| 摘要 |
The invention provides a method for shipping cargo, such as produce, in a typical enclosed cargo container van. The method has the following steps: (a) loading the cargo into boxes having a pair of opposed vertical side walls, a pair of opposed vertical end walls, a top wall and a bottom wall, each box having openings in at least two different walls to allow the flow of gases through the box; (b) stacking the boxes on individual pallet boards wherein each pallet board load has a height and a perimeter with a rectangular cross-section, the pallet board loads being prepared by securing the boxes in a plurality of horizontal tiers to individual pallet boards in such a way that a substantially equal number of boxes are secured to each pallet board in a regular, repeating pattern, the boxes being secured in each tier such that channels are formed within each tier and at least one of the vertical walls of each box on the tier abuts such a channel; (c) placing a horizontal baffle sheet within the pallet board loads at a preselected elevation, each baffle sheet having extensions which protrude away from the perimeter of the pallet board load; and (d) loading the pallet board loads into the container van in such a way that a substantial number of the channels defined in each tier are in fluid communication with channels of adjoining pallet board loads, so that gases flowing within the enclosed space of the container van pass freely to each box. wherein the extensions of the baffle boards substantially divide the enclosed space of the container van into a lower portion and an upper portion such that gases injected into the enclosed space near the lower end of the forward end wall and subsequently withdrawn from the enclosed space near the upper end of the forward end wall flow from the forward end wall to the rearward end wall within the lower portion and return to the forward end wall from the rearward end wall within the upper portion. The invention provides a method for shipping cargo in a container van while providing ventilation throughout the cargo. The method is extremely easy and inexpensive to initiate and requires little or no modification to container vans.
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