In this episode, Xu Xinchen tracks cross-Pacific trade forged by APEC facilitation. High in the Peruvian Andes, fleets of Chinese mining trucks run nonstop at mountain mine sites, with streamlined shipping cutting transit time for this heavy machinery nearly in half. The same vessels do not sail home empty.

Across the ocean in Shanghai’s cold-storage hubs, premium Southern Hemisphere fruit – including New Zealand kiwifruit – lands faster thanks to quicker customs clearance and dedicated reefer routes. Improved supply chains cut food waste, bring down prices and feed China’s massive imported fruit market.

This is APEC trade in action: industrial hardware and agricultural goods traveling in opposite directions on the same ocean lanes. It links miners, growers, shippers and shoppers, turning policy cooperation into tangible, shared gains for economies around the Asia-Pacific.