the industry also has to cater to different protocols required by various markets. The Japan Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries (MAFF), for instance, requires its imports to fulfill a condition called “conditional non-host”. This means that the avocados need to be harvested before they ripen and become susceptible to fruit flies. The avocados also need to be placed in cold storage and packed separately with a pallet shroud or insect-proof packaging.
Avocados are harvested early as a preventive measure against fruit fly infestations.
Concerns about the Queensland fruit fly have limited the Australian avocado’s expansion into Japan. Currently, only regions free of the Queensland fruit fly — Western Australia, Tasmania, and the Riverland — can access the Japanese market, which means that Australia is only able to supply avocados to Japan for half of the year.
To further expand its market in Japan, suppliers will first have to set up packing lines catered to Japanese protocol. While this is challenging, Cooney notes that it is possible to meet Japan’s market requirements, especially since the market pays a premium for Australian avocado.
“It does require some training but the procedure is not too onerous. Our facility in Perth has eight different chambers, so we are well-equipped to segregate the avocados accordingly. We understand that stopping unwanted pests coming in from overseas is very important to the agricultural systems in their country, so we just need to adapt to the Japanese market,” said Cooney.
The future of avocados
It’s clear that the upheavals of the pandemic have brought key issues to the surface that were already there. The response of producers has helped chart a long-term path forward that should benefit the industry as a whole. As the global market for avocados expands, Australia’s producers recognize that tapping into the export sector is essential to creating sustainable operations throughout the industry. While there are gaps in industrial knowledge for newcomers, experienced companies like The Avocado Collective educate new growers in finding a balance on the returns for their businesses.
According to Avocados Australia, the country’s avocado exports have increased by 350 percent, compared to the pre-Covid-19 export volume. More than 50 percent of avocado shipments out of Western Australia in 2021 were from first-time exporters.
“Education is key here, especially since the avocado export sector is growing so quickly. Each grower has to understand the market and find a sustainable balance for their operations so that when new markets are available to them, they can adapt accordingly,” said Cooney. ] =>
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[$value] => Covid-19 has had a profound impact on every industry. But understanding how to gauge that impact and its longer-term implications is not so straightforward.
Take the avocado as an example: From one perspective, it was hailed as the pandemic-proof fruit, an extraordinary success story. But on the other hand, it is also a cautionary tale about understanding the nuances of getting the green gold from tree to table.
The global avocado trend
High in healthy fats and oils, avocados are known for having a plethora of nutritional benefits. The fruit grew even more popular during the pandemic when consumers became more health-conscious.
[caption id="attachment_31530" align="alignnone" width="1200"] Known for their versatility, avocados are typically served on toast, in salads, and mashed or blended to make dips and milkshakes. Avocado seed oil is also growing popular as a healthier alternative to cooking oil.[/caption]
Avocados’ crop value rose exponentially as consuming countries became more willing to pay high prices. Farmers in East Africa and Nigeria dubbed the fruit the ‘antidote to poverty. Chinese farmers have begun growing avocados to cope with the rising domestic demand, and cartels in Mexico are even robbing avocado farmers of their crops.
According to the OECD FAO agricultural outlook report 2021, global production has matched the growing demand. 2020 saw global output at 8.06 million metric tons, having tripled compared to 2.71 million metric tons in the year 2000.
[caption id="attachment_31515" align="alignnone" width="1200"] By 2030, avocados are expected to become the world’s most exported tropical fruit.[/caption]
However, growing avocados is a strenuous task. They are delicate fruits that bruise easily, and take a long time to ripen, with only a narrow window of time before they turn bad. Avocados are also notoriously expensive to grow, consuming an average of a million gallons of water to produce 100,000 pounds of avocados per acre.
Meeting the global demand for avocados, therefore, does not come without challenges.
Overcoming challenges during the pandemic
The Covid-19 pandemic amplified these challenges. But its impact, both short-term and long-term, differs from country to country. For Australia, the past two years have been tumultuous.
Before the outbreak, flight capacity for Australian avocado shipments could be easily secured, even during peak harvest seasons. But port congestions and grounded flights during the lockdown significantly reduced capacity to move products to markets out of Australia.
As such, the market had to rely on domestic consumption to absorb its avocado supply. This proved challenging, primarily because of an influx of new producers joining the market prior to the pandemic.
[caption id="attachment_31541" align="alignnone" width="1200"] Notorious for being a high-maintenance fruit, avocados are difficult and expensive to grow due to the large amount of water they consume.[/caption]
“Particularly in Western Australia and the east coast, more farmers are putting avocado crops and trees on the spare land they have. The rapidly rising demand and return on avocados have meant there're almost double the number of producers in the market now compared to five years ago,” said Bernie Cooney, National Perishable and Livestock Manager, DHL Global Forwarding Australia.
The years 2017 and 2018 in particular saw an over-optimistic tree planting of avocado trees, increasing production by over 100 hectares each year. This will likely affect prices in the next decade, as an avocado tree takes six years to mature.
At the same time prices are falling as producers reap the benefits of economies of scale. This is good news for consumers: In 2022, each Australian household consumes 31.2 percent more avocados, and pays 29 percent less on average, compared to the previous year.
Growers, on the other hand, are suffering from an avocado glut, which has kept trade prices as low as 47 percent less than the five-year average.
The influx of new producers
To develop solutions for both immediate and longer-term challenges, producers need to understand and anticipate the trends in the market. But this was where many inexperienced producers have faltered.
“A lot of new growers that enter the market in a good year expect the same returns every year thereafter, but unfortunately, that’s not always the case,” said Cooney, who explained that avocados usually have a good yield in one year, followed by a weak one for the next.
“When the season has a bumper crop and large excesses of fruit leftover from the Australian consumption go into export, the returns are always going to be a bit lower, which will be tough on the farmers,” explained Cooney. However, he added that biennial bearings mean that the amount of fruit harvested won’t be as high the following year, and more returns will go to the farmers because the prices will be higher.
[caption id="attachment_31546" align="alignnone" width="1200"] The over-planting of avocado trees has contributed to the avocado glut that is narrowing the profit margin for producers.[/caption]
To better manage and anticipate these fluctuations, the DHL Global Forwarding team worked closely with both farmers and shippers to tighten their planning ahead of the different seasons. Now, well before the start of each season, farmers are giving forecasts into their capacity for each country’s export markets.
“The pandemic hasn’t just changed the way we operate. The shippers also have to plan their space a lot more stringently, which means we now need to forecast our required space four to six weeks ahead of time, which we haven’t needed to do in the past,” said Cooney.
Indeed, the pandemic has prompted some deeper changes in the industry. Some avocado growers and packers, for example, used the downtime during the pandemic to review their supply chain and upgrade their equipment. The Avocado Collective, Australia’s biggest avocado packing company, put in AUD $1 million on a sealed cold-docking facility at Manjimup to fulfill the growing export demand.
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[Amid shortages and soaring food prices, Australian avocados stand out as an anomaly to the trend, evading inflation as supply continues to exceed demand.] => 在食品短缺和价格飙升的大环境中，澳大利亚牛油果反其道而行之，持续供大于求，与通货膨胀背向而行。
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[https://www.dhl.com/sg-en/home/our-divisions/global-forwarding/special-expertise/perishable-logistics.html] => https://www.dhl.com/sg-en/home/our-divisions/global-forwarding/special-expertise/perishable-logistics.html
[All that’s green is gold: The growing market for avocados in Australia] => 绿色黄金：澳大利亚牛油果市场持续增长
[Maintaining a balance between supplying domestic demand and exporting will be key, especially during the peak seasons. Traditionally, more than 95 percent of Australian avocados are consumed domestically. But as the excess supply is putting pressure on the profit margins in the domestic market, producers are turning to exports for higher profits.
