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Turkey cherry export season

Turkey ships cherries June–July, with May and August at the shoulders. Lands June–August on the Turkey → United Kingdom run.

Ships
June–July
May, August at the shoulders
Lands
week 24–33
on the Turkey → United Kingdom run, 12–18 days
Turkey cherries: the export window by month, and the weeks each lane lands it.
Stage Month
Ships out of Turkey Ships june–july peak · may, august shoulder
Turkey → United Kingdom 12–18 days · week 24–33 Lands week 24–33 on the Turkey → United Kingdom run
Peak Shoulder Landing Port to port, across services rather than one schedule. Add the road leg at either end.

Varieties Ziraat 0900 Load ports Mersin, İzmir, and Istanbul

Roughly June and July, opening in the south in May and finishing at altitude in August. Turkey is the largest cherry exporter in the world, and Ziraat 0900 — Napoleon — is most of what leaves.

The window is the Northern Hemisphere’s answer to Chile, six months out of phase with it, and it sells to Germany, Russia and increasingly the Far East. Turkish cherries reach a European buyer by truck in two or three days, so the sea question on this row is only about the long lanes east.

Last reviewed August 2026. Editorial ranges for a normal year, not a published schedule. Weather moves them, sometimes by weeks.

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