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Fast, reliable perishable shipping is the backbone of the food and flower businesses. The improvements in perishable logistics means sensitive products like seafood or exotic houseplants are handled and transported appropriately to maintain shipment integrity.
Failures along the cold chain, which can be catastrophic for small businesses, are at times due to improper documentation, labeling or poor packaging. The PCR has all the up-to-date, best-practice and guidance information you need to develop loss-minimizing perishable shipping processes.
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2025 Perishable Cargo Regulations (PCR)
2025 Perishable Cargo Regulations (PCR)
2025 Réglementation du transport du fret périssable (PCR)
2025 Réglementation du transport du fret périssable (PCR)
2025 Reglamentación para la Carga Perecedera (PCR)
2025 Reglamentación para la Carga Perecedera (PCR)
What’s inside the PCR?
- Applicability (simplifying business and contractual considerations, shipper and carrier responsibilities, special conditions, compliance)
- Government regulations (compliance, government regulations and laws, variations by country)
- Carrier regulations (variations by carrier)
- Perishable facts and types (types of perishables)
- Packaging (air shipment requirements, package categories)
- Perishables operations (quality and risk management, booking, acceptance, cargo and ground operations, delivery)
- Documentation and labelling (waybill, cargo handling codes, captain notification, marking, labelling)
- Traceability and tracking (general information, RFID)
- Claims (types, how to inspect, how to study, check list)
- CITES (guidelines for live plants, CITES parties, appendices, management authorities by country)
- Air transport of cut flowers (maintaining quality in ornamentals, factors affecting post-harvest quality, post-harvest management, quality control, air transport logistics)
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Significant Changes to the 24th edition (2025) of the IATA Perishable Cargo Regulations (PCR) include:
1–Application of Regulations
- Clarification of Shipper responsibilities (section 1.2)
2–State Variations
- Addition of State Variations of Switzerland-CHG
3–Operator Variations
- General Operator Information moved to new Appendix B - General Operator Information.
- Amendments to Operator Variations for:
- AEROFLOT (SU)
- CHINA AIRLINES (CI)
- EMIRATES (EK)
- FLYDUBAI (FZ)
- LATAM CARGO (UC)
4–Booking and Advanced Arrangements
- Content from former Chapter on Perishables Operations moved to new Chapter 4.
5–Perishable Shipments
- Chapter fully revised, content streamlined.
- Section 5.2.12 revised with reference to the IATA Temperature Control Regulations (TCR).
- Clarification on the use of EPS, leak-proof packaging, and dry ice for live seafood.
6–Shipment Tracking and Monitoring
- Former Chapter on Traceability and Tracking fully revised and structured.
7–Documentation
- Revision of full chapter.
8–Packing
- Addition of section 8.3.10 Healthcare Products.
9–Marking and Labelling
- Creation of separate Chapter on Marking and Labelling.
10– Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)
- Chapter fully revised.
13–Quality and Risk Management
- Section 4.2.12 revised with reference to the IATA Temperature Control Regulations.
14–Claims
- Section 4.2.12 revised with reference to the IATA Temperature Control Regulations.