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¿Cuántos Boeing 747 needed to move vaccines from COVID-19 to all the world? A report of THERE IT IS has the answer.
The logistics will be enormous and will set a precedent in the history of aviation, proving once again the importance of air cargo during emergency situations.
Despite the fact that the largest passenger planes, how are the Boeing 747 and Airbus A380, that are being withdrawn from passenger airline fleets, the future of the first is guaranteed in the cargo and in the coming months, with the long-awaited vaccines, will once again prove its effectiveness as a large freighter aircraft.
The potential size of the delivery is huge. By simply providing a single dose of the vaccine to 7.800 millions of people, they would fill up 8.000 Boeing cargo planes 747. Ground transportation will help, especially in developed economies with local manufacturing capacity. But vaccines cannot be distributed globally without significant use of air cargo..
In this way, Logistics will be enormous and will give new impetus to air cargo, which has fallen drastically during these months of the pandemic., despite the fact that its demand has been very high due to the transport of medical supplies.
With 8.000 cargo planes that will be needed approximately, the airline industry will prepare for the greatest common logistics among all operators, transport thousands of vaccines to all corners of the world with the aim of ending the current health crisis, although without a clear date of when this operation will begin.
THERE IT IS finally calls on governments to prepare for this contingency, taking into consideration:
- Availability of cold rooms.
- Personnel trained to handle this type of cargo.
- Periodically monitoring.
- Vaccine transport safety.
- Expedited access through customs and without delays.
- Flexibility in flight authorization.
