Cold super store at RGIA for vaccines

GMR Hyderabad Air Cargo partners with Dubai Airports to move vaccines

GMR Hyderabad International Airport (GHIA)’s Air Cargo division is introducing ‘Cold Super Store’ as part of the extended pharma zone to mitigate any temperature excursions during unloading of pharma shipments. Existing pharma zone facility is also being expanded to almost double the area for handling increased movements of vaccine and pharma shipments. It has also increased the capacities of all temperature zones viz. 15-25 degrees, 2-8 degrees and -20 degrees Celsius with the entire pharma zone equipped with temperature and humidity sensors with alarm alerts along with CCTV surveillance to check temperature excursions in real time, said an official spokesperson on Friday. The cargo division has successfully handled the large import shipment of the Sputnik V vaccines from Russia, which required specialised handling and procedures to meet the stringent time and temperature (-20 deg. C) constraints few days ago. Since January, it has handled more than 100 tonnes of COVID vaccines distributed from Hyderabad to various parts of the country besides seamlessly handling several freighters carrying vaccines, medical equipment and COVID relief material like PPE kits, masks, sanitizers etc.