New Technology to Preserve Freshness of Produce

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Costas Paris, Maersk Sees Future in Flower Market. Wall Street Journal, Jan 30, 2014.
online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB20001424052702303973704579350691288625118

Quote:

A unit of AP Møller-Maersk A/S, "Maersk Container Industry[,] is teaming up with Boston-based Primaira LLC to outfit standard, refrigerated cargo containers with a system using a high-concentration of ozone to eliminate mold, fungi and bacteria.

"Maersk Container estimates that a quarter of flowers carried world-wide already travel by ship. But those are on voyages that take no more than 10 days. The company estimates that marine-freight companies could carry about half the almost 700,000 metric tons of cut flowers shipped each year if the life span of some of the most popular varieties can be doubled.

My comment:
(a) Primaira LLC
www.primaira.com/
is in fact based in Woburn, a Boston suburb.

A couple of old reports (in mid-2012) mentioned "ethylene" rather than "ozone."

The technology reportedly applies to fresh fruits and produce also.
(b) If true, China efforts to develop Yunnan as a cut-flower producer, then ship the commodity by air above the Himalayas, will come to naught.