Ramping-up air cargo capabilities
- Each air cargo stakeholder should map its existing capabilities at each location and make this information available
- Dry ice, active containers, trained staff, and cold chain space availability should be secured early
- Infrastructure investment decisions should be made as early as possible
Improving visibility
- The use of tracking and monitoring devices should be encouraged and the approval process for their safe use in flight needs to start as soon as possible
- Rollout of digital solutions and data sharing platforms should be accelerated
Removing barriers
- Governments, customs authorities, and border agencies should be ready to facilitate and expedite all COVID-19-related goods
- International organizations, NGOs and donors should support cool chain capacity building efforts in least developed countries to ensure no one is left behind in the upcoming global immunization campaign
“We are still at early stages of industry preparation for the transportation of COVID-19 vaccines and there are still a lot of unknowns. Delivering COVID-19 vaccines is a life-saving mission which will need a combination of people, infrastructure, standards, packaging solutions and collaboration. Getting the equation right requires us to work together now,” Nathan De Valck, Chairman of Pharma.Aero’s Board of Directors and member of the Sunrays project.
