Process for shipping and ripening fruits and vegetables using a controlled atmosphere container system for perishable products

(57) It is a container system of the controlled atmosphere which conveys plurality and the product which it has, and which is easy to decompose, and stores each container which is suitably connected to a central source of supply that the atmosphere controlled to the summary container should be offered, and which can be conveyed, and is ripened. A control device makes it possible to assign the central source of supply of the controlled atmosphere the optimal according to the class of the predetermined priority which assigns the controlled atmosphere gas to each container based on the relative atmosphere state of a container where the container system was attached, and the capacity of a source of supply. In suitable composition, the central source of supply of the controlled atmosphere gas is equipped with at least one distribution control unit which serves to introduce alternatively the atmosphere controlled by each container according to the quota class of the container system. During transportation of the product which a banana and others tend to decompose, these containers are used in order to enforce the method of controlling the maturing uniformly from harvest to delivery. The unripe product which newly gathered a harvest and which is easy to decompose is loaded in a container, and is cooled by the storage temperature of the range of about 14 °C (about 57 degrees F) or 21 °C (about 70 degrees F). If a product is stabilized with desired storage temperature, maturing of all the products which provided interior volume with the controlled atmosphere and loaded it in abbreviated 直ち containing ethylene will be started uniformly. If maturing begins, by replacing the controlled atmosphere with low oxygen concentration, the ethylene in interior volume will be lessened and the atmosphere will be maintained within the container among storage transportation and a delivery process. Before discharging the ripe product from a container, the atmosphere in interior volume is returned to the usual state. If exposed that the load product should be stable with desired storage temperature, and should start a maturing process of ethylene atmosphere, the atmosphere and temperature in interior volume which were controlled are adjusted, a maturing process "is harmonized" as a request, and it enables it to offer the product ripe that it should supply within the limits of the time of a schedule.