Flying fruit
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Air Pacific is reported to be working with exporters on the design of specialist air freight packaging to protect fresh pro duce now being carried in in creasing quantities from the Pacific into Sydney. Fiji is the main source of this traffic, but other islands like Tonga and Samoa are also involved.
The Forum Fisheries Agency in Vanuatu also recently sent off a mission to look at packaging of fresh fish. They and impor ters in Australia are working on a new type of polystyrene pack to enable fresh, unfrozen, fish from Vanuatu to be sold on the Sydney market.