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Syracuse: Latin America’s largest shipping company, Chile-based CSAV, is the first major line to adopt Carrier Transicold's eAutoFresh system for shipping produce between North and South America. The system features an on-demand ventilation option designed for produce-shipping container refrigeration units.

The eAutoFresh system is an energy-efficient alternative to the common practice of continuously ventilating refrigerated containers to address cargo respiration. For certain high-respiring perishable commodities, it can also extend shelf-life and enable shipping over longer routes. The eAutoFresh system replaces the manual vent on any EliteLINE, ThinLINE, PrimeLINE or StreamLINE unit equipped with a MicroLink ML21 or ML3 controller. In use, the eAutoFresh system’s carbon dioxide (CO2) sensor monitors container atmosphere and automatically opens the vent when CO2 levels rise above a preset point.

“Ventilating only on demand means the refrigeration system works less, thereby saving energy while protecting product quality,” explains James Taeckens, senior product manager, Carrier. “It’s part of our green suite of environmentally sound solutions.”

CSAV is currently utilizing the new system, having purchased 4,500 EliteLINE units, including 1,000 with the eAutoFresh system already installed. The EverFresh systems enable CSAV to maintain product integrity over longer duration routes to the Pacific Rim and Europe. CSAV rigorously field tested the units with eAutoFresh systems, purchasing them to handle exporting snow peas, asparagus and avocados in the South America/North America trade lanes.

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