Three air carriers receive DHL CARE Awards
Singapore
THREE air carriers have been given the Carrier Award for Reliability and Excellence (CARE) by logistics and shipping provider DHL .
Lufthansa Cargo & Swiss WorldCargo, United Cargo and Emirates SkyCargo were named winners at the 17th Global Life Sciences Healthcare Conference, held in Singapore between Tuesday and Thursday.
The criteria for picking the three carriers included shipment quality, ground handling expertise and innovation in both technology and process.
Inaugurated in 2016, the DHL CARE Awards acknowledge air freight providers whose services set the industry standard for the transport of temperature-sensitive life sciences products.
David Bang, global head of DHL Temperature Management Solutions and chief executive officer of LifeConEx at DHL Global Forwarding, said that since the first DHL CARE Awards took place last year, there is a significant trend among carriers towards higher levels of certification, innovative commercial agreements with packaging and data-tracking partners, and bespoke infrastructure for pharmaceutical goods.
In the past 12 months, DHL's own Thermonet temperature-controlled service has expanded to include 100 stations certified by Good Distribution Practices standards, with 30 of those stations obtaining International Air Transport Association Centre Of Excellence for Independent Validators (Iata CEIV) Pharma Certification.
"We have continued to invest in new technologies within the LifeTrack ecosystem - such as big data analytics, IoT and risk intelligence engine - for proactive monitoring and intervention of time and temperature-sensitive medicinal products. Our work with the world's top air carriers ensures that hospitals, distributors and patients receive products they can trust with their lives; and these awards highlight the logistics industry's continuing efforts to raise the bar in this literally vital industry," he added.
DHL has 150 pharmacists among its 4,900 employees. About 400 life sciences and healthcare leaders attended the conference where they discussed major supply chain trends affecting the industry.
