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Citrus growers face years of recovery from sky-rocketing reefer rates

Although container rates have gone down, it may take five to seven years to absorb losses from the Covid-related price hikes, South African citrus grower Jan-Louis Pretorius tells ShippingWatch.
"As an otherwise viable, profitable and sustainable business, we made significant losses in 2022 – basically without we could do anything about it," says the CEO of South African Groep 91 Uitvoer, Jan-Louis Pretorius.
"As an otherwise viable, profitable and sustainable business, we made significant losses in 2022 – basically without we could do anything about it," says the CEO of South African Groep 91 Uitvoer, Jan-Louis Pretorius.
by TOMAS KRISTIANSEN

Jan-Louis Pretorius has worked as a grower and exporter in the South African citrus industry for 12 years – a time of steep growth with an increasing number of boxes being shipped every year from the ports of Durban, Port Elizabeth or Cape Town to end up in malls and supermarkets in all corners of the world. Not least in Europe.

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