DHL cargo hold temperature
 

Hi

One question regarding temp.:

Friend wants to ship some cargo to asia via DHL. He wants to know what is the temperature in the hold. It must no be under 5 degree Celzius for his package.

So how cold it is?

Cheers,
A

Not flying for DHL, but the temperature in the cargo holds is adjustable from the flightdeck. If temperature sensitive cargo is loaded and declared as such, the temperature is usually set accordingly. Another possibility is to have the cargo loaded in an active cooling containter. However, I don't know if DHL transports such cargo or is just flying 'normal' packages.

Cheers,
DBate

It'll be fine - it will appear on the NOTOC under the special load section which shows required temperatures, handling etc

Many years ago we had a contract to move 9 tons of fresh salmon from Bergen to UK (for onward shipment to Japan) every couple of weeks or so. The temperature was not to go above 4ºC (for obvious reasons) and not to go below 0ºC (otherwise internal ice crystals would form and ruin the texture of the fish).

We would always be met on arrival in UK by a representative of the fish company who promptly took temperature readings.

I would imagine that we would have been stung for damages if the salmon were not in tip top shape.

All of this was quite a tricky business since the aircraft temperature gauges didn't start reading until 10ºC! Somehow or other, it always worked out.