Airlines put quality at risk

THE Cool Chain Association’s (CCA) Quality Indicators (QI) are being hampered by the failure of airlines and forwarders to put temperature requirements on shipping documents.

‘How can the handlers know how to treat cargo if they are not given the necessary information?’ asks Robert Arundel, chairman of the CCA. ‘For airfreight, there must be at least five points in the shipment at which temperature is monitored.’

Arundel believes rfid would make it easier to check on temperature in transit, although no one is as yet using rfid for airfreight, or even throughout an entire surface supply chain.

However,