“We certainly don’t want to ship off a large quantity to another country, because that would crush the market up there and devalue the product,” cautioned Cooney. “With fresh fruits, we want to make sure that we can move them in the right quantity, according to schedule, and get them to their destination in the best possible condition."] => 澳大利亚有必要平衡国内需求和出口，尤其是在旺季。按照以往惯例，澳大利亚95%以上的牛油果用于内销。但由于供应过剩，挤压国内市场的利润，种植者正转向出口以获得更高的利润。
“我们当然不想把大量产品出口到另一个国家，这会冲击他们的市场，使产品贬值，”Cooney警告说。“对于新鲜水果，我们希望确保能够按时按量运送，并尽可能保持水果最好的状态送至目的地。”
[As such, controlling the ripening process of the avocado is a crucial part of its logistics. Suppliers are heavily involved in the process of gauging and even controlling the ripening times of these high-maintenance fruits. “Avocados are very sensitive to ethylene gas, which is produced by certain fruits when they ripen. So they have to be stored separately, away from other fruits from the start to the end of the supply chain,” added Cooney.
The DHL Global Forwarding Australia team utilizes Controlled Atmosphere (CA) reefer containers, which keep the avocados frozen. By suspending the avocados in CA containers, producers can better control the supply of fruit entering the market, allowing for a steady flow of avocados fixed at a consistent price to be delivered to stores worldwide.
Adapting to local market requirements
On top of these basic requirements, the industry also has to cater to different protocols required by various markets. The Japan Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries (MAFF), for instance, requires its imports to fulfill a condition called “conditional non-host”. This means that the avocados need to be harvested before they ripen and become susceptible to fruit flies. The avocados also need to be placed in cold storage and packed separately with a pallet shroud or insect-proof packaging.
Concerns about the Queensland fruit fly have limited the Australian avocado’s expansion into Japan. Currently, only regions free of the Queensland fruit fly — Western Australia, Tasmania, and the Riverland — can access the Japanese market, which means that Australia is only able to supply avocados to Japan for half of the year.
To further expand its market in Japan, suppliers will first have to set up packing lines catered to Japanese protocol. While this is challenging, Cooney notes that it is possible to meet Japan’s market requirements, especially since the market pays a premium for Australian avocado.
“It does require some training but the procedure is not too onerous. Our facility in Perth has eight different chambers, so we are well-equipped to segregate the avocados accordingly. We understand that stopping unwanted pests coming in from overseas is very important to the agricultural systems in their country, so we just need to adapt to the Japanese market,” said Cooney.
The future of avocados
It’s clear that the upheavals of the pandemic have brought key issues to the surface that were already there. The response of producers has helped chart a long-term path forward that should benefit the industry as a whole. As the global market for avocados expands, Australia’s producers recognize that tapping into the export sector is essential to creating sustainable operations throughout the industry. While there are gaps in industrial knowledge for newcomers, experienced companies like The Avocado Collective educate new growers in finding a balance on the returns for their businesses.
According to Avocados Australia, the country’s avocado exports have increased by 350 percent, compared to the pre-Covid-19 export volume. More than 50 percent of avocado shipments out of Western Australia in 2021 were from first-time exporters.
“Education is key here, especially since the avocado export sector is growing so quickly. Each grower has to understand the market and find a sustainable balance for their operations so that when new markets are available to them, they can adapt accordingly,” said Cooney. ] => 因此，控制牛油果的成熟过程是其物流的关键环节。鉴于牛油果难保存的特点，供应商花费大量的精力来测量甚至控制牛油果的成熟时间。“牛油果对某些水果成熟时产生的乙烯气体非常敏感。所以供应链从头到尾都需要把牛油果与其他水果分开储存，”Cooney补充说道。
DHL Global Forwarding澳大利亚团队使用可控气氛（CA）冷藏集装箱，将牛油果冷冻运输。通过CA集装箱运输，种植者可以更好地控制牛油果的供应，保证牛油果以一致的价格稳定地输送到世界各地的商店。
显而易见，新冠疫情带来的剧变让一些关键问题浮出了水面。种植者的应对有助于制定一条有利于整个行业长期发展的道路。随着全球牛油果市场的扩大，澳大利亚的种植者认识到，出口外销对整个行业的可持续经营至关重要。虽然新种植者在行业知识方面有所欠缺，但经验丰富的公司，比如The Avocado Collective，会教会他们如何找到种植收益的平衡。
据Avocados Australia称，与新冠肺炎疫情前的出口量相比，澳大利亚的牛油果的出口量增长了350%。2021年西澳大利亚州出口的牛油果中，有50%以上来自首次出口的种植商。
Cooney表示，“由于牛油果的出口增长迅速，教育培训变得十分重要。种植者应该把握市场脉络，找到可持续发展的平衡，以便适应新市场。”
[Covid-19 has had a profound impact on every industry. But understanding how to gauge that impact and its longer-term implications is not so straightforward.
Take the avocado as an example: From one perspective, it was hailed as the pandemic-proof fruit, an extraordinary success story. But on the other hand, it is also a cautionary tale about understanding the nuances of getting the green gold from tree to table.
The global avocado trend
High in healthy fats and oils, avocados are known for having a plethora of nutritional benefits. The fruit grew even more popular during the pandemic when consumers became more health-conscious.
Avocados’ crop value rose exponentially as consuming countries became more willing to pay high prices. Farmers in East Africa and Nigeria dubbed the fruit the ‘antidote to poverty. Chinese farmers have begun growing avocados to cope with the rising domestic demand, and cartels in Mexico are even robbing avocado farmers of their crops.
According to the OECD FAO agricultural outlook report 2021, global production has matched the growing demand. 2020 saw global output at 8.06 million metric tons, having tripled compared to 2.71 million metric tons in the year 2000.
However, growing avocados is a strenuous task. They are delicate fruits that bruise easily, and take a long time to ripen, with only a narrow window of time before they turn bad. Avocados are also notoriously expensive to grow, consuming an average of a million gallons of water to produce 100,000 pounds of avocados per acre.
Meeting the global demand for avocados, therefore, does not come without challenges.
Overcoming challenges during the pandemic
The Covid-19 pandemic amplified these challenges. But its impact, both short-term and long-term, differs from country to country. For Australia, the past two years have been tumultuous.
Before the outbreak, flight capacity for Australian avocado shipments could be easily secured, even during peak harvest seasons. But port congestions and grounded flights during the lockdown significantly reduced capacity to move products to markets out of Australia.
As such, the market had to rely on domestic consumption to absorb its avocado supply. This proved challenging, primarily because of an influx of new producers joining the market prior to the pandemic.
“Particularly in Western Australia and the east coast, more farmers are putting avocado crops and trees on the spare land they have. The rapidly rising demand and return on avocados have meant there're almost double the number of producers in the market now compared to five years ago,” said Bernie Cooney, National Perishable and Livestock Manager, DHL Global Forwarding Australia.
The years 2017 and 2018 in particular saw an over-optimistic tree planting of avocado trees, increasing production by over 100 hectares each year. This will likely affect prices in the next decade, as an avocado tree takes six years to mature.
At the same time prices are falling as producers reap the benefits of economies of scale. This is good news for consumers: In 2022, each Australian household consumes 31.2 percent more avocados, and pays 29 percent less on average, compared to the previous year.
Growers, on the other hand, are suffering from an avocado glut, which has kept trade prices as low as 47 percent less than the five-year average.
The influx of new producers
To develop solutions for both immediate and longer-term challenges, producers need to understand and anticipate the trends in the market. But this was where many inexperienced producers have faltered.
“A lot of new growers that enter the market in a good year expect the same returns every year thereafter, but unfortunately, that’s not always the case,” said Cooney, who explained that avocados usually have a good yield in one year, followed by a weak one for the next.
“When the season has a bumper crop and large excesses of fruit leftover from the Australian consumption go into export, the returns are always going to be a bit lower, which will be tough on the farmers,” explained Cooney. However, he added that biennial bearings mean that the amount of fruit harvested won’t be as high the following year, and more returns will go to the farmers because the prices will be higher.
To better manage and anticipate these fluctuations, the DHL Global Forwarding team worked closely with both farmers and shippers to tighten their planning ahead of the different seasons. Now, well before the start of each season, farmers are giving forecasts into their capacity for each country’s export markets.
“The pandemic hasn’t just changed the way we operate. The shippers also have to plan their space a lot more stringently, which means we now need to forecast our required space four to six weeks ahead of time, which we haven’t needed to do in the past,” said Cooney.
