Perishable exporters get e-active

The Perishable Products Export
Control Board’s (PPECB)
electronic certification
project is attracting growing
support following its launch in
October last year, according to
information technology (IT)
manager, John Gray.
Since going live last
October, the main job has been
interfacing the PPECB system
with the users. “We had an
initial interface with 10% of
the exporters, and expect this
to rise to about 25-30% this
season,” said Gray.
But, converting those
percentages into numbers gives
a better view of just how well
this last season has gone.
“We have done 11.4 million
cartons of fruit exports this
past season,” Gray added, “and
are looking at increasing this
to about 50m this forthcoming
season.”
And all this was
electronically processed by
116 inspectors armed with
digital tablets to record each
export. They also electronically
generated 17 new export
certificates to six exporters.