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Four Egyptian authorities sit behind a produce export consignment. Which one issues the phytosanitary certificate, which registers the packhouse, which inspects the container, and what an importer should ask to see.
Curing onions, garlic, sweet potato, taro and potato before export: target temperatures, humidity, duration and the weight loss to expect, crop by crop.
Which Egyptian crops ship in modified atmosphere packaging, the target gas mixes by product, what MAP adds in shelf life, and where the film costs more than it returns.
Chilling injury damages produce held above freezing but below its safe minimum. Threshold temperatures, highest freezing points and arrival symptoms for 14 Egyptian export crops.
Transit weight loss on Egyptian produce runs from about 0.5 to 4 percent of net carton weight by crop. Loss rates, overpack practice, contract wording and when a short arrival weight becomes a claim.
Which Egyptian crops give off ethylene, which are damaged by it, and the pairings that should never share a cold room or a reefer. Production rates and sensitivity ratings by crop.
Extra allows 5 percent out of class, Class I allows 10 percent, Class II allows 10 percent with a 2 percent decay sub-limit. What each produce quality class actually permits, and which class Egyptian crops ship in.
Typical port-to-port sailing days from Alexandria, Damietta, Port Said and Sokhna to the destinations Egyptian reefer produce actually moves to, plus the days to add either side of the sea leg.
Which cooling method each Egyptian crop needs before it goes into a reefer, with target pulp temperatures, seven-eighths cooling times and the moisture loss each method costs.
Which mango is sweetest? Measured Brix ranges for ten export varieties, from Owaisi at 18–22° down to Tommy Atkins at 12–14°.
A month-by-month mango season calendar by origin — Egypt, India, Peru, Mexico, Brazil and the US — with the varieties shipping in each window.
Mango size chart for Egyptian export: count 6 = 775-900 g, count 12 = 385-460 g in a 5 kg carton. Count-to-weight conversion, variety size bands and container loads.
