Coronavirus: Hong Kong and Singapore are hungry for Australian produce, but why can’t they get it?

Until a fortnight ago, Antony Allen was exporting a total of 45 tonnes of avocados to Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia every week. These days, Allen – the chief executive of agribusiness The Avolution in Brisbane, Australia – is unable to send even a third of that amount to his company’s top three overseas markets.The problem is not a drop-off in demand, which remains strong, but the grounding of global aviation due to the coronavirus pandemic. Freight capacity, most of which is usually…



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