Asia’s premier fresh produce trade show cannot take place in September this year because international business travel remains severely limited, the organizers announced. The severe limitation of international business travel during the global coronavirus pandemic means that ASIA FRUIT LOGISTICA is shelving plans for 28-30 September 2021 when more than 800 exhibitors and 12,000 visitors from 70 countries all over the world were hoping to meet in Hong Kong.

“It’s simply impossible to promise a large-scale international trade show in such circumstances,” says Karel Heijs, managing director of Global Produce Events GmbH (GPE), organizer of ASIA FRUIT LOGISTICA. “We’re not in the game of promising our exhibitors and visitors something that no one can deliver this year. We all know that things are unlikely to be back to normal before September, and it’s better we say that loud and clear and that we say it right now.”

ASIA FRUIT LOGISTICA is Asia’s premier exhibition for the international fresh fruit and vegetable business. It has taken place every September in Hong Kong for more than ten years. Over the last decade, the leading event has attracted many thousands of exhibitors and visitors from all over the world for a week of business meetings and discussions in Hong Kong.

“ASIA FRUIT LOGISTICA is also about the exchange of business ideas and insights on the fresh fruit and vegetable market in Asia,” says Heijs. “So we’re very pleased that ASIAFRUIT CONGRESS is taking place online this September 2021. It offers all the great content you get at ASIA FRUIT LOGISTICA. And it gives all our visitors and exhibitors a chance easily to connect and network on a great new platform,” the organizers announced.

The next edition of ASIA FRUIT LOGISTICA returns to Hong Kong’s AsiaWorld-Expo on 7-9 September 2022, and ASIAFRUIT CONGRESS takes place on 6 September 2022.