Transporting edamame beans from MacKellar Farms to Nepal is a long process but doable. The packaged edamame beans are stored in large cardboard totes weighing approx. 1,000 lbs each. About 1100 bags are in each cardboard tote. One tote placed on a pallet from MacKellar Farms should be loaded on to a reefer truck to bring to the airport. A reefer truck is equipped with cooling abilities where the shipment is kept. This allows the edamame to stay frozen while being shipped. When the pallet arrives at the Toronto Pearson airport it should be loaded onto a temperature-controlled plane along with many other vegetables and flown to the Tribhuvan International Airport of Nepal. This is where small temperature controlled trucks will distribute the edamame pallet to Bhat-Bhateni Supermarket in Kathmandu, Nepal. The main office is located in Kathmandu, but the supermarket has over 10 different locations (Bhat-Bhateni Supermarket & Department Store, 2014). This allows the main location to distribute the frozen edamame beans across all locations. The Bhat-Bhateni Supermarket offers a full range of 120,000 products from almost 1000 international suppliers with more than 40,000 customers a day (Bhat-Bhateni Supermarket & Department Store, 2014). The main Supermarket is also located only a short 12 minutes from the Tribhuvan International Airport. The edamame beans must remain frozen until they are about to be eaten. After the bag has been opened the edamame will only last about 3 days.
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