Hyderabad And Dubai Airports Ties Up To Export Covid-19 Vaccine
Hyderabad International Airport Limited and Dubai Airports have tied up first of its kind initiative to export Covid-19 vaccine doses to other countries.
The airport and GMR Hyderabad Air Cargo have signed a MoU with Dubai Airportsfor building an exclusive Vaccine Air Freight Corridor Product called ‘HYDXB-VAXCOR(Hyderabad to Dubai global Vaccine Corridor), the infra major said on Monday.
As Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech got the emergency use approval for COVAXIN and two other companies Biological E and Dr. Reddy’s are also preparing their vaccine candidates against Covid-19, the Hyderabad Airport has started preparations to export vaccine doses.
The MoU was signed byPradeep Panicker, CEO-GMRHIA, Saurabh Kumar, CEO-GMRHAC and Eugene Barry, EVP-Commercial, Dubai Airports Corporation in a virtual ceremony organised last week, it said.
As per the MOU, GMR-Hyderabad and Dubai Airports will be according priority to the temperature-sensitive vaccine shipments moving between Hyderabad and Dubai to facilitate further connections to various continents.
This agreement will lead to the rollout of customized and simplified processes and infrastructural support to streamline the journey of the Covid-19 vaccine right from the manufacturing unit to the airport and hub logistics to delivery to end-customers, the release said.
The partnership also entails technology collaboration, under which the entities will explore and work together on an integrated IT solution that will provide end-to-end visibility, including shipment temperature and status tracking for the customers while cargo is in transit between Hyderabad and Dubai and during its onwards journey to various global destinations.
Dubai airport has been identified as a key strategic air cargo partner for the global distribution ecosystem.
‘’We are significantly upgrading our handling capacities for Covid-19 vaccine shipments requiring cold to ultra-cold temperature ranges and becoming India’s largest air cargo centre both for export/imports and domestic distribution of the vaccine,” said Pradeep Panicker, CEO, GMR Hyderabad International Airport Ltd.
The Indian drugs regulator DCGI has given emergency use authorization to the Bharat Biotech vaccine along with the vaccine manufactured by Serum Institute of India (SII). India has also conducted dry runs ahead of the mass rollout of the two vaccines.
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