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Article: Tea export and transportation: Global trends.(Brief Article)
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- Tea & Coffee Trade Journal
- Article date:
- February 20, 2002
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Transporting tea is more dangerous than consumers realize. Challenges include pirates and gangs of highway robbers. Yet, advancement is in the wind, with global positioning satellites (GPS) on ships and trucks, plus expansion of WTO and labeling requirements. Transport remains a costly worry to tea industry leaders. Planning is difficult, and most nations have no reliable data on tea export tonnage. The industry faces stress, although long-term progress looks likely.
The tea trade is gradually orienting export to the value-added sector. Hasitha de Alwis, Sri Lanka Tea Board director, reports, "an increase of over 13,000 tons compared with last year on packet ...