Emirates SkyCargo offers enhanced protection for pharmaceutical cargo with launch of pharma corridors
Emirates SkyCargo, the freight division of Emirates, has stepped up its commitment to securely transport temperature
sensitive pharmaceutical shipments with the introduction of pharma corridors offering additional protection across
selected stations in its network for pharmaceutical cargo.
Emirates SkyCargo is working with ground handling partners and other stakeholders at multiple cities across its global
network in order to ensure that handling operations for pharmaceuticals at these stations are uniform and comply with
Emirates SkyCargo’s stringent norms for pharma transport as well as with either EU Good Distribution Practices (GDP) or
IATA Centre of Excellence for Independent Validators (CEIV) pharma guidelines. Emirates SkyCargo will therefore be able
to provide a supplementary protection of product integrity during transport of temperature sensitive pharmaceutical
cargo through these cities.
In 2016, Emirates SkyCargo’s operations at its hub in Dubai including its dual cargo terminals at Dubai International
Airport, Dubai World Central and the interconnecting trucking operations were certified as compliant to EU GDP
guidelines by Bureau Veritas, Germany. 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 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 onboard 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.
We are also actively exploring the roll out of dedicated pharma flights across our network. Emirates SkyCargo constantly
strives to offer the best solutions for our customers.”
Watch a video of how pharma cargo transits through Emirates SkyCargo’s hub in Dubai.
The first 12 stations in Emirates SkyCargo’s pharma corridors are spread across three continents and include Amsterdam,
Brussels, Bengaluru, Cairo, Dublin, Dusseldorf, Hong Kong, Luxembourg, Milan, Rome, Shanghai and Singapore.
Emirates SkyCargo is a major airfreight operator in New Zealand offering more than 55 tonnes of belly-hold capacity each
day on its A380 services from Auckland and Christchurch.