A co-ordinated approach to transport arrangements to central storage facilities is vital if the benefits in fruit quality from the correct growing and harvesting of fruits are to be maintained.
- Where fruit is destined for a central storage complex, co-ordination of transport is vital.
- Transport arrangements should be part of central site planning, ensuring pickups are planned and at regular intervals to avoid unnecessary bottle-necks occurring.
- The optimum should be to remove fruit from the orchard and deliver to the storage complex within 2 hours i.e. three pick-ups a day.