How Wonderful pomegranate is graded on an Egyptian export line, the colour, size and defect criteria that decide Class I from Class II, and the four lines every buyer should put in the specification.
Week of 6 September 2026 from the Nile Prime packhouse: pomegranate sizing and colour, the citrus line ready for early Navel, reefer positions and what buyers should be booking now.
Fresh Egyptian dates at balah and rutab stage ship on a much tighter clock than dried grades. Harvest windows for Zaghloul, Samany and Barhi, carton formats, reefer set points and why the September window closes fast.
How Egyptian onions and garlic are loaded for export: mesh bag and big bag formats, ventilated container stow patterns, vent settings, and the moisture faults that turn a clean load into a mouldy arrival.
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A station by station walk through an Egyptian citrus line, from tipping and drenching to degreening, waxing, sizing and palletising, and the four points where most transit damage is actually created.
Our week of 3 September from the Egyptian packing line: Wonderful pomegranate now at working volume with the size curve settling, the mango season closed, citrus lines commissioned ahead of the first Navel pick, and autumn freight positions firming.
What a bolt seal proves, where the seal number has to appear, and the loading photo and document record an importer should receive before an Egyptian container sails.
Which Egyptian citrus varieties can share a reefer with pomegranate in the October overlap, which cannot, and how to set temperature, ventilation and stow order.
The citrus defects that are not decay and not chilling injury. What causes creasing, granulation, puffiness, oleocellosis and stem-end rind breakdown, where each one is created, and which of them a packhouse can grade out.
Week 36 from the Egyptian packhouse floor. The Keitt mango tail is effectively finished, pomegranate volume is building through Wonderful, guava holds its window, and packhouses are turning over to citrus ahead of the October opening.