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SWEET POTATOES
Premium Egyptian sweet potatoes · export grade
Firm offer within 72 hours

Graded to your specification. Flexible payment terms, structured around your needs.

We are an Egyptian sweet potato supplier and exporter working with wholesale buyers and importers across the UK and EU. Sweet potatoes from the Nile Delta — every size from S to XL, hand-graded and packed to your request, cured and shipped in reefer containers to any UK or EU port.

TRUE SOUTH export carton of graded Egyptian sweet potatoes
All sizes S · M · L1 · L · L2 · XLFirm offer within 72 hoursReefer 13–15 °C, unbroken cold chainAny UK or EU portFlexible payment termsOwn label on request All sizes S · M · L1 · L · L2 · XLFirm offer within 72 hoursReefer 13–15 °C, unbroken cold chainAny UK or EU portFlexible payment termsOwn label on request
The product

Cut it open and nothing changes

Uniform skin, uniform flesh, uniform weight — within a carton, and between cartons.

Sweet potatoes of graded sizes, one cut to show the flesh
Sweet potato skin condition in the hand

Skin set by curing

Around 30 °C at high humidity after harvest, so the skin hardens and survives handling and a sea voyage without scuffing.

Deep orange flesh

Orange-flesh varieties — Beauregard, Bellevue, Covington — confirmed per order and season.

Graded by weight

Every tuber weighed and sized, uniform within each carton, or graded to your own size chart.

In the packhouse

Washed, sized and checked on the line

Filmed on the line during the season. Every tuber is washed, run over the sizer and hand-checked before it reaches a carton.

Graded sweet potatoes in packhouse bins
Sweet potatoes graded by size
On the line
Washing and sizing before curing and packing.
Freshly harvested sweet potato in hand
Farm to port

Four stages, one counterparty

From the Nile Delta to your quay. Every stage is documented, and you deal with us at each one.

Farm Nile Delta Packhouse Wash · grade · cure · pack Load port Damietta · Alexandria · Port Said Your port UK & EU
Stage 01

Farm

Grown by GlobalG.A.P.-certified growers in the Nile Delta. Lot-coded from the field.

Stage 02

Packhouse

Washed, sized on the grader, cured for skin set, then packed to your carton spec.

Stage 03

Load port

Reefer loaded at 13–15 °C. Pre-shipment inspection before the container is sealed.

Stage 04

Your port

FOB or CIF to any UK or EU port you nominate, documents complete on arrival.

United Kingdom

  • London Gateway≈ 9–12 days
  • Felixstowe≈ 9–12 days
  • Southampton≈ 9–12 days
  • Tilbury≈ 9–12 days
  • Liverpool≈ 11–14 days

European Union

  • Rotterdam≈ 7–10 days
  • Antwerp≈ 7–10 days
  • Hamburg≈ 9–12 days
  • Marseille≈ 4–6 days
  • Valencia≈ 5–7 days

Indicative port-to-port transit in season; confirmed per booking. Any other EU port on request.

The carton

The box is white so it can be yours

An open-top tray — no lid — so the grade is visible the moment a pallet is broken down. Four things print on the face and nothing else: the mark, the origin, the grade, and two gold rules.

  • ✓Origin printed, always. PRODUCE OF EGYPT on every carton — a customs requirement at the destination.
  • ✓Grade printed as text. SIZE S through XL in a ruled box, so one carton design covers every grade.
  • ✓Your carton, your label. Supply your own artwork and we pack into it instead.
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Specification

All sizes. Your spec.

We do not sell one fixed pack. The values below are the trade's standard parameters — every one of them is set to your specification in the contract. Wholesale importers and repackers buy the same crop to very different specs, and this is the sheet we work from with each of them.

S M L1 L L2 XL

One colour per size on every pallet tag and packing list, on every shipment. On the carton the grade prints as plain text, so the same box works for any size.

