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Solution · Live animal

Mitigate extreme weather for every animal in transit.

IATA Live Animals Regulations set hard temperature thresholds. The weather doesn't care, and the consequences fall on the operator. We forecast the thresholds — by species, by stand, by hour.

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The problem

A 33°C apron is a different threshold for a French Bulldog than for a Thoroughbred.

Live-animal cargo is not just another payload. Welfare regulation, embargo windows, IATA LAR, species-specific thresholds, and reputational exposure all sit on top of normal operational complexity.

Thresholds aren't airport-level — they're aircraft-stand-level, and they vary by species, age, conditioning, and time of day. Current state of practice is a printed embargo calendar, a phone call to the destination handler, and judgement.

We forecast animal-relevant variables: heat-stress index, surface and ramp temperature, humidity, dewpoint depression, wind chill, direct-sun loading. We resolve those to the holding room, the apron, and the destination ramp — and generate the welfare audit log automatically.

What we decide

Five decisions, made per consignment.

01
Loading slot
Ranks the next loading slots against species-specific thresholds and recommends the slot with the lowest welfare risk.
02
Holding-room conditioning
Recommends holding-room temperature, humidity and ventilation against the forecast loading-window apron conditions.
03
Route-segment timing
For multi-leg consignments, identifies segments that should be re-timed or rerouted to avoid threshold breaches.
04
Embargo flagging
Carrier and IATA embargoes cross-referenced live so a consignment never accepts a booking that violates active restrictions.
05
Audit-ready welfare log
Every decision, threshold reading, and acknowledgement captured to a per-shipment welfare log — exportable as PDF.
Inputs we use
METAR / TAF / SPECISurface & ramp-temp modelsECMWF ensemblesIATA LAR thresholdsCarrier embargoesSpecies welfare thresholds
We've stopped guessing what 'too hot' means for a French Bulldog at JFK in August.
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Every shipment. Every species. Every threshold.