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Infrastructure investments lure African fruit traders

Summary by Freight News

Strategic positioning of storage and distribution facilities has enabled apple and pear exporter Tru-Cape to vastly expand its reach into Africa, in part thanks to bypassing time-consuming and unpredictable ocean freight. The company sells about half of its marketed apples in Africa, and its 4 000 m2 storage and distribution centre at City Deep has been key to its success. It

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Tristan Dorfling, a young grower from Cape Town, South Africa

family background/ Tristan earned a master’s degree in horticulture from Stellenbosch University. He is married to Georgine and is the son of Linda Dorfling and Ralf Ketzer.age/ 33hometown/ Cape Town, South Africacrops/ apples and pearsrole/ pome rootstock project managerbusiness/ ProvarWhat was your path to farming?After I did my schooling, I wasn’t intending on doing anything particular and took a gap year to do sound production at a theatre. …

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