Indeed, the pandemic has prompted some deeper changes in the industry. Some avocado growers and packers, for example, used the downtime during the pandemic to review their supply chain and upgrade their equipment. The Avocado Collective, Australia’s biggest avocado packing company, put in AUD $1 million on a sealed cold-docking facility at Manjimup to fulfill the growing export demand.] => 新冠疫情的肆虐冲击着各行各业，但我们很难直接评估该冲击及其长期影响。
以牛油果为例：一方面，它被称为预防新冠的神果，广受消费者喜爱；另一方面，它也警示着绿色黄金从种植到餐桌的微妙差别。
牛油果种植者需要把握和预测市场趋势，才能应对当前和长期的挑战。但这也正是许多经验不足的种植者所欠缺的能力。
“很多在好年景进入市场的新种植者希望之后每年都能获得同样的高收益，但遗憾的是，现实并非总是如此，”Cooney说道。如果牛油果上一年的产量高，那么下一年的产量就会相对较低。
“如果遇上大丰收季节，澳大利亚内销剩下的大量水果只能外销，但外销的收益相对较低，果农的利润空间就会缩减，”Cooney解释说道。“但是果树存在大小年现象，这意味着次年牛油果的产量会缩水，价格会变高，农民就会获得更高的收益，”Cooney补充道。
过量种植牛油果树致使牛油果过剩，导致果农利润减少。
为了更好地把握和预测市场波动，DHL Global Forwarding团队与果农和承运商密切合作，在每年牛油果收获之前加强规划。现如今，早在收获季节开始之前，果农就开始预测牛油果出口各国的情况。
“疫情改变的不仅仅是我们的运营方式。承运商还必须更加严格地规划运输舱位，这意味着我们现在需要提前四至六周预测我们所需的舱位，但之前我们并不需要这样做，”Cooney说。
事实上，新冠大流行促使行业内发生了一些更深刻的变化。例如，一些牛油果种植者和包装商在疫情停工期间审查了自己的供应链并升级了设备。The Avocado Collective是澳大利亚最大的牛油果包装公司，投资了
100万澳元在满吉姆建造了一个密封的冷对接工厂，以满足日益增长的出口需求。
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[Our full range of services ensures the optimum conditions and proper compliance for perishables across the supply chain.] => 我们提供全方位的服务，确保了整个供应链中易腐品的最佳条件和适当合规性。
[Read more] => 阅读更多
[DHL Global Forwarding's new international cold chain facility in Brisbane airport] => DHL Global Forwarding在布里斯班机场的新国际冷链仓库
[In response to the tremendous growth of Australia’s perishables export sector, DHL Global Forwarding is building a new green international cold chain facility at Brisbane airport. It is the first and only freight forwarder facility to have exclusive airside access within Brisbane airport and is strategically located within a 20km distance from the Port of Brisbane.
George Lawson, Managing Director, DHL Global Forwarding Australia said, “Brisbane’s economy is predicted to surge by 2031, and with the expansion of our facilities at Brisbane airport, we are ready to support our customers' growth.”
According to the Green Building Council of Australia, the new facility is a five-green star rating, featuring solar panels, reusable batteries to power warehouse operations, rainwater harvesting systems, and EV charging stations. The team also plans to introduce carbon off-setting and in-setting for a carbon-neutral supply chain for customers.
Set to be ready by early 2023, the 4,880 square meter facility will meet Brisbane’s growing demand for international cold chain services, as well as the growth of general cargo in Queensland.] => 为了满足澳大利亚易腐品出口行业的巨大增长需求，DHL Global Forwarding正在布里斯班机场建设一个新的绿色国际冷链仓库。这是布里斯班机场内第一家也是唯一一家拥有专属空侧通道的货运代理仓库，地理位置优越，距离布里斯班港仅20公里。
DHL Global Forwarding澳大利亚公司的董事总经理George Lawson表示，“布里斯班的经济预计在2031年会大幅上升。扩建布里斯班机场仓库可以让我们更好地满足增长的客户需求。
布里斯班新仓库的模型。
据澳大利亚绿色建筑委员会称，新仓库为五星级绿色建筑，配置太阳能电池板、可重复使用的电池（为仓库供电）、雨水收集系统和电动汽车充电站。DHL团队还计划为客户的碳中和供应链引入碳抵消措施。
仓库占地4880平方米，将于2023年初交付使用，届时将满足布里斯班对国际冷链服务日益增长的需求以及昆士兰州普通货物的运输增长需求。
[Amid shortages and soaring food prices, Australian avocados stand out as an anomaly to the trend, evading inflation as supply continues to exceed demand. Covid-19 has had a profound impact on every industry. But understanding how to gauge that impact and its longer-term implications is not so straightforward.
Take the avocado as an example: From one perspective, it was hailed as the pandemic-proof fruit, an extraordinary success story. But on the other hand, it is also a cautionary tale about understanding the nuances of getting the green gold from tree to table.
The global avocado trend
High in healthy fats and oils, avocados are known for having a plethora of nutritional benefits. The fruit grew even more popular during the pandemic when consumers became more health-conscious.
Known for their versatility, avocados are typically served on toast, in salads, and mashed or blended to make dips and milkshakes. Avocado seed oil is also growing popular as a healthier alternative to cooking oil.
Avocados’ crop value rose exponentially as consuming countries became more willing to pay high prices. Farmers in East Africa and Nigeria dubbed the fruit the ‘antidote to poverty. Chinese farmers have begun growing avocados to cope with the rising domestic demand, and cartels in Mexico are even robbing avocado farmers of their crops.
According to the OECD FAO agricultural outlook report 2021, global production has matched the growing demand. 2020 saw global output at 8.06 million metric tons, having tripled compared to 2.71 million metric tons in the year 2000.
By 2030, avocados are expected to become the world’s most exported tropical fruit.
However, growing avocados is a strenuous task. They are delicate fruits that bruise easily, and take a long time to ripen, with only a narrow window of time before they turn bad. Avocados are also notoriously expensive to grow, consuming an average of a million gallons of water to produce 100,000 pounds of avocados per acre.
Meeting the global demand for avocados, therefore, does not come without challenges.
Overcoming challenges during the pandemic
The Covid-19 pandemic amplified these challenges. But its impact, both short-term and long-term, differs from country to country. For Australia, the past two years have been tumultuous.
Before the outbreak, flight capacity for Australian avocado shipments could be easily secured, even during peak harvest seasons. But port congestions and grounded flights during the lockdown significantly reduced capacity to move products to markets out of Australia.
As such, the market had to rely on domestic consumption to absorb its avocado supply. This proved challenging, primarily because of an influx of new producers joining the market prior to the pandemic.
Notorious for being a high-maintenance fruit, avocados are difficult and expensive to grow due to the large amount of water they consume.
“Particularly in Western Australia and the east coast, more farmers are putting avocado crops and trees on the spare land they have. The rapidly rising demand and return on avocados have meant there’re almost double the number of producers in the market now compared to five years ago,” said Bernie Cooney, National Perishable and Livestock Manager, DHL Global Forwarding Australia.
The years 2017 and 2018 in particular saw an over-optimistic tree planting of avocado trees, increasing production by over 100 hectares each year. This will likely affect prices in the next decade, as an avocado tree takes six years to mature.
At the same time prices are falling as producers reap the benefits of economies of scale. This is good news for consumers: In 2022, each Australian household consumes 31.2 percent more avocados, and pays 29 percent less on average, compared to the previous year.
Growers, on the other hand, are suffering from an avocado glut, which has kept trade prices as low as 47 percent less than the five-year average.
The influx of new producers
To develop solutions for both immediate and longer-term challenges, producers need to understand and anticipate the trends in the market. But this was where many inexperienced producers have faltered.
“A lot of new growers that enter the market in a good year expect the same returns every year thereafter, but unfortunately, that’s not always the case,” said Cooney, who explained that avocados usually have a good yield in one year, followed by a weak one for the next.
“When the season has a bumper crop and large excesses of fruit leftover from the Australian consumption go into export, the returns are always going to be a bit lower, which will be tough on the farmers,” explained Cooney. However, he added that biennial bearings mean that the amount of fruit harvested won’t be as high the following year, and more returns will go to the farmers because the prices will be higher.
The over-planting of avocado trees has contributed to the avocado glut that is narrowing the profit margin for producers.
