" There is a fortune of attention for sea freight of flower , both within and outside the sector , and that is excellent . But what not everyone knows is how we actually got here . Together with other party , Chrysal spent ten years explore and endow several million until we finally discharge the final registrations of our ' Rose Dip service ' in 2019 . It is since that minute , and only since that moment that it has been potential to successfully export flowers by boat from Kenya to Europe . “Niels van Doorn in 2019 when Chrysal had just started to roll out the Chrysal Rose Dip inspection and repair .
We verbalize to Niels van Doorn , General Manager of Chrysal Africa . Consumers know the company for its trimmed flush nutrient , but growers and traders for certain know Chrysal for its post - harvest discussion . The Chrysal Rose Dip serving is a young post - harvest treatment , a service in which farm workers are trained by Chrysal Technical Assistants and which let the rose not only to survive the 30 days at ocean but even to come forth in very good status - if all other factors are foregather . Because there are so many factors to consider , an important part of the service is the collection and sharing of data with farm and buyers to identify and improve any cognitive operation nuisance point .
Mastering botrytis"For flower transport , good pre - handling and a good moth-eaten chain of mountains are of import , " state Niels . " Our products avail the flower to hydrate . maintain a constant , modest temperature and guarantee optimum atomic number 8 and carbon dioxide levels during shipping is up to the logistics . Those technologies are there at 0.5 stage , and under the ripe atmospherical experimental condition , you could continue a lot of time . But with ocean freightage , and sure , where pink wine are concerned , there is a third stage : combating Botrytis . What we have now developed is exactly that , a protection against the development of Botrytis . "
If these three conditions are met , then in principle , nothing stand in the way of the large - scale roll - out of ocean payload . " We have already had weeks when 5 % of the total roseate production was shipped by boat . That amounts to about 25 containers . At the instant , all sea freight rosebush are handled by Chrysal . "
The dip team , or in full " Chrysal Africa Rose Dip & Sea Freight team . "
The fashion upAt the same fourth dimension , it is on-key that these volumes can and , as Niels knows , will become much bombastic . " Next class we will be at 10 % , the year after that at 20 % , and then it will go even faster , to finally reach at least 50 - 50 . " What brook in the way of that is a number of things . " The market place has to give up flexibility , not only in sentence but also in being able to order specific coloring and case as latterly as possible . For bombastic retail , where purchases are more often made on contract , this is easier . One will want to keep a sure flexibleness , hence the 50 - 50 , but for the stock flows , it is a godsend . In addition , there must be a vital people . For a Maersk or CMA CGM , 10 or even 50 container a workweek is peanuts , but at a certain mass , it becomes significant . Then there will be more focal point , and it will no longer just happen that a container arrives with a two - workweek postponement . You always have to allow for a few days ' slack , but if you exceed 40 to 45 days of transport , the quality put up . "
Despite the sustainable benefits that are much talked about , it is often still a simple cost - benefit psychoanalysis for entrepreneurs . " In South America , we are stuck at 10 to 15 % ocean freight because the need is not gamy enough : due to the ample and affordable air lading provision , the profit is minimum , despite the sea freight trip being half that from Kenya . Because those factors are unlike for us , that profit is now possible . "
Both above and below , untreated rosebush vs. dipped in Chrysal Rose Dip . The treated specimens have no botrytis , have kept their coloration or even deepened it , open uniformly and have a longer vase spirit .
Retail paysFinally , it is striking that in European practice , it is usually the retail merchant or purchaser who bear . This too is a distinctive monetary value - benefit psychoanalysis . " In the event of exit , only the leverage price of the flower can be reclaim , but the buyers lose out on the transport costs they bear - which are often higher than the root word price . If the pre - processing is in order and therefore the personnel casualty can be reduced by decade percent , then it is a simple summation - this applies to both atmosphere and sea freight , by the way . Because it works out like that , they are prepared to take on the costs themselves . "
Most sustainable partnerThe shipping industry and forwarders are see the developments with expectant interest and are explicitly looking for cooperation with Chrysal . For its part , Chrysal does the same , but without committing to specific parties , in its own words , " to fulfil the higher sustainable goal and keep our resolution approachable to everyone . " In Kenya alone , Chrysal has about twenty people in the field of force , going to the farms and assist them with post - harvest discourse and data aggregation . " No matter how big or modest the raiser or the mass on the total , Chrysal wants to be the most sustainable better half for every client . "
For more info : ChrysalNiels van DoornE:[email protected]www.chrysal.com