SizesAll sizes — S · M · L1 · L · L2 · XL — hand-graded by weight per tuber, typically S 150–300 g, M 300–450 g, L1 / L 450–600 g, L2 / XL 600 g and above, or graded to your own size chart. Uniform within each carton.
VarietiesOrange-flesh varieties typically available: Beauregard, Bellevue and Covington. Variety confirmed per order and season.
Product conditionCured after harvest (around 30 °C at high humidity) before packing, for skin set, sweetness and shelf life through sea transit. Clean, dry-brushed, skin colour uniform within each lot.
Cartons6 kg telescopic cartons, 10 kg or 15 kg open-top cartons, bulk bins, or your own carton and private label. Net weights, counts and label content to your request.
PalletsEuro or standard pallets; carton count, pattern and strapping to your specification.
Cold chainCold-stored and shipped in reefer containers at the set point you specify — typically 13–15 °C, never below 12 °C, to avoid chilling injury. Temperature record available for the voyage.
Load ports & transitDamietta, Alexandria or Port Said. Typically 7–10 days to Rotterdam or Antwerp; similar to UK ports. Any UK or EU port you nominate.
SeasonMain harvest and shipping window July to February; cold storage extends availability into spring. Large daily volumes in season from our partner packhouse in the Nile Delta.
Growers & packhousesSourced from GlobalG.A.P.-certified growers; GRASP and BRCGS/IFS-certified packhouses where you require them. Pre-shipment inspection certificate with every consignment.
CounterpartyYou contract and settle with South Perspective Advisors Ltd, a UK-registered company, under English law — one contract for sourcing, quality, documents and delivery.
Commercial termsSeasonal programme or spot consignments. FOB or CIF, your nominated port. Firm offer within 72 hours of receiving size mix, quantity and port.
Payment termsFlexible payment terms, structured according to your needs — agreed with you and written into each contract.
What you can rely on

Checked before it ships. Documented when it lands.

Standards

UK and EU compliant on every lot

Every consignment is graded, packed and documented to the UK and EU standards that apply to fresh produce, and to stricter retailer specifications where you require them.

Growers

Sourced from certified growers

Grown and packed by GlobalG.A.P.-certified growers and audited packhouses, lot-coded from field to carton for full traceability.

Inspection

Pre-shipment inspection

Independent inspection certificate with every consignment — size, quality and condition checked before the container is sealed.

Compliance

Standards & documentation

Each consignment is prepared against the requirements of its destination market. UK and EU requirements are handled separately, as the two regimes have diverged.

Where it is packed

Our packing station — Gamasa, Egypt

In the industrial zone at Gamasa on the Mediterranean coast, in the heart of the Nile Delta growing area and a short road leg from the load port at Damietta. Short road time at origin is why the crop reaches the quay cold.

Address

Industrial Zone, Phase 4, Block 6A
Gamasa
Dakahlia Governorate
Egypt

Distance to the load ports

  • Damietta — 20 minutes by road. The nearest port, and the reason the crop reaches the quay still cold.
  • Port Said — about 1 hour 30 minutes.
  • Alexandria — about 1 hour 30 minutes.

Why it matters

The road leg at origin is the part of the journey with the least temperature control. Twenty minutes to Damietta means the container is stuffed and plugged in before the crop has warmed — and if a sailing is missed, Port Said and Alexandria are both reachable the same day.

Growing and packing are carried out by certified growers and audited packhouses. Buyers are welcome to inspect the station and the crop before shipment, or to appoint their own inspector.

Buyer guides

Everything an importer needs to specify

Eight guides covering the decisions that sit behind a sweet potato programme.

Your contact

Send the size mix and quantity. Get a firm offer.

AH

Ahmed Hassan

Director, South Perspective Advisors Ltd — London

WhatsApp / phone +44 7310 299839 · info@spadvis.com

We reply within one working day and send a firm offer within 72 hours. Every enquiry is held in confidence.