Airlines, airports get ready for `Operation COVID Vaccine` |
The Indian airlines and airport operators have started preparing for the mammoth task of taking COVID vaccines across the country. While meeting Pfizer`s minus 70 degrees Celsius requirement for its vaccines will be “difficult”, they are gearing up to set up cold chain storage for the job that needs to be done on an unprecedented scale of several million of shots to begin with. The GMR Group, which operates Delhi and Hyderabad airports, says the air cargo units of both these places are getting ready to “play a pivotal role in the distribution of vaccines through the state-of-the-art time and temperature-sensitive distribution system” with cool chambers ranging from 25°C to -20°C. Budget carrier SpiceJet`s cargo arm, SpiceXpress, has tied up with global cold chain solution providers to perform seamless cold chain operations and offers cargo shipment with a controlled ambient temperature between 25 degrees Celsius to -40 degrees Celsius. Many other airports and airlines are also learned to be prepared for vaccine transportation, possibly the largest ever air cargo opportunity so far, According to the officials, Delhi Airport has two cargo terminals that can handle over 15 hundred thousand metric tonnes and have “temperature-controlled zones with separate cool chambers ranging from 25°C to -20°C, which would be extremely conducive to the distribution of Covid 19 vaccines.
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