Strawberries

The strawberry export companies in Egypt sit on top of two world-class trades at once: fresh winter berries for the Gulf and Europe, and the frozen strawberries Egypt now exports more of than any country on earth. Fresh and IQF demand different disciplines — 24-hour cold chains on one side, certified freezing plants on the

The Egyptian strawberry season is a winter story: planting on sandy soils in September, first fruit by November, and a December–March peak that supplies Gulf retail and European shelves precisely when nobody nearby can. Around it runs a second calendar — the IQF plants that freeze the harvest and ship it worldwide for the rest

Egyptian strawberry export runs on a fact most buyers outside the trade still find surprising: Egypt has become the world’s largest exporter of frozen strawberries — and one of the top fresh suppliers to Europe and the Gulf in the winter window. Two products, one origin: fresh berries flown and trucked from November to April