Pack House Action Group
- Trials with on-board temperature recorders
- Feedback to DAFF
- Approval of on-board recorders as accepted method
Cold Sterilisation Shipments to Africa (Nigeria)
- Evaluation of possible impact on packing, cooling, and despatch
- Contingency steps to avoid or minimise disruptions
- Trials to establish impact on quality if fruit is loaded warm or partially cooled
Load Shedding
- Compile practical guidelines for the handling of fruit from planting through harvesting, packing, shipping, and marketing
- Publish on Hortgro’s website by listing critical guidelines for each supply chain link, with recommended actions supported by research and detailed documents
- Continued updating of these guidelines as circumstances change and new demands are identified
Handling Protocols
- Survey
- Discussions with all role-players in the process of loading containers
- Listing of issues that give rise to inefficiencies
- Container loading workshop 1: discuss issues
- Container loading workshop 2: prioritise issues and propose solutions
- Arrange a Container Loading Seminar
- Seek a solution for Cold Chain monitoring from loading point to port stack
Container Checklist
- Designed
- Tested
- Upgraded
- Handed to PPECB as possible tool to monitor cold chain from LP to Port terminal
Supply Chain
- Serious breaks in the Cold Chain are not monitored and/or managed
- Service providers (PPECB/Terminal/Shipping Lines)
- Operators/Shipping Lines are not taking accountability
- Unless these service providers accept responsibility and accountability, this situation will continue
- It is time the industry reaches consensus with service providers on the highest level (SLA’s?)
Cold Chain Management
- Serious breaks in the Cold Chain are not monitored and/or managed
- Service providers (PPECB/Terminal/Shipping Lines)
- Operators/Shipping Lines are not taking accountability
- Unless these service providers accept responsibility and accountability, this situation will continue
- It is time the industry reaches consensus with service providers on the highest level (SLA’s?)