To better manage and anticipate these fluctuations, the DHL Global Forwarding team worked closely with both farmers and shippers to tighten their planning ahead of the different seasons. Now, well before the start of each season, farmers are giving forecasts into their capacity for each country’s export markets.
“The pandemic hasn’t just changed the way we operate. The shippers also have to plan their space a lot more stringently, which means we now need to forecast our required space four to six weeks ahead of time, which we haven’t needed to do in the past,” said Cooney.
Indeed, the pandemic has prompted some deeper changes in the industry. Some avocado growers and packers, for example, used the downtime during the pandemic to review their supply chain and upgrade their equipment. The Avocado Collective, Australia’s biggest avocado packing company, put in AUD $1 million on a sealed cold-docking facility at Manjimup to fulfill the growing export demand.
DHL Global Forwarding's new international cold chain facility in Brisbane airportIn response to the tremendous growth of Australia’s perishables export sector, DHL Global Forwarding is building a new green international cold chain facility at Brisbane airport. It is the first and only freight forwarder facility to have exclusive airside access within Brisbane airport and is strategically located within a 20km distance from the Port of Brisbane.
George Lawson, Managing Director, DHL Global Forwarding Australia said, “Brisbane’s economy is predicted to surge by 2031, and with the expansion of our facilities at Brisbane airport, we are ready to support our customers’ growth.”
A model of the new facility in Brisbane.
According to the Green Building Council of Australia, the new facility is a five-green star rating, featuring solar panels, reusable batteries to power warehouse operations, rainwater harvesting systems, and EV charging stations. The team also plans to introduce carbon off-setting and in-setting for a carbon-neutral supply chain for customers.
Set to be ready by early 2023, the 4,880 square meter facility will meet Brisbane’s growing demand for international cold chain services, as well as the growth of general cargo in Queensland.
Maintaining a balance between supplying domestic demand and exporting will be key, especially during the peak seasons. Traditionally, more than 95 percent of Australian avocados are consumed domestically. But as the excess supply is putting pressure on the profit margins in the domestic market, producers are turning to exports for higher profits.
“We certainly don’t want to ship off a large quantity to another country, because that would crush the market up there and devalue the product,” cautioned Cooney. “With fresh fruits, we want to make sure that we can move them in the right quantity, according to schedule, and get them to their destination in the best possible condition.”
RELATED ARTICLESDHL Perishables LogisticsOur full range of services ensures the optimum conditions and proper compliance for perishables across the supply chain.As such, controlling the ripening process of the avocado is a crucial part of its logistics. Suppliers are heavily involved in the process of gauging and even controlling the ripening times of these high-maintenance fruits. “Avocados are very sensitive to ethylene gas, which is produced by certain fruits when they ripen. So they have to be stored separately, away from other fruits from the start to the end of the supply chain,” added Cooney.
The DHL Global Forwarding Australia team utilizes Controlled Atmosphere (CA) reefer containers, which keep the avocados frozen. By suspending the avocados in CA containers, producers can better control the supply of fruit entering the market, allowing for a steady flow of avocados fixed at a consistent price to be delivered to stores worldwide.
Adapting to local market requirements
On top of these basic requirements, the industry also has to cater to different protocols required by various markets. The Japan Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries (MAFF), for instance, requires its imports to fulfill a condition called “conditional non-host”. This means that the avocados need to be harvested before they ripen and become susceptible to fruit flies. The avocados also need to be placed in cold storage and packed separately with a pallet shroud or insect-proof packaging.
Avocados are harvested early as a preventive measure against fruit fly infestations.
Concerns about the Queensland fruit fly have limited the Australian avocado’s expansion into Japan. Currently, only regions free of the Queensland fruit fly — Western Australia, Tasmania, and the Riverland — can access the Japanese market, which means that Australia is only able to supply avocados to Japan for half of the year.
To further expand its market in Japan, suppliers will first have to set up packing lines catered to Japanese protocol. While this is challenging, Cooney notes that it is possible to meet Japan’s market requirements, especially since the market pays a premium for Australian avocado.
“It does require some training but the procedure is not too onerous. Our facility in Perth has eight different chambers, so we are well-equipped to segregate the avocados accordingly. We understand that stopping unwanted pests coming in from overseas is very important to the agricultural systems in their country, so we just need to adapt to the Japanese market,” said Cooney.
The future of avocados
It’s clear that the upheavals of the pandemic have brought key issues to the surface that were already there. The response of producers has helped chart a long-term path forward that should benefit the industry as a whole. As the global market for avocados expands, Australia’s producers recognize that tapping into the export sector is essential to creating sustainable operations throughout the industry. While there are gaps in industrial knowledge for newcomers, experienced companies like The Avocado Collective educate new growers in finding a balance on the returns for their businesses.
According to Avocados Australia, the country’s avocado exports have increased by 350 percent, compared to the pre-Covid-19 export volume. More than 50 percent of avocado shipments out of Western Australia in 2021 were from first-time exporters.
“Education is key here, especially since the avocado export sector is growing so quickly. Each grower has to understand the market and find a sustainable balance for their operations so that when new markets are available to them, they can adapt accordingly,” said Cooney. ] =>
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“We certainly don’t want to ship off a large quantity to another country, because that would crush the market up there and devalue the product,” cautioned Cooney. “With fresh fruits, we want to make sure that we can move them in the right quantity, according to schedule, and get them to their destination in the best possible condition."
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[Amid shortages and soaring food prices, Australian avocados stand out as an anomaly to the trend, evading inflation as supply continues to exceed demand.] => 在食品短缺和价格飙升的大环境中，澳大利亚牛油果反其道而行之，持续供大于求，与通货膨胀背向而行。
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[All that’s green is gold: The growing market for avocados in Australia] => 绿色黄金：澳大利亚牛油果市场持续增长
[Maintaining a balance between supplying domestic demand and exporting will be key, especially during the peak seasons. Traditionally, more than 95 percent of Australian avocados are consumed domestically. But as the excess supply is putting pressure on the profit margins in the domestic market, producers are turning to exports for higher profits.
“We certainly don’t want to ship off a large quantity to another country, because that would crush the market up there and devalue the product,” cautioned Cooney. “With fresh fruits, we want to make sure that we can move them in the right quantity, according to schedule, and get them to their destination in the best possible condition."] => 澳大利亚有必要平衡国内需求和出口，尤其是在旺季。按照以往惯例，澳大利亚95%以上的牛油果用于内销。但由于供应过剩，挤压国内市场的利润，种植者正转向出口以获得更高的利润。
“我们当然不想把大量产品出口到另一个国家，这会冲击他们的市场，使产品贬值，”Cooney警告说。“对于新鲜水果，我们希望确保能够按时按量运送，并尽可能保持水果最好的状态送至目的地。”
[As such, controlling the ripening process of the avocado is a crucial part of its logistics. Suppliers are heavily involved in the process of gauging and even controlling the ripening times of these high-maintenance fruits. “Avocados are very sensitive to ethylene gas, which is produced by certain fruits when they ripen. So they have to be stored separately, away from other fruits from the start to the end of the supply chain,” added Cooney.
The DHL Global Forwarding Australia team utilizes Controlled Atmosphere (CA) reefer containers, which keep the avocados frozen. By suspending the avocados in CA containers, producers can better control the supply of fruit entering the market, allowing for a steady flow of avocados fixed at a consistent price to be delivered to stores worldwide.
Adapting to local market requirements
On top of these basic requirements, the industry also has to cater to different protocols required by various markets. The Japan Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries (MAFF), for instance, requires its imports to fulfill a condition called “conditional non-host”. This means that the avocados need to be harvested before they ripen and become susceptible to fruit flies. The avocados also need to be placed in cold storage and packed separately with a pallet shroud or insect-proof packaging.
Concerns about the Queensland fruit fly have limited the Australian avocado’s expansion into Japan. Currently, only regions free of the Queensland fruit fly — Western Australia, Tasmania, and the Riverland — can access the Japanese market, which means that Australia is only able to supply avocados to Japan for half of the year.
To further expand its market in Japan, suppliers will first have to set up packing lines catered to Japanese protocol. While this is challenging, Cooney notes that it is possible to meet Japan’s market requirements, especially since the market pays a premium for Australian avocado.
