Aviation firm selling vegetables

By MEMO HAUKE
AN aviation company has started selling vegetables in Port Moresby which it buys from farmers in remote areas in Central it flies to.
The Airborne Logistics PNG helicopter brings in vegetables from Goilala and Koari in Central, says chief operating officer Doug Allgood. In return, the company sells food and store goods to the farmers.
The new vegetable market is at the Corporate Jets Hangar on Jackson Parade.
Airborne Logistics PNG has been operating since 2009 providing passenger and cargo charter, external load operations (sling), aerial survey, exploration support and logistics and medical evacuation.
Allgood said while providing those services in the rugged terrains of PNG and spending more time with locals, “we knew they needed the basic necessities in life and they usually ask for it”.
“They had no form of transport to bring it to them unless they walk for two to three days to receive that service. We were the only way for them. So we decided to build the concept of giving our services as well as providing the necessary white goods such as rice, sugar, cooking oil, flour to sell to them,’ he said.
“In return we buy raw produce vegetables from them and bring it back to sell in Port Moresby.”
The company has arranged to have agents in these areas “to do our sale of white goods and inform the people of when the flights will come so they will be prepared to harvest their vegetables”.