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country's largest fruit import and has increased trade between Thailand and
China.
Since 2019, China has imported more fresh durian than cherries in quantity,
cementing its place as the king of imported fruit for China. COVID-19 affected
the supply chain for an extended time in 2020, but the pandemic didn't lessen
Chinese consumers' love for durian, and import volumes have increased
continuously since then.
In 2017, China imported 224,400 metric tons of durian. In 2021, the number
reached 821,500 tons, and the import value reached $4.2 billion, according to
the General Administration of Customs.
Last year, fresh fruits in the order of import volume were durian, cherries,
bananas, mangosteens and grapes. Nearly 90 percent of durian imported by
China came from Thailand, according to the Ministry of Commerce in Thailand.
China-based Joyvio Group, an online vendor of fruit and the agricultural arm of
Legend Holdings Corp, said it imports more than 3,000 large containers of
durian from Thailand and Malaysia annually. Each container holds 20 tons of
fruit. The company also imports bananas and coconuts from Southeast Asian
countries.
In 2021, the volume of durian that Joyvio imported increased more than 50
percent year-on-year. Durian sold best in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou,
Guangdong province, and Shenyang, Liaoning province, the company said.
In Thailand, Joyvio operates more than 400 vehicles for transporting fruit. In
China, the company operates more than 600 cold-chain vehicles, and it works
with three Customs clearance agencies. The company said it has built a
whole-process monitoring system from the point of origin to the domestic
market.
Joyvio primarily uses ocean shipping for fruit, with arrivals at ports in
Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen in Guangdong province and Dalian in Liaoning
province. It also transports fruit overland through Pingxiang in the Guangxi
Zhuang autonomous region and Mohan in Yunnan province, the company said.
China has licensed importation of durian from Thailand and Malaysia. Most
fresh durian is imported from Thailand via ocean shipping, and frozen durian is
mainly imported from Malaysia via airfreight, according to industry reports.
China's demand for durian has increased durian cultivation and fueled a price
increase in Thailand. A few years ago, the wholesale price of a kilogram of the
fruit was between 13 yuan ($2) and 17 yuan, and now the price has climbed
to 21 to 28 yuan, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives in
Thailand.
China is the largest export market for Thai durian, and the fruit tops among
China's fruit imports in value as well as quantity, the ministry said.
Moving durian from Thailand to China takes some 10 days via ocean shipping.
Transportation times are forecast to be shortened significantly once the
Sino-Thai high-speed railway begins operating in 2026.
Qinzhou Port, part of Beibu Gulf Port in Guangxi, has been designated as the
reception area for a large part of the nation's imported fruit since July 2017,
when it started to receive imported durian from Thailand. Last year, the port
handled 20,070 tons of durian, and about 90 percent were from Thailand,
according to local Customs officials.
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