CWA International - Food Department

Example Cargoes

Food stuffs encompass all those supplies which are destined for human or animal consumption. The diversity is striking: grain shipped in bulk; bagged, packaged, drummed or bottled ingredients; processed food and beverages; and the important sub-category of 'reefer' cargoes for refrigerated and chilled food.

Food cargoes are susceptible to a unique set of risks because they are inherently perishable and prone to rapid deterioration. In many incidents, unless action is taken swiftly, losses will usually be significant if not total.

The work of CWA Food Department is extensive and covers all the high volume commodities stored and shipped in bulk - wheat, maize, corn, animal food, rice, pulses as well as the handling and shipment of fresh and frozen produce such as fruit, vegetables, meat and seafood. Its common purpose is to assist in the risk management of the safe and profitable international trade of these and allied foodstuffs.

An illustrative list of the cargoes which the CWA Food Department has dealt with follows:

Alfalfa
Apples, Braeburn
Avocado Pears

Bananas
Fresh Bananas
Frozen Bananas
Sliced Bananas

Barley
Beef livers
Black peppercorns
Cashew nuts
Cassava chips
Cheese
Cherries
Chickens
Chicken livers
Chinese Garlic
Citrus fruit
Citrus pellets
Citrus pulp
Clementines
Cocoa Beans
Collagen sausage casings
Concentrated Orange Juice
Copra pellets
Corn Distiller grain meal
Corn Gluten feed pellets
Cottonseed
Cottonseed pellets

Fish
Fresh fish
Frozen fish
Fishmeal
Flour
Grapefruit
Grapes
Ice Cream
Kapok seed expeller meal
Kiwi fruit
Lard
Lemons
Lentils, Chinese
Lychees
Mackerel

Maize
Yellow maize
Corn

Malt
Mangoes
Meat
Molasses
Nectarines
Olive oil
Onions
Pears
Pepsi Cola concentrate
Pineapples
Pinto Beans
Plantains
Plums
Pork ribs
Potatoes
Powdered Milk
Prawns
Pulses

Rice
Indian Long Grain Rice
Thai Parboiled Rice
Vietnamese Rice

Sajtoja sauce
Seafood

Seed
Canary seed
Palm kernel expellers
Seedcake
Sunflower seed
Sunflower seed expellers
Sunflower seed meal pellets

Soya beans
Soyabean meal
Soya bean oil

Sugar
Bagged sugar
Brown Cane sugar
Golden Granulated crystal sugar
White crystal sugar
Raw sugar

Sweet Potato
Tangerines
Tapioca
Tuna
Turkeys
Walnut kernels
Wheat
Wheat flour