Thirty-Eight Degrees in the Trailer, Forty-Eight Hours to Destination: Doing the Heat-Load Sum
A three-pallet consignment of chilled salmon left a packing house in Adelaide at 6 p.m. on a Thursday with eight 1 kg gel packs per 20-litre box, a configuration that had worked all winter. It reached Perth on Saturday with the fish at 7.4 degrees and two boxes rejected. The forecast had read 38 deg…