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Emirates introduces full-visibility SkyCargo service

The freight division of Dubai-based airline Emirates, SkyCargo, has introduced a new enhanced protection for pharmaceutical cargo, ‘pharma corridors’.
Pharma corridors are the virtual lanes between select cities on its network where Emirates SkyCargo staff are working with local ground handlers to provide enhanced protection for temperature sensitive pharmaceutical cargo.
“What this means is that our customers can be confident that their pharmaceutical cargo will get the required handling from the point it is dropped off at the origin airport until it is picked up at the destination airport,” an Emirates SkyCargo spokesperson told Logistics & Materials Handling.
Emirates SkyCargo is working with ground handling partners and other stakeholders to ensure that handling operations for pharmaceuticals “are uniform and comply with Emirates SkyCargo’s stringent norms for pharma transport,” the company said in a statement, adding that compliance with either EU Good Distribution Practices (GDP) or IATA Centre of Excellence for Independent Validators (CEIV) pharma guidelines is also required.
“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 company added. “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, Emirates Divisional Senior Vice President – Cargo, said: “As a customer-focused organisation, we have been listening to 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 that pharmaceutical cargo travels under the best conditions not only through our state-of-the-art facilities in Dubai and when on board 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.”
Check out the process in the 3.5-minute video below.


The first 12 stations in Emirates SkyCargo’s pharma corridors are Amsterdam, Brussels, Bengaluru, Cairo, Dublin, Dusseldorf, Hong Kong, Luxembourg, Milan, Rome, Shanghai and Singapore.
Emirates SkyCargo informed Logistics & Materials Handling that it is currently working with its partners to include more cities within pharma corridors, including its stations in Australia.

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