pharmaceuticals The Asia Pacific region is
another that is expanding its pharma shipping options. Japan represents theworld’s second-biggestmarket for pharmaceuticals and Nippon Cargo Airlines (NCA) recently agreed a global leasing deal with Envirotainer, the first time a Japanese airline has built a product based on the Swedish company’s temperature- controlled ULD containers. Kuniaki Inaoka, NCA senior
their laurels.Michael Bruel, director competence centre temperature control at Lufthansa, said he expects “decent growth rates for this year and the future”. He is looking to “further invest in our products and processes – for instance, in newand innovative container technology”. Stéphane Lemaire, pharmaceutical director at Air France
manager, cargo business division, said the decision to lease containers from Envirotainerwas asmuch about the potential to“increase our knowledge in the carriage of life science products”as about the physicalmaterials and leasing flexibility towhich it nowhas access. Meanwhile, the legacy carriers that have dominated the market for pharmaceutical air transport have not rested on
Bruel expects “decent growth rates”
Cargo-KLMCargo, is seeing double-digit growth in the joint carrier’smajormarketswithin Europe and from America, although he says there remains “a questionmark” over carriers newly entering the pharmaceutical shipping market; theymay be able to ship at lowcost, he said, but they do not have the experience or the global coverage of an enterprise such as AF-KLMCargo. British AirwaysWorld Cargo is “seeing year-on-year
doubling in volumes”of its pharma shipments, confirmed global productmanager Stuart Forsyth. The optimismamong those involved inmoving
pharmaceutical products on their aircraft seems virtually unanimous.Of course, it remains a challenging area in which towork,with technology changing all the time and regulations becoming evermore stringent. However,when times are tough, it has proven to be a vital source of revenue and profit.
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