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Cathay Pacific gets in on Covid vaccine deliveries
来源：Shipping News Headlines 编辑：编辑部 发布：2021/03/02 10:18:08
CATHAY Pacific has successfully delivered the first batch of one million Fosun Pharma/BioNTech vaccines to Hong Kong from Frankfurt.
The airline's director cargo Tom Owen said: "Different vaccines have differing requirements. The Fosun Pharma/BioNTech vaccine must be transported in a deep frozen state, which requires more complex transportation and storage solutions.
"Our Vaccine Solution has proven itself to be ideally suited to the fast and effective distribution of this and other vaccines across the globe, using our freighter and passenger fleet, and our extensive global network."
Cathay Pacific shipments to date include the milestone import of the first vaccines for use in Hong Kong on February 19. The one million doses of Sinovac vaccine were loaded inside six temperature-controlled Envirotainer RAP e2 containers, to maintain the vaccine temperature range of 2 degrees celsius to 8 degrees celsisus, and carried in the belly hold of an Airbus A330 operating the scheduled passenger flight, CX391.
Mr Owen added: "This was also the first shipment to use our new Ultra Track service, a key part of our Vaccine Solution."
On the same flight, there were 200,000 doses of the Sinovac vaccine destined for Mexico. Another shipment of 800,000 doses to Mexico will follow this week. Cathay Pacific had previously carried a CanSinoBIO vaccine shipment via Beijing and Hong Kong to Mexico earlier in February, and the airline has already also transported a Fosun Pharma/BioNTech shipment to Penang on one of its freighters.
So far, the Cathay Pacific Cargo Vaccine Solution has proven to offer the high levels of quality assurance demanded by these vital shipments. This level of dedication and expertise has been recognised not only by our customers, but also UNICEF, which named Cathay Pacific Cargo as one of the select airlines for its Humanitarian Airfreight Initiative to support COVAX, the global effort aimed at equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines.
To increase links with the European vaccine production hub, Cathay Pacific Cargo is adding a further two Boeing 777 cargo-only flights to operate on the Pharma Corridor between the CEIV-certified airport communities of Brussels and Hong Kong each week, Cathay Pacific said in a statement.
The airline's director cargo Tom Owen said: "Different vaccines have differing requirements. The Fosun Pharma/BioNTech vaccine must be transported in a deep frozen state, which requires more complex transportation and storage solutions.
"Our Vaccine Solution has proven itself to be ideally suited to the fast and effective distribution of this and other vaccines across the globe, using our freighter and passenger fleet, and our extensive global network."
Cathay Pacific shipments to date include the milestone import of the first vaccines for use in Hong Kong on February 19. The one million doses of Sinovac vaccine were loaded inside six temperature-controlled Envirotainer RAP e2 containers, to maintain the vaccine temperature range of 2 degrees celsius to 8 degrees celsisus, and carried in the belly hold of an Airbus A330 operating the scheduled passenger flight, CX391.
Mr Owen added: "This was also the first shipment to use our new Ultra Track service, a key part of our Vaccine Solution."
On the same flight, there were 200,000 doses of the Sinovac vaccine destined for Mexico. Another shipment of 800,000 doses to Mexico will follow this week. Cathay Pacific had previously carried a CanSinoBIO vaccine shipment via Beijing and Hong Kong to Mexico earlier in February, and the airline has already also transported a Fosun Pharma/BioNTech shipment to Penang on one of its freighters.
So far, the Cathay Pacific Cargo Vaccine Solution has proven to offer the high levels of quality assurance demanded by these vital shipments. This level of dedication and expertise has been recognised not only by our customers, but also UNICEF, which named Cathay Pacific Cargo as one of the select airlines for its Humanitarian Airfreight Initiative to support COVAX, the global effort aimed at equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines.
To increase links with the European vaccine production hub, Cathay Pacific Cargo is adding a further two Boeing 777 cargo-only flights to operate on the Pharma Corridor between the CEIV-certified airport communities of Brussels and Hong Kong each week, Cathay Pacific said in a statement.