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From forest to front room: A race against time to deliver the UAE's Christmas trees

Right now, somewhere in the Indian Ocean, 40-foot refrigerated containers are carrying freshly harvested Canadian Fraser Firs towards the UAE. The farmers in Quebec have done their part, alongside the logistics teams who spent months mapping alternative routes, negotiating insurance surcharges and calculating whether the numbers justified pressing ahead. But the same disruption reshaping global…

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From forest to front room: A race against time to deliver the UAE's Christmas trees

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