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Brazil and Chile added to Pelican cold-chain logistics
Pelican BioThermal, the temperature-controlled packaging specialist, has added Brazil and Chile to its cold chain network.It has announced partnerships in Latin America with BioThermal Solutions of Chile and NatBio of Brazil.Kevin Lawler, vice president of worldwide sales at Pelican BioThermal, said: “With the continued growth of the global healthcare cold ...
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TNT signs pharma duo for Medpak service
TNT has signed up two global customers for its new cold chain packaging and shipping solution, Medpak VI°C.The Europe-based express operator did not name the customers but said that one is “a leading clinical trial company” while the other is “a global biotech company”.Medpak VI°C, which guarantees a temperature variance ...
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Shanghai is China’s centre of cool
Shanghai Pudong Int’l Airport Cargo Terminal (PACTL) has officially opened a new cool centre, certified to IATA CEIV Pharma standards - the first Chinese facility to achieve this. It can handle 100,000 tonnes of temperature-sensitive goods a year on a 3,500sq m footprint.Facilities include freezers (+8 to -18 degrees Celsius) ...
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CSafe centre opens at growing pharma hub Atlanta
Temperature-controlled air cargo container supplier CSafe Global has opened a new service centre at Atlanta’s Hartsfield–Jackson airport (ATL), serving inbound and outbound traffic.The Atlanta facility is the second of what will be seven additional service centres across the CSafe network in 2016.Brian Kohr, president and chief executive of CSafe, said: ...
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Schiphol launches pharma gateway
European cargo hub Schiphol has launched Pharma Gateway Amsterdam (PGA), a community-based cool chain logistics programme for the niche high value airfreight product.All participants in PGA will be IATA CEIV Pharma-certified and the programme is the initiative of Schiphol’s Pharma Task Force, launched in July 2015 by Air Cargo Netherlands, ...
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UPS to offer cryogenic airfreight service in Europe
Integrator UPS is now offering European customers a cryogenic shipping service through the use of specialist containers.The service, which is available on airfreight services as well as other modes of transport, uses cryogenic containers from Cryoport which use liquid nitrogen stored in dry vapour form to keep products frozen at ...
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Changi airport launches CEIV pharma community for air cargo firms
Changi Airport Group (CAG) has revealed plans to launch an IATA Center of Excellence for Independent Validators Pharmaceutical Handling (CEIV Pharma) community that will work together to achieve the certification.Under the community programme, companies will have to undergo training, as well as an assessment of their facilities and processes by ...
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ASC and Socrates partner on supply chain security and compliance
ASC Pharmaceutical Logistics and risk consultant Socrates have announced a new partnership that will see the two companies offer each other’s services to clients.The partnership will see Socrates offering ASC’s regulation compliance services while ASC will offer its clients Socrates' security from theft, counterfeit and adulteration services.“There is a natural ...
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Visitors experience Frankfurt's pharma focus
Air Cargo Community Frankfurt has held a pharma-focused event at Europe's top airfreight hub for BVL International, the German Logistics Association in the Rhein-Main region.There were 80 participants at the ‘visit FRA pharma’ event who received an update on current trends and developments in logistics, including the transport of pharmaceutical ...
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Students earn their GDP spurs at IAG Cargo/Exelsius workshop
A further 18 students have graduated from the IAG Cargo/Exelsius Good Distribution Practice (GDP) Academy — the fifth such international training course — this time held in London.Attended by students from Singapore, India and the UK, the course was of particular benefit to forwarders and ground handlers who are either ...
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CSafe launches CATS container tracking system
Temperature-controlled container supplier CSafe Global has launched its Container Automated Tracking System (CATS) to provide customers with detailed, real-time, active-container information.CATS allows container lessees to manage and oversee their RKN (insulated container) inventory from their desks and gives authorised users unlimited access to RKN log file decryption and charts at ...
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Air France KLM Cargo picks up CEIV certification
Air France KLM Martinair Cargo has been awarded IATA Centre of Excellence for Independent Validators (CEIV) Pharma certification for its hub operations in Amsterdam and Paris.The airline group said it had decided to meet the standards of the IATA CEIV Pharma programme, rather than the European Union’s Good Distribution Practice ...
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Air China Cargo to launch cold chain product this year
Air China Cargo has revealed plans to launch a cold chain product this year and is leasing ULDs from Envirotainer to support its expansion in the temperature controlled market.The fast-growing Asian airline plans to roll out a cold chain product this spring with further network expansion planned in 2016 based ...
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Cargolux passes GDP audit
Cargolux has passed its GDP Surveillance Audit, validating its certification for another year.The completion of the audit attests that the company’s management system fulfills the requirements of the EU directive ‘Guidelines on Good Distribution Practice of Medicinal Products for Human Use’ and of WHO guidelines.Cargolux Director Global Logistics Services Franco ...
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K+N bags GSK pharma contract
Kuehne+Nagel has signed a five year pharma logistics contract with global healthcare company GSK.The Switzerland-based supply chain giant will operate an “end-to-end global logistics partnership” for GSK until 2021, running the core business of transporting products from the raw materials supplier to trade customers.Said K+N: “With numerous suppliers, a large ...
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United opens temperature control facility at Newark
United Cargo has opened a TempControl centre at its Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) hub.It will serve TempControl, the US carrier's product for commodities requiring temperature-controlled transport.The new facility includes the features and innovations “most requested” by United’s TempControl customers, including +15C to +25C controlled room temperature, the capacity to ...
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Schiphol Cargo eBook provides guidance for pharma logistics managers
Amsterdam Schiphol Airport has produced a pharma e-book which features interviews with seven experts in the pharma and pharma logistics sectors.Vision Pharma Logistics 2020: Insights and practical advice is published by Schiphol Cargo – the European airport’s dedicated cargo department.One of the main conclusions in the book is that pharma ...
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The challenge of meeting pharmaceutical supply chain requirements
Air cargo carriers face the challenge of balancing the need to make investments to meet the needs of pharmaceutical shippers and justifying those investments to finance departments.Speaking at the Air Cargo News Life Sciences and Pharmaceuticals conference, American Airlines manager cold chain strategy Tom Grubb provided an example of how ...
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Va-Q-tec opens rental station in Mumbai
Cool chain equipment lessor va-Q-tec has opened its first container rental network station in India for pharmaceutical shipments.The recently qualified and trained network station in Mumbai, opened in cooperation with Japan's Yusen Logistics, is the first of multiple hubs to follow in India.Siddarth Kasturia, senior general manager at Yusen Logistics, ...
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LatAm pharma boost for IAG Cargo
IAG Cargo’s Constant Climate pharma product will have access to three new passenger routes in Latin America from the summer of 2016, offering bellyhold capacity to growing life science markets.From summer 2016, the carrier will operate direct flights from London Gatwick to San Jose, Costa Rica and Lima, Peru. In ...