| 1 |
The PPECB Advice Sheet for Dual Temperature Plum Shipments will be redesigned |
To accommodate proposed changes |
| 2 |
The ETD will no longer be used to determine dates when temperatures must be changed |
The ETD tends to be somewhat unpredictable |
| 3 |
The stuffing date of a container at the loading point will be used as base for determining temperature change dates |
This is a fixed date and will be used as reference date |
| 4 |
The step-up temperature date will be 6 days after stuffing date |
The 6-day period was chosen to minimise temperature setting changes in the stacks |
| 5 |
If the period from cooling in the inland cold store until temperature step-up is longer than 10 days, the PDY7.5 code to be used. Only step-down temperature setting to be indicated. |
Some cultivars are prone to internal breakdown if this period exceeds 10 days |
| 6 |
Only dual temperature plums to be specified on the Temperature Advice Sheet (No PD1/PS1/PU’s and mixed commodities) |
No temperature setting changes are applied to single temperature cultivars |
| 7 |
Forms to be filled in every stuffing day for a specific vessel and sent to Shipping Line on the same day |
To allow Shipping Line to compile and monitor timeously |
| 8 |
For every additional stuffing day, the instructions must be added to the previous day’s information. After the last stuffing day, PPECB/Shipping Line will get a final consolidated form containing all the information for that vessel. |
This will ensure all containers loaded for the vessel have been included on the PPECB carry-instruction and Shipping Line reefer manifests |
| 9 |
The final form for a vessel must be sent to PPECB/Shipping line on the last day of stuffing or latest 08h00 the next morning |
The final form must be available to the shipping line several hours before the vessel sails |
| 10 |
Both PPECB and the Shipping Lines must be included in all instructions |
To ensure that PPECB and the shipping line have the same information |
| 11 |
Transhipments no longer need to be identified with a ‘T’ as for 2019/2020 |
The new procedure will make it easier to track containers destined for transhipment |
| 12 |
Although provision for Amendments is made and a column included in the Sheet, it is not encouraged. 24 hours must be allowed before an amendment to the temperature setting will be made. No amendments will be done over the weekend and Monday’s amendments must be given by 16h00 on the Friday. |
This facility is offered to cargo owners to adjust temperature changes should serious quality problems be foreseen with the original temperature regimes given on the Temperature Advice Sheet. The shipping Line must send this instruction to the vessel with PPECB copied in. |
| 13 |
If the step-up date falls on the day the vessel is loading or on the first day after sailing, the shipping line will adjust the step-up and step-down dates |
Due to crucial activities in the stack and on the vessel on those days, the changing of settings cannot be performed |
