Improvement on Transport Simulation Through Agricultural Routes Monitoring
Global trade trends in logistic chain have resulted in a sequence of changes which are also affecting to thefruits and vegetables market. Aspects such as longer routes, more complicated distribution scenarios and anincreasing demand on quality parameters are responsible of a different approach with regards to theexportation of perishable products. In that sense, applying good practice codes or establishing rigorousdistribution protocols will be as important as to define a suitable packaging capable to support risks and tosurvive to sometimes complex environments, avoiding with it important cargo losses. In the last years,different actions have been taken to ensure produce quality when arriving to the distribution centres(refrigerated conditions control, vehicle requirements, scheduled routes, handling, control quality on arrival,etc) but there is still a need on improving packaging evaluation. This improvement should pass, amongothers, through a more realistic transport simulation capable to assure packaging suitability to specificdistribution cycles. The objective of this study was to characterize and analyse real transport routes in orderto identify refrigerating conditions stability as well as main mechanical inputs withstood by fruits andvegetables packaging during transport. As an example, methodology and results from a real route fromSpain to Sweden will be presented in this paper. Several recorders were installed at different points of thecontainer obtaining with them a complete environmental mapping with temperature, relative humidity,shocks and vibrations data. Possible differences depending on the inside pallet location container and thepalletizing level were also properly analyzed. Results obtained will allow developing in a near future anoptimized transport simulation procedure, containing more precise simulation parameters, in order toevaluate the suitability of corrugated board packaging used for agricultural exports purposes.
Amparo Martínez Giner Manuel García-Romeu Martínez
ITENE, Packaging, Transport and Logistics Research Institute.Parque Tecnológico, C/ Albert Einstein, 1 46980 Paterna, Valencia (Spain)
国际会议
The 17th IAPRI World Conference on Packaging(第17届世界包装大会)
天津
英文
864-868
2010-10-12（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）