Over 1.8 million doses of vaccines transported in a single flight
Emirates SkyCargo has transported over 25 tonnes of vaccines from Milan to Bello Horizonte Airport (BH) in Brazil on its Boeing 777 freighter aircraft. This is the largest shipment of vaccines that the air cargo carrier has transported on a single flight and it is also the first time that BH Airport has received such a large shipment of vaccines.
Given the extreme sensitivity of the vaccines to temperature fluctuations, the entire shipment, equivalent to about 1.8 million doses, had to be transported in specialised containers to maintain a constant temperature of 5 degrees Centigrade.
“We planned every detail of this charter very carefully with our partners from mid-July to ensure that the vaccines would be delivered carefully to Belo Horizonte airport,” remarked Hiran Perera, Emirates Senior Vice President, Cargo Planning & Freighters.
“Negotiations for the arrival of this shipment included the visit of technical professionals who checked the storage conditions of our chambers considered to be the latest generation,” added Peter Robbe, Belo Horizonte Airport Cargo Manager.
On an average, Emirates SkyCargo transports about 80,000 pharma shipments every year, varying in size from small clinical trial shipments to pharma charters on freighter aircraft, across its network of over 160 destinations.
