Thailand extends 'durian road' to EU with new airport role

Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi challenges Singapore as produce export hub

YUKAKO ONO, Nikkei staff writer

 

 

BANGKOK -- Exporting such fruits as durian from Thailand to Europe is set to become smoother after Bangkok's international gateway, Suvarnabhumi Airport, adopts European Union standards for inspections of outbound produce.

 

Under an agreement between state-owned Airports of Thailand and Liege Airport in Belgium, an important EU cargo hub, farm products inspected at Suvarnabhumi will be stamped "EU-standard certified" and be able to enter countries in the European trading bloc without further checks.

 

Produce from Thailand is now subject to additional checks upon arrival, risking rejection after a long trip.

 

Full story: https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Thailand-extends-durian-road-to-EU-with-new-airport-role

 

-- NIKKEI ASIAN REVIEW 2018-06-29

4 minutes ago, webfact said:

Thailand extends 'durian road' to EU with new airport role

Bet that’s one smelly road. 

11 minutes ago, Bluespunk said:

Bet that’s one smelly road. 

It might be a golden road...loads of young people are into being vegan and eating superhealthy natural food...for them a durian is the ultimate to brag about to their friends. Also durian is a fat food they can eat, it has high energy like meat/cheese which they can't/won't eat.

 

I hope they will send a lot more fruit now from Thailand to Liege.

20 minutes ago, Thian said:

It might be a golden road...loads of young people are into being vegan and eating superhealthy natural food...for them a durian is the ultimate to brag about to their friends. Also durian is a fat food they can eat, it has high energy like meat/cheese which they can't/won't eat.

 

I hope they will send a lot more fruit now from Thailand to Liege.

Love your optimism. 

 

I’m vegan, but never taken to durian. 

 

Must get my energy elsewhere. 

2 minutes ago, Bluespunk said:

Love your optimism. 

 

I’m vegan, but never taken to durian. 

 

Must get my energy elsewhere. 

I love durian and am not a vegan. It tastes great and gives the feeling of eating cheese or meat, it's high energy food.

 

Here you see some germans trying a durian ?

 

 

Just now, Thian said:

It might be a golden road...loads of young people are into being vegan and eating superhealthy natural food...for them a durian is the ultimate to brag about to their friends. Also durian is a fat food they can eat, it has high energy like meat/cheese which they can't/won't eat.

 

I hope they will send a lot more fruit now from Thailand to Liege.

Yes, as you say, it might be a golden road for Thailand. I only hope for their sake they don't stuff it up through corruption; which they probably will.
 

31 minutes ago, webfact said:

farm products inspected at Suvarnabhumi will be stamped "EU-standard certified" and be able to enter countries in the European trading bloc without further checks.

Suvarnabhumi is recognised as a hotbed of corruption. Knowing how bent the Thai civil service is there are certain to be some crooked officials who will have control over the "EU-standard certified" stamp who will be quick to recognised the power and authority they have and the income potential for them. 

It may well be a golden road for Thailand, it might also be a golden egg for those who have power over the stamp.

If this does happen it won't take the EU long to wake-up and there goes another opportunity lost because of corruption.

 

The big problem for Thais with this is,since export of durian has grown the local prices for durian has risen . Quite difficult to find now for less than 130 baht a kilo.Last year could get it for 70 baht.

Agree with lomsak. Now very expensive. Pic is from 4 years ago which was before the Chinese buy out. Just the piece on the right will cost Bt 150-170 now, maybe more. Pitty love the stuff but the pice is now ridiculous.

Before coming from Europe to here I never had had durian and knew only one person who had once tasted it in Australia. Has it become popular in Europe in the last decade, or are they talking about shipping two fruits a month to some Thai shop in EU?

Edited June 29, 20188 yr by DrTuner
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About sixteen pounds, or 700Baht, per kilo in UK now:

 

https://www.thai-food-online.co.uk

  

7 hours ago, Bluespunk said:

Love your optimism. 

 

I’m vegan, but never taken to durian. 

 

Must get my energy elsewhere. 

 

Never understood the palavah about Durian. Smells bad, tastes bad, 27% carbs. All-around non-event as far as I'm concerned.

 

Let the Chinese have it.

1 hour ago, DrTuner said:

Before coming from Europe to here I never had had durian and knew only one person who had once tasted it in Australia. Has it become popular in Europe in the last decade, or are they talking about shipping two fruits a month to some Thai shop in EU?

Had u ever heard about Tang Freres in Paris ?

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang_Frères

 

And Paris Store ?

 

https://www.paris-store.com/

I suppose the EU thinks durian is a kind of pineapple.

17 hours ago, webfact said:

Thailand extends 'durian road'

That road smells! ?

17 hours ago, Thian said:

I hope they will send a lot more fruit now from Thailand to Liege.

As I read it although the deal is with Liege they can ship any UK airport (or port) it will just be as if the produce entered Liege first. 

22 hours ago, Thian said:

I love durian and am not a vegan. It tastes great and gives the feeling of eating cheese or meat, it's high energy food.

 

Here you see some germans trying a durian ?

 

 

 

 

if anyone has ever wondered what it would be like to give oral sex to a grandmother go eat a durian...

 

 

and for those that say its not the same,... hmmmmm?

Edited June 30, 20188 yr by atyclb