Emirates SkyCargo enhances temperature sensitive pharma cargo

January 22, 2018: Emirates SkyCargo, the freight division of Emirates, has beefed up its commitments to securely transport temperature-sensitive pharmaceutical shipments through its recently opened pharma corridors that offers additional protection across selected stations in its network. According to reports, Emirates SkyCargo is working with ground handling partners and other stakeholders at multiple cities across […]

Emirates SkyCargo enhances temperature sensitive pharma cargo
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January 22, 2018: Emirates SkyCargo, the freight division of Emirates, has beefed up its commitments to securely transport temperature-sensitive pharmaceutical shipments through its recently opened pharma corridors that offers additional protection across selected stations in its network.

According to reports, Emirates SkyCargo is working with ground handling partners and other stakeholders at multiple cities across its global network to ensure that handling operations for pharmaceuticals at various stations are uniform and comply with the Emirates SkyCargo's stringent norms for pharma transport, as well as EU Good Distribution Practices (GDP) or IATA Centre of Excellence for Independent Validators (CEIV) pharma guidelines.

This is expected to enable Emirates SkyCargo to offer a supplementary protection of product integrity during transport of temperature-sensitive pharmaceutical cargo through these cities.

Delivering Life-saving Medicine through Emirates SkyCargo

During 2016, Emirates SkyCargo's operations at its hub in Dubai, including its dual cargo terminals at the Dubai International Airport, Dubai World Central and the interconnecting trucking operations were certified as compliant to EU GDP guidelines by Bureau Veritas, Germany.

Operating the largest GDP certified multi-airport hub in the world, Emirates SkyCargo offers round-the-year secure transportation of pharmaceutical cargo at its hub in Dubai. The introduction of pharma corridors with a focus on non-hub handling activities allows it to go one step further for the protection for pharma cargo.

Nabil Sultan, divisional senior vice president cargo of Emirates said: “As a customer-focused organisation, we received feedback from stakeholders in the global pharmaceutical industry. We realised that it was essential to work with our partners on the ground at the various stations in order to ensure the pharmaceutical cargo is transported under the best conditions, not only through our state-of-the-art facilities in Dubai when onboard our modern aircraft, but right from the point the cargo gets dropped off at the origin airport until it is collected at the destination airport. We are also actively exploring the rollout of dedicated pharma flights across our network. Emirates SkyCargo is constantly striving to offer the best solutions for our customers.”

The first 12 stations in Emirates SkyCargo's pharma corridors are spread across three continents, which include Amsterdam, Brussels, Bengaluru, Cairo, Dublin, Dusseldorf, Hong Kong, Luxembourg, Milan, Rome, Shanghai and Singapore.

The rollout of pharma corridors was led by pharma specialists in the Emirates SkyCargo team working in coordination with cargo service delivery teams and ground handlers locally at stations.

In addition to enhanced training provided to staff handling pharmaceutical cargo at the stations, the team also undertook a number of engagement and qualification visits in order to prepare for the rollout. Additional cities are expected to be added over the course of the year.

Emirates SkyCargo's pharma corridors is expected to enhance Emirates Pharma air transportation solution. The air cargo carrier has also invested in developing white cover thermal blankets in addition to innovative containers, such as the Emirates SkyCargo cool dolly or the white container to guarantee that lifesaving medicines travelling through its network are not compromised.

Emirates SkyCargo has a fleet strength of over 50 cool dollies dedicated to pharma cargo. The carrier also works with leading container rental services across the globe to ensure that customers have the widest choice of products and solutions to meet their requirements. It operates to over 155 destinations across six continents and operates a fleet of over 265 aircraft including 14 freighters.

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