PROVIDING FRESHER FRUIT FASTER

摘要

About five years ago, then-PortFresh CEO Brian Kastick had a brilliant idea-what if Georgia's Port of Savannah could be used for importing fresh fruit and vegetables? Kastick, who became a key account executive with Ameri-cold when the company acquired PortFresh in January 2019, had been importing onions from Peru through the Port of Philadelphia, but it had never been done through the South Georgia port. The reason? Before 2014, the U.S. Department of Agriculture did not allow it. Ninety-five percent of the imported fruits and vegetables entering the U.S. East Coast came through Northeast ports and were trucked to customers in the Southeast and points beyond.