Torre Blanca improves profitability

The main Peruvian packing and trading company, Torre Blanca, handles growing export volumes, boosting their mandarin and avocado shipments by 50%. The target for 2014 is 280 containers of citrus, plus 120 containers of Hass avocado, doubling last year’s figures. Manager Gianfranco Guerrini highlights their satsuma’s excellent reception in the English market: “Satsuma prices were the best we have ever recorded in the last five years, because our competitors, among them Argentina and Uruguay, didn’t have enough fruit. Minneolas also showed good returns, thanks to all the fruit being shipped in timely programmes.  Late mandarins penetrated well in distant destinations such as Russia.”  At year-end 2013, Torre Blanca’s total exports were 250 containers: 60 avocado, 71 satsumas, 55 minneola and 64 other citrus varieties.