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PHARMA FORWARD
With a focus on temperature-controlled
supply chains during the Coronavirus
outbreak and the steady growth of the
biotech industry in the 2000s, along with
other sectors like pharmaceuticals, active
pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), life
sciences, mRNA vaccines and drugs and
more recently cell and gene therapy has led
to a spurt of innovations in cold chain and
Some of temperature controlled technology and in
the recent shipment visibility.
IoT devices that offered visibility of
innovations temperature excursions, real-time alerts,
include the ETA, storage and transit conditions of
medicines and drugs, active and passive
adoption of containers for transporting pharmaceutical
dynamic pricing products, shipment visibility system for
active containers, temperature-controlled
by airlines which container solutions with the launch of 24/7
allows them real-time shipment visibility and sensors
to maximize capable of tracking location and condition
were some innovations that picked up
revenue and also steam in the pre and post-pandemic period.
and digitally monitor the journey of a provide quicker A slew of innovations and solutions
shipment, with an additional, innovative from companies like time:matters, Tagbox,
feature that we call ‘Care Mapping’. quotations for the CSafe Global, Envirotainer, DoKaSch
“This feature will enable shippers, forwarders that Temperature Solutions, Unilode Aviation
forwarders, airlines, and ground handlers Solutions, Va-Q-Tec, and PLUSS Advanced
to plan for specific shipment-related require them at a Technology (PLUSS) among many others
requirements, which will help to protect moment’s notice. found greater acceptance and deployment
time-critical or temperature-sensitive MATTHIEU PETOT in air cargo logistics.
shipments from spoiling and prevent CARGOAI Tracking devices improved the air cargo
unnecessary waste in the supply chain sector, especially during the pandemic.
while making operations more efficient. Precision-based temperature and location
For example, a pharma shipment might be perform at their optimum, bringing true were provided to shippers in near-real time
routed – based on the GDP lane validation process efficiencies. by companies like Unilode to help ensure
proposal – via a transit airport in a very Yuval Baruch, Chief Executive Officer very valuable vaccine cargo was shipped
warm country. By applying the Care of Hermes Logistics Technologies, drives safely and on time to millions. And at
Mapping feature, the shipper will be able this point home as he told The STAT times when a problem arose, it allowed the
to book a specific pharma product and also Trade Times, “Innovation is not in a handlers to mitigate the risks quickly.
request specific “Care” features, such as single piece of software or hardware but “Unilode itself is nearing the
“re-icing at transit airport”, “storage in cold rather in the collective integration of completion of tagging the world’s largest
store at 2° C – 8° C”, or whatever specific various solutions to create a seamless ULD fleet with multi-sensor IoT tracking
requirement is necessary for the shipment flow of data. Our recent integration tags for our pooling customers. When
at a location and/or while on board the between Hermes and CargoEye, a complete we will have the backbone set
transport vehicle. This new shipment volumetrics solution that enabled up to innovate our processes to ensure
planning and monitoring feature from our customer in Singapore to operate we have the right ULD in the right place
Cargo iQ, together with the GPS shipment its doors with the highest efficiency, at the right time. Further, in some areas
tracker that can also monitor temperature, and the implementation of Hermes of the world, the data quality of standard
humidity, and other variables, will bring with Nallian’s Landside Management type-B messages is as low as 70-75%. If
shippers, airlines, and forwarders full solution that digitalises the Truck Visit you compound this at scale throughout
visibility of their cargo’s journey.” Management (TVM) solution and the all shippers the ability to rebalance and
Digitalisation and such innovations cargo management system. As a result, forecast needs become difficult. We
are crucial to air cargo signalling the way slot booking and cargo reception have will also soon deploy an upgrade in our
forward for how the air cargo ecosystem been transformed to be the most efficient tracking systems to verify, confirm, update,
needs to integrate, share, and exchange processes possible, operating completely and block bad information,” Joseph Jensen,
quality data so that all solutions can in sync with the terminal.” Chief Technology Officer, Unilode said.

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