“It does require some training but the procedure is not too onerous. Our facility in Perth has eight different chambers, so we are well-equipped to segregate the avocados accordingly. We understand that stopping unwanted pests coming in from overseas is very important to the agricultural systems in their country, so we just need to adapt to the Japanese market,” said Cooney.
The future of avocados
It’s clear that the upheavals of the pandemic have brought key issues to the surface that were already there. The response of producers has helped chart a long-term path forward that should benefit the industry as a whole. As the global market for avocados expands, Australia’s producers recognize that tapping into the export sector is essential to creating sustainable operations throughout the industry. While there are gaps in industrial knowledge for newcomers, experienced companies like The Avocado Collective educate new growers in finding a balance on the returns for their businesses.
According to Avocados Australia, the country’s avocado exports have increased by 350 percent, compared to the pre-Covid-19 export volume. More than 50 percent of avocado shipments out of Western Australia in 2021 were from first-time exporters.
“Education is key here, especially since the avocado export sector is growing so quickly. Each grower has to understand the market and find a sustainable balance for their operations so that when new markets are available to them, they can adapt accordingly,” said Cooney. ] => 因此，控制牛油果的成熟过程是其物流的关键环节。鉴于牛油果难保存的特点，供应商花费大量的精力来测量甚至控制牛油果的成熟时间。“牛油果对某些水果成熟时产生的乙烯气体非常敏感。所以供应链从头到尾都需要把牛油果与其他水果分开储存，”Cooney补充说道。
DHL Global Forwarding澳大利亚团队使用可控气氛（CA）冷藏集装箱，将牛油果冷冻运输。通过CA集装箱运输，种植者可以更好地控制牛油果的供应，保证牛油果以一致的价格稳定地输送到世界各地的商店。
显而易见，新冠疫情带来的剧变让一些关键问题浮出了水面。种植者的应对有助于制定一条有利于整个行业长期发展的道路。随着全球牛油果市场的扩大，澳大利亚的种植者认识到，出口外销对整个行业的可持续经营至关重要。虽然新种植者在行业知识方面有所欠缺，但经验丰富的公司，比如The Avocado Collective，会教会他们如何找到种植收益的平衡。
据Avocados Australia称，与新冠肺炎疫情前的出口量相比，澳大利亚的牛油果的出口量增长了350%。2021年西澳大利亚州出口的牛油果中，有50%以上来自首次出口的种植商。
Cooney表示，“由于牛油果的出口增长迅速，教育培训变得十分重要。种植者应该把握市场脉络，找到可持续发展的平衡，以便适应新市场。”
[Covid-19 has had a profound impact on every industry. But understanding how to gauge that impact and its longer-term implications is not so straightforward.
Take the avocado as an example: From one perspective, it was hailed as the pandemic-proof fruit, an extraordinary success story. But on the other hand, it is also a cautionary tale about understanding the nuances of getting the green gold from tree to table.
The global avocado trend
High in healthy fats and oils, avocados are known for having a plethora of nutritional benefits. The fruit grew even more popular during the pandemic when consumers became more health-conscious.
Avocados’ crop value rose exponentially as consuming countries became more willing to pay high prices. Farmers in East Africa and Nigeria dubbed the fruit the ‘antidote to poverty. Chinese farmers have begun growing avocados to cope with the rising domestic demand, and cartels in Mexico are even robbing avocado farmers of their crops.
According to the OECD FAO agricultural outlook report 2021, global production has matched the growing demand. 2020 saw global output at 8.06 million metric tons, having tripled compared to 2.71 million metric tons in the year 2000.
However, growing avocados is a strenuous task. They are delicate fruits that bruise easily, and take a long time to ripen, with only a narrow window of time before they turn bad. Avocados are also notoriously expensive to grow, consuming an average of a million gallons of water to produce 100,000 pounds of avocados per acre.
Meeting the global demand for avocados, therefore, does not come without challenges.
Overcoming challenges during the pandemic
The Covid-19 pandemic amplified these challenges. But its impact, both short-term and long-term, differs from country to country. For Australia, the past two years have been tumultuous.
Before the outbreak, flight capacity for Australian avocado shipments could be easily secured, even during peak harvest seasons. But port congestions and grounded flights during the lockdown significantly reduced capacity to move products to markets out of Australia.
As such, the market had to rely on domestic consumption to absorb its avocado supply. This proved challenging, primarily because of an influx of new producers joining the market prior to the pandemic.
“Particularly in Western Australia and the east coast, more farmers are putting avocado crops and trees on the spare land they have. The rapidly rising demand and return on avocados have meant there're almost double the number of producers in the market now compared to five years ago,” said Bernie Cooney, National Perishable and Livestock Manager, DHL Global Forwarding Australia.
The years 2017 and 2018 in particular saw an over-optimistic tree planting of avocado trees, increasing production by over 100 hectares each year. This will likely affect prices in the next decade, as an avocado tree takes six years to mature.
At the same time prices are falling as producers reap the benefits of economies of scale. This is good news for consumers: In 2022, each Australian household consumes 31.2 percent more avocados, and pays 29 percent less on average, compared to the previous year.
Growers, on the other hand, are suffering from an avocado glut, which has kept trade prices as low as 47 percent less than the five-year average.
The influx of new producers
To develop solutions for both immediate and longer-term challenges, producers need to understand and anticipate the trends in the market. But this was where many inexperienced producers have faltered.
“A lot of new growers that enter the market in a good year expect the same returns every year thereafter, but unfortunately, that’s not always the case,” said Cooney, who explained that avocados usually have a good yield in one year, followed by a weak one for the next.
“When the season has a bumper crop and large excesses of fruit leftover from the Australian consumption go into export, the returns are always going to be a bit lower, which will be tough on the farmers,” explained Cooney. However, he added that biennial bearings mean that the amount of fruit harvested won’t be as high the following year, and more returns will go to the farmers because the prices will be higher.
To better manage and anticipate these fluctuations, the DHL Global Forwarding team worked closely with both farmers and shippers to tighten their planning ahead of the different seasons. Now, well before the start of each season, farmers are giving forecasts into their capacity for each country’s export markets.
“The pandemic hasn’t just changed the way we operate. The shippers also have to plan their space a lot more stringently, which means we now need to forecast our required space four to six weeks ahead of time, which we haven’t needed to do in the past,” said Cooney.
Indeed, the pandemic has prompted some deeper changes in the industry. Some avocado growers and packers, for example, used the downtime during the pandemic to review their supply chain and upgrade their equipment. The Avocado Collective, Australia’s biggest avocado packing company, put in AUD $1 million on a sealed cold-docking facility at Manjimup to fulfill the growing export demand.] => 新冠疫情的肆虐冲击着各行各业，但我们很难直接评估该冲击及其长期影响。
以牛油果为例：一方面，它被称为预防新冠的神果，广受消费者喜爱；另一方面，它也警示着绿色黄金从种植到餐桌的微妙差别。
牛油果种植者需要把握和预测市场趋势，才能应对当前和长期的挑战。但这也正是许多经验不足的种植者所欠缺的能力。
“很多在好年景进入市场的新种植者希望之后每年都能获得同样的高收益，但遗憾的是，现实并非总是如此，”Cooney说道。如果牛油果上一年的产量高，那么下一年的产量就会相对较低。
“如果遇上大丰收季节，澳大利亚内销剩下的大量水果只能外销，但外销的收益相对较低，果农的利润空间就会缩减，”Cooney解释说道。“但是果树存在大小年现象，这意味着次年牛油果的产量会缩水，价格会变高，农民就会获得更高的收益，”Cooney补充道。
过量种植牛油果树致使牛油果过剩，导致果农利润减少。
为了更好地把握和预测市场波动，DHL Global Forwarding团队与果农和承运商密切合作，在每年牛油果收获之前加强规划。现如今，早在收获季节开始之前，果农就开始预测牛油果出口各国的情况。
“疫情改变的不仅仅是我们的运营方式。承运商还必须更加严格地规划运输舱位，这意味着我们现在需要提前四至六周预测我们所需的舱位，但之前我们并不需要这样做，”Cooney说。
事实上，新冠大流行促使行业内发生了一些更深刻的变化。例如，一些牛油果种植者和包装商在疫情停工期间审查了自己的供应链并升级了设备。The Avocado Collective是澳大利亚最大的牛油果包装公司，投资了
100万澳元在满吉姆建造了一个密封的冷对接工厂，以满足日益增长的出口需求。
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[Our full range of services ensures the optimum conditions and proper compliance for perishables across the supply chain.] => 我们提供全方位的服务，确保了整个供应链中易腐品的最佳条件和适当合规性。
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[DHL Global Forwarding's new international cold chain facility in Brisbane airport] => DHL Global Forwarding在布里斯班机场的新国际冷链仓库
[In response to the tremendous growth of Australia’s perishables export sector, DHL Global Forwarding is building a new green international cold chain facility at Brisbane airport. It is the first and only freight forwarder facility to have exclusive airside access within Brisbane airport and is strategically located within a 20km distance from the Port of Brisbane.
