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strict temperature ranges. Once the
goods are packed in a gel pack which has
got the validity of 15 days or one month
or even 2 months, irrespective of the
temperature outside, it reaches with no
harm. But it is very costly and doubles the
weight, which is not efficient and airlines
charge for that. It is also an environmental
hazard. In our United States warehouse,
we got 50 to 60 containers of gel packs.
We can't destroy it in the US or in Europe.
The solution is very effective with no
temperature excursions but it led to other
Prashanth Murali Kaivar of Genpact, Sid Chakravarthy of StaTwig, John Ackerman of DFW
Airport, Pramod Pereira of Cargo Service Center, Ramesh Mamidala of Air India and Industry problems. Other innovative solutions
Consultant Ryan Viegas. are also coming up like the good quality
thermal covers. Also, there should be
biodegradable packaging solutions.”
Putting this into a larger context
and drawing upon his experience as
the French army officer 25 years ago,
Fabrice Panza, Manager, Global Cool
Chain Solutions, Etihad, said, “It is not
the vaccines in itself that save lives but
vaccination,” emphasising the need for
strong distribution channels.
“There are key parallels, when it
comes to the army, specifically when
you are in charge of many people who
are using some of the difficult and risky
equipment, and air transportation. It
Harshad Kanvinde of Insurge Partners, Industry Expert Pramod Sant and Alok Joshi
of Pharmarack Technologies. is about measuring the risk, how we
can get this risk mitigated and bringing
the quality control regulators in Europe the right level of cohesion within the
and noted that wherever European ecosystem,” he said.
regulatory authorities are doing an Agreeing with the pharma
audit the focus on Good Distribution PRESENTATION manufacturers on the new kind
Practices (GDP) has become equally Rishi Agrawal of personalised products getting
important if not more, than the Good of TeamLease introduced, Roland Weil, Vice President
Manufacturing Practices (GMP). Regtech Sales - Cargo, Frankfurt Airport,
“Transporters are not taking the emphasised the importance of investing
movement of pharmaceuticals for both the aircraft capacity as well
as seriously as we take as landside capacity in terms of new
it while manufacturing. facilities at airports.
We need more support. He said, “It's never the right time to
I must congratulate the invest. Because if we are going down
airports and airlines for in terms of demand, we
the improvements they would say it is a downward
have made in the last four trend so we don't want
years but there is scope for to invest. If it is already
improvement there as well,” down, we don't want to
he said. invest because it is down.
While there are challenges, If it is going up, we don't
he also pointed out that there want to invest because
are also very good solutions we don't know how long
like in the area of packaging it is going to go up, then if
pharma goods. we are up, we still say we
“For example,” he added, don't know how long it
“The gel pack is a great is going to stay up so we
solution to move goods in don't want to invest.” 
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