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El waha Citrus season and packing specification

Please find hereunder a table illustrating all our products, season and counts for Citrus products,

• Oranges:

Variety	Season duration
	Start week	End week
Navel	Beginning of Dec.	Beginning of Mar.
Valencia	Beginning of January .	End of May

 

• Counts:

Count	EU Calibre	Diameter
40	1	88-92
48	2	84-88
56	3	81-84
64	4	77-81
72	5	73-77
84	7	69-73
100	8	64-69
113	8	60-64

 

• Navel and counts tend to big counts.
• Valencia counts tend to small counts.

 

• Packing: we pack oranges in either open top or top & bottom cartons , the container is as follows:

	Top & bottom	Open top
Number of pallets per container	20 pallets	20 pallets
Number of cartons per pallet	80 cartons	65 cartons
Total number of cartons per container	1600 cartons	1300 cartons
Approximate net weight per carton	15 kg s	15 kg s
Approximate total net weight per container	24,000 tons	19,500 tons

 

 

• Lemons:

 

Variety	Season duration
	Start week	End week
Lemon	End  of October .	Mid  Feb.

 

• Counts:

Counts in 15 kg Carton	EU Calibre	Diameter MM
75	2	69-73
88	3	66-70
100	3	63-68
110	4	60-65
125	5	57-62
144	5	53-58
180	6	50-54

 

• Packing: we pack Lemon in either open top or top & bottom cartons , the container is as follows:

	Top & bottom	Open top
Number of pallets per container	20 pallets	20 pallets
Number of cartons per pallet	80 cartons	65 cartons
Total number of cartons per container	1400 cartons	1300 cartons
Approximate net weight per carton	15 kg s	15 kg s
Approximate total net weight per container	24,000 tons	19,500 tons

 

 

• Easy Peelers:

 

Variety	Season duration
	Start week	End week
Early Mandarin (Fremont)	2th Week of Nov.	1st Week of Jan.
Late Mandarin (Honey murcot )	Beginning of Jan.	End  of March.
Minneola	1st Week of Jan.	1st Week of Feb.

 

 

 

• Counts:

Counts in 8 kg Carton	EU Calibre	Diameter MM
45	XX1	81-77
54	XX1	70-74
63	1	70-66
72	2	66-62
80	3	58-62
90	3	55-58

 

• Early Mandarin counts tend to small counts.
• Late Mandarin counts tend to big counts.
• Packing: we pack Mandarin in open top cartons , the container is as follows:

	Open top
Number of pallets per container	20 pallets
Number of cartons per pallet	120 cartons
Total number of cartons per container	2400 cartons
Approximate net weight per carton	8 kg s
Approximate total net weight per container	19,200 tons