From Michoacán to Spain in five days

Top Carriers recently carried out the transportation, paperwork and delivery, by air and land, of an order of avocado from Michoacán to the European continent in just five days.

We had to be agile and fast in the wholesale-retail-final consumer commercial chain to deliver ten metric tons of avocado, the equivalent of fourteen pallets, on the same flight. We determine the date and time of the flight and plan everything from cutting, packing, ground transportation, customs clearance and delivery to the airline warehouse.

On day one, as the avocado was cut, it was moved parallel to the packaging. On the third day we had the complete load, selected and packed in the transport that transferred it to the Mexico City International Airport, which it entered in the morning on the day of the flight that would take off at night. We only had a few hours to do the export clearance and deposit the merchandise in the designated warehouse. We complete export clearance and storage nine hours before flight.

Three hours before takeoff, the convoy was loaded onto the plane, to mount and secure the avocado on the aircraft. It was an eleven-hour flight to Europe, where our logistics agent at the destination was already waiting for him with all the documentation for import customs clearance. A trailer was positioned in the warehouse where the plane was unloaded and the cargo was immediately transported to the warehouse of the wholesaler in Spain.

In just five days, the avocado arrived for distribution and sale, ten days before its maturation, fresh and ready for the final consumer’s table. This is how Top Carriers promotes the competitiveness of Mexican producers to place their vegetable production in various countries around the world with enough shelf life to be marketed. Achieving it requires very precise logistics, with impeccable planning and free from interruptions, since there is no time to make mistakes since that would mean missing the flight.