Air Cargo Belgium and Brussels Airport Company’s dedicated Covid-19 vaccine taskforce, BRUcure, has launched a readiness label. This label can be used by companies in the taskforce and indicates that a company is fully ready to transport, handle or store the Covid-19 vaccine. Furthermore, the label strengthens the image of the taskforce company that is using the label. These are the requirements to obtain the label:

• Should a company need to store the vaccine, they have a dedicated pharma storage. Based on our exercise, there is approximately 30 000 m2 of cold pharma storage at BRUcargo and it seems to increase as some companies are extending their capacity.

• The companies who obtained the label also follow the BRUcure Guideline Document on top of the existing Pharma Handling SOP’s and apply the guidelines that Air Cargo Belgium has created where applicable.

• The companies use the Airside Pharma Transporter (APT) in procedure. It aims to guarantee there is no temperature deviation for the Covid-19 vaccine shipments.

• The companies intend to implement the digital platform so called CargoFlow Explorer. It is a digital solution developed by Nallian (invested by BAC) in order to get a full visibility for all pharma shipments.

Currently, 15 companies within the BRUcure Taskforce have already obtained the label:

• Aviapartner Cargo

• Bolloré Logistics

• DHL Global Forwarding

• Dnata

• EFL Global

• Expeditors

• FB Logistics

• Hazgo

• Kuehne + Nagel

• Lufthansa Cargo (Lufthansa, Brussels Airlines, Austrian Airlines)

• Singapore Airlines

• Swissport Cargo Services

• TUI

• United Airlines

• WFS