George Lawson, Managing Director, DHL Global Forwarding Australia said, “Brisbane’s economy is predicted to surge by 2031, and with the expansion of our facilities at Brisbane airport, we are ready to support our customers' growth.”
According to the Green Building Council of Australia, the new facility is a five-green star rating, featuring solar panels, reusable batteries to power warehouse operations, rainwater harvesting systems, and EV charging stations. The team also plans to introduce carbon off-setting and in-setting for a carbon-neutral supply chain for customers.
Set to be ready by early 2023, the 4,880 square meter facility will meet Brisbane’s growing demand for international cold chain services, as well as the growth of general cargo in Queensland.] => 为了满足澳大利亚易腐品出口行业的巨大增长需求，DHL Global Forwarding正在布里斯班机场建设一个新的绿色国际冷链仓库。这是布里斯班机场内第一家也是唯一一家拥有专属空侧通道的货运代理仓库，地理位置优越，距离布里斯班港仅20公里。
DHL Global Forwarding澳大利亚公司的董事总经理George Lawson表示，“布里斯班的经济预计在2031年会大幅上升。扩建布里斯班机场仓库可以让我们更好地满足增长的客户需求。
布里斯班新仓库的模型。
据澳大利亚绿色建筑委员会称，新仓库为五星级绿色建筑，配置太阳能电池板、可重复使用的电池（为仓库供电）、雨水收集系统和电动汽车充电站。DHL团队还计划为客户的碳中和供应链引入碳抵消措施。
仓库占地4880平方米，将于2023年初交付使用，届时将满足布里斯班对国际冷链服务日益增长的需求以及昆士兰州普通货物的运输增长需求。
[Amid shortages and soaring food prices, Australian avocados stand out as an anomaly to the trend, evading inflation as supply continues to exceed demand. Covid-19 has had a profound impact on every industry. But understanding how to gauge that impact and its longer-term implications is not so straightforward.
Take the avocado as an example: From one perspective, it was hailed as the pandemic-proof fruit, an extraordinary success story. But on the other hand, it is also a cautionary tale about understanding the nuances of getting the green gold from tree to table.
The global avocado trend
High in healthy fats and oils, avocados are known for having a plethora of nutritional benefits. The fruit grew even more popular during the pandemic when consumers became more health-conscious.
Known for their versatility, avocados are typically served on toast, in salads, and mashed or blended to make dips and milkshakes. Avocado seed oil is also growing popular as a healthier alternative to cooking oil.
Avocados’ crop value rose exponentially as consuming countries became more willing to pay high prices. Farmers in East Africa and Nigeria dubbed the fruit the ‘antidote to poverty. Chinese farmers have begun growing avocados to cope with the rising domestic demand, and cartels in Mexico are even robbing avocado farmers of their crops.
According to the OECD FAO agricultural outlook report 2021, global production has matched the growing demand. 2020 saw global output at 8.06 million metric tons, having tripled compared to 2.71 million metric tons in the year 2000.
By 2030, avocados are expected to become the world’s most exported tropical fruit.
However, growing avocados is a strenuous task. They are delicate fruits that bruise easily, and take a long time to ripen, with only a narrow window of time before they turn bad. Avocados are also notoriously expensive to grow, consuming an average of a million gallons of water to produce 100,000 pounds of avocados per acre.
Meeting the global demand for avocados, therefore, does not come without challenges.
Overcoming challenges during the pandemic
The Covid-19 pandemic amplified these challenges. But its impact, both short-term and long-term, differs from country to country. For Australia, the past two years have been tumultuous.
Before the outbreak, flight capacity for Australian avocado shipments could be easily secured, even during peak harvest seasons. But port congestions and grounded flights during the lockdown significantly reduced capacity to move products to markets out of Australia.
As such, the market had to rely on domestic consumption to absorb its avocado supply. This proved challenging, primarily because of an influx of new producers joining the market prior to the pandemic.
Notorious for being a high-maintenance fruit, avocados are difficult and expensive to grow due to the large amount of water they consume.
“Particularly in Western Australia and the east coast, more farmers are putting avocado crops and trees on the spare land they have. The rapidly rising demand and return on avocados have meant there’re almost double the number of producers in the market now compared to five years ago,” said Bernie Cooney, National Perishable and Livestock Manager, DHL Global Forwarding Australia.
The years 2017 and 2018 in particular saw an over-optimistic tree planting of avocado trees, increasing production by over 100 hectares each year. This will likely affect prices in the next decade, as an avocado tree takes six years to mature.
At the same time prices are falling as producers reap the benefits of economies of scale. This is good news for consumers: In 2022, each Australian household consumes 31.2 percent more avocados, and pays 29 percent less on average, compared to the previous year.
Growers, on the other hand, are suffering from an avocado glut, which has kept trade prices as low as 47 percent less than the five-year average.
The influx of new producers
To develop solutions for both immediate and longer-term challenges, producers need to understand and anticipate the trends in the market. But this was where many inexperienced producers have faltered.
“A lot of new growers that enter the market in a good year expect the same returns every year thereafter, but unfortunately, that’s not always the case,” said Cooney, who explained that avocados usually have a good yield in one year, followed by a weak one for the next.
“When the season has a bumper crop and large excesses of fruit leftover from the Australian consumption go into export, the returns are always going to be a bit lower, which will be tough on the farmers,” explained Cooney. However, he added that biennial bearings mean that the amount of fruit harvested won’t be as high the following year, and more returns will go to the farmers because the prices will be higher.
The over-planting of avocado trees has contributed to the avocado glut that is narrowing the profit margin for producers.
To better manage and anticipate these fluctuations, the DHL Global Forwarding team worked closely with both farmers and shippers to tighten their planning ahead of the different seasons. Now, well before the start of each season, farmers are giving forecasts into their capacity for each country’s export markets.
“The pandemic hasn’t just changed the way we operate. The shippers also have to plan their space a lot more stringently, which means we now need to forecast our required space four to six weeks ahead of time, which we haven’t needed to do in the past,” said Cooney.
Indeed, the pandemic has prompted some deeper changes in the industry. Some avocado growers and packers, for example, used the downtime during the pandemic to review their supply chain and upgrade their equipment. The Avocado Collective, Australia’s biggest avocado packing company, put in AUD $1 million on a sealed cold-docking facility at Manjimup to fulfill the growing export demand.
DHL Global Forwarding's new international cold chain facility in Brisbane airportIn response to the tremendous growth of Australia’s perishables export sector, DHL Global Forwarding is building a new green international cold chain facility at Brisbane airport. It is the first and only freight forwarder facility to have exclusive airside access within Brisbane airport and is strategically located within a 20km distance from the Port of Brisbane.
George Lawson, Managing Director, DHL Global Forwarding Australia said, “Brisbane’s economy is predicted to surge by 2031, and with the expansion of our facilities at Brisbane airport, we are ready to support our customers’ growth.”
A model of the new facility in Brisbane.
According to the Green Building Council of Australia, the new facility is a five-green star rating, featuring solar panels, reusable batteries to power warehouse operations, rainwater harvesting systems, and EV charging stations. The team also plans to introduce carbon off-setting and in-setting for a carbon-neutral supply chain for customers.
Set to be ready by early 2023, the 4,880 square meter facility will meet Brisbane’s growing demand for international cold chain services, as well as the growth of general cargo in Queensland.
