Fremantle HEATWAVE....BUT SHIP LOADING STILL GOES ON

With the industry under the spotlight and assuring us that animal welfare is their top priority, it will perhaps come as a surprise for many to hear that on this extreme heat day in Fremantle, sheep are being loaded onto the MV Dareen. The temperature in Fremantle right now (1628 pm) with trucks rolling in is 41 degrees C in the shade (see digital display). There is not a breath of wind. However, the trucks have to park up in the full sun waiting to offload the sheep. The temperature in the full sun right now in Fremantle is 45 degrees Celcius dry bulb temperature (DBT) and 31.5 degrees Celcius wet bulb temperature (WBT) - see wet and dry bulb thermometer image.  That WBT is above the published heat stress threshold for sheep.
NOTE: at 1645pm, the DBT in the shade was 42 degrees, WBT 31 degrees. The open decks on this ship cannot cool to less than ambient temperature so HST is likely being exceeded even before the animals leave Fremantle for Saudi.