Nile Prime

Nile Prime is the premium Egyptian fresh produce brand of PEI Trade, exporting mangoes, citrus, strawberries and IQF frozen food to importers worldwide. Articles are written by the Nile Prime export team.

Export Guides

Produce Trade Glossary 2026: Every Term the Import-Export Business Runs On

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This produce trade glossary defines the working vocabulary of the fresh and frozen produce import-export business — the incoterms, document names, cold-chain terms, quality metrics, and payment structures that fill every contract and email in the trade. Each entry links to the full guide where one exists on this site. Bookmark it: every other page […]

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Citrus

Egyptian Mandarin Export Guide 2026: The Easy-Peeler Playbook

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Egyptian mandarin export rides the produce world’s friendliest consumer trend: easy peelers keep taking shelf share from oranges everywhere from Moscow hypermarkets to Jakarta minimarts, and Egypt’s November–March Murcott-led season lands in the heart of Northern Hemisphere winter demand. This guide covers varieties from Murcott to baladi, the peel-and-uniformity quality logic that prices the category,

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Citrus

Egyptian Lemon Export Guide 2026: The Category That Never Sleeps

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Egyptian lemon export serves the one citrus category where demand never sleeps and supply regularly breaks: lemons are a year-round kitchen staple from London to Jakarta, and every winter some Mediterranean supplier — Turkish frost, Spanish drought, Argentine strike — leaves a gap that Egyptian adalia lemons and seedless limes can fill within a fortnight.

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Frozen (IQF)

Egyptian Artichoke Export Guide 2026: The Frozen Giant Nobody Expects

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Egyptian artichoke export rides a fact most buyers find surprising: Egypt is one of the world’s top artichoke producers — regularly second only to Italy — and its frozen artichoke hearts and bottoms supply the Mediterranean food industry, European retail freezers, and North American ethnic and food-service trades. The fresh vegetable barely travels; the frozen

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Vegetables & Onions

Egyptian Herbs & Spices Export Guide 2026: The Ingredient Superpower

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Egyptian herbs and spices export is the quietest world-leadership story in the country’s agriculture: Egypt is among the planet’s largest exporters of dried herbs — marjoram, basil, chamomile, mint, parsley, dill — plus caraway, coriander, fennel, and hibiscus, shipped as ingredients into the tea, seasoning, and extract industries of Europe and North America. It is

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Market Insights

Frozen Strawberry Prices 2026: Egypt’s Curve, Grades & Buying Calendar

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Frozen strawberry prices from Egypt behave like no fresh-fruit market: the product holds two years at −18°C, so prices move on production-window economics, cold-store carry costs, and global crop news rather than daily perishability panic. Egypt has become the world’s dominant frozen strawberry exporter, which makes its price curve the market’s reference. This guide maps

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Market Insights

Egyptian Onion Prices 2026: The Seasonal Curve Every Buyer Should Memorize

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Egyptian onion prices for export move on a rhythm every serious buyer eventually memorizes: new-crop lows in spring, storage-driven firming through autumn, and the periodic India-shock spikes that reprice the whole world market in a week. This guide maps the seasonal price curve with illustrative levels, the five forces that actually move FOB quotes, how

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Market Insights

Ramadan Produce Demand Guide 2026: Won Six Months Before the Moon

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Ramadan produce demand is the single largest predictable event in the Middle Eastern food calendar: for one month, consumption of dates, citrus, juices, and vegetables across 400+ million consumers surges 20–50% by category — and because the Islamic calendar advances ~11 days yearly, the window moves through the seasons, reshuffling which origins can serve it.

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Fruits

Egyptian Watermelon Export Guide 2026: Winning the Freight Game

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Egyptian watermelon export feeds the Gulf’s deepest summer craving from fields a short sail away: April-to-July volumes of large, sand-grown fruit crossing to Saudi Arabia and the Gulf in days, plus a growing early-window trade to Eastern Europe before local Balkan crops arrive. Watermelon is the basket’s heaviest, cheapest-per-kilo, most freight-sensitive product — a trade

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Fruits

Egyptian Cantaloupe Export Guide 2026: The Counter-Season Window

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Egyptian cantaloupe export owns a window European buyers quietly depend on: from December through May, while Spain’s fields rest, Egyptian Galia and Charentais melons fill the counter-season gap — sweet from desert sun, five sailing days from European ports, and priced to make the winter melon category work. This guide covers types and windows, the

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