the airínea KLM Cargo informó what isá ready with its fleet for mass transportation of the vaccine worldwide.
From the third week of March 2020, Air France KLM Martinair Cargo has done everything possible to keep its global cargo network atérea, to guarantee vital supply chains. This has always been essential, but much moreás since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, contributing to health centers, así like citizens, have access to medication, teams sédicos, protective equipmentón personal (PPE) and other cr productsíticos. In the úIn recent months Air France KLM Martinair Cargo has carried out approximately 6.000 cargo flights and, at the moment, opera a más de 100 long distance destinations.
One of the prólog straight maximsísticos beá distributionóworld number of Covid-19 vaccines, after the pharmaceutical giantéutico americano Pfizer, together with his German partnerán BioNTech, announcementó a great ésuccess in the first yearáinterim lysis of phase III study of its vaccine candidate Covid-19.
And tévolume terms, distributionón of the vaccines beá an operationón logíunprecedented aesthetics. Initial expectations indicate that around 15.000 millions of vaccines will haveán to be distributed throughout the world. Many of them tooén tenderán have to be distributed at very low temperatures. Pfizer's vaccine must be kept frozen (a -70 degrees centídegrees). Others needán be distributed at a constant temperature between +2 and +8 Celsius degrees. This means that log solutionsístatics beán essential to maintain quality throughout the distribution chainón of the vaccine.
The distributionón of Covid-19 vaccines poses challengeíthe specsístay with youévolume terms, transportation and security requirements. In order to be fully prepared for this, we created the covid-19 vaccine task force four months ago. This working group represents all relevant departments of Air France KLM Martinair Cargo.
El Vicepresidente Ejecutivo de Air France-KLM Cargo Adriaan den Heijer añadió “We believe that cooperationón and creationón of communities around the próxima distributionóNo global vaccines are essential. We have established partnerships with many of the parties in the log chain.ístic, including carriers, road transport companies, container providers, airports, load/log associatesístic, pharmaceutical companieséutics and institutes and authorities related to healthcareón of health. We are convinced that strong cooperationón among the associates beá essential to run with ésuccess this challengeío logístic”
At IATA itself I indicateó That needán más de 8.000 planes for the huge logístatic to weará the transfer of the vaccine to all corners of the world.
