Cover 01 · The Stakes 02 · The Rules 03 · The Gap 04 · The Solution 05 · The Range 06 · The Dashboard 07 · GritClaw.ai 08 · What You Gain 09 · Beyond Compliance 10 · Next Step
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Perishable Cargo · Citrus & Meat

A few degrees decide whether the load arrives or gets rejected.

Live temperature, humidity and location for every reefer, carton and pallet, so you see a cold-chain breach while you can still act on it, not when the claim lands.

Deploy · Detect · Direct Confidence in every movement.
01 · The Stakes

With perishables, the cargo and the deadline spoil together.

2–3°C

A small drift is enough

An excursion of a few degrees, for a few hours, can spoil produce and push a load outside its protocol. Sellable cargo becomes a rejection.

Cold-chain industry guidance, 2025
$500K+

One incident is serious money

Losses per cold-chain temperature incident run from $500K to $10M+ once spoiled product, disposal, rejected loads and emergency re-shipment are counted.

Coughlin Insurance Services, 2025
No proof

The burden of proof is yours

If a buyer rejects the load and you can't show it stayed in range the whole way, recovery is close to impossible. The loss is yours to absorb.

Coughlin Insurance Services, 2025
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02 · The Rules

For citrus and meat, the temperature record is a border condition.

Citrus

Cold treatment clears the border

To control False Codling Moth, the EU requires in-transit cold treatment: e.g. −1°C to 0°C for 16 days, or −1°C to 2°C for 20 days. Core (pulp) temperature must be evidenced, or entry is refused.

EU 2022/632 · EFSA

Exporter mandates are tightening

South Africa's PPECB requires certified cold-chain handling across perishable exports, from pre-cooling through the reefer voyage, with real-time monitoring increasingly expected.

PPECB · SA perishable-export regulations

Meat

HACCP makes the record law

Food-safety law requires HACCP-based temperature control with traceable, batch-linked records across the whole journey, not just at hand-over.

EC 852/2004 · FSMA · Codex

The cold band is tight

Chilled meat held to type-specific limits (e.g. poultry ≤4°C, red meat ≤7°C); frozen at or below −18°C. Each held, recorded and evidenced per consignment.

EU 853/2004 · Codex
EN 12830

Cold-chain recording equipment is expected to meet EN 12830, with data exportable for BRCGS, ISO 22000 and FSSC 22000 audits. iMSense is EN 12830 certified.

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03 · The Gap

A record-only logger reports a breach after the load is lost.

The old way

Record-only data logger

  • Logs temperature to onboard memory, silent for the whole trip
  • Read by USB at destination, days or weeks later
  • Useful as a post-mortem; every reading arrives too late to save the load
Answers "what happened?" — after the fact.
The GritCargo way

iMSense real-time logger

  • Streams temperature, humidity, light, shock and GPS live to the cloud
  • A drift toward the limit becomes an alert in transit
  • Time to re-set the reefer, re-route, or get the load moving
Answers "what's happening?" — in time to act.
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04 · The Solution

iMSense streams the whole trip live, with no installation required.

Live condition data

Temperature, humidity, light, tilt/shock and GPS, streamed 24/7 from pre-cool to delivery.

Instrument-grade accuracy

±0.5°C, configurable 10–120 minute intervals, 60- and 120-day trip durations.

Any lane, any carrier

Global 2G/4G/5G roaming SIM. Place it in the load and send with confidence — any lane, any carrier, no integration.

EN 12830 certified

Audit-ready records for BRCGS, ISO 22000 and FSSC 22000.

iMSense V5 iMSense V5 real-time logger
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05 · The Range

Three variants cover air, core and deep-frozen temperatures.

V5 Pro

The all-round RTL

Your default for citrus cartons and boxed meat. Live air temperature, humidity, light, shock and location for the whole consignment.

Air temp · RH · GPS · light · shock
V5 Probe

Core & pulp temperature

An external dual-temperature probe reads the cargo's core, which regulators use to verify citrus cold treatment and meat compliance.

Probe −30 to +70°C · dual sensor
V5 Cryo

Deep-frozen loads

External sensing for frozen meat and the most demanding cold-chain cargo, far below the standard band.

External sensing to −200°C

Open-event detection, built in. An onboard light sensor flags the instant a reefer door or carton is opened in transit. An unauthorised open becomes a live alert, not a surprise at delivery.

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06 · The Dashboard

Every reefer, consignment and exception in one live view.

app.gritcargo.com / activity report
GritCargo Dashboard temperature trend and live route map

Temperature against the band

Each consignment's trend against its protocol limits, so drift is visible before breach.

A live map of every lane

Reefer, vessel and truck positions with cold-chain status at a glance.

An exceptions queue, not noise

Only loads that need action surface, with evidence attached.

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07 · GritClaw.ai

GritClaw turns monitoring into a briefing, not another dashboard.

A daily shipment brief

Every active load summarised: in range, on time, nothing to do, or exactly what needs attention, and why.

Flagged before it breaches

GritClaw spots a reefer drifting toward its limit and raises it with the right context and the right person to act.

Ask in plain language

"Which loads are at risk this week?" "How did the citrus lane hold temperature?" Answers come from ground-truth data, not gut feel.

"Logistics doesn't need another dashboard. It needs an autonomous assistant with eyes and ears on the ground."
GritClaw assistant shipment brief on mobile
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08 · What You Gain

Fewer rejected loads, and proof for the ones that are disputed.

Catch breaches in transit

A live alert the moment temperature drifts, a door opens or a reefer fails, early enough to save the load instead of writing it off.

Prove the cold chain

A continuous, time-stamped record, including core temperature, that satisfies EU cold-treatment, PPECB and HACCP audits.

Win the claim

When a load is rejected, verifiable in-range data is the difference between a recovered claim and a total loss.

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09 · Beyond Compliance

The same data that passes the audit sharpens the operation.

Compliance is the floor. Continuous condition data turns every trip into operational insight.

Producers & packhouses

See pre-cool performance and dwell time before loading, and stop quality loss before the cargo leaves the gate.

Exporters

Compare carriers and lanes on the temperature actually held and the transit time actually run, then choose by data, not anecdote.

Transporters & 3PLs

Prove service level on every delivery, cut claims exposure, and spot a failing reefer before its next load.

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10 · Next Step

From "we'll find out on arrival" to "we already knew."

Plug-and-play, real-time visibility across every perishable movement: citrus, meat and beyond, from pre-cool to final delivery. Compliant by record, defensible by data. See it on one of your live lanes.

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