AirBridgeCargo Airlines and DHL Global Forwarding have completed a trial using an Envirotainer RKN active container to transport a multimodal shipment of healthcare products from Moscow to Miami in accordance with Good Distribution Practice cool chain standards.

According to ABC, the trial replaced real vaccines with service water in order to test the delivery process at each step of the transportation and to monitor the condition of the water, which replicates the state of vaccines under similar circumstances.

Together with DHL Global Forwarding Russia, ABC’s pharma experts brought the RKN unit to the customer’s warehouse and accepted the cargo as a fully built-up unit ready for carriage at its airport warehouse premises. An RKN being physically loaded in a pharmaceutical cooler of a production plant without additional cross-dock operations represents a new solution in the Russian market. The total solution provided by the ABC and DGF teams covered delivery, leasing and guaranteed customs clearance for the customer, as well as ensuring a minimum transit time and the elimination of temperature risk. Read more on Asia Cargo News