Peruvian asparagus, mangos, and blueberries led air exports in 2024

In 2024, Peruvian exports via air reached 91,881 tons, reflecting an increase of 4.3 percent against the dispatched volume in the same period of the previous year, according to Agraria, using figures from Comex Peru.

Three agricultural products led Peruvian exports via air: fresh or refrigerated asparagus, fresh mangoes, and fresh blueberries, which together concentrated 62.4 percent of the total volume dispatched by this route.

The International Trade Guild explained that the air shipments of fresh or refrigerated asparagus in 2024 amounted to 33,227 tons, reflecting a contraction of 6.6 percent; fresh mangos added 14,786 tons, showing a fall of 10 percent; while fresh blueberry exports amounted to 9,322 tons, observing a growth of 28.4 percent.

Regarding only the month of December 2024, Peruvian shipments via air amounted to 9,546 tons, registering an increase of 11.4 percent compared to what was dispatched in the same month of the previous year.

Fresh or refrigerated asparagus and fresh mangoes were the most dispatched products on this route during that month, concentrating 71 percent of the total volume. From the first product, 4,021 tons were sent (+3.4 percent), of the second were 2,757 tons (+38.1 percent).