With demand increasing for perishables across the world, shipping them by air not only saves precious time for cargo that has a short shelf life. It also ensures it reaches the final destination as fresh as plucked from the ground. The challenges for airlines and forwarders involved in moving perishables across the globe are countless as are the regulations governing them.
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has issued Perishable Cargo Regulations (PCR) to streamline the shipments of perishables. "Failures along the cold chain, which can be catastrophic for small businesses, are at times due to improper documentation, labelling or poor packaging. The PCR has all the up-to-date, best-practice and guidance information you need to develop loss-minimising perishable shipping processes," IATA says in its update.
Source: stattimes.com