Asunción, Agencia IP.- The first container with meat for industrial purposes will be sent this Friday from Paraguay to the Canadian market. This milestone is achieved less than a month after obtaining health authorization to export meat to this new destination.
«The authorization for export to the Canadian market occurred in the second week of May; the meat processing plants had time to negotiate the first contracts, and this Friday, the symbolic shipment of the first container will be made,» reported the president of the National Quality and Animal Health (Senacsa), José Carlos Martin.
He pointed out that the Canadian market is one of the leading importers of meat in the world and that it will depend a lot on Paraguayan exporters, based on the quality and competitiveness of their product, to send more significant volumes to said market.
«This first shipment is of industrial meat. «They are front cuts that will be processed there, mainly in the hamburger plants, which is a product that is widely consumed there,» the president of the Paraguayan Meat Chamber, Randy Ross Wiebe, had told RCC Radio Holding.
«Canada has a little over 70,000 tonnes of meat quota that is normally not filled, so we think we can send quite a bit to the Canadian market,» he added.
The first shipment from the Frigo Chorti industrial plant in Loma Plata is scheduled for this Friday at 10:00 a.m.
«The journey is from Loma Plata to the port on the Paraguay River, from there to the port of Montevideo, from where it goes to a port in Colombia and finally to the port in Canada, near the border with the United States. In total, it is expected to arrive at its destination in Canada in 6 weeks,» explained Ross Wiebe.