Ecuador will transmit abroad 15,000 tons of flowers to meet the requirement of Valentine ’s Day . The sphere also has a novel embarkation point this year thanks to the resumption of cargo flights at the Cotopaxi International Airport .
The exportation increased of 1,000 tons in relation to the shipment that was made for the same holiday , in 2018 . However , the floriculturists expect a similar amount of income , said Alejandro Martinez , chief executive officer of Expoflores .
The live weather that occurred during this rainy season advanced the yield in the flower farms and , as a issue , there is an teemingness of flowers in the securities industry . Due to the large amount of product , the Leontyne Price dropped , explicate Gino Descalzi , cosmopolitan manager of the Fiorentina Flower grove .
In plus , production costs are still a disadvantage for the sector . “ These arise every yr , not the sales event prices of the flower , ” said Pablo Viteri , director of the blossom grower Pacific Bouquet .
The action of logistics and cargo for the lading of the production started on January 20 and intensified since this week , at the airport of Quito and Latacunga . blossom arrive at the ‘ consolidators ’ , locate in the capital ’s airport .
92 % corresponds to roses , which are the most valued and quoted in international markets , at this time of the year .
There , operator agilely offload the products from the vehicles , weigh them and measure the temperature . The product is straight off placed in ‘ pallets ’ . One by one , the packet form large blocks , which are accommodated with molds , according to the size and model of the aircraft , explained Roy Cisternas , general managing director of Servipallet .
Another radical of employees wait for cargo in the cold room . Packages remain for about an hour and a one-half in this area , until they can be send . Last Wednesday ’s afternoon , four cargo planes waited for the flowers on the runway of Mariscal Sucre Airport , in Tababela .
The flowers were intend for Amsterdam ( Holland ) and , later on , they will be transported by land to Russia , enounce Tufiño . In amount , before Valentine ’s daytime , it is expected that around 300 flights will go away from Quito and 6 from Latacunga , said Quiport and Expoflores .
The market that await Ecuadorian roses are the USA , the Netherlands , Luxembourg , Russia and Qatar - among others . Luis Galárraga , Quiport spokesman . enunciate that this year a 3 - 6 % increase in flower exaltation is expected .
Valentine ’s Day represents between 28 and 30 % of yearly gross sales . Hence , it is an extremely important menstruation for Ecuadorian peak growers . Naranjo Roses exports natural rose , preserved and dye , but the first ones - of red color - are the most demanded , as of now ..
The union plan to increase routes and produce a freight consolidation zona , to avoid going to Quito for the service .
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