IT will take about a foot for a spoonful of food to reach the mouth; to reach the dining table, it’s farther than that. Nearly 10,000 nautical miles: 9,629, to be exact. That is the distance between the Port of Rotterdam, Europe’s largest seaport, and the Manila International Container Terminal, the Philippines’ busiest port.
That is also the exact length it takes for a container of pork products from the world’s top exporter of pork to arrive in the world’s ninth-biggest consumer of pork meat.
Vice versa, it’s also the same mileage that shipments of virgin coconut oil from the Philippines, one of two of the world’s largest exporters, cover upon reaching Europe.
Prior to the pandemic year, it took about a month to a month and a half on average to complete one delivery; either of pork from Europe to the Philippines, or coconut oil from the Philippines to Europe. Today, it takes an eternity…of sorts.
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