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Supply chain disrupted for fresh fruit and vegetables

Jun 28 2023 Updated June 28, 2023

Murray Robertson

2 min read

LeaderBrand is working to maintain the supply of vegetables to market, a supply chain that has been disrupted by the closure of State Highway 2 at Otoko. This LeaderBrand block of red and white cabbage in Tucker Road was soaking up the sunshine yesterday morning. Picture by Liam Clayton

The closure of State Highway 2 north due to land stability issues at Otoko has disrupted the supply chain for fresh fruit and vegetables out of the Gisborne district.

Countdown Supermarket chain yesterday put out an advisory to its customers pointing to the potential impact on fruit and vegetable availability in their stores across the country.

“Due to road closures, our key produc...

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Peter Jones

28 June 2023

The full resilience package? That's a bit optimistic isn't it. Who does those?It's not the mayor. It's not the GDC. They only allocate to the corporate infrastructure companies and once they get their funding what they do is virtually impossible to oversee. They are all care and no responsibility because they cannot turn the tap off. They just work to the specs provided and restart from scratch the next time. It's called disaster capitalism.

Supply chain disrupted for fresh fruit and vegetables

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