Emirates SkyCargo, the freight division of Emirates, has increased the range of solutions available to its pharma customers by entering into agreements for global container rental services with SkyCell and va-Q-tec, in addition to its existing cooperation with Envirotainer.
The agreements allow Emirates SkyCargo to offer its customers a variety of specialised temperature-controlled containers for the transportation of pharmaceutical or life sciences products.
Emirates SkyCargos customers can have temperature sensitive pharma and life sciences products shipped using one of SkyCells temperature controlled containers. The Swiss-made containers are designed to maintain products at +2°C to +8°C and +15°C to +25°C safely even under extreme outside temperatures such as 35°C to +65°C for several days.
The patented containers use innovative material technology to recharge in Emirates SkyCargos cool chain network thus enabling door-to-door for a closed supply chain and have close to real-time temperature monitoring capability.
Pharma customers across Emirates SkyCargos global network of 155 destinations can now also choose to have their temperature sensitive shipments transported in va-Q-tainer containers – advanced passive containers providing temperature-controlled solutions for six temperature ranges from -70°C to +25°C in extreme ambient conditions.
va-Q-tainer rental containers are available in five different sizes taking up to two US pallets inside and offer constant and deviation-free temperature control for several days without using external energy sources.
Emirates SkyCargos agreements with SkyCell and va-Q-tec supplement its existing in-house pharma offerings which include the Emirates SkyPharma Cool Dolly which transports cargo from aircraft to storage areas in Dubai maintaining temperatures as low as -20°C and the White Container- a special container coated with insulators to counteract high external temperatures, giving customers a wide variety of transportation options for their pharma shipments.
In 2016, Emirates SkyCargo launched Emirates SkyPharma- the air cargo carriers complete solution for transporting temperature sensitive pharmaceutical shipments. The carrier also inaugurated a brand new, state of the art facility at Dubai International Airport dedicated to the transport of pharmaceuticals.
Emirates SkyCargo operates the worlds largest multi-airport hub certified for EU Good Distribution Practice Guidelines (GDP) for medicinal products for human use by Bureau Veritas Germany. This covers the carriers pharma transport operations at its Emirates SkyCentral terminals in Dubai World Central (DWC), Dubai International Airport (DXB) and the 24/7 bonded trucking service that connects the cargo between them.