1 million vaccines en route to Africa
Ethiopian Airlines on March 31 transported over 1 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines from Beijing (PEK) to Robert Gabriel Mugabe ...
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Great things come in cold packages: COVID vaccines and cool-chain logistics
In January, a small shipment of COVID-19 vaccines arrived in a remote village in northwestern Finland. When a worker in ...
Listen: Pharma.Aero on COVID-19 vaccine transport security
As COVID-19 vaccine shipments accelerate, more innovations in container technology are likely on the horizon. However, it is not only temperature deviations that present a threat ...
Great things come in cold packages: COVID vaccines and cool-chain logistics
In January, a small shipment of COVID-19 vaccines arrived in a remote village in northwestern Finland. When a worker in ...
Vaccine airfreight requirements overblown, but planning doesn’t go to waste
The airfreight industry spent months scrambling to prepare for the global deployment of COVID-19 vaccines, and shipments have steadily ramped ...
Cargo Facts Consulting vaccine airfreight dashboard goes live on Air Cargo World
The equivalent of 1,000 widebody freighter flights’ worth of COVID-19 vaccines will move by air during the next two years, ...
UPS expects 40% jump in vaccine doses next week, peak in May
United Parcel Service Inc. and FedEx Corp. are ramping up vaccine distribution, with plans for additional gains if Johnson & ...
Emirates kicks off UNICEF COVAX vaccine flights to Africa
The first international shipment of COVID-19 vaccines under UNICEF’s COVAX facility for global vaccine transport was operated today by Emirates ...
Air cargo expectations adjust to vaccine shipment requirements
We are now a year into COVID-19. The world was not prepared for the magnitude of the initial shock, so ...
Vaccine shipments account for 120,000 tonnes of airfreight, Cargo Facts Consulting finds
After months of tracking the international production and distribution process for the COVID-19 vaccine, Cargo Facts Consulting has concluded that ...
Global carriers leverage scheduled flights for UNICEF vaccine deliveries
UNICEF has partnered with 16 airlines and formally launched the Humanitarian Airfreight Initiative, a program that not only prioritizes COVID-19-related ...
Air Charter Service expands Swiss operations on vaccine prospects
Two major charter brokers have announced that they are expanding operations in Europe, the Middle East and North America spurred ...
CFC: Will temperature requirements constrain the COVID vaccine rollout?
This article originally appeared in CFC Insights. Most common vaccines are distributed at temperatures between 2°C and 8°C (36F-46F). The ...
Eurocontrol unveils priority code for COVID-19 vaccine flights
Eurocontrol, which manages airspace for 41 European member states, is working with airlines and international aviation authorities to streamline trans-Atlantic ...
