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SAFARI NJEMA / 97<br />
Cargo<br />
From Kenya, with love<br />
Say It With Flowers<br />
text: Annemarie Hoeve image: Shutterstock<br />
A symbol for love and eternal<br />
beauty, the rose is arguably one<br />
of the world’s most iconic flowers.<br />
And if you’re lucky enough<br />
to be gifted a bouquet, it’s likely<br />
to have come from Kenya.<br />
It is with great pride that Kenya is the<br />
world’s third largest exporter of cut<br />
flowers. The Eastern African nation is also<br />
Europe’s biggest supplier of roses, with<br />
most of the sustainably grown blooms<br />
making their way to the Netherlands,<br />
Britain and Germany. So how do they<br />
get there? On board a KQ flight, of<br />
course.<br />
As a result of the booming rose<br />
sector – the country’s second largest<br />
agricultural export behind tea – KQ<br />
Cargo has established a cool-chain<br />
infrastructure to ensure fresh delivery<br />
of its prized roses. With a dedicated<br />
terminal at Nairobi airport, Kenya is<br />
a hub of flower-exporting activity.<br />
Roses by numbers<br />
120,000 tonnes of flowers are<br />
exported by Kenya every year.<br />
500,000 jobs are provided by the<br />
Kenyan flower sector.<br />
63 billion Kenya shillings<br />
(US$616m) is the estimated worth<br />
of Kenya’s floriculture trade.
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