Turkish Cargo carries 100 mn doses of 7 Covid vaccines to 35 countries

July 1, 2021: Turkish Cargo today announced that it has delivered 100 million Covid-19 vaccine doses to more than 35 countries around the world.

With the start of the vaccine distribution, Turkish Cargo carried 100 million vaccine doses, which is approximately 450 tonnes, from the vaccine production centres to destinations in its wide flight network with over 250 flights. The air cargo carrier transported the Covid-19 vaccines to key and certificated destinations such as Turkey, Baku, Rome, Belgrade, Copenhagen, Miami, Sao Paulo and Mexico City, creating a global corridor between more than 400 destinations. It carried 7 different Covid-19 vaccines in containers with special cooling systems.

Increasing its market share in pharmaceutical transportation to 7.5 percent, Turkish Cargo enhanced its capacity when it comes to cold air depots while increasing its active and passive container capacity in order to prioritize medical transportation during the pandemic. The successful brand continues its operations uninterrupted in order to deliver emergencies such as food, aid materials, medical products and equipment while maintaining the continuity in the global medical supply chain.

“Managing to grow under the leadership of Turkish Airlines chairman of the board and the executive committee, M. İlker Aycı despite the shrinking sector during the pandemic, global air cargo brand also carries an important mission for the vaccine transportation,” reads the release. 

Aycı said, “Proving itself with hundreds of vaccine transportation operations to countries all around the world ranging from China to Brazil, India to the Democratic Republic of the Congo along with operations to our own country, Turkish Cargo showed its reliability by transporting 100 million doses. With these successful operations, we increased our global market share to 7.5 percent in pharmaceutical transportation and became one of the most active carriers in vaccine transportation.”