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Australia’s Tasmania to get direct flight for milk to China
    2016-10-27  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

    CHINA’S path to food security is taking a big swing to the south. In fact, 8,500 km down to Tasmania, the dairy-hungry nation’s newest source of fresh milk.

    Businessman Lu Xianfeng plans to begin early next year flying fresh milk to his home city of Ningbo, in eastern China, from the island state where he owns Australia’s largest dairy operation.

    Lu’s Moon Lake Investments Pty bought the 191-year-old Van Diemen’s Land Co. for A$280 million (US$214 million) in March, giving him access to 25 dairy farms and enough milk to fill an Olympic-size swimming pool every nine days.

    A share of that will be flown to Ningbo every week, Sean Shwe, Moon Lake’s managing director, told reporters yesterday in Hobart, where the China-bound bulk deliveries will depart.

    While countries as far away as the Czech Republic and Chile sell milk to China, Moon Lake is counting on gaining an edge with milk from Tasmania’s far northwest coast which, it says, boasts “the cleanest air in the world.”

    The volume of milk shipments to the world’s most-populous nation has jumped an average of 126 percent a year since 2010, creating a US$333 million market dominated by the European Union, according to Chinese customs data.

    Chinese consumers, ruffled by past food scandals, see imported milk as a safer alternative to domestic supplies, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said in May. Moon Lake has already forward-sold more than 15 million yuan (US$2.2 million) in milk from its Van Diemen’s Land dairies, which it calls VDL Farms.

    “This is an exciting venture for our company, VDL Farms and potentially for all Tasmanian producers of fresh, perishable produce such as seafood, fruit and vegetables,” Shwe said.

    About 10 million liters of milk a year from VDL dairies will be trucked to Hobart for processing by Lion Dairy and packaged under the “VAN Milk” brand, a nod to the dairy operation’s ties to Van Diemen’s Land Co.

    Moon Lake is in advanced talks with airlines and airports to begin weekly round trips from Hobart to Ningbo starting in the first quarter of 2017, with a view to increasing the frequency to two-to-three times a week in a year, and adding Beijing as a destination, the company said.

    Initially, fresh milk will be sold in 1-liter and 600ml cartons, with plans to add yogurt and other dairy products, Moon Lake said.(SD-Agencies)

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