"The shipment left on Jan. 12. The journey should take about a month. We exported a sea container, which contains about 20 t of mozzarella," told the company's CEO Gintaras Bertasius.
Last August, China approved 16 Lithuanian dairy companies eligible for exporting products to the giant market. The Chinese market is vital for Lithuania, which lost a very profitable market in the wake of the food product embargo slammed by Russia in August of 2014. Lithuanian dairy companies used to export 20-40 percent of their output to Russia before the embargo.
