News / Air cargo not ready for 'biggest product launch in history' – the vaccines

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The air cargo industry is not ready for what one of Tiaca’s directors described as the ’biggest product launch in history’, the distribution of Covid-19 vaccines.

Tiaca and Pharma.Aero conducted a survey last month which found that only 28% of respondents were ’well prepared’ for the undertaking, while 19% described themselves as ’very unprepared’.

On a preparedness scale of one to ten, the survey produced an average of 6.32, with the biggest area of concern being the handling and storage of vaccines ...