(11 Feb 2025)
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Miami – 7 February 2025
1. Various of cargo plane arriving and unloaded
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Diogo Elias, Senior vice president, Avianca:
“We’re here at the, for us, end of the Valentine season that we transport the flower industry from Colombia, from Ecuador to Miami especially. Most of the cargo comes to the USA through Miami. 90% almost. We transport more than 18,000,000kg, 18,000 tons, for the less than three weeks just for flowers.”
3. Various of flower inspections
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Diogo Elias, Senior vice president, Avianca:
“What they’re doing here is inspection just in the sample. So less than 1%. they’re going to explain how it works. But the inspection, for agriculture and anything that could threaten the territory here. So they do the inspection in a sample and then the cargo is OK to go to the market.”
5. Crowd applause during news conference
6. Various of flower inspections
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7. SOUNDBITE (English) Diogo Elias, Senior vice president, Avianca:
“We transport flowers all year round, but specifically in the Valentine season, we’re more than double our capacity because there’s more than double demand. So we have to take all this cargo from from those two countries, Ecuador and Colombia, especially from Bogota, Medellin and Quito, those three cities to Miami. So we have to double our capacity, double our our staff people here. So it’s much more intense with a very sensible product, which is flowers.”
8. Various of flower inspections
STORYLINE:
If any husbands or boyfriends mess up Valentine’s Day this week, it’s not because of a shortage of flowers.
In the run up to Feb. 14, U.S. Customs and Border Protection says agricultural specialists at Miami International Airport have processed about 940 million stems of cut flowers.
Around 90% of the fresh cut flowers being sold for Valentine’s Day in the United States come through Miami, while the other 10% pass through Los Angeles.
Roses, carnations, pompons, hydrangeas, chrysanthemums and gypsophila arrive on hundreds of flights, mostly from Colombia and Ecuador, into Miami on their journey to florists and supermarkets across the U.S. and Canada.
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