00:00Here you go.
00:02Yeah, very soon.
00:04It's going to be very expensive to engage in gestures like I just said.
00:13Take a look at these two flowers, roses actually.
00:16This is from Ecuador and that is from Kenya.
00:20When you look around me here in this wholesale flower shop,
00:24it is hard to tell, but these two flowers are facing challenges.
00:30Friedrich Bacca runs Schietko Blumen GruĂź Handel,
00:33a flower horse shopping born in Western Germany.
00:36Because of the Iran war, we get to know that the supply
00:41from the Kenyan and Ecuador roses are going via Dubai.
00:46And then from Dubai, the planes are going to Shippur or Frankfurt-Kelzebach.
00:52And because of the war, the logistic was interrupted very hardly.
00:57And we saw this as a world seller.
01:00We saw this on the auction when we were buying the flowers.
01:02There were less numbers of roses in total.
01:06And the price, of course, then gets higher.
01:10Kenya is one of the leading flower producers on the African continent.
01:14Carnations, lilies, chrysanthemums.
01:16But by far, their biggest flower exports are roses.
01:21These ones.
01:22About 70% of Kenya's flower exports end up in Europe.
01:27And they are a key supplier of flowers to the German market.
01:32Now, disrupted logistics mean fewer flights,
01:35which results in higher cost and lower quality.
01:38The logistic time is longer.
01:41We are talking about the duration time in flowers.
01:44And it's very important that the flowers are fresh.
01:46So when we get them here in stock,
01:49they must be at least in a top quality.
01:52And we saw that because of this interruption of the logistics,
01:57that the flower quality decreases.
01:58For now, customers like Christine aren't feeling the pinch.
02:03I like flowers very much.
02:05We bought them now to bring a friend to a friend.
02:10The flowers always make fun.
02:13At the time, I have no big difference in the price.
02:19That's because wholesalers like Chitko
02:21are absorbing the price shock.
02:23But not for long.
02:25The price will go up.
02:28And normally in the flower business,
02:32we have demand.
02:35And if we have high demand,
02:37and we have less numbers,
02:39prices increase.
02:40That's normal.
02:41It would be good if this stops.
02:43This Iran war has to stop.
02:45For the flower industry,
02:46it's not the point of the supply,
02:48but also the increase of the fuel.
02:51For example, Ecuador increases the volume.
02:54The prices of 20 to 30% for the transport.
02:57Because of the plane transport,
02:59it's too much.
03:00Numbers are getting high.
03:02And this increases the cost for the flowers.
03:04And it's not just Kenya.
03:06Exporters from Ethiopia,
03:08Zimbabwe,
03:09South Africa,
03:09Uganda,
03:10Tanzania,
03:11are feeling the heat.
03:12A distant war with very real consequences.
03:16The food is in Kansas.
03:20New York City,
03:20the power of an individual.
03:20And the food is now used to enjoy this.
03:21Through the square of the city,
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