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PRESS RELEASE: PHARMA.AERO AND HUMANITARIAN LOGISTICS ASSOCIATION (HLA) SIGN MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING

BRUSSELS, 29 March 2021

Pharma.Aero and Humanitarian Logistics Association (HLA) sign Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)

Recognising the importance of developing air cargo supply chains to handle and transport pharmaceuticals, especially for the last mile delivery, in humanitarian contexts or in crisis situations, Pharma.Aero and HLA have established a formal basis of collaboration by signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). This collaboration will not only underline common interests between the two organisations, but also enable both organisations to combine forces in strategic projects that will improve quality in global air cargo industry, with a focus on crisis-prone countries, as well as emergencies and humanitarian projects.

Jeremy Mitchell, Director of Pharma.Aero stresses the importance of this new collaboration: “By joining forces with HLA, we bring the Human Interest aspect into the Pharma.Aero network and platform. This will create more leverage and added value in all our undertakings as well as broaden our scope and impact when reaching out to the entire pharmaceutical air cargo supply chain.”

“HLA aims to increase understanding and forge alliances between aid organisations, the private, public and academic sectors” adds George Fenton, Chief Executive of HLA, “The newly formed partnership with Pharma.Aero will enable us to add significant value to our network and gear up the effectiveness and efficiency of members by raising awareness of standards, facilitating access to training and career development opportunities, and encourage collaboration among a broader range of humanitarian logisticians.”

Trevor Caswell, Vice Chairman Pharma.Aero and responsible for Projects, points out that “both organisations share the same vision: being a neutral platform of international best-practice and knowledge sharing, and fostering community collaboration by trust. In setting up joint projects that emphasize the growing importance – both for the rapidly changing aid system as well as for the supply chain – of ‘local actors’ and ‘last mile’, we can create added value: to look at ways to improve reaching difficult places via UAV technology will be one of our first joint projects.”

About Pharma.Aero:

Pharma.Aero, a non-profit organisation with its headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, aims to achieve excellence in reliable end-to-end air transportation for Life Science and  Medtech shippers, by fostering collaboration between CEIV certified airport communities dedicated in developing and pioneering when it comes to handling, storage and air transportation of pharmaceuticals.

Pharma.Aero brings added value for the shipper by placing them as strategic priorities of Pharma.Aero, providing insights into the capabilities of the air cargo industry, as well as facilitating direct collaboration with the different air cargo stakeholders in the supply chain. Together, the organisation focuses on collaborative and continuous improvement of the Life Science and Medtech air cargo supply chain.

Pharma.Aero is an organisation that is proud to walk the talk. Jointly with our members, we co-ideate and co-develop projects that focus on end-to-end supply chain visibility solutions and address air transportation issues and challenges faced by the Life Science and Medtech industry. Since its inception in 2016, Pharma.Aero initiated and completed 6 projects. Consequently, technical papers for our members and white papers for the entire industry were published.

About Humanitarian Logistics Association:

HLA is a non-profit membership organisation established to empower logisticians to deliver humanitarian aid and development assistance more effectively. It acts as an informed enabler and thought leader, leveraging innovation, knowledge, standards and technology to support aid, private, academic and public sectors to increase their effectiveness.

HLA facilitates better connections between aid supply and demand, enabling cross sector learning, innovations and partnerships, supporting market transparency, reducing waste and harnessing opportunity to help the total become greater than the sum.

HLA’s vision was first articulated in 2005 by a senior group of humanitarian logisticians and was officially founded in January 2009 as a UK-based NGO that is locally focussed – on the ‘last mile’ – and globally enabled.

For further information contact

Frank Van Gelder, Secretary General

secgen@pharma.aero
Pharma.Aero VZW

or

George Fenton, Chief Executive

george.fenton@humanitarianlogistics.org

www.humanitarianlogistics.org

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