What are the Best Shipping Conditions for Blueberry?

Freshliance Fresh Tracker 1 GPS positioning gsm gps tracker data logger equipped with GPS positioning function and Freshliance cloud platform can achieve real-time temperature and location monitoring for your blueberry cargo to ensure its quality and logistics efficiency.

Every year, over 20 thousand TEUs of blueberries are transported worldwide. Rated as one of the world’s healthiest foods due to its high level of antioxidants, blueberries have become a popular fruit that is a part of every healthy diet. Most consumers purchase fresh blueberries on impulse and are prompted primarily by the perception of quality. Wholesale buyers also associate appearance and firmness with fruit quality and freshness. Successful blueberry marketing thus requires that the fruit is of the highest quality and appearance. However, blueberries are highly perishable and easily damaged by rough handling and adverse temperatures. Attention to proper shipping temperature monitoring is essential to maintaining quality.

The optimum storage temperature for blueberries is in the range of -0.5 / 0° C. The relative humidity must be maintained between 90 – 95%. If the relative humidity falls below the level of 90%, the blueberries will dry and will show wrinkles on the surface. blueberries should be stored in total and constant darkness. Ventilation must be ensured at a minimum level, to avoid dehydration, but sufficient to eliminate the excess CO2 generated during storage. Non-optimal conditions lead to increased weight loss, decay incidence, and softening and affect biochemical characteristics of fresh fruit, such as vitamin C, sugars, and soluble solids content. Moreover, non-optimal temperature and/or RH conditions result in higher water loss. 

Too high or low temperatures are 36% of the reasons for all the claims on blueberries export. Freshliance Fresh Tracker 1 GPS positioning sms temperature alarm data logger is able to keep all your cargo safe from improper temperature. This temperature recorder for refrigerated trucks enables the company to track the location and monitor the temperatures of all in-transit shipments in real time. Their location will be shown on the E map. Your team can monitor the temperature of any shipment at any time using our mobile APP and platform on your PC. In addition, the system alerts the team via email or SMS whenever temperatures stray from the optimum window. Armed with this data, you can monitor product quality and recall shipments exposed to temperature excursions during transit. Apart from this, one of the other blueberry claim reasons is the delay in transit. With this GPS positioning gsm gps tracker data logger, you can not only reduce cargo loss due to improper storage but also improve logistics efficiency.