Maintaining a balance between supplying domestic demand and exporting will be key, especially during the peak seasons. Traditionally, more than 95 percent of Australian avocados are consumed domestically. But as the excess supply is putting pressure on the profit margins in the domestic market, producers are turning to exports for higher profits.
“We certainly don’t want to ship off a large quantity to another country, because that would crush the market up there and devalue the product,” cautioned Cooney. “With fresh fruits, we want to make sure that we can move them in the right quantity, according to schedule, and get them to their destination in the best possible condition.”
RELATED ARTICLESDHL Perishables LogisticsOur full range of services ensures the optimum conditions and proper compliance for perishables across the supply chain.As such, controlling the ripening process of the avocado is a crucial part of its logistics. Suppliers are heavily involved in the process of gauging and even controlling the ripening times of these high-maintenance fruits. “Avocados are very sensitive to ethylene gas, which is produced by certain fruits when they ripen. So they have to be stored separately, away from other fruits from the start to the end of the supply chain,” added Cooney.
The DHL Global Forwarding Australia team utilizes Controlled Atmosphere (CA) reefer containers, which keep the avocados frozen. By suspending the avocados in CA containers, producers can better control the supply of fruit entering the market, allowing for a steady flow of avocados fixed at a consistent price to be delivered to stores worldwide.
Adapting to local market requirements
On top of these basic requirements, the industry also has to cater to different protocols required by various markets. The Japan Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries (MAFF), for instance, requires its imports to fulfill a condition called “conditional non-host”. This means that the avocados need to be harvested before they ripen and become susceptible to fruit flies. The avocados also need to be placed in cold storage and packed separately with a pallet shroud or insect-proof packaging.
Avocados are harvested early as a preventive measure against fruit fly infestations.
Concerns about the Queensland fruit fly have limited the Australian avocado’s expansion into Japan. Currently, only regions free of the Queensland fruit fly — Western Australia, Tasmania, and the Riverland — can access the Japanese market, which means that Australia is only able to supply avocados to Japan for half of the year.
To further expand its market in Japan, suppliers will first have to set up packing lines catered to Japanese protocol. While this is challenging, Cooney notes that it is possible to meet Japan’s market requirements, especially since the market pays a premium for Australian avocado.
“It does require some training but the procedure is not too onerous. Our facility in Perth has eight different chambers, so we are well-equipped to segregate the avocados accordingly. We understand that stopping unwanted pests coming in from overseas is very important to the agricultural systems in their country, so we just need to adapt to the Japanese market,” said Cooney.
The future of avocados
It’s clear that the upheavals of the pandemic have brought key issues to the surface that were already there. The response of producers has helped chart a long-term path forward that should benefit the industry as a whole. As the global market for avocados expands, Australia’s producers recognize that tapping into the export sector is essential to creating sustainable operations throughout the industry. While there are gaps in industrial knowledge for newcomers, experienced companies like The Avocado Collective educate new growers in finding a balance on the returns for their businesses.
According to Avocados Australia, the country’s avocado exports have increased by 350 percent, compared to the pre-Covid-19 export volume. More than 50 percent of avocado shipments out of Western Australia in 2021 were from first-time exporters.
“Education is key here, especially since the avocado export sector is growing so quickly. Each grower has to understand the market and find a sustainable balance for their operations so that when new markets are available to them, they can adapt accordingly,” said Cooney. ] =>
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[$value] => As such, controlling the ripening process of the avocado is a crucial part of its logistics. Suppliers are heavily involved in the process of gauging and even controlling the ripening times of these high-maintenance fruits. “Avocados are very sensitive to ethylene gas, which is produced by certain fruits when they ripen. So they have to be stored separately, away from other fruits from the start to the end of the supply chain,” added Cooney.
The DHL Global Forwarding Australia team utilizes Controlled Atmosphere (CA) reefer containers, which keep the avocados frozen. By suspending the avocados in CA containers, producers can better control the supply of fruit entering the market, allowing for a steady flow of avocados fixed at a consistent price to be delivered to stores worldwide.
Adapting to local market requirements
On top of these basic requirements, the industry also has to cater to different protocols required by various markets. The Japan Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries (MAFF), for instance, requires its imports to fulfill a condition called “conditional non-host”. This means that the avocados need to be harvested before they ripen and become susceptible to fruit flies. The avocados also need to be placed in cold storage and packed separately with a pallet shroud or insect-proof packaging.
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Concerns about the Queensland fruit fly have limited the Australian avocado’s expansion into Japan. Currently, only regions free of the Queensland fruit fly — Western Australia, Tasmania, and the Riverland — can access the Japanese market, which means that Australia is only able to supply avocados to Japan for half of the year.
To further expand its market in Japan, suppliers will first have to set up packing lines catered to Japanese protocol. While this is challenging, Cooney notes that it is possible to meet Japan’s market requirements, especially since the market pays a premium for Australian avocado.
“It does require some training but the procedure is not too onerous. Our facility in Perth has eight different chambers, so we are well-equipped to segregate the avocados accordingly. We understand that stopping unwanted pests coming in from overseas is very important to the agricultural systems in their country, so we just need to adapt to the Japanese market,” said Cooney.
The future of avocados
It’s clear that the upheavals of the pandemic have brought key issues to the surface that were already there. The response of producers has helped chart a long-term path forward that should benefit the industry as a whole. As the global market for avocados expands, Australia’s producers recognize that tapping into the export sector is essential to creating sustainable operations throughout the industry. While there are gaps in industrial knowledge for newcomers, experienced companies like The Avocado Collective educate new growers in finding a balance on the returns for their businesses.
According to Avocados Australia, the country’s avocado exports have increased by 350 percent, compared to the pre-Covid-19 export volume. More than 50 percent of avocado shipments out of Western Australia in 2021 were from first-time exporters.
“Education is key here, especially since the avocado export sector is growing so quickly. Each grower has to understand the market and find a sustainable balance for their operations so that when new markets are available to them, they can adapt accordingly,” said Cooney.
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为了预防果蝇侵扰而提前采摘牛油果。
日本由于担心昆士兰果蝇的入侵而限制了澳大利亚牛油果的进口。目前，只有在没有昆士兰果蝇的地区生长的牛油果（包括西澳大利亚州、塔斯马尼亚州和河地产区）可以进入日本市场，这意味着澳大利亚一年只有一半时间可以向日本供应牛油果。
为了进一步占领日本市场，供应商必须首先建立符合日本要求的包装线。Cooney指出，虽然执行起来困难重重，但是澳大利亚很可能会满足日本的市场需求，尤其是因为日本市场愿意承担牛油果进口的附加费
“这确实需要一些培训，但程序不太繁重。我们在珀斯的工厂有八个不同的车间，配有齐全的设备，能相应地分离牛油果。我们明白防止害虫通过海外进口进入本国农业系统的重要性，所以我们要做的就是适应日本市场，”Cooney说道。
布里斯班新仓库的模型。
据澳大利亚绿色建筑委员会称，新仓库为五星级绿色建筑，配置太阳能电池板、可重复使用的电池（为仓库供电）、雨水收集系统和电动汽车充电站。DHL团队还计划为客户的碳中和供应链引入碳抵消措施。
仓库占地4880平方米，将于2023年初交付使用，届时将满足布里斯班对国际冷链服务日益增长的需求以及昆士兰州普通货物的运输增长需求。
[Amid shortages and soaring food prices, Australian avocados stand out as an anomaly to the trend, evading inflation as supply continues to exceed demand. Covid-19 has had a profound impact on every industry. But understanding how to gauge that impact and its longer-term implications is not so straightforward.
Take the avocado as an example: From one perspective, it was hailed as the pandemic-proof fruit, an extraordinary success story. But on the other hand, it is also a cautionary tale about understanding the nuances of getting the green gold from tree to table.
The global avocado trend
High in healthy fats and oils, avocados are known for having a plethora of nutritional benefits. The fruit grew even more popular during the pandemic when consumers became more health-conscious.
Known for their versatility, avocados are typically served on toast, in salads, and mashed or blended to make dips and milkshakes. Avocado seed oil is also growing popular as a healthier alternative to cooking oil.
