FishPac receives Chinese air freight approval

Recent regulation changes by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) are allowing FishPac, an oxygen-sustained live seafood airfreight transport system, to begin shipments into China. Cathay Pacific Airlines and Dragon Air Airlines have received approvals to transport FishPac shipments into all Chinese ports and the company said its first deliveries have already shipped from Australia en route to China. 

Chinese ports are now able to receive live aquatic animal shipments for the first time due to the changes to special provision A302, which removed the requirement of port of destination approval, according to FishPac. 

“The China approval issue had been an ongoing issue for many years,” FishPac Managing Director John Curtain said.  “IATA’s changes [have] opened many doors for shippers to take advantage of shipping their product live with the FishPac system into China, which is the biggest seafood market in the world. It’s a significant opportunity.”

The company said its first shipments following the regulatory changes were of coral trout grouper (Plectropomus leopardus) but that it sees “ great potential for the system for a multitude of aquatic animals to be shipped with FishPac, with significant interest on those animals which simply cannot be shipped live with traditional methods, given they won’t survive.”

“FishPac allows these animals, including Green Lip abalone (Haliotis laevigata), to be transported live for the first time anywhere in the world, which is very exciting,” Curtain said. “There is a significant profit opportunity for those shippers wanting to look at pioneering these markets for themselves. [We expect] to see the growth of shipments to all Chinese ports increase exponentially in the next four to six years.”

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