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Picked at dawn
Harvest before the heat. Fruit leaves the tree with field heat in it, and every hour it carries that heat costs a day of shelf life. The clock starts here.
Al Aweer--:--market open
Importers & wholesalers · Dubai since 1976Dubai · since 1976
Fresh is a choice. We made it in 1976.Fresh, since 1976.
From orchards, growers and pack-houses in every major growing region to the Central Fruit & Vegetable Market in Al Aweer — fruit, vegetables and spices for the supermarkets, hotels and chains that feed the Gulf. Own cold storage. Air and sea export. Doors open at five.Fruit, vegetables and spices from every growing region, landed in Al Aweer and on your dock by dawn. Own cold storage, air and sea export.
0Founded, Dubai
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5AMFirst trucks out
Live · Al Aweer
What's landing this week.
Every row is a real lane we run. Sea from Chile and South Africa, air from India and Kenya, road from Oman and Iran. The board cycles like the one on the wall — because a wholesaler's day is an arrivals hall.
Arrivals · Central Fruit & Vegetable Market—
OriginProduceModeETATempStatus
Illustrative schedule for this concept. Lanes and temperatures reflect standard practice for each commodity.
What we move
Six worlds, one market.
Bulk and our own pack line. Everything below is graded by hand by people who have trained on it — and stored in a room set to its own temperature.
01CitrusOranges, lemons, limes, grapefruit
South Africa, Egypt, Spain, Turkey and Oman by season. Navel, Valencia, Eureka.
02Stone fruitPeaches, plums, apricots, cherries
Turkey and Lebanon in summer, Chile and South Africa in winter. Air-freighted at 1°C.
03TropicalsMangoes, bananas, pineapple, papaya
Alphonso and Kesar from India, Cavendish year-round from the Philippines and Ecuador.
04Grapes & berriesGrapes, pomegranate, strawberries
Red Globe and Thompson from Chile, India and Egypt. Pomegranate from India and Iran.
05VegetablesTomato, cucumber, pepper, brassicas
Oman, Jordan and the UAE in winter; the Netherlands and Kenya by air the rest of the year.
06Where it startedGarlic, ginger, spices
The first two products we ever imported, in 1976. Still in the book, still in bulk.
Interactive · season planner
Pick a month. We'll tell you where it's best.
Fifty years of buying teaches you the calendar. Tap any month to see what is at peak, from which origin — the same logic our buyers run every morning.
At peak inSeptember
Peak season Available · secondary origin Off season
Farm to dock
Six hand-offs. The cold never breaks.
Scroll the journey. The temperature on the right is the number our loggers have to hold at each hand-off — from field heat to your loading bay before sunrise.
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Target24°field heat
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Pre-cooled and graded
Forced-air cooling pulls the core to 4°C within hours. Then size, colour, brix and defect grading — our staff train on the same ten commodities, apple to tomato, so the grade means the same in every origin.
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Into the reefer
Pre-cooled containers only. The set-point is per commodity — grapes at 1°C, bananas at 13°C — with data loggers riding in the load. Sea from the Americas and Africa, air from India and Kenya.
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Cleared in-house
Health certificates, certificates of origin and customs declarations are prepared before the vessel berths. Clearance is measured in hours, not days — the container never sits in the sun.
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Our own cold store
A cold-storage division since 2004. Each commodity in its own room at its own temperature, AEROCIDE air treatment cutting bacteria, yeast and mould, LED lighting that adds no heat, non-toxic refrigerants.
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On your dock by five
Chiller trucks leave Al Aweer from 5 AM. Supermarkets restock before the doors open, hotels before breakfast service. Same cold from the orchard to your back door.
Who we supply
Built for the buyers who can't run out.
Bulk to wholesalers, programmes to chains, specialty lines to chefs, and export by air and sea from India and the UAE to anywhere.
Supermarkets & hypermarkets
Weekly programmes, private-label packing, and a fill rate you can plan promotions around. Replenishment before opening.
