{"id":905296,"date":"2026-09-22T11:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T11:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/905296\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T11:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T11:54:11","slug":"philippines-sends-1-ton-carabao-mango-shipment-to-vancouver-expands-canada-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/905296\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippines sends 1-ton Carabao mango shipment to Vancouver, expands Canada market"},"content":{"rendered":"

ASM, Philippine Canadian Inquirer
September 22, 2026<\/p>\n

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Photo courtesy: Philippine News Agency<\/p>\n

MANILA \u2014 The Philippines has shipped one metric ton of fresh Carabao mangoes directly to Vancouve<\/a>r, expanding the fruit\u2019s presence in the Canadian market months after the country began commercial exports of fresh mangoes to Canada.<\/p>\n

The shipment, consisting of 250 cartons, departed the Ninoy Aquino International Airport complex in Para\u00f1aque City on September 18, according to the Department of Agriculture.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It was arranged through a partnership between Mensch FilAm Corp<\/a>. and the Department of Trade and Industry\u2019s Export Marketing Bureau under its Outbound Business Matching Mission program.<\/p>\n

Vancouver-based Fresh Makers Ltd., which supplies supermarkets and institutional buyers, is importing the mangoes. Air Canada handled the air transport, while Airspeed Cargo provided logistics support.<\/p>\n

Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. said expanding access to overseas markets could create more opportunities for Filipino mango growers.<\/p>\n

\u201cOpening new markets means opening new opportunities for our farmers,\u201d Tiu Laurel said, adding that stronger agricultural exports could help raise farm incomes and encourage investment in rural areas.<\/p>\n

The shipment forms part of government efforts to improve the Philippine mango industry\u2019s ability to meet export requirements and supply foreign buyers consistently.<\/p>\n

The DA said more than 40 mango growers\u2019 groups<\/a> have been consolidated into a single federation to strengthen industry coordination, supply consolidation and access to markets. The Bureau of Plant Industry is also working to address diseases affecting mango production and improve plant-health measures required by importing countries.<\/p>\n

BPI has also signed an agreement with Mitsui & Co. aimed at supporting development of the Philippine mango industry and expanding opportunities for growers and exporters.<\/p>\n

The September shipment is not the Philippines\u2019 first commercial export of fresh Carabao mangoes to Canada <\/a>overall.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Department of Agriculture previously announced that the first commercial shipment arrived in Toronto on June 4, 2026, after leaving the Philippines on June 3. That one-metric-ton shipment was supplied by Hi-Las Marketing Corp. and Castillo Import Export Ventures Inc. and imported by Ontario-based TSI Tropicals Inc.<\/p>\n

Fresh Philippine mangoes from that supply chain also reached British Columbia earlier this month. The Philippine Consulate General in Vancouver said 100 cases were delivered to T&T Supermarket stores in Richmond and Surrey on September 9, with another 200 cases expected for distribution across Metro Vancouver.<\/p>\n

The latest shipment through Mensch FilAm and Fresh Makers adds another commercial supply line for Philippine Carabao mangoes into the Canadian market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ASM, Philippine Canadian InquirerSeptember 22, 2026 Photo courtesy: Philippine News Agency MANILA \u2014 The Philippines has shipped one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":905297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[183738,49,48,312979,312980,116154,312981,312982,312983,10758,312984,312985,312986,312987,55],"class_list":["post-905296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-agricultural-exports","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-imports","tag-carabao-mangoes","tag-department-of-agriculture","tag-filipino-farmers","tag-francisco-tiu-laurel-jr","tag-fresh-makers-ltd","tag-headline","tag-mensch-filam-corp","tag-philippine-agriculture","tag-philippine-mangoes","tag-philippines-canada-trade","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=905296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/905297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}