All Pharma Logistics Articles – Page 47
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SATS gets IATA pharma seal of approval
SINGAPORE Airport Terminal Services’ (SATS) perishables handling facility has become the world’s first centre of excellence in pharmaceuticals handling, as certified by IATA.SATS Coolport was set up to cater for high growth in pharmaceuticals airfreight at Changi airport. Last year it handled more than 15,200 tonnes of pharmaceuticals.IATA certification gives ...
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DHL expands Thermonet life sciences stations
DHL GLOBAL FORWARDING will see 15 more certified life sciences stations go live in the second quarter of 2014, primarily in the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Africa regions.Adding to the existing Thermonet network, DHL is expanding the global service for life sciences and healthcare customers with temperature-controlled airfreight shipment ...
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Geodis Wilson goes back to basics
FRENCH-owned global forwarder Geodis Wilson is streamlining its airfreight products as it continues to expand in emerging markets.The company, managing 200,000 tonnes of belly-hold and main-deck cargo per year, is harmonising its airfreight product range and is piloting the new-look portfolio in India.Owned by Geodis Group of France – itself ...
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IAG Cargo: Making the tough decisions
With air cargo growth still sluggish, with the passenger business continuing to grow, and freighter operations being cut back, one could forgive mainstream airlines for attaching rather less importance to the cargo business than they used to.But is that in fact the case? One person well placed to answer that ...
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Big freeze: DHL extends life sciences cold chain
DHL Global Forwarding has expanded its air freight cold chain logistics to include shipments at frozen or cryogenic temperatures.Designed for customers from the life sciences and healthcare industry, the service is maintained by LifeConEx, DHL's temperature management specialist, in collaboration with Cryoport, a provider of complete global frozen shipping services.David ...
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MedVantx opens 'end of runway pharmacy' for UPS
MedVantx is opening an “end of runway pharmacy” adjacent to the UPS worldwide air hub at Louisville, Kentucky.The pharmaceutical supply chain specialist says that the facility will feature controlled substance storage and support the full range of temperature-sensitive products, while offering order cut-offs as late as 1am.Robert Feeney, MedVantx’s chief ...
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Panalpina: A pharma star is born
Panalpina is expanding its own-controlled air freight network by launching a weekly B747-400F connection from San Juan to Europe, aimed at pharmaceutical shippers.The Switzerland-based logistics giant says that the Puerto Rico-originating freighter will fly directly into Luxembourg, in close collaboration with European all-cargo operator Cargolux.The service, called Caribbean Star, uses ...
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DHL adds China to Thermonet network
DHL Global Forwarding is expanding its services for the life sciences and healthcare industry in China.It has added Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Guangzhou and Shenzhen to the company's worldwide DHL Thermonet network of certified life sciences stations.The 2,000 sq m facilities in Shanghai and Beijing are owned by DHL Global ...
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DHL opens Leipzig pharma hub
DHL Global Forwarding has marked the official opening of a €3.4 million logistics centre in Leipzig, Germany, for the pharmaceuticals industry.The air and ocean freight specialist of Germany’s Deutsche Post DHL said that the facility, located next to Leipzig/Halle airport, serves as a competence centre for the “transport, transport preparation, ...
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Regulators and demanding customers force the pace on e-freight
Modal shift is occurring in part because of the air cargo industry’s snail-paced adoption of e-freight and reluctance to share data. Airlines and forwarders are looking after their own interests when they should be “protecting air freight as a mode,” according to James Fernandez, VP global commercial operations at technology ...
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New dawn for Aurora in St Louis
A new all-cargo airline, or more accurately a former airline that has been resurrected, announced during the Air Cargo Forum in Seoul that it is to use Mid-America St Louis Airport as a hub for scheduled freighter services to Asia and Latin America.Aurora Air Cargo was mothballed in 1995, but ...
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Pharma: The human factor
There has been a lot of interest in pharmaceutical shipments in the air freight industry in recent years as airlines and forwarders search for traffic that can give them those elusive higher yields. As a result some thirty airlines now offer pharmaceutical products and many are investing in expanding their ...
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EuroAirport aims for larger share of cargo traffic
EuroAirport has inaugurated a Euro40m cargo terminal at the French hub which is situated close to Swiss city Basel, a major European pharma industry cluster.EuroAirport Cargo Terminal, located in the tri-national Upper Rhine Region that shares borders with Switzerland and Germany, will enter operation in January 2015.The new facility – ...
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SDV Belgium gains pharma handling certification
SDV Belgium is now fully certificated to handle and transport all pharmaceutical products that require an unbroken cold chain.The logistics operator completed the pharma certification programme organised by Brussels Airport and IATA that means it can handle all pharmaceutical air freight shipments in accordance with the European Union’s Good Distribution ...
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FedEx: shake, rattle and roll for the perfect package
THERE’S a whole lot of shaking going on at Federal Express, plus a whole lot of heating, chilling and dropping.But it is all in the name of supply chain science, to design the best packaging for fragile and sensitive goods.FedEx TechConnect has opened a 30,000 sq ft package laboratory in ...
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Exelsius launches pharma programme
Exelsius has launched a pharmaceutical qualification programme (PQP) for companies involved in the handling and transportation of pharmaceutical & life science products.The UK-based international cold chain management consultancy says that its programme allows airports, freight forwarders and logistics service providers to become certified to Good Distribution Practice (GDP) standards.The PQP ...
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US port chaos boosts ex-Asia Pacific air cargo revenues
Inbound US west coast container port congestion provided a November boost for transpacific air cargo revenues out of Asia to North America, although ex-US revenues fell.WorldACD’s latest monthly market data found that the transpacific was the best of the large markets in November.The Netherlands-based research house posed the question: “Did ...
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Liege cements top slot in Belgium
Liege Airport confirmed its position as Belgium’s number one cargo airport with 590,579 tonnes in 2014, up 5.3 per cent on 2013.The increase at the European hub was due to increased throughput by major carriers TNT Airways, Ethiopian Cargo and CAL, along with Ana Airline Management’s decision to base its ...
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Schiphol: Shippers, not freighters
In any industry, does it not make sense to study the strategies of the most successful players? Yet at a time when Amsterdam Schiphol airport is showing robust growth in cargo volumes, many of its major rivals are taking the opposite approach.They are dispensing with cargo managers and making cargo ...
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Tackling pharma’s ‘blackhole’
Brussels airport has launched a pilot project to end the industry-wide airside “black hole” that remains a major problem for pharma shippers globally when sending their goods by airfreight.The Belgian hub is working with industry players to find a benchmark solution that can monitor and control airside temperatures.Steven Polmans, head ...