Programme supply
Hotels & restaurants
Specialty lines for executive chefs — micro herbs, exotics, specific varieties — delivered before breakfast service.
Chef's listConvenience & chains
Small drops, many doors. Route-planned chiller fleet across the Emirates, consistent grade in every store.
Multi-drop
Wholesale & re-export
Full containers and mixed pallets to distributors across the GCC. Export by air from India and the UAE with complete documentation.
Bulk & exportThe group · since 1976
Garlic and ginger in a Deira shop. Then the Gulf.
A three-man crew importing garlic and ginger became an ISO-certified group of trading houses, a cold-storage division, a logistics company and export houses in India — and diversified into education, healthcare and real estate.
1976
Garlic & ginger
Goldfruit International is formed in Dubai, importing spices, garlic and ginger and selling them in bulk to wholesalers.
Dubai1992
Into Saudi
Distribution houses open in Dammam and Riyadh.
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia1993
Abu Dhabi
Jebal Ali Vegetable & Fruits Est. brings fresh produce to the capital.
UAE1994
Oman
Suhaib Trading opens in Seeb.
Sultanate of Oman1995
Export house, Mumbai
Fruit India International exports by air and sea, sourcing directly from farmers.
India1997
Zaidi
Commission sales for growers at Al Aweer — a direct seller for the farmers.
Dubai2000
Kerala
Second export house, at the source of the mangoes.
India2004
Cold storage
Own cold-storage division: per-commodity rooms, LED lighting, non-toxic refrigerants.
Al Aweer, Dubai2007
Logistics
Fast Trans Logistics — freight forwarding, clearing, cross-country transport.
Dubai2011
Kuwait
Star Gold Vegetables, Fruits & Foodstuffs.
Kuwait2012
Qatar
Al Nawras Vegetable & Fruits, Doha.
QatarNow
250+ people, 7 countries
Fruit and vegetables at the core; education, healthcare, advertising and property alongside.
GCC · India · SingaporeHead officeDubaiAl Aweer market · cold store · logistics
UAEAbu DhabiSince 1993
OmanSeebSince 1994
Saudi ArabiaRiyadhSince 1992
Saudi ArabiaDammamSince 1992
KuwaitKuwait CitySince 2011
QatarDohaSince 2012
IndiaMumbaiExport house · since 1995
IndiaKeralaExport house · since 2000
AsiaSingaporeTrading presence
Quality control
Graded by hand. Trained on ten commodities.
Every person who touches produce goes through Food Hygiene Awareness and Essential Food Handling training, with hands-on grading exercises on the same ten items. Apple to tomato, the grade means the same thing in every warehouse.
ApplePearOrangeGrapefruitLemonLimeCucumberCauliflowerEggplantTomato
ISO 9001 certifiedQuality management across import, storage and distribution.
Two-stage inspectionChecked at origin before loading, checked again on arrival for temperature, damage and compliance.
AEROCIDE air treatmentCold rooms treated to cut airborne bacteria, yeast and mould. LED lighting that adds no heat.
Full export documentationHealth certificates, certificates of origin, customs — prepared in-house for every consignment.
Interactive · trade order builder
Build the order. Watch the yard fill.
Wholesale doesn't have a price list — it has a conversation. Start it here: pick commodities and cartons and we'll stack the pallets, weigh the load and count the trucks before you've picked up the phone.
Commodities cartons
Loading yard · Al AweerEmpty
Add cartons on the left.Add cartons below.
Pallets stack here — one pallet per commodity, trucks counted underneath.
Pallets stack here — one pallet per commodity, trucks counted underneath.
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Gross weight0kg
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Dispatch05:00
Talk to a buyer
The market opens at five. So do we.
Central Fruit & Vegetable Market, Al Aweer, Dubai. Come to the shop, or send the list and we'll price it before your morning meeting. This is a concept demo — nothing is sent.
05:00 – 23:00, seven daysFirst dispatch at five. Trade counter through the evening.
Al Aweer, DubaiCentral Fruit & Vegetable Market · own cold store next door.
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