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 Market Insights

Egypt Produce Season Calendar: Every Export, Month by Month

One page, the whole origin: the Egypt produce season calendar maps when every major export ships — citrus, mangoes, strawberries, onions, potatoes, sweet potatoes, grapes, pomegranates, dates, and the frozen lines that run year-round. Bookmark it, plan against it, and follow the links into each product’s full guide. Egypt’s superpower is exactly this calendar: something […]

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Export Guides

How to Import from Egypt: The 8-Step Produce Buyer’s Playbook

Learning how to import from Egypt is worth the effort for one reason: this origin now leads or contends in oranges, frozen strawberries, onions, potatoes, and a fast-growing mango trade — at freight costs and seasons no single competitor matches. The process itself is simpler than most first-time buyers expect, provided you follow the sequence.

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Export Guides

Egyptian Produce Export Documents: The Complete Checklist

Every rejected container starts with a missing paper. Egyptian produce export documents follow one core set — phytosanitary, origin, invoice, packing list, transport document, lab reports — plus destination extras that trip up first-time importers. This master checklist covers what each document is, who issues it, what to verify, and the market-specific additions for the

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Export Guides

Reefer Container Shipping from Egypt: The Produce Importer’s Guide

Reefer container shipping from Egypt is the artery every trade on this site runs through — mangoes to Jeddah, oranges to St. Petersburg, frozen strawberries to Rotterdam. The mechanics are the same; the settings, and the mistakes, differ by product. This guide explains how reefer shipping from Egyptian ports actually works: the ports, the settings

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Vegetables & Onions

Egyptian Potatoes Export: Varieties, Season & Specs Guide

Egyptian potatoes export runs one of the great counter-season plays in European food trade: while Europe’s own crop sits in winter storage losing condition, Egyptian new potatoes come out of sandy fields from January onward — thin-skinned, washed-bright, and landing in Rotterdam before most competing new crop exists. Egypt ships hundreds of thousands of tonnes

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Vegetables & Onions

Egyptian Sweet Potato Export: The Beauregard Buyer’s Guide

Egyptian sweet potato export is one of the quietest success stories in the vegetable trade: in under a decade Egypt became one of Europe’s leading sweet potato suppliers, shipping cured Beauregard from late summer deep into spring at freight costs the US — the traditional supplier — cannot match. For EU retail programs that once

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Egyptian legumes and pulses assortment in sacks
Legumes

Egyptian Legumes Export: Beans, Chickpeas & Lentils Guide

Egyptian legumes export serves a trade older than any fresh-produce lane out of this origin: dried beans and pulses — fava beans, chickpeas, lentils, white beans, black-eyed beans — cleaned, sorted, and packed for wholesale and retail buyers across the Gulf, Africa, Europe, and the diaspora markets that cook Egyptian at home. Pulses forgive logistics

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Egyptian IQF frozen fruits and vegetables
Frozen (IQF)

Egyptian Frozen Vegetables: The IQF Buyer’s Guide 2026

Egyptian frozen vegetables travel further than almost any other product this origin ships — IQF okra in London kitchens, frozen molokhia in every Gulf supermarket freezer, spinach and mixed vegetables in European retail bags. The logic is the same one that made Egypt the world’s frozen strawberry leader: enormous fresh harvests, freezing plants beside the

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