Avocados’ crop value rose exponentially as consuming countries became more willing to pay high prices. Farmers in East Africa and Nigeria dubbed the fruit the ‘antidote to poverty. Chinese farmers have begun growing avocados to cope with the rising domestic demand, and cartels in Mexico are even robbing avocado farmers of their crops.
According to the OECD FAO agricultural outlook report 2021, global production has matched the growing demand. 2020 saw global output at 8.06 million metric tons, having tripled compared to 2.71 million metric tons in the year 2000.
By 2030, avocados are expected to become the world’s most exported tropical fruit.
However, growing avocados is a strenuous task. They are delicate fruits that bruise easily, and take a long time to ripen, with only a narrow window of time before they turn bad. Avocados are also notoriously expensive to grow, consuming an average of a million gallons of water to produce 100,000 pounds of avocados per acre.
Meeting the global demand for avocados, therefore, does not come without challenges.
Overcoming challenges during the pandemic
The Covid-19 pandemic amplified these challenges. But its impact, both short-term and long-term, differs from country to country. For Australia, the past two years have been tumultuous.
Before the outbreak, flight capacity for Australian avocado shipments could be easily secured, even during peak harvest seasons. But port congestions and grounded flights during the lockdown significantly reduced capacity to move products to markets out of Australia.
As such, the market had to rely on domestic consumption to absorb its avocado supply. This proved challenging, primarily because of an influx of new producers joining the market prior to the pandemic.
Notorious for being a high-maintenance fruit, avocados are difficult and expensive to grow due to the large amount of water they consume.
“Particularly in Western Australia and the east coast, more farmers are putting avocado crops and trees on the spare land they have. The rapidly rising demand and return on avocados have meant there’re almost double the number of producers in the market now compared to five years ago,” said Bernie Cooney, National Perishable and Livestock Manager, DHL Global Forwarding Australia.
The years 2017 and 2018 in particular saw an over-optimistic tree planting of avocado trees, increasing production by over 100 hectares each year. This will likely affect prices in the next decade, as an avocado tree takes six years to mature.
At the same time prices are falling as producers reap the benefits of economies of scale. This is good news for consumers: In 2022, each Australian household consumes 31.2 percent more avocados, and pays 29 percent less on average, compared to the previous year.
Growers, on the other hand, are suffering from an avocado glut, which has kept trade prices as low as 47 percent less than the five-year average.
The influx of new producers
To develop solutions for both immediate and longer-term challenges, producers need to understand and anticipate the trends in the market. But this was where many inexperienced producers have faltered.
“A lot of new growers that enter the market in a good year expect the same returns every year thereafter, but unfortunately, that’s not always the case,” said Cooney, who explained that avocados usually have a good yield in one year, followed by a weak one for the next.
“When the season has a bumper crop and large excesses of fruit leftover from the Australian consumption go into export, the returns are always going to be a bit lower, which will be tough on the farmers,” explained Cooney. However, he added that biennial bearings mean that the amount of fruit harvested won’t be as high the following year, and more returns will go to the farmers because the prices will be higher.
The over-planting of avocado trees has contributed to the avocado glut that is narrowing the profit margin for producers.
To better manage and anticipate these fluctuations, the DHL Global Forwarding team worked closely with both farmers and shippers to tighten their planning ahead of the different seasons. Now, well before the start of each season, farmers are giving forecasts into their capacity for each country’s export markets.
“The pandemic hasn’t just changed the way we operate. The shippers also have to plan their space a lot more stringently, which means we now need to forecast our required space four to six weeks ahead of time, which we haven’t needed to do in the past,” said Cooney.
Indeed, the pandemic has prompted some deeper changes in the industry. Some avocado growers and packers, for example, used the downtime during the pandemic to review their supply chain and upgrade their equipment. The Avocado Collective, Australia’s biggest avocado packing company, put in AUD $1 million on a sealed cold-docking facility at Manjimup to fulfill the growing export demand.
DHL Global Forwarding's new international cold chain facility in Brisbane airportIn response to the tremendous growth of Australia’s perishables export sector, DHL Global Forwarding is building a new green international cold chain facility at Brisbane airport. It is the first and only freight forwarder facility to have exclusive airside access within Brisbane airport and is strategically located within a 20km distance from the Port of Brisbane.
George Lawson, Managing Director, DHL Global Forwarding Australia said, “Brisbane’s economy is predicted to surge by 2031, and with the expansion of our facilities at Brisbane airport, we are ready to support our customers’ growth.”
A model of the new facility in Brisbane.
According to the Green Building Council of Australia, the new facility is a five-green star rating, featuring solar panels, reusable batteries to power warehouse operations, rainwater harvesting systems, and EV charging stations. The team also plans to introduce carbon off-setting and in-setting for a carbon-neutral supply chain for customers.
Set to be ready by early 2023, the 4,880 square meter facility will meet Brisbane’s growing demand for international cold chain services, as well as the growth of general cargo in Queensland.
Maintaining a balance between supplying domestic demand and exporting will be key, especially during the peak seasons. Traditionally, more than 95 percent of Australian avocados are consumed domestically. But as the excess supply is putting pressure on the profit margins in the domestic market, producers are turning to exports for higher profits.
“We certainly don’t want to ship off a large quantity to another country, because that would crush the market up there and devalue the product,” cautioned Cooney. “With fresh fruits, we want to make sure that we can move them in the right quantity, according to schedule, and get them to their destination in the best possible condition.”
RELATED ARTICLESDHL Perishables LogisticsOur full range of services ensures the optimum conditions and proper compliance for perishables across the supply chain.As such, controlling the ripening process of the avocado is a crucial part of its logistics. Suppliers are heavily involved in the process of gauging and even controlling the ripening times of these high-maintenance fruits. “Avocados are very sensitive to ethylene gas, which is produced by certain fruits when they ripen. So they have to be stored separately, away from other fruits from the start to the end of the supply chain,” added Cooney.
The DHL Global Forwarding Australia team utilizes Controlled Atmosphere (CA) reefer containers, which keep the avocados frozen. By suspending the avocados in CA containers, producers can better control the supply of fruit entering the market, allowing for a steady flow of avocados fixed at a consistent price to be delivered to stores worldwide.
Adapting to local market requirements
On top of these basic requirements, the industry also has to cater to different protocols required by various markets. The Japan Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries (MAFF), for instance, requires its imports to fulfill a condition called “conditional non-host”. This means that the avocados need to be harvested before they ripen and become susceptible to fruit flies. The avocados also need to be placed in cold storage and packed separately with a pallet shroud or insect-proof packaging.
Avocados are harvested early as a preventive measure against fruit fly infestations.
Concerns about the Queensland fruit fly have limited the Australian avocado’s expansion into Japan. Currently, only regions free of the Queensland fruit fly — Western Australia, Tasmania, and the Riverland — can access the Japanese market, which means that Australia is only able to supply avocados to Japan for half of the year.
To further expand its market in Japan, suppliers will first have to set up packing lines catered to Japanese protocol. While this is challenging, Cooney notes that it is possible to meet Japan’s market requirements, especially since the market pays a premium for Australian avocado.
“It does require some training but the procedure is not too onerous. Our facility in Perth has eight different chambers, so we are well-equipped to segregate the avocados accordingly. We understand that stopping unwanted pests coming in from overseas is very important to the agricultural systems in their country, so we just need to adapt to the Japanese market,” said Cooney.
The future of avocados
It’s clear that the upheavals of the pandemic have brought key issues to the surface that were already there. The response of producers has helped chart a long-term path forward that should benefit the industry as a whole. As the global market for avocados expands, Australia’s producers recognize that tapping into the export sector is essential to creating sustainable operations throughout the industry. While there are gaps in industrial knowledge for newcomers, experienced companies like The Avocado Collective educate new growers in finding a balance on the returns for their businesses.
According to Avocados Australia, the country’s avocado exports have increased by 350 percent, compared to the pre-Covid-19 export volume. More than 50 percent of avocado shipments out of Western Australia in 2021 were from first-time exporters.
“Education is key here, especially since the avocado export sector is growing so quickly. Each grower has to understand the market and find a sustainable balance for their operations so that when new markets are available to them, they can adapt accordingly,” said Cooney. ] => 
为了预防果蝇侵扰而提前采摘牛油果。
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