The main job of transportation and receiving is to receive the banana’s as pallets or as just plain boxes. From there, they can either transfer the boxes and pallets directly to the port, or to a third party transport service. The process that goes into packing up the boxes for transport is intricate. The pallets must be scanned and tracked back to the vehicle, where it has been loaded, where it is going to be loaded, and also the container details. All of the names, numbers, and dates must be logged. That way every pallet and box can be traced back to the transporter and then to the packer and ultimately to the grower. While all of that sounds time consuming, the most important thing that needs to be scanned is the Serial Shipping Container Code. Programmed into that code is all the information needed to be able to retrace its steps (Banana Supply Chain Traceability). Primarily, the banana’a are transported by railway the road or a container ship. Regardless of the type of transportation method, they are adding to the global crisis of carbon dioxide emissions. The trains are typically powered by coal which emit carbon dioxide while burning. The ships are being run on gas which does the same thing. And because both of these vessels are so vast in size and heavy in weight, it requires more and more fuel to move the containers. The transportation of commodity goods accounts for more than half of the carbon emissions in the world. However, in whichever mode of transportation, the container’s are refrigerated to a temperature to hinder the ripening process (“Fyffes”). The boxes of banana’s are never opened during this whole process.