New Delhi: GMR Hyderabad Air Cargo (GHAC), a WHO-GSDP (World Health Organisation-Good Storage and Distribution Practices) licensed main Gateway Location in India, is uniquely positioned to deal with temperature delicate Cargo and guarantee its seamless distribution.
GHAC is supplied to serve each outbound and inbound vaccine shipments by offering world-class infrastructure for requisite temperature-controlled zones. GHAC has been repeatedly working in the direction of environment friendly dealing with and distribution of COVID aid supplies.
Hyderabad area is about to be the one largest focus of COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing capacities globally, with an estimated 3.6 billion doses of assorted makes of vaccines anticipated to be produced by services within the area over the following 18-24 months. Given that Hyderabad is India’s premier pharma and vaccine manufacturing hub, GHAC has developed world-class infrastructure and taking part in an lively function in guaranteeing unbroken chilly chain for COVID vaccine provide.
Handling important COVID associated shipments
· Since the start of pandemic, GHAC has seamlessly dealt with a number of freighters carrying Vaccines, medical tools and COVID aid materials like PPE Kits, masks, sanitizers and so forth. More importantly, within the current months beginning January 2021, GHAC has dealt with greater than 100 tonnes of COVID vaccines that had been distributed from Hyderabad to numerous components of the nation.
· For the first time in India on 1st May 2021, GHAC efficiently dealt with the big import cargo of the Sputnik V vaccines from Russia, which required specialised dealing with and procedures to fulfill the stringent time and temperature (-20 deg. C) constraints. The dealing with of this vital cargo marked a serious milestone for the nation.
Vaccine Logistics initiatives
· In order to deal with the anticipated surge in motion of COVID vaccines at Hyderabad, GHAC has been increasing its landside and airside services and streamlining processes to fulfill the distinctive necessities for vaccine shipments and temp-controlled prescription drugs.
· The current Pharma zone facility can also be being expanded to virtually double the world for dealing with elevated actions of Vaccine and Pharma shipments. In addition to the above, it has additionally elevated the capacities of all temperature zones viz. 15-25 levels, 2-8 levels and -20 levels Celsius.
· The whole Pharma Zone together with the newly increasing space is supplied with temperature and humidity sensors with alarm alerts together with CCTV surveillance to test temperature excursions in actual time. The temperature recording and monitoring is being completed with information loggers in unique chilly storage for temperature delicate cargo like vaccines/pharma.
· GHAC is introducing ‘Cold Super Store’ as a part of the prolonged pharma zone to mitigate any temperature excursions throughout unloading of pharma shipments. It had launched a customized constructed giant Cool Dolly, a Mobile Refrigerated Unit for airside transportation of huge pallets until plane, sustaining the Cold-Chain.
· During this pandemic scenario, GHAC has been carefully working with all of the air cargo stakeholders whereas having devoted Task Force and particular Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) in place for acceptance, screening, and dealing with of temperature delicate COVID vaccines. The undertaken services improve will lead to higher cargo acceptance and processing time and thereby enhancing operational efficiencies.
Technology & Partnerships
· At the onset of 2021, GHAC has partnered with Dubai Airports for launch of “HYDXB-VAXCOR”, a primary of its sort of strategic initiative within the business to deal with the distinctive logistical problem of transferring vaccines between Dubai and India by means of Hyderabad airport as a hub. This strategic partnership envisages a number of advantages and worth added advantages corresponding to precedence dealing with, seamless motion, expanded uplift capability by means of anchor carriers and excessive stage of visibility for standing/temperature information.
· GHAC’s e-Reception methods ensures problem free entry and exit of the refrigerated vans on the landside. For guaranteeing clean final mile supply, GHAC facilitates the motion of cargo to totally different components of the nation with its trucking companions who present Road Feeder Service.
· GHAC has additionally been gearing up in the direction of Technology enhancements and has been not too long ago integrating Vaccine Ledger, a next-gen Block Chain answer to ship enhanced Track and Trace answer and real-time monitoring of vaccine shipments from Hyderabad.
Improved Connectivity
· GHAC’s main airline companions are connecting Hyderabad to totally different components of the nation and the world. Currently, Hyderabad Airport has direct companies to 58 home locations and round 150 locations globally together with all main cargo hubs of the world.
· To facilitate connectivity throughout its prolonged catchment areas, GHAC has partnered with TSRTC to supply the primary mile and final mile connectivity to numerous components of South and Central India. TSRTC is efficiently working its fleet from final six months.
