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For years, IATA has been collaborating with supply chain stakeholders to understand and define industry-wide standard requirements for temperature sensitive pharmaceutical products via air. Transporting healthcare products by air needs the establishment of complex logistical methods to maintain shipment’s integrity. It requires specific equipment, storage facilities, harmonized handling procedures and, above all, strong cooperation among the cold chain partners.

In this interview, Ronald Schaefer of IATA discusses the newly-created CEIV Pharma program that is aimed at addressing these challenges experienced by airlines, ground handlers and airports, pharmaceutical companies and freight forwarders. The program is a concerted effort to improve the level of competency, operational and technical preparedness, and compliance, among other things…

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