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Global Pharma Logistics
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From (left to right) Gaurav Arora, Stelis Biopharma, Ugrasen Singh, Cipla, Ruby Abidi, cargo-partner, Chandan Shirbhayye,
Aragen Life Sciences, and Satish Lakkaraju, Wiz Freight

various regulatory requirements and Pharma’, explored how innovations
some categorization of classification in advanced packaging solutions and Africa
depending on the end use or the volume real-time visibility can arrest cold chain
which is being imported.” excursions and how packaging cost can
Shirbhayye contended that processes supplement gross margins for all the
like valuation, assessment, and players involved as pharma products are
declaration become challenging despite time critical and expensive.
it operating under the umbrella of Ravi Kumar Tummalapalli, MD India,
pharma. He added, “We are dependent va-Q-tec said, “As a shipper, we need
on air transportation mechanism and to take ownership of how we pack the Schedule
most of our customers are abroad on product, whether we have qualified
the western side and raw materials packaging and conducted ‘lane risk Weekly 10 flights
suppliers are on the eastern side. assessment’ as a chain of activity to
So the routing of the air shipments mitigate any risks in the supply chain. For Bookings & Enquiries Contact
is critical for us as timelines are One pain point is You need to evaluate what is the right BOM - NBO sales.bom@rainbowaviation.in
counted in days. Most of the materials how we can have packaging solution for your product for
that we import and export are not yet harmonization of it to be safe all through the journey.” & Beyond sales.del@rainbowaviation.in
commercialized materials, they are not various regulatory During the session, Ravi touched
well-developed materials, rather they upon the need for sustainable solutions Connections sales.amd@rainbowaviation.in
are at an early stage of R&D and nobody requirements and and the need to move towards ethical
knows their fate yet, so assessing them, some categorisation of solutions in the cold chain used in sales.hyd@rainbowaviation.in
valuing them, and declaring it becomes classification depending domestic distribution. for Africa
a real challenge.” on the end use or the Tummalapalli added, “Today if sales.blr@rainbowaviation.in
Ugrasen Singh, Associate volume which is being you have a 2-8 degree or 15 to 20 or
Director - Lead Imp/Exp. & Logistics imported. minus 20-degree product, then we sales.ccu@rainbowaviation.in
Procurement, Cipla said, “For the have specifically designed advanced sales.maa@rainbowaviation.in
airlines and freight forwarder industry, Chandan Shirbhayye materials like Phase change
I would love to see the pre-Covid price Aragen Life Sciences materials(PCMs) which are passive
levels (for air freight) make a return. solutions that don't need any dry ice or
While Customs has done tremendous electrical requirements for them. Once
work in creating good systems yet part in an hour-long session aptly you condition these PCMs they can go
there is a lag when it comes to faceless titled ‘The Relief’. Adarsh Kumar, up to about 6 -7 days and maintain the
assessments, as there is no information CEO and Co-Founder, TagBox, and temperature of the product inside the
given on the customs portal.” Nitish Rai CEO and Co-Founder of box, without any external intervention. BRANCHES
Two innovative companies that are FreightFox took the audience through There is another material called VIP MUMBAI, NEW DELHI,
building solutions to provide much- the solutions they offered. which is (Vaccum insulation panels), Website
needed visibility and data analytics to The third panel titled, ‘Playing It which we developed 20 years back and AHMEDABAD, HYDERABAD, www.rainbowaviation.in
the healthcare supply chain also took Cool: Moving Temperature-Sensitive are pioneers in. So all our installations BENGALURU, KOLKATA,
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