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Event Report
Global Pharma Logistics
Summit 2022

Training, technology,

trust needed to grow:

pharma logistics sector

Manoj Singh, SVP & Head – Cargo &
Industry experts and key stakeholders of the pharma Express, Mumbai International Airport
logistics sector participated in the fifth edition of the Global - Adani Airports, said, “We had 1000
Pharma Logistics Summit 2022 held in October in Mumbai, tonnes of incoming cargo lying at the
where the spotlight was trained on patient care and cure airport facility during the Covid-19 and
96 pharma companies, with whom
with the theme ‘Resilience till the point of cure’ we synergized our efforts and formed
a group and cleared the shipments
Lakshmi Ajay Transport & Logistics News, in Mumbai. within 15 days. We later formed a core
A shippers, airports, airlines, freight for a group of pharma companies. As
Attended by some of the leading
group and had a key accounts manager
change in mindset when
forwarders, pharma companies, and
it comes to transporting
an airport, we had players from the
‘pharma shipments’ and
freight forwarders, consolidators, and
logistics providers and their teams, this
the use of technology and
pharma shipments are cleared. In the
digitalisation for growth and agility year the event put the spotlight firmly on airlines working together to see that
patient care and cure and led with the
in the industry took centerstage at theme ‘Resilience till the point of cure’. last financial year we handled 250,000
this year’s prestigious Global Pharma The first panel titled ‘Becoming tonnes of pharma cargo, and based
Logistics Summit 2022 held in Mumbai Better Before Becoming Big: Are We on this we almost handled around
this October. Ready For The Next Disruption?’ saw 58% of India’s export from India from
Several key stakeholders from across experts and industry heads talk about the airport sector, as the largest
the Indian pharma logistics supply how the pandemic brought the pharma player. I think this ecosystem needs
chain batted and pledged for adopting industry’s supply chain to the forefront to be quantified and this will help in
a growth mindset and discussed and how the disruption brought in maintaining the efficacy of the product.”
challenges faced by the industry and technology and new resilience to chart Singh also added that workshops
lessons learned during the pandemic the way forward. The panel also spoke across the shopfloor of the airport,
in discussions spread across four panel about the importance of training staff in and multiple interactions with the
discussions at the fifth edition of the global practices while handling different stakeholders helped to increase these
Global Pharma Logistics Summit 2022. kinds of pharma shipments. synergies during the pandemic.
The event was held on 13th October Recalling early lessons from cargo Batting for training, Yashpal Sharma,
2022 and organized by the Indian handling during the Covid-19 pandemic, MD, Skyways Group said, “Training is

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