July 12 2013, 12:21 Fito-Mag

Almost nine-fold increase in Italian juice exports to Ukraine over 5 seasons

According to State Statistics Service of Ukraine, Italy shipped 2,400 tonnes of fruit and vegetable juices to Ukraine in the first 11 months of the season 2012/13, 8.8 times of exports in the same period five seasons ago.

At the same time, a year-on-year increase in Italian exports to Ukraine was slight and amounted to just 4%. Italy has ranked sixth among largest fruit and vegetable juice exporters to Ukraine for the second season in a row.