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Reefer

A refrigerated shipping container

All termsIntroduced in Module 5Open the Toolkit
An open dictionary on a farm office desk
Plain meaning
A refrigerated shipping container
How to use it
Exporters book reefer containers through shipping lines and forwarders; their availability and cost decide export margins.
South African benchmark
Cape Town and Durban are the main reefer ports for South African fruit.
Country notes
Zimbabwe, Zambia and Botswana export through South African, Mozambican or Namibian ports; Namibia exports through Walvis Bay.
Go and read
C5 Lesson 5.3, M4-U4, M5-U4
Calculate it
No calculator; the term is applied in the venture plan narrative.
Library sources
LIB-A029, LIB-A030, LIB-A031, LIB-A038
See also
Cold chain, Trade corridor
The cold chain from picking to buyer, with the danger hours before coolingThe cold chain: the clock starts at pickingPickfield heatPre-coolpack-houseCold truckreeferCold storedepot or portBuyershelfDanger hours: produce warm, losing valueKept cold without a break from pack-house to shelf
Reefer, shown as a diagram.

Introduced in C5 Logistics and Cold Chain.