pharmaceuticals
implemented US air transport security regulations demanding piece-level screening of all passenger aircraft bellyhold cargo (see Panel left). Looking ahead on the wider global pharma industry
supply chain regulatory front, Jan Marten Ellis, business solutions manager, healthcare, TNT Express, said further good distribution practice guidelines were expected in 2011 or 2012. “Those guidelines cover temperature and humidity control and the adverse effects any deviations might have on pharma ingredients, both from a commercial medication point of view and also for IMP (Investigational Medicinal Products) test medication,” he noted. The significance of regulatory influences on trends in
pharma logistics was confirmed by Michael Breul, Lufthansa Cargo head of competence centre temperature control. “There was an international pharma logistics forum in the Netherlands earlier this year and the main story there was that the strength of regulations in that industry would increase,” he said.
Breul went on to explain that such developments mean
that pharma shippers are increasingly demanding that “we close all the gaps in the cool supply chain”. Other growing pharma industry logistics requirements, he suggested, include providing shippers with more real-time data about the temperature and humidity experienced by their products while in transit. The impact of regulatory factors on airline development of specialised services for the pharma/life sciences sector is further highlighted by Martin Blok, Air France-KLM Cargo director for pharma. “Pharmaceutical industry regulations will increasingly create a need for shippers and forwarders of such products to request a specific service from carriers, which will in turn require us to adapt our offering,” he commented. Current areas of focus for both airlines and forwarders in
that context include making greater use of containers with active temperature/climate controls and developing more sophisticated monitoring and reporting systems to provide shippers with real-time information about their products while in transit. One of the latest such developments is Envirotainer’s RAP e2, an LD-9 sized container equipped with electrical
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