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Poland fresh produce export calendar

Poland ships apples from an autumn harvest into the following summer. When the export window falls, month by month, and how little of it goes by sea.

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Gdańsk and Gdynia
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Poland fresh produce export calendar: which produce ships in which month.
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Apple January: Peak February: Peak March: Peak April: Shoulder May: Shoulder June: Shoulder July: Shoulder August: Shoulder September: Shoulder October: Peak November: Peak December: Peak
Peak — shipping in volume Shoulder — opening or closing Export windows out of the origin, not arrival weeks. Add the lane's transit.

Last reviewed August 2026. Windows are editorial ranges for a normal year, not a published schedule, and they are export weeks out of Poland rather than arrival weeks in your market.

Poland is the largest apple exporter in the European Union by volume and one of the largest in the world, and almost none of it has ever seen a deep-sea container. The orchards are concentrated around Grójec south of Warsaw, the harvest runs from late summer into October, and the export programme runs out of controlled-atmosphere storage from there until the following summer. One crop, one page.

What is worth knowing is what kind of apple it is. Poland sells on volume and on price rather than on variety, which puts it against Italy at the opposite end of the same market — a Polish apple competes with a Tyrolean one the way a commodity competes with a brand. The trade is overwhelmingly overland and regional, and the sea programme is the growth story rather than the volume: containers out of Gdańsk and Gdynia to South and Southeast Asia and the Middle East, on fruit that has already spent months in store before the five or six weeks at sea. Read the window below as a market calendar first.

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October–March peak · April–September shoulder Varieties: Idared, Gala, Golden Delicious

Harvest from late August to October around Grójec, then out of storage for the rest of the year — the shoulder band below covers every remaining month because the fruit genuinely keeps moving until the next crop lands.

This is the volume-and-price end of the European apple trade, and the market it is sold into has moved twice in a decade: away from Russia after the 2014 embargo, and towards the Middle East, North Africa and South and Southeast Asia since. The second of those is what puts Polish apples in a container at all. Out of Gdańsk to an Asian buyer is five or six weeks on fruit that has already spent months in store, which is a long way to send something sold on being cheap.

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