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Perishable Products Export Control Act, 1983 (Act No. 9 of 1983)

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Regulations relating to the Export of Perishable Products, 2025 - effective July 2025

Chapter 10: Stowage and Transit

Part A: Specialised Refrigerated Vessels

74. Loading of sea freight containers

 

(1) The Board shall take appropriate measures to ensure that perishable product is optimally and correctly stowed, handled and loaded according to specified standards and requirements.

 

(2) Only perishable product that complies with the relevant requirements of the APS Act, or these regulations, may be loaded into transport spaces.

 

(3) The Board shall ensure that:
(a) whenever possible, every container has been inspected and approved prior to loading;
(b) temperature and/or ventilation settings are checked, and comply with the specifications of the exporter or cold chain service provider;
(c) load-stabilising material and methods used for the handling, storage and transport and discharge of perishable product do not detrimentally affect the perishable product and/or packaging material and safety of the cold chain service provider;
(d) the perishable product is stowed according to the export booking and storage plan;
(e) temperature recording sensors and cold storage facilities to be used for perishable product intended for Special Markets or Cold Treatment Markets, are of the specified quantity, and are located as required by the Board or the protocol of the importing country;
(f) perishable product temperature sensors are inserted in transport spaces and positions according to protocol requirements, and are marked accordingly; and
(g) no dual loading is permitted in shipments to Special Markets or Cold Treatment Markets.

 

(4) All perishable product shall at all times be on temperature with no deviation outside the specified carrying temperature tolerances.

 

(5) Each container shall be fitted with a generator suitable for the adherence to the prescribed TTT.