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Brussels Airport increases airside pharma transporter fleet
Brussels Airport has more than doubled its fleet of airside pharma transporters due to demand for the specialist dollies.The Belgian hub has added five more of the trailer-mounted transporters, bringing its total fleet to nine units.The airport said: “To meet the rising demand from shippers and airlines the additional investment ...
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Delta Cargo to offer CSafe pharma ULDs
Delta Cargo has introduced the CSafe RAP container to its cold-chain pharma programme.The CSafe RAP container utilises heating and compressor-driven cooling technologies, along with insulation, to maintain constant temperatures even at extreme ambient temperatures ranging from -30°C to +54°C.It can accommodate up to four standard US pallets or five standard ...
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Turkish Cargo broadens its QEP accreditation network
Turkish Cargo has increased the number of QEP (Qualified Envirotainer Provider) accredited stations for handling pharmaceutical products.It has received QEP accreditation at 15 new stations, including: Helsinki Taipei, Vienna, Kuwait, Maastricht, Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo, Tokyo, Chicago, Madrid, Cairo, Roma, Dusseldorf , Budapest, San Francisco.Specialist pharma-chain ULD provider Envirotainer has ...
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Yusen wins Jurox animal healthcare contract
Animal healthcare specialist Jurox has awarded Yusen Logistics UK a contract for warehousing and final mile distribution in the UK and Ireland as part of a strategic move to appoint one global partner.Yusen Logistics already handles Jurox’s international cross border airfreight, together with its complete outbound and inbound flows from ...
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Etihad SPRINTs to cargo technology platform
Etihad Cargo has completed its migration to SPRINT, an IBS iCargo fully integrated technology platform which the carrier has adopted as the digital answer to its evolving cargo management needs.The cargo and logistics arm of Etihad Airways has spent 12 months on the implementation process andservices that are now available ...
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Yusen Logistics awarded CEIV Pharma certification at Kansai
Yusen Logistics is the first Japanese airfreight forwarder at Kansai International Airport to be certified for IATA's Center of Excellence for Independent Validators in Pharmaceutical Logistics (CEIV Pharma).Yusen Logistics stated: “As a part of its strategy to turn Kansai International Airport into an international cargo hub, Kansai Airports is in ...
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United approves CSafe’s RAP temperature-controlled container
United Cargo has approved the CSafe RAP temperature-controlled container for the shipping of pharmaceuticals and other life science commodities across its network under its specialised TempControl product.CSafe’s RAP container makes use of heating and compressor-driven cooling technologies, along with effective insulation, to maintain constant temperatures within the ULD even at ...
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Peli BioThermal opens service centres in Basel and Berlin
Temperature-controlled packaging firm Peli BioThermal has opened service centres in Basel and Berlin to support the global pharmaceuticals business.The Basel and Berlin service centres will enable global Peli BioThermal clients to receive and return reusable Credo packaging in the two cities, both important locations for pharmaceutical manufacturing and shipping.The new ...
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dnata granted GDP certification at Zurich
Ground handler dnata has been awarded Good Distribution Practice (GDP) certification for pharma handling at the company’s facility in Zurich, Switzerland.Dubai-headquartered dnata “completely refurbished” one of its Zurich Airport warehouses, while also making “significant enhancements to its quality systems, operations documentation and facilities management practices”.The European Commission’s GDP certification relates ...
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Latam Cargo continues its pharma expansion
Latam Cargo has continued to expand its pharma services, adding a passive option to its London Heathrow flights.The airline said that Heathrow was already included in its active pharma product but that from October customers using the airport would also be able to use its passive service.Latam Cargo senior sales ...
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Doctor-coptor VIDEO: DHL drone delivers medicines in East Africa
A DHL-led pilot project to deliver medicines by parcel drone to remote areas in Kenya, East Africa, has completed more than 180 take-offs and landings.During a six month test period, the German logistics giant, together with Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and drone manufacturer Wingcopter, flew the rapid response ...
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Volga-Dnepr Airlines rushes relief supplies to help victims of Typhoon Mangkhut
Volga-Dnepr Airlines organised a delivery of aid relief cargo to Guam in less than 24 hours, providing 64 tons of food supplies and bottled water to help victims of Typhoon Mangkhut.Within eight and-a-half hours of the customer’s confirmation, Volga-Dnepr Airlines had positioned one of its An-124-100 freighters at San Francisco ...
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Pharma's New Normal?: the delivery driver is the nurse giving the injection
A rapidly evolving pharma landscape could see a "New Normal" where the driver delivering vaccines to a patient's home is also the nurse giving the injection.Delegates at the Cool Chain Association (CCA) conference in Brussels heard that shippers and logistics suppliers must share information to build a more secure and ...
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SIA launches Thrucool pharma product
Singapore Airlines (SIA) has launched a Thrucool product to transport high-value, time-sensitive and temperature-controlled pharma and healthcare shipments.Thrucool offers dedicated cold chain services, said SIA in a statement, including "priority uplift and handling, quick ramp transfers at airports, cold room facilities, thermal blankets and covers for crucial insulation".SIA has partnered ...
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Novo Holdings to take a 25% share in Envirotainer
Novo Holdings has agreed to acquire a 24.9% equity stake in Envirotainer in partnership with private equity firm Cinven.Cinven had previously announced the acquisition of Envirotainer in July this year.Samir Kamal, a senior director at Novo Holdings, confirmed: “Envirotainer is a very attractive investment opportunity for Novo Holdings.“The company is ...
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Qatar Airways Cargo gains QEP accreditation at 10 stations
Qatar Airways has received the Qualified Envirotainer Provider Training and Quality Programme (QEP) accreditation at 10 of its stations: London Heathrow, Milan, Shanghai, Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Mumbai, Colombo, Delhi, Hyderabad and Chennai.They are added to Qatar Airways Cargo’s other QEP-accredited stations at Amsterdam, Basel, Paris, Doha and Chicago.Envirotainer’s QEP accreditation recognises ...
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Agility achieves human-use WDA authorisation for UK facilities
Logistics firm Agility has received a Wholesaler Distribution Authorisation for Medicines for Human Use (WDAh) from the UK Medicines Healthcare & Regulatory Agency (MHRA).The certification authorises warehousing and cross-dock of a wide range of pharmaceuticals, including finished products and active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) under ambient and cold chain conditions.The certification ...
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Video: Emirates SkyCargo reaches trucking milestone
Emirates SkyCargo has reached the milestone of transporting 1m ULDs through its bonded corridor trucking service (see video at end of article) connecting Dubai International Airport (DXB) and Dubai World Central (DWC).Emirates SkyCargo launched the trucking corridor in April 2014, when the air cargo carrier first commenced freighter flights from ...
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Pharma packaging firm Peli BioThermal opens new US network station
Temperature-controlled packaging firm Peli BioThermal has opened a new network station and service centre in Indianapolis.The 50,000sq ft facility in the Plainfield, Indiana Gateway Business Park will service, refurbish, repair and condition Peli BioThermal’s reusable and rental Crēdo on demand temperature controlled containers.In addition, the location will be a full ...
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Qatar Cargo moves 100 tonnes of medications in charter operation
Qatar Airways Cargo has transported more than 100 tonnes of medications from Mumbai to Brasilia for customer Hermes Travel and Cargo Private Limited.The airline said the Boeing 777F charter flight was one of the largest shipments of medicines that is has transported on a single flight."Through integrated planning and excellent ...